I received the Julep Clean Slate Polish Remover Pads in a Julep Maven box a few months ago, but didn’t open up a pad til now.

There are 5 pads inside, and when you rip open a pad, you should find 10 small nail polish remover pads soaked in 100% pure acetone. The precise ingredients are acetone, water, aloe vera and lanolin. Acetone can be harsh on nails but are a must to remove glitter nail polishes as well as gel nail polishes. As you can see by the used pads, it took me about 5 pads to remove all the glitter out of my hands (if you’re wondering what I was wearing, it was Sephora X “Celestial”). 1 pad removed about 2 glitter nails, but 1 pad should remove about 3 regular nail polish nails just fine.

These pads have gone through many product launches: one version had the 10 packettes with 10 small remover pads in each, which was replaced by 10 large single used pads which was met with negative reviews (that version is currently being sold by QVC). Supposedly, the large single use pads dried out if not used quickly or was not enough to remove a good manicure on both nails. The version I have is 5 packettes with 10 small remover pads. This product is currently sold out on the Julep website so no doubt there will be another version coming out soon.

As for the pads, these were created for the pure lazy girl who has no time to soak pads. When you rip open a new packette, you don’t need all 10 pads to remove a mani but you do run into the likelyhood that the pads will be dry out by the time you use remaining pads. You can soak them again in acetone but that kinda defeats the purpose. So if you change your mani often (at least once a week), you will get about 10 mani removals. If you change your mani not that often, you will get about 5 mani removals unless you soak the dry out pads in more acetone. Then you will get your 10 manis.

For the retail price of $9.99, you are paying about $1-$2 per manicure removal depending on usage. That’s definitely overpriced when you compare it to just buying plain nail polish removers and some cotton pads. I guess that’s the price you pay for the convenience factor.

xoxo,

Emmy