Ellie
05-01-2006, 07:57 PM
Most evenings I get to dress for only a few hours and since I have to work most mornings there can be no trace of my nightly activities left over from the night before. Often I am so tired at the end of the evening that I will leave my nails painted overnight figuring that I can clean them off in the morning.
As many of you have experienced nail polish can be difficult to remove completely when one is in a rush. Like when I woke up late last Thursday morning and spent ten minutes cursing up a storm :Angry3: while trying to get all the hooker red polish off :eek:. In the end I figured that if anyone asked I would just claim that the red stains were from playing with red modeling (filmo) clay.
Since then I have renewed my search for a way to quickly strip off my nail polish without the need for remover. There used to be a paint-on, peel-off nail polish sold by Avon but that appears to be discontinued.
Another peel-off nail polish that is currently being sold is Aqua-nails. (http://www.cosmeticbag.com/cgi-bin/cm.cgi?target=cool_new)
Of course they don't have all the colors that I want and being the creative type, I just had to find a way to do this myself, at least until my shipment arrives. :D
I tried this last night, leaving the polish to be removed this morning and it worked surprisingly well:
1.) Paint your fingernails and any other area around them that you want protected with a layer of standard ol' Elmer's white school glue. Just a single drop of glue was needed for my wide thumb nails.
2.) Let this dry until clear with your hands flat on the table. Takes only a few minutes and makes a smooth base for the polish.
3.) Paint on your favorite nail color and clear coat.
Once the polish dries you can easily trim around the edges of the nail by using a pointed nail file (or other thumbnail) to gently cut through the polish and glue. The excess can then be easily peeled away from the portion that you want to keep leaving no stain and a very clean edge around the nail.
When you are done with that nail color, simply pick up one corner of the polish and peel it off. Not only did the polish come off in one strip but there was no staining of the nail or surrounding skin!
While this works for pictures and hanging out at home, I suspect that these Glulish (tm) nails won't last past a single good hand washing and may even start to peal off if they are rubbed too hard when dry.
I'm going to try it again, this time on both hands, and do some robustness testing. If anyone else tries out this technique, please let me know as any feedback will be appreciated.
p.s. I've added a poll to the thread to see just how far out this idea is :p
As many of you have experienced nail polish can be difficult to remove completely when one is in a rush. Like when I woke up late last Thursday morning and spent ten minutes cursing up a storm :Angry3: while trying to get all the hooker red polish off :eek:. In the end I figured that if anyone asked I would just claim that the red stains were from playing with red modeling (filmo) clay.
Since then I have renewed my search for a way to quickly strip off my nail polish without the need for remover. There used to be a paint-on, peel-off nail polish sold by Avon but that appears to be discontinued.
Another peel-off nail polish that is currently being sold is Aqua-nails. (http://www.cosmeticbag.com/cgi-bin/cm.cgi?target=cool_new)
Of course they don't have all the colors that I want and being the creative type, I just had to find a way to do this myself, at least until my shipment arrives. :D
I tried this last night, leaving the polish to be removed this morning and it worked surprisingly well:
1.) Paint your fingernails and any other area around them that you want protected with a layer of standard ol' Elmer's white school glue. Just a single drop of glue was needed for my wide thumb nails.
2.) Let this dry until clear with your hands flat on the table. Takes only a few minutes and makes a smooth base for the polish.
3.) Paint on your favorite nail color and clear coat.
Once the polish dries you can easily trim around the edges of the nail by using a pointed nail file (or other thumbnail) to gently cut through the polish and glue. The excess can then be easily peeled away from the portion that you want to keep leaving no stain and a very clean edge around the nail.
When you are done with that nail color, simply pick up one corner of the polish and peel it off. Not only did the polish come off in one strip but there was no staining of the nail or surrounding skin!
While this works for pictures and hanging out at home, I suspect that these Glulish (tm) nails won't last past a single good hand washing and may even start to peal off if they are rubbed too hard when dry.
I'm going to try it again, this time on both hands, and do some robustness testing. If anyone else tries out this technique, please let me know as any feedback will be appreciated.
p.s. I've added a poll to the thread to see just how far out this idea is :p