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[lnr]

Oh and mstevens I met at Juliet's housewarming, though I knew the name online for a while. Hi :-)

Were you really asking at Bmovie about how easy nailvarnish is to put on and remove? Comes in little bottles with a brush, just paint it on carefully, might need more than one coat. Special remover (or lab acetone) and cotton wool to remove. Putting it on is a skill one becomes better at with practice, but some people can even do it on moving trains for example. And it comes in lots of neat colours.

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Acetone

[(Anonymous)]

I need acetone to get rid of the sticky bits left after using surgical tape. Thing is, I can only seem to find it in Boots, and they only seem to do it in teeny tiny (25ml or something ridiculous) bottles.

So now you've mentioned 'lab acetone' - any idea how/where I can get some?

Yours in optimism,

Karen/Vodka Vixen

Re: Acetone

[lnr]

Afraid not, I just consider it worth mentioning when talking about nail varnish remover to people I know to be geeks, in case they have easy supply of these things. Known too many people studying chemistry in the past.

[mstevens.livejournal.com]

Was really interested and asking.

Could probably have worked out details on own, but at 1:30am brane was slightly more directly connected to mouth than usual.

[lnr]

Just double checking, my brane wasn't much better, and wasn't sure I'd correctly identified which "red stuff" you were talking about.

[glitterboy1.livejournal.com]

I generally just use clear stuff. It's less exciting,
but a lot easier: you can't tell when I've missed my nail...

[brrm.livejournal.com]

I'm quite good at the painting now, but I still find my left hand way harder to do (being left-handed), and have trouble remembering to remove all things from my pocket that I'm likely to need, *before* I start (e.g. house keys).

Pretty designs are good, too, like the ones I did for seeing Matrix Reloaded. But even harder to do on my left hand without giving up and shouting expletives. :-)

As for remover, the Boots bottle I bought seems reasonably big (125ml), and contains acetone. I decided I didn't trust the "acetone-free" ones to be as effective at removal. It also smells pleasantly peachy.

[k425.livejournal.com]

I can do my fingers in the car. I can't do my toes in the car, but then these days I can hardly bend properly to do my toes anyway.

Re: Acetone

[imc.livejournal.com]

I need acetone to get rid of the sticky bits left after using surgical tape.

Would not a generic bottle of nail-varnish remover do the job? Acetone is its chief constituent, though it does have other things added. J has a 250ml bottle of the stuff hanging around upstairs which appears to have come from Sainsbury's.

(White spirit is also good at removing sticky goo, but it depends what you are trying to remove it from, of course.)

imc

[imc.livejournal.com]

I can do my fingers in the car.

How do you change gear or go round corners? <gdr>

[mtbc100.livejournal.com]

Mmmm. It's worth noting that some nail varnishes are just better than others, so see if you can try a range of brands somehow (offer to paint friends' nails at their place or something (-:). Some make a nice coat with little fuss, others less so. I tend to use regular nail varnish remover for pre-cleaning previous debris with a cotton ball, and then the little cotton-bud sticks for cleaning up any excess varnish afterwards.

Most varnishes are really easy to remove with regular nail varnish remover, so you can experiment fairly safely. Ones that aren't, don't bother with again, it's not worth it.

LNR probably knows much more than me about this sort of thing...

[glitterboy1.livejournal.com]

I normally use the Cutex acetone-free remover ("for sensitive skin"). It works well enough.

[glitterboy1.livejournal.com]

some nail varnishes are just better than others

Just a wee plug for my current favourites, the Bourjois range, from e.g. Boots.

[k425.livejournal.com]

Oh, I have a man for that kind of thing.

[I can't drive. My job in the car is to read the map, navigate (waving my hands rather than calling 'right' or 'left' as I get those wrong) and being ignored when I give directions. I have to work pretty hard sometimes at not saying "I did say turn left. 3 times. 5 minutes ago. You didn't seem to want to"]

[lnr]

The bright red one I was wearing on Friday (um, and partially still am) is a Maybelline one: expensive, wouldn't have bought it if it wasn't such a good shade of red, but it really does seem to be longer lasting than some of the others, and goes on really nicely.

[glitterboy1.livejournal.com]

Ta! Will try. Seems like other people's experience is the best way to go.

[mstevens.livejournal.com]

Thinking about it, I'm sure I saw you at some party at sphyg's house when I went up to cambridge to deliver her a bar of chocolate, then left again.

Early tests on nailvarnish are promising but show the "just paint it on carefully" part will need practise.

[lnr]

Ah yes, that rings bells, though I didn't put the name and face together at that point.

[addedentry.livejournal.com]

Never mind nail varnish. It's watching people apply eyeliner on a moving train that disturbs me.

At Monday's gig Yo La Tengo had a synthesiser with a sticker reading "ACE TONE".

[lnr]

Eyeliner's not that hard to do, you can brace your hand against your cheek, so hand and eye bounce in unison when the train does, which makes it much easier. Never poked my eyes out yet.