How To Remove Fake Acrylic Nails

First of all trim and file your nails.

How to remove fake acrylic nails. Look for a nail file with a 100-grit grit or a nail drill with a coarse enough grit to file down the acrylics surface. You will want your Acrylics as short as possible for the next steps but be careful not to cut your skin or go too low. With the Nail Clipper cut your Fake Nails back as much as you can so you are cutting away the excess and reducing their length.

Place one cotton at a time on your nail and please avoid touching your skin if possible. Wait 30 to 40 minutes or more if needed. Picture SourceHow to Take Off Acrylic Nails without Acetone Nails Journal Take off acrylic nails Remove acrylic nails Soak off acrylic nails.

Soak the nails for 3 to 4 minutes. It gradually melts the acrylic to make removal easier. How you soak off acrylic nails at home is pretty much the same way it is done at a nail salon.

Repeat until your acrylics have. If there is any acrylic that does not peel off dip your fingers again into the bowl and let it stay for another 5 minutes. When the nail starts to loosen reach for your tweezers once more to pull the acrylics off your actual nails.

The idea is to make removing the false nails easier not to actually remove them in this step. If your acrylic nail set is less than one month old the safest way to remove acrylic nails at home is to soak them off. Walker suggests soaking the nails in 100 percent acetone nail paint remover for as long as it takes to dissolve the acrylic after it has been filed down as much as possible.

Take a bowl and fill it with acetone nail polish remover. Begin at the nail bed and work outwards. Dip your fingers into the bowl with nail polish remover and allow them to soak for 15-20 minutes.