Use a quality brand — not the microwavable kind! First cut off a strip roughly twice the length of your fingertip and fold it in half lengthwise with the shiny side inside. Cut into sections about three inches long. Make ten of these. Now take your five cotton pads and cut them each in half so you have ten half circle cotton pads. Fold each in half.
One at a time, put some acetone on a pad, and then apply it to a nail. Make sure the pad is firmly against the entire nail. Hold it in place by wrapping a foil square securely around the fingertip. Leave them in place for ten minutes from when you finished the first one. The foil does more than hold the cotton pad in place for your shellac removal. Acetone evaporates, and the foil slows this down so the acetone is in place long enough to work.
Remove the foils and rub each nail a bit with its cotton pad. Using the cuticle stick , very gently push off the shellac nail polish. It should come off easily. Be patient, and do not scrape or scrub at your nails. But you will need to file down the nails on each hand — tricky. A liquid solvent used to remove stubborn polish. Cotton pads will be soaked in acetone, and wrapped around each nail, to dissolve the polish.
Next, aluminum foil is wrapped, in individual pieces, around the varnish-vanishing cotton wool to keep it in place. Hence, tin foil fingers. Waiting for the acetone to work its magic, in a soothing nail bar. The benefit of being at home is television. The benefit of being in a salon?
Doing absolutely nothing for fifteen minutes. Take it. The first thing you want to do is break the gel polish seal on your nails using a file.
Start by saturating a small paper towel square with acetone, then immediately place it on your fingernail. Next, Colley says to tightly wrap the aluminum foil around your finger to cover the paper towel, then repeat on the other four digits. According to Colley, not all gel polishes are cut from the same cloth.
Some can even take up to an hour. How can you tell if the gel is ready? Working one finger at a time, remove the foil and use the metal cuticle pusher or wooden cuticle stick, gently scrape the gel from the nail. Nails should look almost gel-free at this point, but you may have some rough spots. Do not pull or pick off the polish as it can damage the nail bed if not removed the proper way. When you get to the salon to have your shellac removed we can do it one out of two ways.
First, we buff the nails to take off the top layer, break the seal so to speak, we then soak the nails in a bowl of acetone, or polish remover, polish remover takes longer but for those against acetone, remover works for about ten minutes till the polish starts to dissolve then gently remove the remaining polish with one of our specific nail tools. Another way we remove the shellac is once again buffing the nail to remove the first layer, then wrapping a cotton ball soaked with acetone or polish remover around your nail bed and securing it with aluminum foil while the acetone again helps dissolve the shellac.
We then again use one of our nail tools to remove the remaining shellac off of the nail in a gentle manner. Here at Sozo Hair by Bajon Salon, we refuse to use drills to remove the shellac in order to prevent damaging the nail bed.
At our salon, our main goal is to be sure we keep your nails in the best condition possible! Shellac polish can also be used on the toes which can be nice in the winter, shoes can be put back on and there are no worries of smudging etc.
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