My Experience With Acetone And Lace

[AxC123]

Just wanted to let you guys know that I just had a bad experience with acetone. I had put some clear cutex on the front edge of my swiss lace hairpiece as it started to fray. I heard that clear cutex would seal the lace so I put some on the edge.. The cutex showed a bit (whitish ) and I wanted to remove it, so used acetone (cutex remover) after I detached, using a qtip on the lace edge...Noticed that my synthetic hair was just falling off the base. YIKES. Prior to using acetone I did a hair soak in acetone (with remains of cuttings) to be sure synthetic would not dissolve. (It did not)..not sure what happened..possibly a reaction to the kp pro lock product I used to prevent shedding...as hair was detaching from the base , not breaking midway...anyhow, ended up cutting about half a centimeter of edge to salvage the piece....
Just sharing my experience.
...Now i have a graduated hairline LOL

 

[Hair Newbie]

Just wanted to let you guys know that I just had a bad experience with acetone. I had put some clear cutex on the front edge of my swiss lace hairpiece as it started to fray. I heard that clear cutex would seal the lace so I put some on the edge.. The cutex showed a bit (whitish ) and I wanted to remove it, so used acetone (cutex remover) after I detached, using a qtip on the lace edge...Noticed that my synthetic hair was just falling off the base. YIKES. Prior to using acetone I did a hair soak in acetone (with remains of cuttings) to be sure synthetic would not dissolve. (It did not)..not sure what happened..possibly a reaction to the kp pro lock product I used to prevent shedding...as hair was detaching from the base , not breaking midway...anyhow, ended up cutting about half a centimeter of edge to salvage the piece....
Just sharing my experience.
...Now i have a graduated hairline LOL

Thanks for letting us know about the acetone. I heard acetone won't damage lace base but I think I will just stay with C-22 and Walker lace release.

 

[deg_dilemma]

Why not just use 99% Isopryl Alcohol? It's a lot cheaper and still very effective.

 

[AxC123]

Why not just use 99% Isopryl Alcohol? It's a lot cheaper and still very effective.

That's what I used for glue..but as mentioned I had put clear nail polish (cutex) to stop lace fraying and wanted to remove that with acetone (nail polish remover)

 

[yurguardianangel]

Surgical spirit,olive oil or 99% isopro alcohol if I'm broke.

Otherwise C22 works much better but stinks.