I received this product for free to review. The instructions were extremely easy to understand. I found it fairly easy to remove the polish as well. It took a bit longer than 8 mins and I had to scrub slightly but it worked. The smell was not overpowering and the solution didn't irritate my skin. I would recommend as the nail polish lasts much longer than regular polish.

It is great that there is a way to remove shellac at home but I found there were too many steps involved in the process. I would prefer to go to the salon and have the Shellac removed when I get my next manicure. I was given the product as part of the product review club.

I took part in the Chick Advisor #tryshellac review. Therefore received the Offaly Fast Removal Kit for free. I had a wonderful experience at the salon and loved my manicure. The removal not so much. In fact I honestly was not too impressed with the CND Offly Fast removal. The kit comes with foil remover wraps, orangewood stick, replenishing remover, and Solar Oil a nail and cuticle conditioning polish. I just found it to took longer then the recommended 8 minutes. I didn't really care for the look of my nails after. In fact I actually ended up putting vaseline on each nail after. In the future after a Shellac manicure I would just go back to the salon for removal. I wouldn't recommend this product.

This kit is basically just a bottle of acetone, some foil wraps, mini bottle of cuticle oil and stick to help scratch off the polish. There is nothing special about this kit that you wouldn't be able to achieve by yourself at home. You can easily buy acetone and use regular tin foil to insulate your nails with the acetone soaked cotton. Since the polish is very difficult to removed, you need to soak your fingers in acteone for aroun 8-10 mins to loosen the gel and use the stick to scratch the remainder off. It will start peeling but it's not a clean removal you'd expect from regular nail polishes.

The whole process of wrapping each finger in foil took quite a bit of time, especially if you're doing it by yourself. In all, it took about 20-25 mins for me to get all cleaned up.

I found the instructions easy to follow. The removing of the Shellac was easier then I thought it would be. It was difficult to get the foils tightly wrapped around my right hand with them already on my left hand. I found my nails a little brittle after I removed the Shellac but lucky none broke. I found I had to really scrape the polish off the sides of my nails. I also had to buff them down after to smooth them out. I was surprised the removal kit did not come with a nail buffer. My nails feel a little rough still. I was able to paint my nails after with regular nail polish. I would recommend this product to friends. The photo is my nails after I removed the Shellac at home.

The removal kit instructions are very easy to understand and the process is very simple. I followed the instructions and 8 minutes are not enough to remove the Shellac nail polish. I spend around double of the time to make sure the nail polish was removed, but a couple of nails it was impossible to remove 100%. The nails appeared okay and the finish oil for nails and cuticles makes all the difference.
I would not recommend this kit for a friend for two main reasons:
1) Availability: I looked in some places as Shoppers, Beauty Supplies and beauty stores and I couldn't find the removal kit
2) I researched on the internet and the average price is $8-$10, but it wasn't very effective and you need more than 8 minutes to remove the Shellac. Some salons didn't charge to remove or charge around $10, but the place make sure that the nail polish was removed completely.

It's no secret getting shellac off is more of a process than regular polish (but totally worth the extra mani time!) Whether you go back to a nail salon to have removed professionally or do it yourself at home, you usually soak a cotton pad in pure acetone, place over your nail, wrap in foil for a few minutes which makes it flake/puff up/off, and then scrape off the excess. I tried out the CND Offly Fast remover kit, which I was a cool idea because there aren't other "kits" like this on the market that I've seen. Overall, it's not bad - it gives you all the supplies you need (acetone remover, pre cut foil sheets with built in cotton pad, orange wood stick and conditioning oil for afterwards). I followed the directions which said to keep the soaked pads in foil on your nails for 8 minutes before removing. It mostly came off? But I found it left a lot of polish still stuck to my nail (and I soaked the pads well!). It probably would work better if you left it on for 10 minutes? I also found it a bit tricky to push off the extra polish on my right hand using my left (non-dominant) hand and had to get my husband to help! Even then, my nails were still pretty rough. In salons they use a buffer to buff off the extra, so I used a buffer of my own to do this which big made a difference - I think the kit should come with a buffer for exactly this reason! The oil was nice (and I followed it with lotion because the acetone can be drying on your skin). This product works, so I have nothing bad to say about it, I am only saying I wouldn't recommend because of the price. For $20, I think it's cheaper to just buy acetone, cotton pads and foil (or just go to a nail place which will usually remove for you for $5!!). If you're in a hurry though, or just like the idea of a "kit" product, this kit is a good option. Picture is of fresh shellac mani, 1 week later, 2 weeks later, and freshly removed with CND Offly Fast.

Nope.

I received an excellent Shellac manicure (would recommend!) from LUX spa (also would recommend!) but unfortunately I would go to a spa to get my nails removed in the future.

I followed the instructions closely, so that I could remove my Shellac. They seemed straightforward, and were printed on the back of the package, on paper, and in the individual foil bags. Unfortunately, it took much longer, and not everything came off. I used the small wooden stick, as suggested, but a thin layer of uneven residue remained, which I have yet to get off my nails.

After using the kit and keeping my fingers in the foil for 8 minutes, most of the nails still needed to be scraped to remove the polish. The polish was soft afterwards but only completely removed on one nail. Afterwards, my nails were damaged and needed some filing to get to a point where they looked okay. Perhaps I missed something in the instructions (although they seem straightforward), but unfortunately as much as I wanted it to work, it wasn't too great for me. Leaving my fingers soaked for more than 8 mins might work better.