Reddit reviews Sally Hansen Instant Cuticle Remover, 1 Fluid Ounce (Pack of 1)

Hi nail care/nail polish spaz here. Cuticles are indeed a specialized bit of skin on your nail. It sort of makes a barrier from the end of the skin on your finger to your nail bed. Oil up your nail area a couple times a day (morning and night? or just night time if you want). You can be fancy and get a nail oil pen or be basic with some vitamin E from Wal-Mart or even olive oil. It'll soften things up. GENTLY use an orange stick to push them back once a week. I don't really recommend metal tools cuz it's easier to do damage with them, or even introduce infection :( If you have the kind of cuticles that want to climb way up your nails, you can get stuff to dissolve the crust.

Be gentle and never ever cut your cuticles unless you have a hangnail snagging on things. Did I mention be gentle? I've seen so many grown out manicures where you can see the technician got too vigorous. I did it to myself once even, and the part I jacked up is still growing out 8 months later. You can see the travelling dent in the center of my thumb here

What I described up there is what I do to keep things nice because I abuse my cuticles with acetone pretty regularly for the love of polish!

supposed to. This is the first time I've used it, supposed to have an orange stick, but I didn't, so I used my fingernail and a q tip. this is what I used. I have to use it a few more times to see if it's really gonna work.

Honestly, I use cuticle remover gel or cream about once a month, and scrape off the overgrown cuticle. I control the cuticles on my toenails by scraping around them with a fingernail after soaking in the bath. IMO, pushing the cuticle has never done much good, and sometimes I'll accidentally hurt myself doing it.

That being said, I went for years with not doing anything to them, and it didn't cause any legitimate problems outside of not looking perfectly manicured. Cleaning them up does make nail polish look smoother. shrug

I think it’s great that you found something that works. I am someone who, given a cuticle nipper, would wreck the shit out of my nails.

I just wanted to share these with you because they helped me get a little more of an understanding about my nails since I have to keep mine painted or I’ll forever pick them.

The cuticle

Perfect Cuticles

Here are some things I use:
Cuticle Remover


cuticle removal tool

I use one from Sally Hansen but that’s the gist of what it looks like.

Any and all the cuticle oil you an find. :)