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"As you may recall, I recently gave the new Red Carpet at-home gel manicure system a go (you can read part 1 here), and I was pretty impressed with how it turned out. But was the take-off process a pain? And did it leave my nails in bad shape? I&amp;#x27;m going to tell you all about it.First, let&amp;#x27;s start with how durable the gel manicure turned out. Here were my nails after 9 days of wear: I would usually have a little less chipping at this point with a professional job, but 1) It was the first time I&amp;#x27;d ever tried it, and I&amp;#x27;m sure I&amp;#x27;ll get better at the application with time and 2) Whatever&amp;amp;#8212;it still looked pretty amazing for the 9th day. Now let&amp;#x27;s get to the take off process. You just saturate a cotton ball (I found cutting them in half made the whole thing less cumbersome) with the nail polish remover included in the kit, stick it on top of your nail and then wrap aluminum foil around it so you look like this: Then you hang out and basically do your best E.T. impression. Ten minutes later you unwrap to find the nail polish will have mostly freed itself from your nails willingly. Any remains can be gently nudged off with an orange stick. This is how clean my nails turned out: No buffing or re-tries needed. Now the best part: You&amp;#x27;ll notice that my nails look totally normal. I&amp;#x27;ve had a couple of pro gel manis that have left me with really dry spots and cracks in my nails after the polish came off. But not one hint of any of that here. So overall, I&amp;#x27;d say I give the kit a gold star&amp;amp;#8212;a totally great at-home option for the gel-mani-obsessed. Have any of you tried it yet? Photos: Beth Shapouri"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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