YouTuber Suzie presents, “How to Remove Your ‘Fake’ Nails Safely”, this video can be found on her YouTube channel Nail Career Education. This nail tutorial was inspired by the COVID-19 situations we all face today. Many shops and businesses are closed due to what is considered non-essential services or products. Nails salons fall under this shut down restriction, and many people who have enhanced nails or fake nails are experiencing grow out which can cause problems for them. Suzie breaks down the process of removing any enhancements safely and correctly without damaging the natural nail.
Suzie’s main inspiration came from the need to educate people of the correct and safest way to remove fake nails, because most people are having issues with the grow out with their enhancement they have on their nails. Suzie goes into detail of why removal of fake nails is so important and how it can save so much unintended pain and frustration. Breaking fake nails is extremely uncomfortable to say the least. Her tutorial’s arrangement is very structured as the technique she uses incorporates a step by step formula. She starts with nails that have been growing out to a more manageable short “natural” nail. Using a very precise grit grade of the nail files used are very important, in my own experience a very good quality nail file is necessary, especially if filing acrylic. In this video Suzie is just filing down a glue type material so she is filing very easily. I agree with Suzie as I personally use a 100 or 180 grit nail file when shaping and sculpting builder gel nails, never used on my natural nail bed. A good quality nail file at 100/180 grit grade is necessary to make this removal process work, as it will not work well with a cheap nail file. I really appreciate Suzie’s explanation of how the pinky finger can be held by the same hand, I never knew I could really hold my own pinky, the way she showed in the tutorial. Suzie explains how filing down the fake nail to the point where a very thin amount of the fake nail product is still left on the nail, this help provide a barer, and keeps the nails feeling very thin. This is easier said then done as you want to make the small layer flush with the natural nail bed without scratching the natural nail. A separate nail file at a lighter nail grit of 200/280 is needed, this will not leave scratch marks on the nail and crate the flush look a little easier.
The hand filing technique Suzie uses is necessary to get the fake nails off and keep the natural nail healthy leaving the nails feel strong, not like tissue paper. I have experienced the tissue paper situation from high school days where I have had salons file them off then peel them off using a nail tip, just horrific! My poor nails! I wish I had Suzie’s tutorials back then! I know there are many who are struggling now and having one’s nails done is one of the last things that should be an issue. However, in my opinion going to a nail salon is a type of relaxation for many and it gives a moment for pampering and that is missed. I hope that this video can help people give themselves a bit of self-care and pampering.
I strongly suggest this video to anyone who has “fake” nails, buy higher quality nail files and can be found on Amazon. I cannot find high quality nail files at Walmart, Walgreens, CVS or Rite Aid. I have been to all of these stores, in my area, and they didn’t have the high grit like Suzie recommends in her video (100/180 grit). I have purchased a good quality set of nail files that have multiple nail grits, check out Amazon or Universal Nail Supply, both online and easy to purchase from. I have included the video above or in the link here! As always, I hope you enjoy the video and please take care and give yourself some pampering you deserve it!
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