How To Take Off Gel Polish On Acrylic Nails

Soak your nails in a bowl of acetone for 5 minutes.

How to take off gel polish on acrylic nails. This is a video on how to file off gel polish from acrylics overlays or extensions using a 180 or 150 grit file from SallysHow to score a nail file featured. Soak a ball of cotton wool in nail polish remover. Remove the surface shine of your gel polish with a good condition 180 grit nail file.

Apply nail polish remover and wrap in foil. Its best to take it out with acetone says an OPI brand trainer who shares her go-to. It also can feel like a hot burning sensation but its really just the friction of the gel being filed off.

Buff off any remaining acrylic with a nail buffer. And even though the public was greatly fast to accept them thats not to state that theyre still an entirely risk-free alternative in 2018. Finish off by wiping your nails clean with a fresh cotton ball soaked in acetone.

Leave for around 20 minutes. Thats why they last longer without chipping or fading. Filing is really the most effective and safest way to remove the gel polish from acrylics says Tait.

Salon drills can make people jump and theres always the possibility that you might take off more acrylic than you mean to. We talked to star manicurist. If you get your filing technique fine tuned hold the file.

Cover with aluminium foil. Gently push the acrylic off your nails using a steel cuticle pusher. Dermatologists secret for removing gel nail polish at home.