Best Way To Soak Off Acrylic Nails
There are two ways.
Best way to soak off acrylic nails. Stick your hand inside the bag and let your nails soak in the acetone for 15-20 minutes. Take a large ziplock bag and fill it with just enough acetone to submerge your nails fully. Leave your brushes to soak it might take anywhere from 2 hours to overnight depending on how stubborn the acrylic is.
Lie your brushes horizontally on a towel and allow them to completely air dry. 5 minutes of soaking should be enough. You can still get or give yourself a manicure without operating on the nail part.
Use a ratio of about ⅔ dish soap to ⅓ water. Acetone softens the acrylic explains Choi. Stop biting off your Fake Nails.
Once the acrylic has been filed down much as possible Walker recommends soaking the nails in 100 acetone nail polish remover for as long as it takes to dissolve the product. She must know what shes on about as her Aunt owns a Private Birthing Centre so wish I could afford to go there and her Mum works there too. Tilt the bag to one side so that the acetone collects in one corner.
Be careful not to snip off your real nails. One of the fastest ways to remove acrylic nails at home is to soak them in warm water with a grease-fighting dish soap. If you have just applied an acrylic coat of nail polish you may need to strip your nails down to the bare flesh to get rid of the fake nails.
Dont rip them off or youll take off layers of your nail. Whether youre rocking a classic French mani on almond-shaped faux nails or just indulged in some cool neons you can take your pick from the removal options below. And finally you can scrape the rest of the acrylic away.