How To Soak Your Acrylic Nails Off At Home

Acetone will clean your acrylic nails off but only for a short period of time.

How to soak your acrylic nails off at home. Moisturize your cuticle by using cuticle oil or any moisturizer that suits your skin. However the most effective way to remove acrylic off your nail is soaking your nails in pure acetone which helps to melt off the gelacrylic to prevent excessive scraping and peeling. Logan also suggests investing in a manicure bowl cotton balls.

Scrape away more of the acrylic with the cuticle pusher. Continue to repeat the process of soaking and pushing acrylic off until. Remove your hand from the bowl.

Then stick it back in the solution for another 5 to 10 minutes. Then apply Vaseline to your hands. Soak the nails for 3 to 4 minutes.

Wash and dry your hands and under your nails. Here are the steps. Gently push the acrylic off your nails using a steel cuticle pusher.

Next run an orange stick or cuticle pusher along the edge to get the nail to start to lift. File or buff off the shiny top surface completely. Use a ratio of about ⅔ dish soap to ⅓ water.

Then place the soaked cotton ball on your nail and wrap it in aluminum foil for 15ish minutes. Then remove the nails with the help of a paper towel. In either case soaking the acrylic nails off will take at least 20 minutes.