Fifty-Two Weeks

What to do when your polish isn't where you want it The typical scene: You are home alone, watching a good movie and painting your nails when....oops! You just got your hair in your wet nails! Then you scramble to get it out...but yet this messes up three other nails because you have bumped those into your shirt. Now polish is in your hair and on your shirt, and as you realize this, you knock over the entire bottle of polish with your elbow onto your wooden coffee table and the flow runs onto the carpet below...you know, that great area rug you snagged on sale from Pier One? Now you have to start all over, clean the table, the carpet, your shirt, and still get the polish out of your hair... I just read a great article the other day abut removing nail polish and I thought for this post I would share with you some of what I know and just learned about removing this oh so beautiful but deadly staining substance.   Let's start with your hair: If the polish is still wet,...

Don't Pick It! I think most of us are famous for this, myself included, but for the sake of our precious nails we need to stop picking at our gel polish and start taking it off the right way! In today's post I will take us through the proper steps of safely removing gel polish at home. However, my personal advice is to always try and have a licensed nail technician take your gel polish off if you have the funds and time to do so. (Here is a detail image of damage that can be done to your nail if you do not remove gel polish correctly.) Part 1: Set up your work area To minimize the damage to you nail plate you want to make sure you have the right tools for removing your gel polish. Here are the key items you will need, and why, to do the job right: Nail file - for roughing up the surface of the nail polish Acetone - this breaks down the polish and makes it easy to come off Ten small cotton balls (or five large one pulled in half) - to soak in the acetone A...