How To Remove An Infected Acrylic Nail

The acrylic nail is glued down to your actual nail and if your nail gets injured theres a high possibility of your real nail getting ripped off in the injury.

How to remove an infected acrylic nail. Taking something like nail clippers wont work as acrylic can be a bit thicker than clippers can get over. Take ibuprofen to help relieve pain or any inflammatory medicine. It affects the natural nail plate nail bed the skin under the nail and nail folds skin around the nail.

Then saturate a cotton ball with acetone and apply it to the top of each nail. A new client came to me not to long ago and one of her fingers looked a bit red and inflamed she had explained it could be she banged or caught her finger and after examining it it didnt look sore or infected. Make sure the cotton ball is completely covering your nail then wrap each finger in aluminum foil.

It will take a little more time but if you want to avoid acetone your normal enamel can also be used to get rid of those stubborn acrylic nails. READ ALSO How to grow nails. Clean any excess nail glue using warm water and nail sponge.

1Use the Nail cutter and clip your nails short. YOu will need to leave the acrylic off tha tnailuntil the damaged portion has grown off the free edge. Put your finger in cold ice water to help alleviate pain.

If you like to keep your nails long we totally do thats fine but bear in mind it will. To remove acrylic or gel nails you soak your fingers in acetone for 10 minutes or longer. Do not remove any part of the nail.

You also can develop a fungal nail infection if the manicurist uses unsanitary tools to apply the nails. What do I need to remove acrylic nails. Whenever you feel a slight pain in nails after having an acrylic nail manicure.