How To Remove Acrylic Nails With Nail Polish Remover

Now apply a generous amount of petroleum jelly on the skin surrounding your cuticles.

How to remove acrylic nails with nail polish remover. Soak your nails in a bowl of acetone for 5 minutes. Clip the acrylic nails as short as possible. Fill the glass bowl with acetone nail polish remover to a level where your entire acrylic fingernails can be dipped into the acetone.

Gently push the acrylic off your nails using a steel cuticle pusher. After you remove your hands from the bowl use a cuticle pusher to scrape away. Todays video shows you how to remove acrylic nails using nail polish remover.

File or buff off the shiny top surface completely. An emery board is pretty much useless when it comes to acrylics but a 100-grit nail file is coarse enough to file them down and get them to where they need to be before soaking them in acetone. Just fill a glass bowl with acetone nail polish remover.

You need a really good nail file to thin out the entire area of your acrylic nails. Remember not to put some on your nails because this will block the polish remover from loosening the glue. Cut the false nails with fingernail clippers so the length falls just above the skin on your fingertips.

Next apply a small amount of acetone or nail polish remover to the tip of your nail. Use a nail file to remove shine top layer nail polish or any colour to avoid creating any mess or get your hands full of colour. Use a ratio of about ⅔ dish soap to ⅓ water.

Cut them as close as possible to your natural nails. Use a nail tip clipper to cut off the excess length of your acrylics. Taking the foil off and slide the cotton ball to the end of the nail this should take the acrylic nail or most of it with it.