At the nail place they put the acetone on cotton balls and wrap the finger tips in foil to hold them in place for like 10 minutes or so before attempting to remove the acrylic. The also rough up the nails before putting the acetone on them.
You're like my fairy godmother, and Santa Claus, and Q all wrapped up into one! Q from Bond, not Star Trek.
Buffy ,'Help'
Natter 76: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Foaminess
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Laura - Mar 22, 2020 1:43:28 pm PDT #18429 of 30019
Our wings are not tired.
DXMachina - Mar 22, 2020 1:53:30 pm PDT #18430 of 30019
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
That sounds much safer.
Zenkitty - Mar 22, 2020 2:31:05 pm PDT #18431 of 30019
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Oh no, JZ! Much health~ma to you and all the ZMayhems! May the whole thing remain boring.
I'm Marie-Kondo-ing my jewelry. When I get depressed, I buy stuff, mostly jewelry. I get depressed a lot. There's a mountain of jewelry on my bed right now. Costume, vintage, antique, things I forgot I had, things I don't know why tf I bought. So far the keep pile is smaller than the not-keep pile, so that's good.
Amy - Mar 22, 2020 2:35:51 pm PDT #18432 of 30019
Because books.
We could have a jewelry round Robin! Exchange, whatever. Like the nail polish one!
Signed, also a jewelry hoarder.
P.M. Marc - Mar 22, 2020 2:36:26 pm PDT #18433 of 30019
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Umm, I wouldn't recommend this. Granted I have no experience with nail polish removal, but I use acetone in the lab all the time. Acetone already has a high vapor pressure, and if you heat it you get even more fumes, which are wicked flammable. Plus it boils at 132°F, which is about what my hot water tap gives out, so it'll boil in hot water, which would make things worse. Don't do it.
Your hot water tap is WAY hotter than mine, dang! (I use the foil and cotton method, generally, but have resorted to the warmed method in the past when that hasn't worked. That said, I'll heed your warning and warn other nail nerds!)
Hil R. - Mar 22, 2020 3:04:33 pm PDT #18434 of 30019
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
My family did a Zoom chat this afternoon, which was nice. My mom was amazed at the technology (and also couldn't follow our directions to keep her whole face in the frame, so we mostly just saw the top half of her face for most of the call.) We're working out the logistics for doing our Passover seder over Zoom. (I think I might need to use my university WebEx account for that, which I didn't want to do, because all the videos get saved on the university server for 48 hours, but all the free accounts have time limits that won't work for the seder.)
JZ - Mar 22, 2020 3:08:31 pm PDT #18435 of 30019
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
::does a little Temp Under 99, Bitcas! celebratory dance::
::hastily sits back down, lest dancing lead to overheating::
Still. That's my only remaining symptom, and if it goes away then the quarantine clock starts running down. YEAH!
Calli - Mar 22, 2020 3:08:48 pm PDT #18436 of 30019
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Quick recovery~ma, JZ.
-t - Mar 22, 2020 3:27:06 pm PDT #18437 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Woo for symptoms going away!
DavidS - Mar 22, 2020 4:02:18 pm PDT #18438 of 30019
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I imagine you can get things delivered, but let me know if there's anything that I can drop outside your door.
Thanks, shrift!