French manicure gel polish: from options to creating

French manicure today is equated with classic design techniques. It has remained on the crest of the wave since its inception, and today it is 40 years old. Experienced nail service specialists are now creating it with coatings created using advanced technologies. Let's consider what are the main directions of fashion for this year relative to the French service, find out what color schemes are popular today. In addition, we introduce beginners to the rules of step-by-step instructions for creating this elegant design.

French manicure, which appeared in America to reduce the time for painting nail actresses, today is variable in design. In the traditional version, it implies necessarily a body base for the background and a white pigment for coloring the overgrown edge, which is called a smile. Through the use of natural varnish, it harmoniously looks in any women's set. In addition, natural beige or nude is suitable for the design of nails of a woman of different age groups.

However, French cannot be called an ideal design for a short nail bed. On such nails, it creates the effect of visual shortening of the plate, which can deprive elegance not only the nails themselves, but also the fingers. Of great importance for elegant design is the choice of a specific shade, because each woman has her own one in view of the peculiarities of the skin and color type.

To date, two main types of French design are known: traditional and inverted. In ordinary French manicure, a smile is made from above at the place where the nail grows. The second option is noteworthy in that the contrasting arch is located at the base of the nail plate. And both types of service jacket look beautiful and stylish. Both of them are varieties of the same technique, although they have their own differences in terms of design.

Someone calls reverse french moon design. However, today the fashion clearly defines manicure with holes as a separate type of technique, since the look of the reverse jacket and the moon is different. For example, in the reverse jacket, the hole follows the outline of the base of the nail, while in the design with holes, the hole itself does not frame the background coating, but has a shape that is turned away from the growing nail. In the opposite manicure, the contour of the smile itself is important, which is a kind of completion of the design.

You can add an alternative or fantasy smile to the two main techniques. It is created in many ways, including hand-painted, stamping, stickers and disposable stencils. In most cases, when working with any of these techniques, individual smiles are obtained, it is difficult to repeat them exactly. Fantasy smiles are unique in that they often become an adornment of a laconic French design. It is they who can indicate its seasonality or purpose (for a wedding, publication, office work).

It is generally accepted that French manicure is suitable for any form of nails. But let's be honest: the technique is designed for elegance and grace. Therefore, everything that gives aggression, whether it be length or excessive sharpness, will not fully convey the beauty of the jacket. More recently, short nails were in fashion, but today the fashion believes that a little elongation is needed for a jacket.

Ideally, the overgrown edge should be no more than 5-7 mm. This is enough for any design, as well as the choice of a specific smile shape, depending on the features of the shape of the nail. In addition, this length is enough for a combined manicure, if you want to decorate the nail bed, in addition to the upper smiles, with holes. This length is also convenient because the color of the jacket can be any, it will not seem vulgar even in the case of choosing bright varnishes.

As for the shape of the edge, today fashion trends clearly define the three best options. In the first place they put a rounded square, on which the smile looks not only flawless, but also allows you to design the upper edge with a variety of decor. For example, a fantasy smile can be performed on this form. The second place of honor went to the almond-shaped nails. Today, this flowing form with a rounded top is considered incredibly delicate and feminine.

In addition to the rounded square and almonds, the shape of an oval is considered popular. It is considered universal, suitable for any design, color and decor. French oval nails look beautiful and sophisticated. This form is able to visually ennoble not only the nails, but also the fingers. It looks very beautiful on nail plates with an elongated bed.

The modern French today has overgrown with a mass of options. At the same time, the basis of the technique can be not only traditional: the French manicure of the new season can be combined. For example, a jacket can be an independent design, the basis for a combined technique with classic. And also it can be used as accents of other equipment. In this case, it is performed only on accent nail plates.

One of the leading trends in the new season will be the emphasis on the impeccability of the skin of the hands and the shape of the nails. Fashion believes that this is the basis of the basics, and therefore offers to get rid of excess decor and variegation.

The minimalism of this season is manifested in everything: from the appointment of manicure to the amount of decor. Already today, the number of accents is reduced: 10 equally decorated marigolds are considered bad taste and motley. An accent should be understood as a nail decorated differently than all plates with smiles. French design should have no more than four accents.

At the same time, as noted by nail service specialists, the emphasis should be located on two adjacent nails (ring and middle fingers). If you want to decorate your jacket with just one accent, you need to place it on the ring finger nail. At the same time, it is not necessary to smile at him, although depending on the design, you can make her fantasy.

One of the trends of the new season was the fact that manicure belongs to a certain season of the year. Using a variety of decor or, say, hand-painted, this can be embodied in the French design to the best extent. Various drawings can be an excellent tool for embodying seasonal design: for autumn, these are raindrops with umbrellas, falling leaves, sketches of the autumn city. Summer jacket can be decorated with a variety of bugs and butterflies.

At the same time, butterfly wings can be a great alternative to a traditional smile. You can create a smile in the form of branches with leaves and unblown buds, flowers. Looks beautiful in French design and hearts, creating an original form of a jacket. The winter jacket can be decorated with various snowflakes, frosty patterns, including Scandinavian ornaments and ethnically motifs.

The mehendi patterns are megapopular, as well as all kinds of lace, with which you can decorate the accents of the jacket. In the spring, you can create in the place of a smile various imitations of the gradient, draw melting icicles, snowdrops. To support a particular mood, you can use a variety of decor. For example, kamifubuki better than other decorative material will indicate that the design belongs to the Christmas theme. Rhinestones indicate the solemnity of the destination.

Despite the contradictory opinions of beauty bloggers and professional masters, powder materials today are stylish and effective tools for changing the texture of the most common coatings. As for the grinding, it is better to use pearl dust for the jacket. It is weightless and is able to create a special effect even on a transparent basis without pigment. Today, it is this polyester powder that is considered the most trending.

Acrylic sand, sugar and flock powder are diverse. These powders are used to decorate the jacket. They do not create a smile, but as a background of accents or a voluminous pattern, they look very impressive. Moreover, the print can be completely simple and geometric. Even a regular vertical with acrylic powder on an accent plate will attract the enthusiastic looks of others.

According to the fashion trends of the season, the decorative elements of the French manicure should not be voluminous and too large. Given its lightness, you need to more carefully approach the choice of each element. For example, incrustation can be performed with opals or Swarovski crystals, but not with a scattering of stones and without covering up the entire nail plate. You can not complicate the manicure, because of this the image of a woman becomes boring, and sometimes completely ridiculous.

The arrangement of rhinestones should not be chaotic: they are fixed in a dosage and strictly in places that are suitable for this.For example, it is now fashionable to isolate the cuticle area with a light arch from small sparkling pebbles. And you can also use rhinestones for the middle of the flowers on accent French nails. To make the stones look more organic, they are often combined with broths.

Today it is considered ugly to wear false nails. They often bounce off at the most inopportune moment, and also negatively affect the nail plate, forcing it to take the form of the artificial tips themselves, which is often accompanied by painful sensations. However, the extension is quite welcome, as is the strengthening of the nail plates with a special tool with a thickening effect. In addition, French manicures also suggest fashion trends to be performed in the technique of aqua design, often sealing fantasy smiles with several layers of a modeling tool.

The traditional jacket, which is relevant outside of time and season, is performed using varnishes of white and flesh colors. Today, due to the diversity of tones, beige is often replaced with nude tones, which, in addition to the natural basis, have inclusions of pink paint. They look beautiful and natural, such a manicure is suitable for any image of a woman, despite her craving for a certain style in clothes.

Today the color schemes of the jacket are diverse. Actual combinations of the new season include combinations:

• powdery and blue;
• bodily and lilac;
• here and lemon;
• powder and blue;
• Marsala (emerald) and beige;

• red, black and cream;
• wine with pinkish and white;
• creamy with black;
• beige with black and gold;
• nyuda and eggplant.

Studio masters try to adhere to the naturalness of the background, emphasizing color solutions on the contrast of the smile. It is the naturalness of the background that they consider the main factor in the elegance of the jacket. Often camouflage is used for design, combining it with white or black, diluting a strict duet with gold or silver paint. By the way, gold and silver today are very popular in the design of the jacket, as well as various glitter, which can create the effect of light and weightless pollen.

For blue, it can be white or creamy pigment, red is better combined with body or powder. The color jacket needs to be muffled and noble in shades, while tones can be related to a particular clothing item or even an accessory.

Depending on whether the hardware is a manicure or nail design at home, tools and materials for work may vary. Masters use the fraser, preparing nails for painting and design using the apparatus. At home, you can use ordinary manicure scissors, cuticles (tweezers to remove cuticles) and an orange stick. A mandatory tool will be a pusher with a spatula for pushing and lifting the cuticle.

In addition to the main set, you can not do without work:

• base material;
• topcoat;
• pigment for the background;
• material for a smile;
• means for degreasing nails;
• napkins for manicure;
• disposable stencils;
• a thin brush for painting;
• a drying lamp.

If you plan any design, among other accessories, prepare decor elements. As for the smile, it’s better for her to use acrylic gel paint, diluted with a top or base. To give the background a special effect, you can prepare a pearl rub. The accents can be beautifully decorated with a ribbon type foil. In addition, if there are application-type sliders at home, you can use them.

For a smile it is necessary to use a brush or cliches. The second elements can have different shapes (straight, angled, zigzag, circle, wave, heart-shaped).

After everything is prepared, you can begin to perform the service jacket. The work will consist of several stages: hygienic manicure, preparing nails for coloring, creating a background, making a smile, designing and sealing all layers. Let's consider in more detail each stage of work.

This step is the basis for any manicure, because well-groomed hands in themselves attract the attention of others. If you do not properly process the nails, then no coating will stretch the scruffy hands, and therefore the untidiness of the whole set. To begin with, hands are washed or treated with an antiseptic. However, this treatment has an important feature: regardless of the brand of the manufacturer, the antiseptic has a moisturizing effect.

This means that if it gets on the nails, and even in large quantities, the adhesion of the plates to the layers of varnish products applied to them may decrease. Using an antiseptic to a minimum, begin to process nails. First, a special cuticle remover is applied to the area around the nail plate. It will further contribute to a more delicate and painless removal of growing skin and pterygium.

After the nails are treated with the product, the fingers are lowered into the bath with warm water for about 3-4 minutes. The temperature of the water in the bath should be about 35-40 degrees. After sustaining the set time, they wipe the hand dry and proceed to remove the cuticle and pterygium. To do this, take the pusher and push the side with the shoulder blade, and then raise the cuticle.

It is necessary to work with the pusher carefully, you can not press it, so as not to injure the skin. After the cuticle is pushed and lifted, it is cut off using scissors or nail clippers. When working, the tool must be at the same angle so that it does not form dashed lines, due to which burrs usually appear. Next, you need to take an orange stick and walk it around the nail, cleaning out the pterygium.

If pieces of an undercut cuticle come out at this stage, they are immediately trimmed with tweezers or scissors. This treatment is performed on each nail, after which you need to rub a little emollient oil into the skin. This will calm her, and also prevent irritation if some movements nevertheless turn out to be harsh and traumatic.

Now you need to do the grinding, the gloss will have to be removed to improve tenacity. To do this, use a buff and literally with two or three movements in one place delicately remove the gloss. Then the sawdust is removed with a brush, and after that the nails are completely treated with a dehydrator (degreaser). At this stage, you can begin to create a background, and then a smile. We note step by step the creation of the basis of the jacket.

• They take the base, apply it with a thin layer on the surface of the entire nail, then dry it in a lamp.
• A pigmented gel polish of a background color is applied on top of the base. It is also dried.
• Take a thin brush and paint it with the edge at the base of the nail bed.
• The main background paint over the surface of the nail, and dried coating in the lamp.
• Then create a smile by painting it with a brush, or using a stencil. When working with a stencil, it is applied, stepping back from the edge of the nail, gently pressed so that the varnish does not numb under the template and paint a smile. Immediately remove the template.
• The coating is dried in a lamp, and then sealed with a layer of top. It is also dried.
• 30 seconds after drying the top, residual stickiness is removed from it.

Today, the design of the jacket can be the most diverse, it is unlimited in the flight of creative thought. The classic version may not have decor at all, which is good for a set of business lady. In this case, it is enough to decorate the nails with a powdery color, or give them an extraordinary effect with a light veil with the effect of matting or pearls.

Those whose soul asks for bold and vivid experiments can take a closer look at the use of fimo. Of course, such a design may seem somewhat inconvenient, but juicy fruits cut into thin layers of special sticks will look very impressive on the nails. In addition, juicy fruits are one of the pressing topics of modern design. The only thing - they need to be decorated with not all the nails of the hands, but only accents.

It is beautiful to decorate a french with island or translated foil. For her, you need to use special glue. With the help of this decor you can even create a French gradient, which today is considered one of the trends of nail art. By the way, this material can be used both for background accents, and for a smile. Foil in a reverse jacket made of velvety matte varnish looks super expensive and status.

Fashionable game contrasts textures. For example, a jacket can be created in one color, but with a different type of material: you can draw a glossy smile on a matte background. Without an unnecessary cry, such a design will talk about the feeling of the subtle taste of its owner.

One of the trends in the French is to create a smile through dots. At the same time, the peas that they draw can be of different sizes and colors. Dots allows you to make fresh notes in the design, such a manicure looks special.

Even professionals have different nuances during work. What can we say about the implementation of the design at home, where often there is neither a device, nor the best types of coatings. Therefore, it is worth taking note of several useful recommendations.

• The coating may peel off due to insufficient drying, so its duration cannot be shortened. You need to dry each applied layer.
• The file for work should not be sharpened or shiny. This is also the cause of the fragility and detachment of the coating.
• You can’t be foolish at work, and therefore every time you apply a new layer, you need to go along the end of the nail.
• A coating with a sticker of a water or other type takes longer to dry, because under the design the base (top or ultrabond) takes longer to dry.

• To remove the varnish that has fallen on the skin around the nail is easier with the scoop of a pusher. At the same time, remove the coating delicately so as not to injure the skin.
• The cause of the varnish leakage is the insufficiently clean cleaning of pterygium. Before drying, this is eliminated with a rubber hoof, after drying, only with a milling cutter, after which the coating is trimmed with a thin brush.
• Stencils are used only once, if when they are removed part of the varnish is stripped from the background, the line is drawn with a thin brush.
• The coating breaks off from constant steaming of the hands. You need to use gloves when using household chemicals on the first day after applying varnish.

Regardless of whether on natural or artificial nails, the design is performed on a layer of pigment, if any. It is better to dilute the gel with the top, when using paints you can mix them together.You can also draw with a beveled brush, using the technique of a single smear with the formation of several shades at once, for example, a flower or a leaf.

French of the new season may be different, as the examples of professionals prove:

• ideal for going out;

• a juicy decision for the summer in the fruit theme;

• option for connoisseurs of the combination of pigment with gold;

• a great option for office and office-business style;

• laconic, but quite effective option in red and black contrast with subtle smiles-stripes;

• French ombre in pale pink color with the effect of temperature varnish;

• a jacket in lilac-black contrast is one of the fashionable color solutions;

• effective and bright solution in the spirit of minimalism;

• French design in neutral colors with a lace design;

• white wedding jacket with minimalistic decor.

On how to make a French manicure correctly and quickly, see the next video.