Nail Tip – Loosening Stuck-on Bottle Caps
Has opening a bottle of nail polish ever made you feel like the weakest person on the planet? Have you struggled with a stuck-on cap that’s even more air-tight than a jar of pickles? I know I have! This morning in fact. It’s like they’re sealed by body builders or something.
While OPI seems to be the worst in terms of new bottles, I want to kick myself when a bottle cap is stuck due to my own laziness. I don’t always take the time to clean excess polish from the rim of my bottles and when that stuff dries, it’s like glue!
Sure you can get all muscleman on the bottle but if you’re too rough, it can break. I don’t know what’s worse, staring at the lacquer you can’t apply in a stuck bottle or a broken mess of spilled polish on the floor. So what’s the trick?
1. If it’s simply that the bottle cap is too slippery for you to grip, try wrapping a rubber band around the neck or using a rubberized jar opener (pictured above) but don’t force it.
2. Dip the bottle in hot water for a couple minutes. The heat from the water will liquefy the dried polish so you can easily unscrew the cap. Just don’t submerge the bottle. Extreme heat can ruin the formula plus you can lose the label if that gets wet. Oh and don’t forget to clean up the excess polish from the rim.
thanks you are a lifesaver because when i put me nail polish in hot water and when i went back to where i was doing my nails i turned the cap and it came off
Totally works !!! glad I found this tip will come in handy in the future
This hot water trick. Really helped me, just in time too. I was supposed to go out to dinner with my boyfriend and it was a half hour before i had to go. I tried going to my dad and my brother for help on opening my nail poilsh (that was going to be my last resort) but then I went online and found this cool trick. It seems the hot water takes off all the oil from your hands you put on the cap and makes the top less slippery. Amazing!
It’s actually because the heat expands the cap very slightly, but the bottle stays the same size.
I couldn’t open a bottle (of ulta3, a cheapie), my husband couldn’t get it, so I took it to the building manager. He put it in the door frame and let the door (our doors are heavy) close on it, and twisted it from there.
Ok. You saved my life (or my hands and nail polish remover anyway) I was soaking it in nail polish remover and it wasn’t working. Thank you so much!