Nail Health Journal
What Happens to Your Natural Nails After Removing Gel Polish?
What happens to natural nails after removing gel polish? Learn why nails may peel, feel thin or brittle, and what to do while they grow out.
Gel manicures can contribute to nail brittleness, peeling and cracking, and removal technique matters. Picking or peeling off gel can remove layers from the nail surface along with the coating.
Repeated gel manicures, buffing or filing, soaking in acetone, picking or peeling the coating, and frequent wet-dry cycles can all add stress to natural nails.
Give natural nails time to grow forward. Keep them at a manageable length, avoid picking remaining product, reduce unnecessary trauma and repeated soaking when practical, and use a consistent conditioning routine.
When it makes sense to get medical advice
A real customer experience related to this topic
“Add me to the long list of satisfied customers. After taking my gel nails off in December, I really thought I was going to totally lose one nail (wish I had pictures). All the rest were cracked, broken, ridged and paper thin. It took me about 2 months to get to this point. Never going back!”
— Ester Stedman · About 2 months
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Where FlexiNail may fit
A simple 30-second daily conditioning routine
FlexiNail Fingernail Conditioner is applied directly to the natural nail plate once daily and allowed to sit briefly rather than being massaged into the nail, skin or cuticle. The routine takes about 30 seconds.
FlexiNail is intended for cosmetic natural-nail conditioning. It is not a treatment for infection, disease, or another medical nail condition.
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