How to Remove Acrylic Nails Painlessly With Acetone at Home

Removing fake acrylic nails at home can be a pain but below are two of the best ways on how to remove acrylic nails painlessly with acetone at home at your convenience. You can even be entertained putting on your favorite movie before starting the process of removing your acrylic nails.

Removing your acrylic nails at the nail salon can be costly and time-consuming but is recommended by a lot of professionals. Personally, I wouldn’t say I like going to the nail salon to remove my fake acrylic nails because I prefer to remove acrylic nails at home pain-free. Some nail technicians can hurt your nails by not taking their time, so I listed the two best ways on how to remove acrylic nails painlessly with acetone at home below.

How to Remove Acrylic Nails Painlessly With Acetone at Home

1. How to Remove Fake Acrylic Nails with Acetone and Aluminum Foil

SUPPLIES NEEDED
* 100% pure acetone
* A regular nail clipper or a nail clipper for acrylic nails
* Nail Buffer or a nail file
* Cotton balls or cotton face/makeup pads
* Aluminum foil – cut aluminum foil into pieces that can securely wrap around your fingers.
* Cuticle stick or orange stick
*Vaseline, lotion, or cuticle oil

PROCESS

1. Remove nail polish and design from the acrylic nail with nail polish remover or use a nail file to away the topcoat.
2. Clip your acrylic nails down as short as you can. This process can be painful for some people.
3. Pry up the edges of your acrylic nails so that acetone can penetrate the acrylic and glue.
4. Apply Vaseline, lotion, or cuticle oil around the cuticle area and finger where acetone will touch but not your acrylic nails.
5. Soak the cotton balls or pads in acetone.
6. Put acetone-soaked cotton balls or pads on acrylic nails (completely covering acrylic nails) and wrap with foil wrap immediately.
7. Leave foil wrap on fingers for about 35 to 40 minutes.
8. DO ONE FINGER AT A TIME!!!
   Gently remove one foil wrap and check to see if the acrylic nail comes off with it or slides off easily.
9. IF acrylic nail does not come off easily, please put the aluminum foil back on your finger and wait an additional ten minutes or resoak the cotton ball and repeat the process with a shorter waiting time.

(READ: How to Take Off Acrylics Nails with Nail Polish Remover)

2. How to Remove Acrylic Nails with Acetone and Warm Water

SUPPLIES
* 100% pure acetone
* Orange stick or cuticle pusher
* Vaseline, lotion, or cuticle oil
* Warm water
* 2 Bowls that can fit in each other like the picture above.
* Tweezer
* A regular nail clipper or a nail clipper for acrylic nails
* Nail Buffer or a nail file

PROCESS

1. Clip your acrylic nails down as short as you can. This process can be painful for some people.
2. Pry up the edges of your acrylic nails so that the acetone can penetrate the glue.
3. Fill the smaller bowl with acetone to a level where acrylics can be dipped and covered completely.
4. Fill the larger bowl with warm to hot water.
5. Put the bowl with acetone to sit in the bowl with warm water.
6. Apply Vaseline, lotion, or cuticle oil around your fingers.
7. Dip your acrylic nail into the acetone and make sure the entire acrylic nail is covered/submerged in acetone.
8. Leave fingers in acetone for about 40 minutes.
9. Check one finger to see if you can gently pull out the acrylic nail with the tweezer.
10. RESOAK ACRYLIC NAILS IF YOU FEEL THE ACRYLICS ARE NOT COMING PUT EASILY. 

(READ: How to Remove Fake Acrylic Nails at Home with Little to No Pain)

I have read a few places that acrylic nails treated with acetone will start to harden if you do not take the acrylic nail off as soon as possible, so I advise doing one nail at a time. You can dip all of your acrylic nails in the acetone simultaneously but try to keep as much of them in the bowl by taking off the acrylic from one nail.

Source: Wiki, Stylecraze, Beauty In Each Centimeter, Lifestyle – Polish Nail