How To Get Acrylic Nails Off Safely At Home

Manicurists spoke with Allure writer Sara Tan about how to remove acrylics without damaging.

How to get acrylic nails off safely at home. Wait 30 to 40 minutes or more if needed. Be careful not to snip off your real nails. Watch me remove my nails at home to see If this hack truly worksCuticl.

It helps the acrylic to break down faster she tells me. Peel the acrylic nails. The glue used to fix the acrylic.

If your nail instructions tell you to. Accumulate your passion and patience. Tilt the bag to one side so that the acetone collects in one corner.

Then wrap your fingers and the cotton ball in tinfoil and wait 10 minutes for them to loosen. Now dip the fingers in a bowl of soothing hot water and soak them for around 30 to 40 minutes. Now you need to rough up the polish surface until the shine has disappeared with a nail buffer.

It would be helpful to have a flawless removal though it is usually not recommended to remove acrylic nails at home. Here are some tips on how to remove your acrylic nails at home with acetone safely. You should never get acetone directly on your nail as this can be very dangerous.

You can remove acrylic nails by filing them down and placing an acetone-soaked cotton ball on them. If there is any acrylic that does not peel off dip your fingers again into the bowl and let it stay for another 5 minutes. While removing your acrylic nails at home isnt usually recommended it is possible to do so in a pinch.