Never peel a nail extension off. Thats how you hurt your natural nails. Soak them in pure acetone and they will come off.

Soak in acetone

Clip down what you can before filing and soaking

File the bulk off either by hand or with an E-File an medium/coarse bit then soak off in acetone with foil and cotton (or with soak off clips)

Soak off when I don't use Jello Jello peel off.

How do you remove them?

Oh no! What are you doing to remove them currently?

Peel off base coat

Did you rip these off? Careful and patient soaking off is where it's at if you're not using peel off, which I personally have never tried. You'll need to file off the top coat, if you feel comfortable filling off the bulk of the product it'll make soak off faster, just be careful not to hit the natural nail. I recommend hand filing unless you're a professional trained on the e-file and have experience too. Soak for ten minutes at a time, with the clips or with aluminum, soaking in loose acetone isn't necessary, it wastes acetone and there's no need to soak your skin like that, it'll just get unnecessarily dry that way. Never ever ever pick or pry at the gel, you should only be scraping off stuff that comes off easily. This is usually where people get impatient and end up forcing the gel off, which is literally exactly the same as ripping them off so it defeats the purpose of soaking off. Most likely you'll need to do two or more rounds of ten minute soaks, it's not a quick process. But if you're patient you won't damage your nails.

But like..... Op? Your nails are effed right now. Best practice would be to fully grow out and clip off that damage before you attempt any other nail enhancement. Whatever you put on there isn't going to have a solid foundation to hold onto since you have that damage, and therefore it'll lift or pop off, creating even more damage and perpetuating the problem eternally. Grow it out, try again and just be more patient and careful with removals from now on

Put a small bowl that fits your hand inside a larger bowl with warm water. Pour the acetone and your nails into that small bowl. I also don't believe you filed down enough product. After about ten minutes, remove your hand, file and scrape off what you can, soak again for any remaining residue.

Were the nails painted that nude colour? If so you'll needs to file down a lot more

If you got them done in at a shop then it'll be easier to just go back to them for removal if you don't know what adhesive/products was actually used

It helps if the acetone is warm. Please look up the rice method for nail removal.

not to make fun of you, but hannah? r/boneappletea if i’ve ever seen it.

i wish you good luck tho with removing the nails!

Not unless they were glued on with regular nail glue. Gel adheres to the nail plate so the only option is soaking them off or extreme nail damage. No one wants that. You can always redo them as press ons and use whenever you want

Not at this point, no. You’ll have to remove them normally, unfortunately.

In the future you can use a peel off base gel (I use Diami, but a lot of people like Jello Jello) which will let you pop the nails off in one piece without damaging your nails.

Not really, I don't think. If you don't want to soak off you'll have to file off the color/design, use builder gel to do an infill, reshape & rebalance the nails, and then redo your color/design.

Honestly whenever I've tried to reglue a pop off it never stays on long.

But to answer your question a glue remover can help you pop off (but I wouldn't use it often because I developed onycholysis from Dashing Diva Magic Off.)

There's removers on Amazon that you brush on like nail polish and dissolves the gel.

those gel polish removers that you paint on like polish also work! the acetone dissolves the nails. cut the length, file off top coat and soak.

They dissolve when soaked in acetone. Also, please don't use the brush on removers. They're incredibly dangerous.

They're referring to the comment that suggested using the remover that comes in a nail polish bottle that you brush on just like nail polish.

Another commenter recommended them, but it's quite a dangerous product to use

No, because you are filing off of the top coat, so that the acetone (or whatever soak off you're using) can reach the nail polish.

The acetone will also dissolve whatever glue was used to adhere the tip.

Like another comment said, cut the length of the tip down, and then proceed like normal (file, soak, scrape off)

Filing off most of them and soaking in acetone is the way. Acetone is drying, so you just need to moisturize real well after

I use an Aprés drill bit to debulk and just recently got those nail soak tubs off Amazon that has a slot for hot water and a slot for acetone. Cut your nails down, debulk with e-file, and then soak tips in pure acetone. I put cuticle oil on the base before putting in acetone which helps from drying out too much. Then just scrape the gunk off and lightly buff any remaining grittiness. Hope this helps!

Also don't use a bowl of acetone, use cotton soaked in acetone and either wrap in foil or use the clips

What destroys your nails is impatient removal, you shouldn't use any force to pick or pry off the gel during removal, if you feel the need you just have to soak again and soften them more. Also the other comments are helpful steps, just BE PATIENT!

You can try ohora remover

You can if you use a peel off base like Jello Jello.

No, you can't keep the design unfortunately

Gellen brand on Amazon has a solid nail glue gel remover that works really good! It's in a spray bottle. It works with both the solid glue gel and regular glue gel in my experience. As long as you take your time with it, it won't damage your nails

You’ll need to buff or file the top coat off then soak the nails with acetone. You can get 100% acetone from most stores that sell nail products, including Target. Breaking through the top coat will be important otherwise you’ll be wasting a lot of time with no results.

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Seeing it, I would’ve filled all of it off with a drill or a file in your case. 20 min with acetone could be very damaging to the nail and it's not like gel pops off easily anyway. Drill would’ve saved lots of time.

You likely will get more traction with your question over at r/DIYGelNails. This sub tends to lean more toward traditional nail polish.

To answer your question, yes, pure acetone is typically what people mean when they are talking about soaking the nails off. You do need to file off the top coat at least for it to work.

If you’re inexperienced with a nail drill, I would honestly use a hand file. It seems like the most damage DIYers do to their nails comes from removal. Me included. If you’re determined to do it at home, I recommend you watch Nail Career Education on YouTube. She has a ton of tutorials on using a drill at home and is an actual licensed tech who teaches courses on nails rather than a self taught YouTuber.