From gel varnish, in fact, you can get rid of 2 methods: cut and dissolve. We bring to your attention several different instructions by which you will be able, without harming yourself, to remove the gel polish at home and save money on this procedure.
Removing gel polish with a remover
Let's start with the classic method - dissolving gel polish. To do this, you will need a gel polish remover (remover), a buff or a soft nail file for nail plates (abrasive from 180 to 240 grit), foil, cotton pads.
- Remove the gloss by ruining the finish with a buff or soft nail file. Damage to the integrity of the top allows the gel polish remover to diffuse deeper into the multilayer coating. Remember to grind off the sealed end faces.
- Cut and divide the cotton pads into small pieces - such that any of them covers the nail plates completely. After wetting the pieces in the remover, cover them with the nail plates. Wrap each of the fingers with foil.
- After holding the time prescribed by the manufacturer (from 10 to 15 minutes), remove one winding and try to remove the softened gel - it is easily erased with an orange tree stick or a manicure scraper (pusher). Move along the growth of the nail plate, so as not to delaminate it.
- Clean up what's left with a soft buff. After - wash your hands and oil the cuticle. Then get down to manicure.
Useful advice: before applying cotton pads, lubricate the cuticle with vaseline or cream in order to minimize the aggressive effect of the solvent.
If possible, use a specialized gel polish remover.
If you do not have this product, try acetone-containing nail polish remover, alcohol diluted with water in a 1: 1 ratio, or vodka.
You can fix the cotton pads on the nail plate using specialized clips (another name - clothespin, clip), medical airtight patch, or branded devices made of foil.
Do not tear off the windings from all fingers at the same time. The softened varnish can harden again, and the process with soaking will need to be done again. And this is not only debilitating, but also not harmless.
Elimination of gel polish in the steamer
A variety of devices are dynamically introduced into cosmetic procedures for processing nails, and if there is no apparatus for accurately painting the nail plates yet, a device for thinning gel polish has already been introduced.
Therefore, if you are interested in the question of how to remove gel polish without using foil, then the answer to it may be a steamer - an apparatus that performs the function of a “compress”.
Simply insert your fingers into the holes of the device, after a while take out and remove the softened substance with an orange stick. The installation operates due to the volatilization of the solvent warmed up in it.
In continuation of the dialogue on how to remove gel polish, it is necessary to say about the device using special milling cutters. Cutting a manicure by means of a cutter is considered by the nail-masters to be the most gentle method of nail polish removal.
Regarding the question of which cutter to use to remove gel polish, it is best for beginners to test on non-solid cutters with a yellow belt.
Important: craftsmen use blue ceramic milling cutters or carbide milling cutters - red. If we talk about the form, choose a convenient one - usually a cone, "corn" and a cylinder.
- Having set the required number of revolutions (when working with a ceramic milling cutter - 10000-15000, and for carbide milling cutters no less than 20,000), proceed to sawing off the manicure, moving smoothly from the cuticle to the edge of the nail plate.
- Do not stay in one area. Distribute pressure evenly. Separate the coating, not the nail plates. Remove the coating to the base, which is considered an indication that you want to stop the process.
- Upon completion of removal of the stained layer, you can polish the base with a soft buff, and then make a manicure or, after polishing, provide the nail plates with “rest”, treating them and the cuticle with oil.
Removing gel polish with a nail file
It is possible to remove gel polish from the nail plates with a regular file, however, this method is quite laborious. It will fit when there are no other opportunities, but there is free time.
The required abrasiveness of the nail file is from 100 to 140 grit. When working with a file, do not injure the skin. Proceed, as in the version with the cutter, to the base.
In order to observe the level of sawing off, blow off the dust from time to time and treat the nail plate with a degreaser. Remove the base with a soft buff or keep it polished by peeling and unevenness.
What to do when gel polish removal is complete?
After removing the gel polish, the nail plates can look simply frightening, since there is a great chance of overdrying them. In no case do not get scared, just smear the specialized oil on the nail plates and cuticles. You can purchase it at any store selling cosmetics. When it is not at hand, the ordinary will do. The result will not be so visible.
Be sure to give your nails a break from the varnish for a couple of days. If the idea seems impossible, use a colorless, caring pharmacy varnish.
How not to remove gel polish?
The most serious mistake is the manual separation of gel polish from the nail plates. Thus, you can cause enormous damage to the nails, which from such influences become thinner and weaker.
Another misconception is to use improvised means to remove gel polish without specifying aspects of the event in advance.
It is strictly forbidden to remove gel polish from the nail plates with building acetone, the effect of which on the nail plates is quite destructive.
Such failures in resolving the issue of how to remove gel polish from nails in the home environment lead to negative myths about the dangers of gel coatings, which, in fact, are contrived. It is possible to remove gel polish on our own using harmless methods. Some of them were presented above.
Now that you know how to quickly wipe or rinse off the gel coat from the nail plates at home, you should reveal one small nail-secret - not all formulations can be dissolved. In this regard, before applying gel polish to the nail plates, it is advisable to inquire about the properties of the agent used.
For how to easily and quickly remove gel polish at home, see the video below.
