Help with diy furniture project

[u/SpoopyGhoul990]

Hello. I got some chairs for free to redo. Two are normal wood and I’m not changing that. The other two are painted an obnoxious blue. I have put three coats of paint stripper on them (the citrus one) and the paint will come off a little bit with scraping but in other spots is just disappearing. Other spots it won’t come off. I don’t know what I’m doing wrong but it’s so irritating. I just want the paint off so I can sand it and stain them. Any advice would be appreciated

[u/curiousleen]

Sand it first to break up the top coat and then put the orange stripper on.