The technology of nail service over the past 10 years has been strongly developed - materials for building artificial nails, paints for art painting, preparations for growth and strengthening, varnishes for long-term Shellac manicure.
As soon as gel varnishes appeared, leading beauty salons began to actively use them, explaining this with various reasons, prompting the fair sex to agree to their use. But if you look, the use of gel polishes has a more commercial background than real care for the beauty and health of female nails. Not every woman knows how to remove shellac, how it is applied and what it is fraught with.
Shellac gel polishes have their advantages and disadvantages. If every woman who decides to use this material to cover her nails knows about them, it will be easier for her to decide on the use of shellac.
The advantages of Shellac are considered to be the following:
- The duration of a neat manicure is 2-3 weeks.
- Strengthening nails.
- The safety of the composition.
The main disadvantage of manicure with the use of gel polish is that it is almost impossible to perform at home. Every time you need to contact the manicure master, and this is a constant cash cost. Although the shellac color palette is constantly expanding by manufacturers, gel varnishes are far from the color palette of ordinary nail polish.
The most unpleasant drawback - Shellac application requires preliminary preparation of the nail plate. And this process, as well as how shellac is removed, nullifies all its advantage in strengthening nails. The preparation of the nail consists in raising the scales of the nail plate with the help of a buff - a special file of light abrasiveness. Then a degreaser is applied, which removes moisture from the nail plate. The result is a dry nail with a damaged upper layer. The base is applied to it and the nails are placed under an ultraviolet lamp to polymerize the base. The nail is again subjected to overdrying.
But the way shellac is removed damages the nail even more. Manufacturers of gel polishes produce a special liquid. According to the claimed characteristics of this drug, it is enough to make a 15-minute application with a cotton pad moistened in it, and then wipe it like a normal nail polish. In fact, after such a procedure, the master takes a file of medium abrasiveness and removes the remnants of gel polish. In this case, the nail plate again suffers.
Many people have a question, how to remove shellac from nails on their own. In this case, there are two ways. Which one to use, each woman decides for herself. How to remove the shellac coating using a special liquid is described above. But you have to be prepared for the high costs of buying this drug. The second way is to use acetone or nail polish remover. The application of a cotton pad moistened in them is applied to the nail for 20-30 minutes. After this, the softened shellac is removed with a pusher, and the rest is removed with a nail file. This is an even more harmful method, since you can also get a chemical skin burn . Therefore, knowing how to remove shellac, it is better to use this coating on artificial nails.