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this article, my first project tests the effectiveness of water, dish detergent, a toothbrush, a nail file, a washcloth, and hydrogen peroxide at removing nail polish stains. Commonly, polishes with blue, black, or red bases stain fingernails worst. It is advised that it is always good to wear a base coat, but seriously.
Who has time for that shit?
Further, I don't know about you, but when I use a base or top coat on my nails, it does keep the polish from chipping, but the paint job tends to grow out and then catch on my hair or something and pull large peely chunks of the polish off at once. And when that happens, I must attack EVERY LAST POSSIBLE piece of remaining color until it is all gone. I start peeling like it is my central mission in life, seeing how big a piece I can get at once and frequently leaving a large pile of teeny little chips of polish on the table in the lecture hall.
So here's how my predicament started:
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| Cute as fuck, right? |
Awesome nail polish; made those suckers feel like mermaids on my fingertips. But stained like you wouldn't believe. I scrubbed with nail polish remover, but for the rest of the day after I took it off, my nails looked kind of sickly.
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give me a break, i had to use the other hand to take the picture.
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So I put on an episode of Angel,
And I got to work soaking these little jerks.
After the soak, i didn't think they looked all that different. But it felt nice so I'm not going to demand my money back.
Then you're supposed to rub them with a washcloth. Because that was so exciting, I took a photo to document that I did indeed use a washcloth to wipe my nailses.
Then it was toothbrush time!
Maybe there was still dried toothpaste in the bristles from this toothbrush's previous life, but there was an odd filmy layer on my nails after that. It felt effing weird.
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| And the stain persisted. |
I used a cotton ball to do the hydrogen peroxide step, and I thought this was the one that might actually do the trick. So I scrubbed...and scrubbed...and scrubbed some more.
That actually did do something to lift the blue base stain from my nails. However, I wouldn't call it a magic fix, because I had to really work at it to get it to do anything at all. Plus there was weird white flaky crap around my nails after that; the peroxide probably dried my skin quite a bit.
So, eventually, here was the end result. I went on to buff up my nails to sand down those gross peely edges and then rub some lotion onto my fingertips to help with the drying after this picture was taken.
This wasn't by any means what I would call mind-blowing. I don't think it would be worthy to put in one of those beauty-tricks-from-around-the-world-articles about how women who live in tree houses in Paraguay use this and look at their glowing nails. Probably if you see pinterest posts about how this is awesome because cleopatra did it or some shit, you're getting pin-conned. BUT, because it did work and it was pretty cheap, I'm going to go ahead and call this one:
Have any ideas for what I should try for my next myth? Comment and let us know!
-Annie
