Review (3/5): I Wanted It To Work!  Didn't Work on My Gel Nail Polish
Made in China, this nail polish remover kit is just so cute and complete! I really really wanted it to work.
I love my gel colors. I use them on natural nails.
I HATE removing the gel colors! I HATE what it does to my natural nails.
It's a quandary.
So, this Gel Nail Polish kit said it would remove the polish in 5 minutes.
It comes with a 16.9 oz bottle of remover (which is alcohol, acetone, propylene glycol, essence, deionized water. I usually just use straight acetone and that doesn't always do the trick, but okay.
A little pump bottle to put the remover in. You just put the pad on the top and pump a couple of times to saturate the pad. I LOVE those little pumps! Sooooo much better than trying to saturate the pads by dumping the bottle upside down on top of the pad and having it all over the place!
A huge bundle of cotton pads.
10 finger tip clips to hold the pads on--love!
Nail File
Metal cuticle pusher/scraper.
I was wearing Pewete nail gel from base coat to top coat. There was 2 coats of glitter nail polish and some nail stickers. I know it was a tough test.
To give it the best possible chance, I used my nail drill and scuffed the top coat off of my nail. You can see it after being scuffed in the 6th picture.
Then, I wet a cotton pad and put it on the nail and put the clip over it.
And waited.
Checked.
Waited.
Checked.
Waited.
This went on every 5 minutes for about 15 minutes and by that time the little cotton pad was pretty dry.
I finally just took the clip off and it looked like the second to the last picture so I used the metal cuticle pusher/scraper to scrape the polish off and ended up with the one in the last picture. I finally just used my normal gel polish remover to take the last bit off.
So, this kit is nice but it just didn't work like my normal gel polish remover which works in just a few minutes and doesn't beat up my nails or skin.
I think this kit would work with regular nail polish fine, but it simply can't cut through the gel. At least the gel that I used. I think all of the alcohol and other chemicals that diluted the acetone just made it too weak.
Would not recommend for gel nail polish removal but it would work on regular nail polish I believe so it got 3 stars for that possibility.