Are you like me who love glitter nail polish? But hate to wear them because of removing glitter polishes is a pain in the butt?? There is one method that works pretty well, cotton balls soaked in polish remover on your nails and then wrapping your nails with aluminum foil for 5 minutes.
A little while ago bloggers and nail guru's on youtube started to make posts about a new method that works better.
After hearing people rave about this technique on youtube, facebook nail groups and blogs I had to try it out my self. I am testing this with different type of glitter polishes. So I went to the dollar store and got a bottle of Elmer's School glue (yes, that stuff) and put some in an empty mini polish bottle. Then I applied 1 st coat of glue on my bare nails (no base coat) and let it dry before adding a 2 nd coat.
A little while ago bloggers and nail guru's on youtube started to make posts about a new method that works better.
After hearing people rave about this technique on youtube, facebook nail groups and blogs I had to try it out my self. I am testing this with different type of glitter polishes. So I went to the dollar store and got a bottle of Elmer's School glue (yes, that stuff) and put some in an empty mini polish bottle. Then I applied 1 st coat of glue on my bare nails (no base coat) and let it dry before adding a 2 nd coat.
Glue in a mini polish bottle. I got mine from:
The polishes I used L to R: Color Club Magic Attraction, WnW Flossy Flossy & Rock N' Roll (both from Fergie collection), Color Club It's A Hit & China Glaze I Herd That. On the 3 middle fingers I used WnW Black Creme as base color over the glue.
Here they are on my nails.
Magic Attraction, Flossy Flossy, Rock N' Roll, It's A Hit & I Herd That.
So after a few hours it was time to try and remove the glitter polishes. I used a tooth pick and cuticle pusher. Did it work?? Take a look at these pictures down below.
Peels off quite easy.
And not a problem on the ones that had the base color and chunky and bigger glitters.
My naked nails and the peeled off glitter polishes.
It worked!!
I would say this works really well, way easier than the foil method or the nail tip remover soak gadgets. And you don't have to wait 5 minutes to remove the polish. I stopped in between to snap some pictures but it was like 3 minutes to remove. So easy.... I will start to wear glitter polishes more often.
If you can't find Elmer's glue in your country, try similar non toxic & washable school glues. I hope this was helpful, and hopefully you will start wearing glitter polishes more too.
Good luck, and please let me know in posts below how this worked for you.
Awesome!!! I love the pictures Silje! Great test! :D
ReplyDeleteGreat :) Doesn't the glue damage your nails?
ReplyDeleteIt's not as strong as the nail glue, it didn't pull off ant layer of my nail bed, it feels like normal. But I only had them on for 6-7 hours.
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