I've tried acetone and it is taking forever!!!
2006-10-20 11:32:09 · 4 answers · asked by jennagoodness 2 in Beauty & Style ➔ Skin & Body ➔ Other - Skin & Body
Interesting answers you are getting...
If these are acrylic from a legitimate salon you can do it yourself. Which is what you are asking to do...not to go to a salon and spend more money right? If they are from a sweat shop salon..sometimes they use a type of acrylic that is illegal and can only be filed off with drill files. No amount of soaking will get you there. That is why they are so excruciating when you break one as opposed to the legal kind which have some flex.
So assuming you have regular acrylic nails you..
*Buy (as one person said) PURE acetone
*Put it in two glass bowls (one for each hand) and let it soak for a half hour...watch t.v. or something.
*Then take an orange wood stick (any beauty supply) an push off all of the gunk.
...Now, you can't get it all in one swoop so you will have to repeat the soaking and scraping again.
*After you soak and scrape a few times pieces of it will start to break off. Take some nippers or finger nail clippers and clip it as close to your natural nail as possible.
*When you have MOST of it off, take a coarse file and gently file off the rest.
*Follow with a fine file and then buff.
*Do not expect your nails to be in great shape, BUT this is WAY WAY better for them than pulling them off or filing them off. Acetone is cheap, files are cheap and you will still be way ahead $$ wise if you do it yourself.
It is messy though and acetone is flammable (no candles) and takes the color out of things, so be careful!
Good luck
2006-10-20 11:52:11 · answer #1 · answered by Rackjack 4 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Soak Off Acrylic Nails
2016-12-13 05:46:54 · answer #2 · answered by cutburth 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
RE:
What is the easiest way to soak off acrylic nails?
I've tried acetone and it is taking forever!!!
2015-08-02 02:35:32 · answer #3 · answered by Lothar 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Cut them down as low as you can get them and soak in oure acetone. Try to pull them up.
2006-10-20 11:58:42 · answer #4 · answered by mocha 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was a nail tech for 25 yr. acetone is what we always used. have patience, and clip them off a little bit at a time.
2006-10-24 08:44:59 · answer #5 · answered by mstrywmn 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
soak them in PURE acetone for about 30 min. to a 1hr..this wiil soften them up but you will still have to pull them off
2006-10-20 11:36:06 · answer #6 · answered by Quee Roxx 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
they will be sore when you finally get them off and very soft! i didnt realise how painful it was going to be.. very tender for several months afterwards. you need to paint them every day with a preparation especially for weak nails. good luck. its taken about 6 months to get mine back to 'normal'.
2006-10-20 11:42:28 · answer #7 · answered by jean t 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Soaking is messy. The fastest way to take them off is just to do it the way the nail places do...clip them and lift them off. Much faster as long as you do it carefully.
2006-10-20 11:39:37 · answer #8 · answered by billyidolrules 3 · 1⤊ 4⤋
coarse nail file; file them off
2006-10-20 11:40:18 · answer #9 · answered by Say It Again M'am 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋
You need to use non-acetone
2006-10-20 11:34:50 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 7⤋