nail varnish remover

cattie1

hiya quick question.
how can you remove nail polish without using nail polish remover?
I'm am sure I was told hairspray before?
anyone got any idea?

lil_me

Nail varnish remover is usually acetone (apart from the nicey nicey ones) there is no acetone in hairspray but there is alcohol which may or may not remove it, worth a try if you have that and no nail varnish remover.

mandy_moo_1

i'm sure i heard that if you put a fresh coat of polish on a nail, then wipe it straight off with a tissue, it brings both coats off

Not tried it myself, so i can't tell you if it works!!

jessicamb

maybe not the kindest solution but a soak in warm water and then picking it off could work

emg

I've tried the painting over and then wiping off thing before in an emergency and its not bad, you still end up having to pick it off around the edges though. If you have any white spirit in the shed that might work, maybe?

~*Plushroom*~

emg wrote: »

I've tried the painting over and then wiping off thing before in an emergency and its not bad, you still end up having to pick it off around the edges though. If you have any white spirit in the shed that might work, maybe?

Just a point, if you are going to try that watch out for any cuts/hangnails - it'll really sting!

mamashaz

Hi all,

Over the weekend DD acquired some nail varnish and painted my nails - first time they have been painted in about 30 years!

Now the darned stuff is flaking off and I don't want to buy nail varnish remover as I shall use it rarely, if ever, in the future.

Anybody got ideas of what I can get it off with?

Thanks

Mamashaz

Skint_Catt

Doesn't DD have any? Or you could buy the small pack of cloths soaked in remover that get it off and give the rest to DD? I know mosquito repellant spray takes it off - along with emusion from the walls etc!

C xx

Pink.

Hi mamashaz,

There's an older thread with lots of ideas so I've merged your thread with it to keep all the suggestions together.

Pink

mamashaz

Thanks, I think I'll give surgical spirit a go as it sounds fairly harmless and we've loads of it here.

DD is just 7 and she hasn't owned any before so I can't ask her!

celyn90

alcohol would work, surgical spirit should, petrol might, white spirit or cellulose paint thinners. You need an organic solvent - nail polishes tend to be a suspension of a pigment in a solvent (such as toluene) which evaporates leaving the pigment in place (which is why a fresh coat would shift some of it - you are applying the solvent again) Adding nail polish remover (which is acetone normally or ethyl acetate for fake nails as acetone melts plastic) to dried up nail polish in pots can make it stretch a bit further and remove any lumps.