Showing posts with label Acrylic Nails. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Acrylic Nails. Show all posts

Monday, August 18, 2008

How to Remove Acrylic Nails. Some Usefull Advices.


Removing acrylic nails is really simple. All you have to do is soak your hands in warm water for around fifteen minutes. Take them out, put some more hot water in a big bowl. Take a small bowl and put nail polish remover in it. You would soon see that the nails turn into a gluey sticky substance. After doing all this just put some cuticle oil and hand cream.

TRY ADDING BABY OIL TO ACETONE TO SOAK
You can took your Acrylic nails off by using the soaking in Acetone method. Maybe you dread doing this because it dries your skin out so badly and sometimes burns. BUT you can add baby oil to the acetone and it is a lot less harsh on your skin. It worked normal and you will not get burnt.

Try to use solar oil because your natural nail is drying out underneath and that is why the nail lifts like it does. If that doesn't work obviously the nail tech let the gel run over the cuticle area and that is also why it lifted. You find a new nail tech.

But the best advice is not to try and pry them off yourself. Better aply to specialists and get them professionally removed. Save yourself the trouble and the intense pain if something goes wrond in your home "operation".

Wednesday, February 07, 2007

Acrylic & Gel Nails

Acrylic nails
Acrylic nails are called many different names, with the nail technician's least favorite being "fake nails". We much prefer the term artificial nails. There are several different types of artificial nail enhancement products as well as application procedures. The most commonly applied enhancement is traditional acrylic, which is a two-part system of monomer and polymer. This type of product can be applied with one color of acrylic, pink and white acrylic for a Permanent French look, or can be applied with colored acrylic, glitter acrylic or in any combination. Pink and white acrylic nails are often referred to as "Solar Nails". Solar Nail is a product made by Creative Nail Design Systems and includes their Original Solar Nail, Radical Solar Nail, Retention + , and Moxie acrylic systems. Unless you actually see this product in its original bottle on the nail table, your nails may not be 'Solar Nails".
Gel Nails
Gel acrylic is a one-part system consisting of the application of a thick viscosity gel acrylic. Gel is normally 'cured' under a UV light. Do not confuse gel with traditional acrylic. Even though the two products are actually acrylic, they apply and wear differently. Gel applied over acrylic to seal the surface does not make your nails "Gel Nails". Gel nails are actually acrylic nails. They are made from the same class of acrylates, but with different molecular structures, appearance, application procedures and different curing methods. Be certain you are receiving the artificial nails you requested.