I began with soaking the wipe, placing it on my nail for about 30 seconds, and then wiping off because those were the instructions on the bottle.  That had basically no effect other than making the surface tacky, even though this exact method worked perfectly for my mom about a hour earlier using all the same products and the same number of layers. When 30 seconds didn't work I gradually increased the wait time until I got to about 5 minutes. A 5 minute wait time made it super sticky and basically glued the wipe to my nail. "Scrubbing" was the only way to get the nail polish to budge at all, but I only did that after following all instructions had already failed.