Rarely do I actually paint my fingernails. What’s even worse is that I love having my toenails painted, but once they are painted I hate taking the time to remove the polish when it starts chipping. It’s such a pain that I usually just let it chip off until eventually it’s all gone. I know some of you are dying thinking about how tacky that is, but it’s the ugly truth. I just don’t have a lot of free time to sit down and try to scrub nail polish off my toes! And then I saw this great idea in Real Simple Magazine and I just had to give it a try!
Here’s what you’ll need:
Nail polish remover
Small piece of felt
Here is what my toenails looked like after rubbing it for a couple of minutes with a cotton ball and nail polish remover!
After getting really irritated, and remembering why I never paint my toenails, I got up and grabbed some felt and the page I’d torn out of the Real Simple Magazine.
Here’s what to do:
1. Soak the felt in the nail polish remover.
2. Press the soaked felt piece up against each nail for 20-30 seconds.
3. Using the felt, wipe the polish off.
The tidbit from the magazine was a trick for getting off glitter nail polish but I thought, why not try it on regular nail polish and see if it works! It worked so well! I’m so glad I tried it and I don’t think I’ll ever go back to using a cotton ball again!
Now my toes are happy pink, but who knows, maybe this weekend I’ll paint them sexy red!
Have a great week everyone!
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Love this idea!!!! I HATE taking off nail polish, so I usually just keep painting over my toes as they chip- which means I usually have about 18 coats of nail polish on at one time!
Haha, does that work? I’ve TOTALLY considered it before!
Anna
Oh…thank you for this one, for sure! It usually takes me about 10 cotton balls to get mine off!
Jessica @ Mom 4 Real
I know! That’s the same problem I’ve always had too!
Anna
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Thanks for this tip. I happen to have plenty of felt to give this a try!
lexmallabooks.com
Awesome!
Anna
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that’s awesome… i do have to say alot can be said about the type of polish remover… target has a great one!
That’s good to know. Is the one you use Target’s off brand or is it a name brand one?
Anna
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I love it! I have been slowly chipping away at polish that was put on my toenails in NOVEMBER!
Haha! I have SO been there!
Anna
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