Is there any way to take my gel nails off without COMPLETELY ruining my real ones?

i can't afford to spend ANY extra money - even the $8.00 for the removal. is there anything i can soak them in or something to soften them up or dissolve them? i don't have acetone. Is there any way to take my gel nails off without COMPLETELY ruining my real ones?
When i had to take my nails off, i filled up a bowl with really really hot water, and put another smaller bowl of nail polish remover in it and soaked my nails in that for a while. It should come right off in a few minutes. Make sure you put a towel over the bowls, and cover your hand as well, so you dont get high off of the fumes !


My nails were fine afterwards, just a little brittle but that always happens after you have nails on.Is there any way to take my gel nails off without COMPLETELY ruining my real ones?
try putting your hands in hot water and use hair dryer and blow hot at your one nail until the glue become melted, then ta da, easy peel... then wash the glue off immediately with hot water and plenty of soap.. to some people, hair dryer might be too hot for their hand to handle.. but it's the best way to not damage your nails..
Try using acetone , dilute it first approx. half acetone half water and soak your nails in the solution for a few minutes . Try buyin acetone at your local salons or have a look online. :)
well if you dont have acetone, ive used vinegar before (i know...weird) but it worked for me. your real nails get a little chipped and brittle but its better than them coming completely off.


hope this helps.
Are you absolutely certain that you have UV gel nails? It's easy to tell the difference between gel and acrylic nails. Did the tech use ANY liquid and powder on your nails? If so, then you have acrylic nails. Even if they put a gel topcoat on you, they are still acryic nails. Gel nails are made with, you guessed it, gel, LOL! UV nail gels look like this:


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The gel is applied in several layers, and each individual layer must be cured under a UV lamp for two minutes. There is no liquid and powder used in the application of UV gel nails.


I'm asking this because there are a lot of girls out there who think they have gel nails simply because they paid for gel nails, and that is what they asked for. But, there are a lot of scammers out there who will give you acrylic nails - which are cheaper, and charge you the full gel nail price, which is always more than the cost of acrylic nails. Pretty sad, huh?


The bottom line is this...Acrylic nails are removed by soaking the nails in pure acetone. But, UV gel light cured nails are non-porous. Thus, they cannot be soaked off, they must be filed off. If your nails are indeed real UV gel nails, then you could sit for hours with them soaking in polish remover and not a thing will happen to the nails. It just doesn't work with gel nails. Filing them off is the only way to remove them. If you have a salon remove them for you, do NOT allow them to pry or tear them off or your natural nails will be damaged quite badly and you will feel a lot of pain. That is the wrong way to remove them. Don't let any tech do that to you. You will regret it for a long time to come because it takes months for the nails to heal from the damage they did to them. You need to find a tech with lots of experience removing gel nails by filing them off. An unskilled tech can file them off...Anyone can file them off. But, it's not quite that simple. An unskilled tech can easily file off too much and ruin your nails by filing down into them instead of taking only the gel off and stopping at that point. I hope this helps...