Fingernail Polish on Skin: Remove Polish Without Damaging Nails

When painting your own nails, a steady hand, decent lighting, and some required patience are needed to ensure that you don’t get your fingernail polish all over the place. However, there is always room for a few oopsies, and out of nowhere you can have fingernail polish on the side of your fingernail on your skin, or globbed all over your cuticle. How do you get that fingernail polish off your skin without ruining your otherwise perfect manicure? Here are a few things I do to repair my shaky applications.

If you put a thick lotion on your hands before you even paint them, then you will basically ‘reflect’ the fingernail polish off your skin after it dries. Since your hands will be oily from the lotion, the polish will dry on the surface of the skin and just wash off when you wash your hands. This is the easiest way to get rid of fingernail polish on the skin without having to break out the fingernail polish remover in the first place. The fingernail polish won’t stick if you put lotion on before you paint your nails- to your skin anyhow. Your nails will take the polish just fine.

If your nails are still wet and you haven’t painted the other hand yet and you get fingernail polish on the side of your nail or on your cuticle, then take the thumbnail you haven’t painted yet and scrape it along the wet polish on your skin. The fingernail polish will transfer to your unpainted nail, and being still wet, will then easily transfer to a cotton ball or paper towel or tissue. Voila! You have removed the fingernail polish from your skin without having to ruin your pretty nails.

But what if you have already painted all your nails and you see some major flubs all over your fingers? An easy fix is to take a toothpick and wrap some toilet paper or tissue around it like you’re trying to make a homemade cotton swab. The pointy end of the toothpick creates a precise tip for removing renegade fingernail polish- all you need to do now is dip the end covered in tissue into the fingernail polish remover and gently press into the flaws to remove the fingernail polish without damaging your perfect nails. This is easier than using a cotton swab, which has too large and awkward of a point to effectively remove runaway polish without damaging the prettily painted nail.

If the flaw is on the fingernail itself, like you accidentally painted over an air bubble or a hair on the nail, or a huge glob of polish landed on the nail, then a cotton swab with fingernail polish remover will gently slough away the damaged surface so you can paint over the polish without creating uneven spots or streaks. Far better than repainting the whole nail when you only had a little tiny hair in your polish screwing you up!

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my own fingernail polish and painting experience


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