French manicure or French, as it is called for short, is the most popular version of the nail cover. It fits any dress code, looks great on both long and short nails, is neat, does not lose its appearance, and growing back, gives the hands a well-groomed look, while it is very elegant. With such a lot of advantages, there is only one drawback - it can get bored, because it looks pretty monotonous.
Appearance story
French manicure is a rather “adult” type of design: it was invented in 1976 in Hollywood. Its appearance is due to the fact that the actresses under each outfit had to repaint their nails and wait for them to dry, which greatly delayed the filming process. And then the question was raised about creating a standard, universal manicure that would be combined with any clothes. So there was a jacket, which is known today to every girl.
However, modern nail service offers a huge number of design options, including for those who do not want to change the jacket. Firstly, French manicure can be performed in any combination of colors: from neutral to bright, neon. Secondly, even the traditional shades of the jacket can be varied with rhinestones, sparkles, stones.
Rhinestone design
The ring finger decor (the so-called tsar-nail) still retains the leading position in popularity, and the rest of the fingers are decorated with traditional French manicure. Design on the ring finger can be absolutely anything: from monograms and flowers to marble and geometry. Sometimes a monochromatic coating is used with the laying out of a pattern of rhinestones, less often a complex ornament, where the stones perform an accentuating function.
You can perform a jacket on all ten nails, and then along each "smile" to draw a thin strip of sparkles or small pebbles. It is popular to decorate with rhinestones not every nail, but, for example, two or three on each arm. You can attach one pebble to each "smile". Rhinestones do not have to be white - it can be gold, silver, scarlet or emerald stones, and even orange-opal. If desired, there is no problem to enter them in a French.
The main coating does not have to be monophonic: you can make it marble or paint it with monograms, while the pattern can be one or two tones darker than the main shade, or contrast with it - it all depends on the desire.
"Smile" can be decorated with sparkles, covering them with white varnish. The density of the coating can range from completely opaque to a slight hint of gloss. In addition to sparkles, you can use a silver “mirror” rub and apply it to the free edge of the nail plate, creating a futuristic, cosmic manicure.
French is perfectly combined with white, cream or soft pink sculpting, which can be made only on the ring finger or two nails on each hand. An effective solution will be a combination of French and moon manicure in one design.
Despite the preferred shades for such a design - pastel, delicate, nude - nothing prevents to make the free edge bright.
Shape and length
White jacket can be made on nails of any length and shape. It is not necessary to cut a clear square free edge - it may well be an oval shape, and a soft square, and almonds, and ballerina pointes. Moreover, an acute-angled square is a very “dangerous” form, because it does not fit every hand. If you are not sure that the fingers will look good with the square edge of the nail plate, then it is better to choose a softer, rounded shape.
French manicure can be performed even on the shortest nails, the length of the free edge of which is about one millimeter. However, it should be noted that, despite the seeming simplicity of the jacket, it’s much more difficult to accurately execute it than many intricate designs.
Any flaw in the performance - the asymmetry of "smiles", their different widths, uneven layout - are immediately evident, because there are no other details in this design. Therefore, it is so important to choose a master with sufficient qualifications to perform this simple (seemingly) and elegant manicure, because it should look appropriate.
A sloppy sawn shape can turn graceful fingers into square “spades”, and a crookedly laid out “smile” will give a manicure a touch of cheapness. Therefore, before you give your pens to apply any type of design to them, you need to familiarize yourself with the qualifications and works of the master whom you plan to go to. If any trifle is alarming, then you should look for another artist, since only complete mutual understanding between the client and the master will help to create truly unique designs.
In the next video, you will be inlaid with rhinestones on a white jacket.
