Removing gel varnish help please?

[Chottie]

Please can someone recommend a nail varnish remover I can buy which removes gel nail varnish?

[Penfold007]

Are you talking about the gel that is cured under a UV light?

If so you need pure acetone, cotton wool and tin foil. soak little pieces of cotton wool in the acetone, put it on the nail and wrap your finger tip in a little foil hat. Leave for 10 minutes and test one nail to see if the gel will push off. You may need to leave it a little longer.

[Shop]

Make sure you buff the surface if the gel before you soak them off.

[Nevercan]

Amazon do lots

[Trumpton]

I use Sensationail remover , it seems better than the pure acetone I was using. ( most of the time I just gnaw it and peel it off )

[SycamoreMum]

What or gold said.

Another old school way is pure acetone in a bowl, place that acetone bowl in boiling hot water. Buff your nails then soak the nails off. The gel usually curls and them melts off.

[43cupsoftea]

Sensationail didn't work on mine at all. I got one from Boots, about £3.50. Brilliant. It's called Get 'em off I think.

[SycamoreMum]

*Penfold not or gold bloody iphone.

[Dansak]

Just don't pick it off, however tempting. My nails are still recovering months later.

[HelenF350]

Use acetone, buff the surface of the polish first and put cottonwood soaked in acetone into nail and wrap in tinfoil for 10-15 mins. Should come off fairly easily after that.

[HelenF350]

Cottonwool not cottonwood, stupid autocorrect!

[LadyB49]

Ordinary varnish remover worked for me (it was all I had) but had to sit with little foil hats for over an hour.

[Chottie]

Thank you everyone

My local nail place charges £13.00 for a gel removal and painting with clear varnish, so a bottle of acetone varnish remover sounds far more reasonable. :)