Q&A for How to Remove Nail Glue from Nails

You can buff away clumps of nail glue. Small amounts of residue can be removed with acetone.

You can soak it in warm, soapy water for 15 minutes or so and then pry it off. Remove any residual glue with nail polish remover.

Acetone is the best thing to remove nail glue from the skin. If you are worried about irritation, you can also soak your fingers in warm soapy water and then rub away the glue.

You can soak the glue in warm soapy water and then rub with a washcloth or soft brush. You can also use alcohol or vinegar.

Soaking your nail tips in acetone is the easiest way to remove any glue, but if you don't want to do that, you could try gently filing the glue away.

Put nail polish remover or Vaseline around your skin so the polish won't stick to it.

Yes, it will. Just remove the glue carefully. If you do it at home it will probably work fine, but it would be safer to do it at a nail salon. It only costs $5-$10.

If you have that color polish, use acetone and scrape it off, not letting the acetone sit on the acrylic nail too long as it'll eat through it, but just scrape it, scratch at it, agitate it, and it should come off. Then either repaint or just do another top coat to add the shine back to the nail (buff it if you really have to, but remember it is thin). If the worst comes to the worst, add a few rhinestones to cover it up temporarily.

Use acetone on cotton balls, then wrap it around your fingers with tin foil, and leave on for 10 minutes.

Put pure acetone on cotton balls, take a soaked cotton ball to the nail, press it firmly onto the acrylic, on the area where it has adhered to your natural nail, using tin foil so it stays right in place (this prevents you from having to handle the acetone a lot). Place an acetone soaked cotton ball or 2 on every nail using the tin foil to keep them in place while the acetone eats away at the acrylic nail and glue.

Yes! I suggest smothering cuticle oil on your nails/cuticles too, and do this whenever you think of it. Oil is your nails' best friend; check out Bliss Kiss's website.