thick gloopy nail varnish

Chuzzle

Hi

One of my bottles of nail varnish has gone all thick and gloopy making it hard to use. Is there anything I can do to thin the varnish out?

RoseFairy

you could add a few drops of nail varnish remover and initially shake well. or put in a bowl of hot water
for later and other polishes rather than shake the bottle - roll it between your hands. if you add too much the contents separate and become too thin.

sandy2_2

I used to use a few drops of something called amyl acetate (smelled like pear drops)

Chuzzle

sandy2..where can i get amyl acetate?

pink-lint_2

RoseFairy wrote: »

you could add a few drops of nail varnish remover and initially shake well. or put in a bowl of hot water
for later and other polishes rather than shake the bottle - roll it between your hands. if you add too much the contents separate and become too thin.

yes i do this aswell.

La-Cara

OPI do a special thinner, I got mine from Sally Salon for about £8. Its quite pricey but you do get a big bottle and you only need to add one or two drops to the bottle of varnish.

phunkles

Mavala also sell a nail varnish thinner for approx £6 it was last time I bought it anyway

faithless

I put nail varnish remover in an expensive Sally Hansen nail protector varnish stuff I was using as didn't want to waste a thrid of it after it went gloopy. It worked like a treat initially but then a few days later I noticed the clear varnish had gone a bit milky - looked as though the brush stem was being dissolved!

sillyvixen

put it in a small bowl of hot water before applying - cheaper than special thinners - somthing my gran taught me - she always wore nail varnishd (and never wasted a drop) well before thiners became available - she had bottles that were donkeys years old!!!