Preparing to remove the nails.
First, remove the free edge of the nail with the help of the nail tweezers. You need to do this with great care to protect yourself from damage to your own nails and not get hurt on the sharp edges of artificial ones. You can also use a boat - a special device, similar to a guillotine. Wizards use this tool to shorten tips. If there is neither one nor the other, try removing the nails with the help of a nail clipper. To remove the skin, the cutters are not suitable and can deteriorate if you try to do this.
Then, if you are sure that the free edges of the nails are completely removed, proceed to remove the nails from the nail plates. First, determine which type of nail you have installed - acrylic or gel.
How to remove acrylic nails in a house?
If you have installed acrylic extensively nails, then you will definitely need a liquid for removing nails from acrylic "Acrilik Remover". In extreme cases, you can use a liquid and to remove the varnish. But you need only that liquid for removing varnish, which contains acetone. A liquid for removal of artificial nails from acryle you can get in specialized shops. This will help you avoid fakes. It is advisable to remove accrued nails with a liquid from a manufacturer that produces and material for acrylic nails.
Prepare rectangular pieces of aluminum foil measuring 7x12 millimeters. They should be ten, by the number of fingers on their hands. You will also need wadded disks or small pieces of cloth. Discs need to be cut so that they cover their nails.
Before starting the procedure, you should take care of eye protection, since acrylic pieces are very sharp and can injure them.
It is not recommended to saw the free edge of the acrylic nail with a saw blade, because you can injure your own nail by pressing the saw with a strong touch. Do not also try to tear off the artificial nail from the present. Since the master before processing the nail treated it with a special compound, strengthening the adhesion to acrylic, it is unlikely that you will succeed.
After you have got rid of the free edge of the nails, remove the outer coating of the artificial acrylic nail, giving it a shine and called a finishing gel, a file with coarse sputtering. The final gel needs to be removed completely.
This task is quite complicated, since the saw sometimes just slides on the gel, not cutting it. This coating can not be removed with liquids, and acryl does not soften under the gel patches.
If you managed to remove the finishing gel, you can continue the procedure as follows. Attach to the acrylic nails pieces of cotton swabs, soaked in a liquid to remove varnish. To prevent the liquid from evaporating, cover the tampons with foil cuttings. The edges of the foil should be wrapped like a candy wrapper. Make sure that there is no air under the foil.
To completely soften the acrylic, you need to keep the nails under the foil for 35-40 minutes. During this time, the consistency of acrylic will reach the state of the jelly, and you can easily remove it from your nails with any sharp object. You need to do this as quickly as possible so that the acrylic does not begin to freeze again. The small remaining pieces of acrylic are removed by cotton wool soaked in a nail polish remover made of acrylic or varnish. After the procedure, be sure to wash your hands with soap and lubricate them well with cream.
The entire process of removing acrylic nails takes about 1.5-2 hours, not counting the purchase of liquid in the store.
Now let's move on to the story of how to remove nails from the gel at home.
Compared with acrylic nails, removing the nails from the gel can be considered a fairly long and complicated procedure.
Nails grown from the gel are not subjected to any softening and dissolution. They can only be cut down. The master from the cosmetic salon, working the file, requires about 5-10 minutes for each finger for each finger. It is possible to cut the nails with a special machine, but the nails become very hot, and breaks are required to cool them. After processing the machine, the remaining pieces of gel are removed with a nail file.
Experienced masters in the presence of special tools can do the procedure for removing nails from the gel very quickly. In a house you can spend a whole day on it.
Let's see what tools are usually used by craftsmen in cosmetic salons to remove nails from the gel.
First of all, these are special nail files. To remove the nails from the gel do not fit glass or standard files sold in manicure sets. You will need a wide blade with an abrasiveness of 80/100. You will also need saws with an abrasiveness of 150/180 grit.
Now let's move on to the procedure for removing the artificial nail.
Keep in mind that this process gives a lot of dust, so prepare a brush that will clean the processed nail. Be careful not to damage your nails with a saw. During cutting, you can also use a piece of cotton wool soaked in acetone. It will help you determine the border of an artificial and your own nail. The boundary can also be determined by pressing. To the touch, the gel is stiffer than the natural nail.
After removing the gel, take a saw blade with an abrasiveness of 150/180. It needs to be acted more cautiously than the previous file. Do not try to cut all the gel scales left on your nails. If the thin layer still remains, it will not interfere with you and will strengthen the nail plates.
Using polishing and buffs, sand nails and varnish. Dust from the peelable gel dries very much the skin, so cover the area around the nail with a nourishing cream.