How To Soak Acrylic Nails Off At Home

When the nails start swelling separate them from your original ones with orange sticks.

How to soak acrylic nails off at home. Once you see your nails coming off use a toothpick to detach the acrylic nails from your natural nails be very careful with this step. Lay a small towel over your soaking hand and the bowl and soak for 10 minutes. After you have successfully removed it use a nail file to remove the excess glue from your nails.

Apply Vaseline or natural oil to moisturize your nails to keep them soft. In either case soaking the acrylic nails off will take. 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.

Check if the acrylics started to dissolve and keep nails in the bowl for a little longer if not. Next run an orange stick or cuticle pusher along the edge to get the nail. Use a ratio of about ⅔ dish soap to ⅓ water.

File or buff off the shiny top surface completely. Use a nail tip clipper to cut off the excess length of your acrylics. Cut them as close as possible to your natural nails.

Scrape away more of the acrylic with the cuticle pusher. Soak your nails in warm water for at least 20 to 30 minutes to help the adhesive soften. If you want to take things a step further Le suggests placing a hot towel on.

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. Theres two ways to apply acetone. 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.