Perhaps the French manicure is one of the most delicate and stylish options for coating nails, which for decades has remained the embodiment of femininity, sophistication and elegance. This design looks very sophisticated on any nails; it is appropriate both in the office and at a social event. In recent years, it has become popular to complement the familiar white jacket with all kinds of images, rhinestones and other elements of jewelry.
Manicure Features
The idea of an unusual nail decor came up with the famous businessman, the owner of the cosmetic corporation Jeff Pink over three decades ago. It was then that he decided to create a nail design that would be in perfect harmony with absolutely any outfit - both daily business and luxurious evening. The novelty immediately fell to the taste of popular Hollywood divas, because they were forced to constantly repaint their nails for one or another outfit.
Pink's idea was as follows: The nail plate was first covered with a clear or light beige varnish, and then the tips of the nails were decorated with a snow-white rim. Even the most fastidious socialite literally gasped, noticing that the nails decorated in such a way were so refined and aristocratic.
This type of coating acquired its definition of “French” only a few years later, when Pink invited one of the most famous models at that time to paint the tips of her nails in white before the largest fashion show in Paris.From that day on, the white jacket stood in a row with a black dress as one of the symbols of style perfection.
In recent years, there has been a tendency to move away from classical canons, and to make the French more interesting, they began to supplement it with a picture, as well as slightly vary its shape: today you can find French manicure on rectangular, and even square and sharp nails.
In addition, the color scheme has expanded significantly. If the classic version certainly implied a white edging, now it is painted in a variety of shades: blue, blue, orange, golden or silver. But the design of the base of the nail remains unchanged - it is necessarily aged in white-pink or beige colors.
Application Technique
In order to create an exquisite manicure, you should first file your nails well, get rid of the keratinized cuticle and give the plates an oval shape. As for the total length, it can be any, depending on the characteristics of the growth of nails and the preferences of their owner.
Consider a step-by-step procedure for applying French manicure.
- To begin with, it is necessary to process the areas near the nail plates, it would be nice to make a hand bath.
- After processing the skin, you can proceed to the nails - at first they are degreased with a special water-alcohol composition, clinser, and in the absence of such, you can resort to using the most common means for removing varnish.
- The plates are painted with a transparent base and allowed to dry thoroughly.
- Next, you should completely paint the nails with a decorative varnish of the desired tone. It is preferable to use light cream colors as close as possible to natural colors.
- As you know, a strip of white lacquer is drawn on the very tip of the nail, so an adhesive stencil should be glued to the desired area. It is desirable that he slightly went behind the skin, in which case the line will come out perfectly smooth.
- Then you need to pick up the most ordinary brush from the bottle with varnish and paint over the selected area with white, experts advise using a technique called “fence” - it assumes that each subsequent brush movement slightly goes to the previous stroke. Thus, the coating is perfectly even.
- Painted nails should be thoroughly dried and then coated with a finishing fixing varnish so that the manicure stays fresh as long as possible.
Tip: to keep the coating as long as possible, you need to paint not only the horizontal surface itself, but also the cut-off area of the nail plate.
Fashionable Varieties
If you want to diversify the usual jacket a little, then it makes sense to supplement it with a sophisticated design, and you can apply such a decor to both the whole nail platinum, and to its part. By applying patterns of a contrasting shade, the manicure will receive a more fresh and non-trivial look that emphasizes the originality of the girl and her exceptional taste.
By the way, when creating such a coating, it is recommended to follow seasonal trends - for example, in the summer you can apply bright, rich patterns, and in winter it would be nice to give preference to silver and metallic shades.
"Hollywood" manicure
This type of coating was first introduced at the Christian Dior collection show. A feature of this manicure is a thin line, which is drawn along the very edge of a white smile. It precisely separates the base of the plate from the overgrown part. Moreover, the shape of this line can be any, depending on whether the manicure is done in a traditional style or whether it is asymmetric.
Millennium
This coating differs from the traditional one in that the fingernail is covered with golden or shimmering silver shades or the classic manicure is complemented by an abundance of metallic dust and shine. This decor option is ideal for large parties and special occasions.Making it is not difficult at all, but it looks extremely original and spectacular.
"Twist"
The latest trends in French manicure include a “twist” - this is an option in which several shades are applied - usually from two to six. Thus, the tips of the nail plates are stained not with one colored strip, but with two or three.
Custom shape
Today, fashionistas boldly abandon the traditional drawing of the “smile” zone, such a jacket may have asymmetric arcs, a rather thickened strip, and also all kinds of lines that run across the nail. A modern “smile” often consists of separate combinations of triangles, rhombs, rectangles, squares, various broken lines and other decors. This nail art is very convenient in that it can be designed for any outfit.
Combination with other types of decor
White classic manicure is quite successfully combined with many other types of nail design, the following combinations are especially good.
- Moon cover. This option is also called the reverse jacket, while the lower part of the nail plate is painted over - lunula. The reverse and classic jacket looks very harmonious on one nail, such a coating is elegant and very elegant.
- Marble coating. With this decor, from the side it feels like miniature stone plates are present on the tips of the nails.
- "Leopard". Such a jacket involves framing with small spots of a wide variety of colors.
- Ombre. This coating is also known as a gradient, it involves the use of transitions from one shade to another.
- "Sand". In this case, varnish of unusual structure is selected for the jacket, which includes the smallest particles of inclusions.
- "Cat's Eye." This is a pretty stylish manicure that harmonizes well with a classic white jacket. In this case, special magnets are used when they are presented to painted marigolds, the smallest particles of metallized dust with which the nails are coated appear in the most bizarre patterns. Such nails have a pronounced 3D volume, and begin to shine with any movement.
Highlight several fashion trends in the creation of French manicure.
- Two stripes. The one that is thicker is located at the very tip, the finer one is located in the center of the "smile".
- Double French. At the same time, a strip of light brown color is applied under the white “smile”.
- Stickers. They are used on a transparent coating under the "smile". Typically, the image is chosen in the style corresponding to the event that the girl is going to or so that the picture is in harmony with the elements of the image of the lady.
- "Chess board". In this case, the “smile” combines black and white squares.
French with a pattern
White jacket with interesting patterns is a stylish and fashionable version of the French coating. If the familiar decors seem too monotonous to you, then you can use many other options. The tips can be laid out with shiny pebbles, decorated in the form of abstract figures, or even drawn with small peas.
Complex compositions are very popular, which are pictures of images of flowers, animals, butterflies, abstractions. If you wish, you can even draw portraits on the nails, while the longer the nails are longer, the more space for imagination they give. Typically, drawings are drawn on the ring finger.
However, do not overdo it - this season naturalness and naturalness are in fashion.
You will learn how to make a white jacket with a pattern in the next video.