How To Soak Acrylic Nails Off At Home

Use a ratio of about ⅔ dish soap to ⅓ water.

How to soak acrylic nails off at home. If you are going for the acetone bath pour the 100 acetone nail polish remover into the small bowl and soak the tip of your fingers in it for about 30 minutes. In either case soaking the acrylic nails off will take. Check if the acrylics started to dissolve and keep nails in the bowl for a little longer if not.

Scrape away more of the acrylic with the cuticle pusher. Next run an orange stick or cuticle pusher along the edge to get the nail. Soak the nails for 3 to 4 minutes.

When the nails start swelling separate them from your original ones with orange sticks. Use a cuticle pusher to gently scrape the acrylic from the natural nail starting at the base of the nail bed and working your way to the tip. Remove your hand from the bowl.

However your hands are not gonna thank. The other method involves soaking a cotton ball in the acetone or nail polish remover placing the soaked cotton ball on your fingernails and securing them to your nails using foil. 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.

Soak each nail for a minimum of 10 minutes to ensure the acrylic is breaking down properly. This way youll be able to remove all traces of the remover before the glue on the acrylic nail begins to harden again. Theres two ways to apply acetone.

You need a really good nail file to thin out the entire area of your acrylic nails. Gently push the acrylic off your nails using a steel cuticle pusher. Cut them as close as possible to your natural nails.