How to Remove Acrylic Nails

 How to Remove Acrylic Nails

Hello girls! In this article I will explain how to remove acrylic nails, without hurting your natural nail and in a professional way.

This is very important if you do not have time to go to your nail salon, or you have an emergency and must remove your acrylic nails at that time.


Never try to remove them with your teeth, as it can cause severe damage to the nail bed of your natural nail.
When this happens, it is often thought that acrylic nails weaken the nail.
The reality is that when a good filing is done and the acrylic nails are removed in a correct way, these types of situations should not happen.

- How to Remove Acrylic Nails and Nail Art Accessories

To show you how to remove acrylic nails, we are going to start with the material you need, they are very easy things to get and that you surely have at home, if you already have your material to apply acrylic nails you will not have to get anything.

• Material to remove acrylic nails
• Sanitizer or alcohol.
• Nail clipper
• Limes
• 100% pure acetone (you can find it in stores for stylists and nail products)
• Cotton balls
• Aluminum foil.
• Cuticle pusher or orange stick.
• Nail strengthener / hardener.
• Glitter for nails.
• Cuticle oil.
• Moisturizing lotion.

We start by disinfecting the nail clippers, files, our hands and acrylic nails to avoid any infection.
Then with the nail clipper you will cut your acrylic nails, taking care not to take your natural nail, the cuts must be made from side to side.

Once the previous step is finished, you are going to take your file and file the surface of the acrylic nails in an enveloping way.
This is to remove the shine that the Top Finish leaves when we put it to cure in the lamp.
If you don't do this step, it will be very difficult for the acetone to work on the acrylic surface.
You are going to do it on all your nails.

Now you are going to cut strips of aluminum foil, the measurement will be the size of your fingers, you should not cover the entire finger, only the acrylic nails area.
And you're going to moisten each cotton ball in pure acetone.
Next you are going to place a cotton ball on the acrylic nail.
And immediately you wrap it with the aluminum foil on the matte side of the paper and the shiny side that is facing out.
You will do this step on all your nails and you will leave it for 15 minutes.


how to remove acrylic nails
Then you remove the aluminum foil and the cottons, and with your cuticle pusher or orange stick, you are going to remove all the acrylic that has been removed.
If necessary, the process can be repeated until there is no acrylic left on the natural nail.

Very important, try to repeat this process only 2 times,
since the skin of the nail can be irritated if we leave the acetone on the nails for a long time.

To finish the acrylic nail removal
When there is no acrylic left on your nails, what you can do is shape your natural nails with a file.
You are going to apply a moisturizing cream all over your hand and also on your nails, giving a light massage.


acrylic nail files
Now you are going to apply your nail strengthener I recommend 2 layers, at the end you are going to apply nail polish, you are going to let it dry.
You apply your cuticle oil.

And ready!
This is how you can do an acrylic nail removal without hurting your natural nail and without leaving home.

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How To Make Nail Acrylics With Eyeshadow Palettes

 How To Make Nail Acrylics With Eyeshadow Palettes

In this article we are going to see a simple and inexpensive way to make acrylics for nails with eye shadows.

This option turns out to be very useful, when you want to save money on the purchase of your acrylic nail material.
Or when you are looking for a specific color and precisely your eyeshadow palette has it!

Best of all, you don't have to ditch your favorite shadows to make your own custom acrylic collection.
Or use those shadows that you no longer use and give them another use, as in this case it would be acrylic powders of different colors.

- How To Make Nail Acrylics With Eyeshadow Palettes and Nail Art Accessories

So let's get into the article fully.

• Material to create acrylics for nails with shades
• We are going to need base tones such as white acrylic and crystal acrylic, in this way we can give the hue and color to each tone.
• Also a measure to know how much you add exactly, you can use your cuticle pusher for measurements.

Another color that you will need is a nude or cover.
And if your idea is to create acrylics with textures or glitter, surely you have different products for nail decoration, such as glitters, mermaid tail, confetti, etc.


And so make your own creations for your acrylic nail applications.
On the other hand, if you do not want to use your eyeshadows, another way to do it is with pigments, these are found in distributors for acrylic nail products.

As you can see, the subject of acrylic nails or nail art is quite extensive and the best of all is that you can unleash your creativity and achieve really beautiful nail applications, with a little budget.


Here is a video tutorial from my YouTube channel, so you can see the step by step, and do it together with me.