The intervertebral disc is one structure prone to the degenerative changes associated with wear and tear such as aging, weight bearing, injury as well as misuse (e.g. smoking). These changes are linked and may lead to the discs inability to handle mechanical stress.
1 This helps break through the top coat to allow the remover to penetrate the layers of polish below. 2  Soak a cotton ball with the acetone remover and place it on one of the fingernails. 3  Wrap the finger with the cotton ball in foil, and squeeze it nice and tight so that the cotton ball stays in contact with the nail. Remove the foil from one finger. ( 2 You should be able to visibly see the polish coming loose from the edges of the nail.) Push the polish off of the nail using your orange stick or cuticle pusher. 3  Donât use anything too sharp or you could remove the top layer of your nail. 4  Repeat this step for each nail.
After the requisite two or three weeks, nail professionals suggest scheduling a gel removal appointment, where nails are soaked in acetone to give the gel a more malleable consistency before it can be prized from the nail surface. In some circumstances, gel polish is filed away or scraped off of the nail. Lastly, there is the least advisable removal method: Peeling each gel off your fingers with no adult supervision. No gel removal method is particularly enticing, and in fact most are downright cringeworthy. Post-gel nails are often splintery, rough in texture, and at the worst of times, jagged.