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Thanks for your question, Robi! Please check out our article, Natural Nails After Acrylic, for step by step instructions on how to treat your nails after the acrylic is removed. Following these tips will help ensure your nails grow back healthy and strong.

-- Contributed by: Tsharma

I want to stop wearing acrylic nails. What do I need to do to prevent infections or irritations after the acrylic is removed and I try to grow my real nails back?

-- Contributed by: Robi

Thanks, Jess - glad we could help!

-- Contributed by: Tsharma

this is brill

-- Contributed by: Jess

Aimee, the best you can do is soak them a bit more in acetone and then gently buff your nails to work the rest of it off. Give your nails a lengthy break after this to treat and moisturize them. They will need it.

-- Contributed by: Tsharma

Followed this advice and removed my acrylic tips...leaving then 2 soak for well over 20 minute but i now have excess acrylic that i just cant shift...any ideas??

-- Contributed by: Aimee Forsyth

Hope, thanks for your question! It's going to take some work to get those fake nails off. Follow the instructions in the article above - use cotton balls soaked in acetone, leave them on for as long as it takes to loosen the acrylic, and then gently remove. Remember to keep your nails coated with a protective oil (I love Solar Oil for this purpose) for several weeks following the removal process. Acetone is very drying, so anything you can do to impart some moisture to the area will be helpful. Good luck!!

-- Contributed by: Tsharma

Hi! Thanks for making this. I got fake nails from Wal-mart and I put them on myself using nail glue (also from Wal-mart) and they would pop off occasionally, so I'd just glue them back on. Well, I decided it was time that my nails heal, so I decided to let them stay off when they pop off. However, it looks kind of weird having 8 fake nails and then 2 real ones. (Now that I don't want them to pop off they do!) How do I take these off? They're not the expensive kind that are meant to last forever...they're more meant for, like, one formal event.

-- Contributed by: Hope

Girls, sorry to hear you've had such painful experiences removing your acrylics. If you do opt to do it yourself, make sure you soak them for a while - even adding a few minutes extra to the process - to help them come off easier. Otherwise, you might consider having a professional do it from now on.

-- Contributed by: Tsharma

That sounds really painful. I've never had any kind of problems like that. I've had mine on for four weeks today, and what was at the bed of my nail four weeks ago has grown out, and is starting to come up... I'm goig to be sticking something under there soon &prying them up. I get fake nails a lot. I've soaked them off before, and peeled them off aswell, either works. I always wait til they grow out a good bit before I mess with them though.

-- Contributed by: ana

Kara what happened to you also happened to me. My fingers were sooo sore and it was extremly painful.

-- Contributed by: Laura

Natasha, it can be tough to remove nails at home! It's recommended to have it done at a salon because they can remove them appropriately, and your nails will probably look better afterwards. That can depend largely on how your nails were treated when they were applied originally (was the original nail tech a bit rough or was her technique poor?), but the odds are that your nails will be in better condition if a pro takes care of it for you.

-- Contributed by: Tsharma

I recently had my nails done for my senior prom. However... I have taken these nails off before at home and they looked horrible .. is it better to go to the salon and let them do it? Will the process be quicker, healthier for my nails? And will my actual nails look better afterwards?

-- Contributed by: Natasha

Amanda, if your acrylics are successfully removed, there should be no problem at all with applying a nail strengthener.

-- Contributed by: Tsharma

I was wondering if u remove the acrylic nails successfully .... and put nail strenther on them wud they be ok ???

Please help me !

-- Contributed by: Amanda

Ouch, Kara! Sorry to hear about your negative experience. Yes, your nails should have been soaked prior to removal, and you should never experience pain at a nail salon. The nails should be soaked off in pure acetone. This is typically done by wrapping an acetone-soaked cotton ball around the nail and holding in place with tinfoil for 20 minutes or so. This process is quite obviously gentler and less traumatic to your nails. Always be sure the salon uses real gel and not acrylics. Hope this helps you!

-- Contributed by: Tsharma

I have a question that I was hoping you could answer, I recently went to a nail salon and asked for gel nails. I got them on and thought they were great looking the first few days but then they started to turn yellow, I then started to ask questions, because I was told that gel wouldnt do that. Apparently I got a powdered gel put on not knowing that they wernt the actual "real" gel. I then wanted them off because of the colour. I went where I got them put on and he started to take them off, I assumed that they would soak my fingertips, I asked and he said yes he was going to. He didnt... he cut off the tips and used an actilic tip to pry off the fake nail tearing my nails underneath! I had never felt so much pain in my entire life!! Should they have soaked them prior to taking them off??? I would really appreciate your opinion thanks for you time!!! Kara

-- Contributed by: Kara
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