What is the best way to take off acrylic nails?

When I say acrylic, I mean the french nail type that you get done at the salon. Does anyone know a good way to take them off that doesn't hurt as much as ripping them off painfully?What is the best way to take off acrylic nails?
acetone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!What is the best way to take off acrylic nails?
Use pure acetone. Never force them off - ever! Also keep in mind that many salons will apply a UV top coat to give your nails a long lasing shine. If they applied this on your nails you will have to remove the layer of cured gel before soaking your nails. Real UV gels are impervious to solvents (acetone is a solvent). Just take a 150 or 180 grit nail file and file the entire surface of the nail being careful to not remove too much product. Gel files very easily and it should come off with minimal effort. Even if they don't have a UV topcoat, it will speed the process to remove the bulk of acrylic with a file prior to soaking your nails. Also - as one other answerer said, filing them will rough up the surface which will also help to shorten the removal time.
Hi there,


Don't use water like the others have advised. What you will need: old bowl filled with acetone (nail polish remover), and old emery board, and an old towel or paper towel. Roughen up your nails with the file, soak for 5 minutes in remover, wipe with towel. Repeat these steps until all the product is gone. Wash hands and apply cuticle oil (or vegetable oil!!) and hand cream!
There's those things you can buy at like the drug store... I'm not sure what they're called, but basically they're a small round container. Inside it's lined with bristles, and it'll filled with a pink powerful nail polish remover. You just put your finger in it and rub it against the bristles, and it comes off pretty easy.


Good luck! :)
Listen to me. . . buy the (professional strength) acetone nail polish remover from a beauty supply store, like Sally's. Soak your nails as the directions say. Good Luck!
Soak them in pure acitone nail polish remover. It will take awhile, but you can peel off layers as they soak.
Soak them in hot water to get the glue to loosen and then slowly peel them off in the water. It shouldnt hurt at all:]
soak your hands in HOT water,


then eventually theyll come off.


works for me.

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