Preface: I love nail polish. I mean LOVE it. I'm not sure where it came from, but it's an obsession that grows and grows. The nail art trend has made it even worse with endless encouragement and inspiration. I almost can't leave a drugstore without buying a new shade! The weirder the color, the better. I have easily over a hundred bottles, but honestly I'm a bit afraid to actually count.
Anyhoo, if you paint your own nails like I do, then you surely sometimes encounter issues removing dark or brightly colored polishes. If you have a light complexion like me, you end up with tinted smudges all around your clean nails which are almost impossible to remove. Plus they don't look cute if you're going from say, bright crimson, to repainting them a delicious Tiffany blue.
But! I've discovered a trick to help avoid this problem. It's not a perfect fix, but it really helps. Before painting on your dark or bright color, put a thin coat of a lighter shade underneath first. That way, when it comes time to remove your darker shade, your nails haven't been tinted or tainted! The dark color just comes right off with the lighter shade. This also has the benefit of making your bright or darker polish appear bolder.
You can see results below, from when I put a light lavender under a dark plum purple polish.
