Hey!! I’ve been doing my nails for a few months now, combination of regular polish and gel. I change my manis often — it stays on for about a week before I take it off. I tend to alternate between gel and regular polish.
Last week I removed my gel polish and since I sometimes have the scrape a little too vigorously, I left the acetone on for like 20 minutes and really pushed the foil and those nail clips down. The polish did come off easier than usual, but… ever since my nails have had these cloudy bits? Some of them also feel slightly bruised, if that makes sense. No itching or anything else, but I’m scared it might be onycholysis.
I use only all Kokoist products, also their lamp, and am crazy careful to not get any gel on my skin (using gloves, wearing a face mask when hand-filing it down, super careful application, always inmediately cleaning up if I do touch my cuticle, etc). Could this damage be just from excessively soaking my nails in acetone and pushing down on them too hard with the foils and clips? I don’t push hard when I scrape the gel off fyi.
by LAHN-Atelier