My weekend mani’s have finally caught up with me! Today as I was taking off last weekend’s red I noticed that it left fairly bright staining behind on my nails where it hadn’t already chipped off.
I had pinned or read some place about using whitening toothpaste to get the stains off of your nails. However going back to my boards I couldn’t find the pin! 😦 So I decided to conduct my own experiment and it sort of works!
What You Need:
- old toothbrush
- whitening toothpaste
- water
Directions
- Start by removing as much of the nail polish as you can with nail polish remover.
- Next take a small amount (half a pea sized) of toothpaste on an old toothbrush and start working it into your nail bed.
- I spent about a minute or two “scrubbing” each nail.
- Then I wiped the nail clean and since it was still stained I spread a thin amount of toothpaste onto the nail bed and let it sit.
- After “scrubbing” all of the nails – I came back to the nails with a layer of toothpaste and scrubbed those one more time.
- Turns out it did lighten the stains!
Parting thoughts: I give this a { B }
It did not remove all of the stains and I was getting tired of scrubbing so maybe it would have worked if I kept going. This did however lighten the stain and I think it’d work if you had to change your polish to a lighter color or needed bare nails or clear coated nails for something I would definitely try it. I had also read while looking for the original pin that some people had luck with just scrubbing the nails with hydrogen peroxide – I might try that next time.
Thanks for stopping by Gracious Luck and have a wonderful day!
Thanks soooo much for this, girly!
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You are welcome! Hopefully it works for you!
I’m going to have to give this a try. I have a stubborn polish on my nails right now that appears to be staining as I attempt to remove it! I’m so glad I read this!
Thanks for stopping by! 🙂 Good luck getting your stains off! It can be frustrating to get rid of these stains but I love nail polish too much to take too long of a break!