how to get my yellow nails clear again?
help! I painted my toenails with sally hansen hard as nails and left it on WAY too long...they looked pretty and it doesn't chip! BUT now that I've taken it off, my toe nails have a yellow looking tinge :cry: how do I get them back to there natural looking state? ideas? thank you!
PS...I looked online and saw that I could use lemon juice on a cottonball. Just wondering if anyone has tried that with good results
When I saw the OP title...
I was going to suggest wearing impermeable gloves when you chain-smoke your three packs of Camels a day. :mrgreen:
Not so interesting as that.
Why not just wait til they grow out? Fingernails don't take that long to grow, and you won't risk damaging anything with harsh chemicals. A nailbed separation would be a LOT worse than what you have now.
Here's a hint on how to save some money on nail polish remover...
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1Ms. America
Go over them again with acetone nail polish remover and a cotton ball. 100% acetone works better than anything else I've used. Use an orange stick dipped in the nail polish remover to get the edges of the nails where the nail meets the skin.
After getting them fully clean, soak them in warm water with a few drops of dish soap, and peroxide so that the water is half peroxide. Scrub gently with a nail brush, and go over the edges again with orange stick ...you know the ones that are flat on one side..remove any deadened skin and around where the nail meets the skin, and push back the cuticle.
It can take a couple of applications of the nail polish remover to get it all. Anymore, I don't bother with standard nail polish remover. I go for the good stuff. It does a better job and you don't have to use as much.
I do my natural nails frequently as I like to do manicures. The technique above works well at even getting dark reds off, so yellow should be pretty easy.
Don't buy it in the cosmetics department. Instead, go to the paint department. ChinaMart has quarts of pure acetone for around 5 bucks or so. Should last you a LONG time...