How to Get Rid of Nail Stains

If your old nail polish has left your nails stained and discolored, have no fear, there are several ways to get remove stains from nails. Here are a few tried-and-true methods from nail experts:

• Get rid of yellow stains by mixing a tablespoon of Clorox in a cup of water, then scrubbing nails with an old toothbrush. -- NYC podiatrist Suzanne Levine in InStyle Magazine.
• Allure Magazine suggests rubbing a drop of lemon juice or lavender oil on nails and buffing out the stain.
• InStyle also recommends brushing away yellow stains on nails with a peroxide toothpaste. I suggest using an old toothbrush for this method as well.
• L.A. nail expert Ramona Givens suggests halving a lemon and squeezing out some of the juice, then placing fingers in the lemon and moving them around a bit. Let the lemon juice soak on nails for a couple minutes, then scrub nails with a baby toothbrush.
• Allure's book, "Confessions of a Beauty Editor," recommends soaking nails in a solution of 4 parts water to 1 part hydrogen peroxide for 10 minutes.
• In Marie Claire's "Hair & Makeup" book, the editors suggest dropping 2 denture-cleaning tablets into a glass that's a quarter full of water. Soak nails in the solution and scrub them clean with a nail brush.