From the gel polish, in fact, you can get rid of 2 methods: cut and dissolve. We present to your attention several different instructions, by means of which you will be able, without causing yourself harm, to remove the gel varnish at home and to save money on this procedure.
Removing gel polish with a remuver
Let's start with the classical method - dissolving gel varnish. This will require a tool for removing gel polish (remuver), buff or soft nail file for nail plates (with an abrasiveness of 180 to 240 grit), foil, cotton pads.
- Remove the gloss, spoiling the finish coating with a buff or a soft nail file. Damage to the integrity of the top allows the gel polish remover to diffuse deeper into the multi-layer coating. Do not forget to grind off sealed end surfaces.
- Cut and divide cotton pads into small pieces - such that each of them covers the nail plate completely. After wetting the pieces in the remuver, cover them with nail plates. Wrap each of the fingers in foil.
- Having kept the time prescribed by the manufacturer (from 10 to 15 minutes), remove one winding and try to remove the softened gel - it can be easily erased with an orange tree stick or a nail scraper (pusher). Move through the growth of the nail plate, so as not to stratify it.
- Clean up what's left with a soft buff. After - wash your hands and spread the oil on the cuticle. Then go for a manicure.
Good advice: before applying cotton pads, lubricate the cuticle with petroleum jelly or cream in order to minimize the aggressive effect of the solvent.
If possible, use a specialized gel nail polish remover.
If you do not have this product, try acetone-containing varnish remover, alcohol diluted with water in a 1: 1 ratio, or vodka.
It is possible to fix cotton pads on the nail plate by means of specialized clips (other name - a clothespeg, a clip), a medical air-tight plaster, or company devices from a foil.
Do not tear off windings from all fingers at the same time. Softened lacquer can re-harden, and the soaking process will need to be done again. And this is not only exhausting, but not harmless.
Elimination of gel varnish in the steamer
A variety of devices are being dynamically introduced into cosmetic procedures for the treatment of nails, and if there is not yet an apparatus for carefully painting the nail plates, then a device for liquefying the gel polish has already been introduced.
So, if you are interested in the question of how to remove the gel varnish without the use of foil, the answer to it can be a steamer - a device that performs the function of a "compress".
Simply insert your fingers into the holes of the device, after a while you take out and remove the softened substance with an orange stick. The installation functions due to volatilization of the solvent heated in it.
In continuation of the dialogue on how to remove the gel varnish, it is necessary to say about the device using special cutters. Cutting a manicure with a nail-master cutter is considered the most gentle method of removing nail polish.
With regard to the question of which mill to use to remove the gel polish, it is best for beginners to carry out tests on non-hard mills with a yellow belt.
Important: masters use blue ceramic or carbide cutters - red. If we talk about the form, choose a comfortable one - usually it is a cone, “corn” and a cylinder.
- Having established the required number of revolutions (when working with a ceramic cutter - 10,000-15,000, and for carbide cutters no less than 20,000), proceed to cutting the manicure, smoothly moving from the cuticle to the edge of the nail plate.
- Do not stay on one site. Evenly distribute the pressure force. Separate the coating, not the nail plate. Remove the coating to the base, which is considered an indication of what is required to terminate the process.
- Upon completion of the removal of the painted layer, you can polish the base with a soft buff, and then make a manicure or, having polished, give the nail plate a “rest”, treat them and the cuticle with oil.
Removing gel polish nail file
It is possible to remove the gel varnish from the nail plates with an ordinary file, however this method is rather 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 hurt the skin. Proceed, as in the version with a mill, to the base.
In order to monitor the level of cutting, from time to time, blow off dust and treat the nail plate with a degreaser. Remove the base with a soft buff or keep it polished with delaminations and irregularities.
What to do on completion of gel polish removal?
After removing the gel polish nail plates can look simply frightening, because there is a great chance to dry them. Do not be intimidated in any way, just spread specialized nail oil on the nail plates and cuticle. You can buy it in any store selling cosmetics. When it is not available at hand, the ordinary will fit. The result will not be as visible.
Be sure to give your nails a break from the varnish for a couple of days. If the idea seems impracticable, use a colorless caring pharmacy varnish.
How not to remove gel polish?
The biggest mistake - manual separation of gel polish from the nail plates. Thus, you can cause enormous damage to the nails, which are made from such effects thinner and weaker.
Another misconception is to use the available varnish to remove the gel varnish without prior clarification of aspects of the event.
It is strictly forbidden to remove the gel polish from the nail plates using construction acetone, the effect of which on the nail plates is rather destructive.
Such misses in the resolution of the question of how to remove the gel polish from nails at home lead to the emergence of negative myths about the dangers of gel coating, which, in fact, are contrived. It is possible to remove gel lacquer on your own with harmless methods. Some of them were presented above.
Now that you know how to quickly erase or wash off the gel coat from the nail plates in the home, you should reveal one small nail-secret - not all formulations can be dissolved. In this regard, before applying the gel polish on the nail plate, it is desirable to inquire about the properties of the means used.
To learn how to quickly and easily remove the gel polish at home, see the video below.
