INSTRUCTIONS FOR COLOUR REMOVAL

FINGER NAILS:

CAUTION: never use any form of heating (or electrical) unit to warm the Soak Off Solution.  You risk serious injury to your client.

WHAT YOU WILL NEED:  A towel, glass or ceramic dish, our Soak Off Tool and our Soak Off Solution.

1. Using polish remover, remove the Top Coat from your Clients nails.
2. Using a 180 grit file etch the surface of your Clients nails.  We are not filing them thinner, just breaking the gel seal and speeding up your soak off time.
3. Pour enough Soak Off Solution into your glass or ceramic dish to cover your Clients nails.
4. Put all of your Clients fingertips into the solution.
5. Use a towel to cover the dish (and over their hands).  This will help keep the body heat in and will be enough warmth to aid in speeding up the Soak Off process.
6. Depending on the thickness of your application, soak off time can take anywhere from 5-10 minutes.
7. After 5-10 minutes remove the towel.  You should see a crackle effect all over the surface of your Client’s nails.  This indicates that it is releasing from the nail bed.  Unlike traditional Acrylics, Soak Off Gel does not dissolve.  It releases from the nail plate.
8. Now take your Soak off Tool and gently scrape the nail.  This should take little to no pressure.  This should not damage your Clients nails.
9. Once you have removed all of the Soak Off Gel, it is important to have your client wash their hands with soap and water to remove the moisturizer in the Soak Off Solution.  If you do not do this, you will cause lifting when your reapply their colour gel.

TOE NAILS:

WHAT YOU WILL NEED:  A towel, a glass or ceramic dish, strips of cotton, tin foil, our Soak Off Tool and our Soak Off Solution.

1. Using polish remover, remove the Top Coat from your Clients toenails.
2. Using a 180 grit file etch the surface of your Clients toenails.  We are not filing them thinner, just breaking the gel seal and speeding up your soak off time.
3. Pour enough Soak Off Solution into your glass or ceramic dish to saturate strips of cotton.  (If you are wearing Soak Off Gel, Polish or Artificial Nails, it is important you wear a pair of rubber gloves to do this.)
4. Pile the cotton strip onto the toenail.  Be sure you are making contact with all of the nail.
5. Wrap the toe in tin foil.
6. Repeat step 4 and 5 on all of the nails.
7. Use a towel wrap each of their feet.  This will help keep the body heat in and will be enough warmth to aid in speeding up the Soak Off process.
8. Depending on the thickness of your application, soak off time can take anywhere from 5-10 minutes.  After 5-10 minutes remove the towel and the foils from the toenails.  You should see a crackle effect all over the surface of your Client’s nails.  This indicates that it is releasing from the nail bed.  Unlike traditional Acrylics, Soak Off Gel does not dissolve.  It releases from the nail plate.
9. Now take your Soak off Tool and gently scrape the nail.  This should take little to no pressure.  This should not damage your Clients nails.
10. Once you have removed all of the Soak Off Gel, it is important to wash their feet with soap and water to remove the moisturizer in the Soak Off Solution.  If you do not do this, you will cause lifting when your reapply their colour gel.