OPI Expert Touch Removal Foil Wraps with Attached Absorbent Pad

Very nice and easy to use – edited again for a comparison and also a tip for removing gel polish (twist tie!)

Yes, you can “make” things like this yourself for cheaper but I specifically bought a UV kit because I have a young child who goes to bed later and I missed doing my nails. The UV kits/gel polishes allow you longer-term manicures (mine last so long I have to change them because my nails have grown too much – the polish still looks fabulous!). So in the interest of saving time (since that’s the whole reason I started gel manicures) I bought these hoping for (slightly) faster removal.I did a side-by-side with these on one hand and the cotton pad/foil wrap on the other. There wasn’t much difference but these were far more convenient and therefore faster to use. The foil is heavy duty and I figure they’re $1 a manicure. I’m sure that cotton balls and heavy duty foil are cheaper but this is quick and easy! I will buy them again.Edited 7/2013 – I knocked this down a star because I bought the Orly Gel & Glitter Nail Lacquer Pocket Removers at Sally’s the other day and tried them this weekend. (They’re available on Amazon through Sally Beauty.) Wow – so nice! They are basically little plastic bags with a foam piece inside – it is folded over inside. At first I thought this was wasteful but I tried putting it in just in a single layer for the nail side (I didn’t really want my skin soaking in the acetone, too, if I didn’t need it and I’m cheap and thought maybe I could get double the use!). But the fit isn’t tight enough that way, you need both layers. It usually takes FOREVER so soak off gel polish and I didn’t have time to commit to being hands-free for 20+ minutes so I just did two fingers at first. (The instructions on these say check after 10 minutes and then wait another 2 minutes if it doesn’t come off but my experience has been that removing gel is a real pain and takes a long time. It’s actually made me re-think even doing them though I love that I don’t have to worry AT ALL how I use my nails and chips are my PET PEEVE (take that off if it looks trashy!) ANYWAY – here’s the trick I used with them. When you put the little bags over your fingers you can get leaking and I wasn’t sure how well it would work without pressure (it has some pressure from the pad but it’s not as tight as foil). So I took a twist tie and put it over the nail and twisted it in back so that I could see the foam pad pressing on the polish. Lots of benefits here: 1. You can do stuff – maybe not with all 10 nails like that but if you do a couple of fingers on each hand you have enough fingers to manipulate things and you know they won’t fall off. This is how I did it over an evening and it’s how I’ll be doing it in the future. Stupid if you have the time but if you don’t have 10-15 minutes to sit and wait then this works really well! 2. It keeps the acetone in contact with the polish the whole time – with foil I’d keep squeezing it to get it tight on the polish. After 10 minutes the polish came right off! And the bonus – I used the little pockets again for the next two nails! The little foam pads did rip after a couple of nails but I just turned them over – they weren’t ripped on the skin side! I think I only used 4 to get this manicure off. I loved them. Sorry to the OPI foil but I’ll be using the Orly pockets from now on! (But if you insist on foil, I’d definitely consider the twist tie thing – I’m guessing this was a big reason the polish came off so well and so quickly. Plus you don’t spend the whole soaking time trying to push them on and make sure there’s enough contact.) Maybe I’ll do a side-by-side with the pockets and the foil using twist-ties. It will be interesting to see if the twist tie is what made the most difference or the foam pad (which soaked up more acetone but the foil have always still been wet when I’ve opened them so I’m doubtful that there wasn’t enough acetone).Edited 8-21-13 – turns out the twist tie is the key! Tonight I did side-by-side with the Orly pockets and the OPI foils and used a twist-tie to keep the acetone in contact with the polish better. Both worked equally well. So I bumped these up a star again and I suppose I’ll be buying these in the future as they’re cheaper and since they mold to your finger it’s easier to get the twist tie on very quickly (it was very fast with either system). The one bonus to the Orly pockets was that you could see the colored polish through the clear bag and the foam piece so you knew that the tie was in the right place to get maximum contact with the acetone. Both systems are worth the money but the twist tie is the real ticket to being quick about it!

Easy to use!

I like to do my own gel nails after my kids go to bed. I orginally tried soaking my nails in a bowl of acetone. I hated this method. I was too impatient to wait so I would remove my hand and attempt to scrape off the polish after a few minutes. Then I tried the foil and cotton ball method. I had too much difficulty doing this by myself. Then I discovered the “band aide” type removers. I liked them, but it didn’t always get the tip of the nail clean. I decided to try the OPI removal wraps. They are pretty much like the foil/cotton ball method but easier. I tore off 10 sheets, poured a bit of acetone on each, wrapped my nails up, and sat with my hands under a heating pad. Twenty minutes later the polish was ready to be removed. This seemed to get the entire nail, including the end. The heating pad makes it work faster. And here is a tip, only remove one wrap at a time, it is easier to scrape off the polish while the acetone is stiil damp.

Easier to go to the salon

I loved the promise that I could use these with less “scraping” of my nails. It didn’t work that way. Perhaps I needed to sit even longer for it to work (I sat for over 30 minutes), but in the end I still scraped my nails. I’m going back to the salon, so I don’t have to do all the scraping myself.

One of the few gel nail color removal wraps that actually work!

I’ve tried a few of the different gel nail color removal wraps available, and this was the only one that worked. The aluminum foil base allows the wrap to be molded to the tip of your finger with ease. The wraps seem to work best when you soak the cotton pad with acetone, wrap your finger tip with the foil, then put latex glove tips over your fingers to seal in the moisture of the acetone. (I use very fitted latex gloves that are normally purchased for coloring your hair, then cut off the finger tips, so it is easier to put on the individual latex tips after applying the foil.)After all of your fingers are covered, leave the layers on for at least 10 minutes before checking the progress. To see if your gel nail color is ready to come off, carefully remove the latex glove tip and aluminum wrap from one finger and inspect the gel polish covering your nail. If it is ready to come off, it should begin to lift and curl immediately when the wrap is removed. DO NOT USE a METAL tool to push the polish off of your nail. Only use a plastic or wooden tool and push very gently at the polish, any harder and you will damage the nail. If the polish do not come off very easily, reapply acetone to the cotton pad and repeat the process.Once you get used to using this removal technique, you will realize that the only time consuming part of this is the 10 minutes you have to wait for the polish to soften.

Tres contente

Reçu rapide. Quantité super accessible. Mieux que par pack de 20 qui est trop cher. J’ai essayé des autres marques moins chères mais je trouve que celles ci sont les meilleures.