How-to: remove glitter nail polish

Glittery, textured nail polishes are striking. They’re also a lot fun, and play a fantastic role in nail art. But despite these great qualities, they’re also ridiculously hard to remove. I have even been known to go through a whole pile of cotton pads and an entire bottle of nail lacquer remover without succeeding to remove a single speck of said shimmery stuff. It’s very annoying.
But what if there was an easy way to remove these glittery flecks from your nails? A way that would ensure you’re not scrubbing or picking at your nails just to get them clean? Well, there is. And it’s actually so simple, I don’t know why we’ve never spoken about it before…
HOW TO REMOVE GLITTER NAIL POLISH
STEP 1: Grab yourself 10 cotton wool balls, and cut 10 squares of aluminium foil (around 5cm by 5cm will do just fine).
STEP 2: Saturate a cotton ball in nail polish remover and sit it on top of your nail, before placing a single foil square on top. To secure, wrap the foil around your nail. Repeat this step until one hand is complete.
STEP 3: Allow the remover to soak into the nail polish for five to 10 minutes, depending on how many coats you’ve applied. (Some nail polishes may require more time – it’s all about trial and error.)
STEP 4: Gently slide the foil off each finger, putting pressure on the nail and cotton ball as you do. (This will help grab hold of any last traces of polish.) Once removed, your nails should be free of glitter.
STEP 5: Repeat steps one to four on your other hand.
Ta-da! Easy, right? Sure, it takes a bit of time and effort, but there are not many ladies who’ll mind sacrificing that for clean, glitter-free nails, are there? I didn’t think so.
Have you ever tried to remove glitter nail polish and failed miserably? Do you avoid wearing shimmery lacquers on your digits because they’re hard to remove? Will you use this simple and easy removal trick from now on?
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120 Member Comments
Removing glitter is actually the hardest hahaha!
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You have to soak it in acetone for a long time!
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Just placing the cotton pad and leaving it there for 30 seconds is amazing
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Love glitter on polishes, but this is just too much on my nails, to keep the remover on for this long.
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very informative article. Thank you
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Pop one remover soaked pad on one nail and then the other, and give each one 30 seconds, it works brilliantly
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Love glitter nail polish and have heaps of them..Pre soaked cotton pads of nail polish remover works wonder as so easy to remove all the glitters.
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Glitter nail polish is super hard to remove. It can get very frustrating. This idea sounds clever and I will try it.
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Oh yes I do have a bottle and it is so stubborn to remove
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I'll have to try this next time I wear my favourite glitter polish. If it works as well as everyone says I may never use another polish again!
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Thanks for the helpful article bh!
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I love glitter polishes, but yes I dread the removal process.
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Thanks for the great tips, I will use it.
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Glitter nail polish is the worst to take off! It is the hardest thing ever.
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Glitter polish and me are arch enemies I think.
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great article :)
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WHAT! It's that easy! I've always just held the cotton wool ball on top of my fingers, but I can only do about 2 fingers at a time. The aluminium foil is a great idea. I hate having the glitter still on my nails after.
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Glitter nail polish is by far the worst I got a pedicure once & I still had a bit of glitter polish from 5 months earlier which I was sure I'd removed.
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I love glitter nail polish, now I know an easy way to remove it
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I have needed this advice all my life! I usually prefer to wear glitter nail polish as my daily, go-to nail look as it's easy to do quickly and easy to touch-up when it chips or wears off the tips. But yes, what a pain to get off - till now!! :)
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I love love love glitter nail polish, so I use this technique often! It's a bit of a pain in that it takes time and a bit of equipment....but much better than living with chipped glitter nails!
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Oh, thanks for the tip.
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I have the Ultra 3 in red and the glitter looks great so these tips are a great help thanks
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I'm going to try this method next time - I rarely wear glitter polish as it's such a pain to remove. My only concern with this method is that it may damage the nails due to how long it's sitting there
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