The idea of French manicure appeared when the designers thought about how to beat each dress on the catwalk. A little later, women around the world were able to appreciate the advantages and versatility of the French French, today it can be done at home using special manicure sets and brushes.
Necessary tools and materials
To make a French manicure at home, you will need to buy gel polishes and other necessary devices. Stencils allow you to do a neat, even manicure. They are sold in large numbers in specialized stores and are inexpensive. The rest of the devices can be found in a standard woman’s cosmetic bag.
You can greatly simplify your task and take a special set created exclusively for creating a service jacket. It already includes stencils and several different color varnishes. The cost of such a set may be different, but each girl will find the goods to her taste and opportunity.
Before doing a manicure, you will need to put your nails in order. At the first stage, a warm bath is made to soften the skin around the nail plate. You need a small container, sea salt or lemon juice, you can use herbal decoctions or essential oils. This pleasant procedure will allow you to relax, make your hands beautiful and well-groomed.
To soften the cuticles, it is better to take a special oil, which is applied for several minutes before the hands are immersed in water. At hand should be a bamboo stick or manicure set with a special tool in it.Simple nippers, a pusher are suitable, but you should use them with extreme caution. You will also need manicure scissors and a nail file.
To create a French jacket, you need to purchase a thin brush, a special pencil or a stencil. For staining, a base layer, which is usually transparent, and several colored gel varnishes are used first.
Classic French manicure involves painting the nail in a transparent varnish, and the tip is decorated in white. It is this color distribution that is considered universal. The manicure looks elegant, romantic, it can be diluted with a pattern or painting, rhinestones or ornament. Modern manicure has become more diverse, look great when using this technique, pastel colors, including beige, peach.
French manicure is done with gel varnishes, this will require a special lamp. It takes longer to create a beautiful design, but this look is popular because of its stability.
French application methods
In order to learn how to correctly draw a jacket on nails, you need to practice a lot, it is easier to use a stencil, then the stripes will lie flat. Ready-made strips can be purchased in special sets, they look like self-adhesive paper with a width of five millimeters. The shape can be different, it is not only a sharp arc, but just a straight line. Due to the variety of forms, a woman has the opportunity to make such a jacket, which she wishes.
The advantage of using such stencils is their convenience. It is enough to separate the top layer, expose the adhesive surface and attach it to the nail plate. The tip remains free, the thickness of the jacket depends on individual wishes.
It is worth remembering that white varnish will need to be applied in several layers to achieve color intensity. Each new layer should dry well. Once the varnish has hardened enough, you can remove the stencil. Immediately after application, it is not removed, since then there are stains.
With the help of stencils, the smile line is smooth, neat. The only drawback of using these strips is the impossibility of adjusting them individually under the nail plate in order to obtain the desired rounding.
There is a way out of this situation - to make a stencil yourself, using self-adhesive paper, which can be bought at any stationery store. The radius of curvature chosen is based on the individual characteristics of the nail. Suitable for such creativity and simple tape, adhesive tape and even electrical tape.
Experienced nail design masters create French manicures using a thin brush or nail tips - plastic tips that are used to build nails.
Before creating a manicure, the hands are put in order, the nail plate is polished and degreased. Tips are sized for each finger, glued to the nail with a special glue and carefully cut with nippers, forming the required length. The junction is ground, which was invisible, the entire surface is treated with a primer, and a basic transparent coat of varnish is applied. From above, to the middle, any shade is applied, the gel polish is dried under the lamp and polished to even out the shape.
White gel polish is applied to the tip, creating a smile. Each nail is dried under a lamp, in conclusion a transparent coating is applied. Only from the outside, the whole process can seem simple, in fact, you need to have certain knowledge and skills.
You can find tips on sale with a jacket already applied, they can significantly reduce the time spent on manicure. No need to cut the length, draw a jacket, and working with such material is much easier.
The most difficult job is to apply a jacket with a special brush. You can use a short one with dense bristles, in which the tip is slightly rounded.She can correct the picture, you just need to moisten the brush in the nail polish remover. Also suitable with a beveled edge or a semicircle, while the latter allows you to create a jacket in one motion.
A special level of skill is the use of a brush - a hair, which allows you to make any smile with a rounded shape. To learn how to work, you need to spend a lot of time and make a lot of effort.
Before applying the varnish to the nail, it is dripped onto a piece of paper or foil and from there, picking up with a brush it is already distributed over the nail. You may need a remedy for correction. When working with gel polishes, special liquids are used, for example, alcohol or clinser. When using simple varnish, you can take an acetone-containing liquid.
White jacket can also be created using a special pencil. Apply it from the back to the tip of the nail plate, making it seem lighter. Unfortunately, this effect lasts only until the first contact of the hands with water. More expensive products can last longer, but they still do not guarantee that the effect remains even for a week. A pencil is suitable only if it is used as a camouflage to paint over an overgrown nail or tip where the varnish has been damaged.
Nail and cuticle preparation
Before creating a new design, you need to tidy your nails and remove the old varnish. For this, special means for removal are used. The overgrown tips are filed, cut to give them the desired shape and length. This should be done before processing the cuticle, since the steamed nail plate will flake if you start to file it.
Acid manicure allows you to remove the cuticle without damaging the skin. This is the most popular option in modern cosmetology, but you can use the old proven method.
After the hands are put in order, the nail plate is sanded to remove bumps and defects. To do this, you can use a soft buff. Necessarily the surface is degreased and covered with a base layer of colorless varnish. Only now you can start drawing a jacket.
Stages of the procedure
Any girl will be able to learn on her own steps how to do French manicure. If you move in stages, the result will be a unique decorative design that goes well with the created image.
In the absence of the necessary tools, you can make a jacket with a native brush inside the varnish. With your own hands, such a design will be even and neat, if you are patient and not in a hurry. Beginners will need to practice a little on models or tips to understand how to hold the brush correctly, which side is more convenient to apply varnish. Making yourself a jacket on your right hand is more difficult, so you should use tape or another stencil that will make the lines straight. If the brush is too wide inside the bottle, then gently press and dry it a little.
A step-by-step guide to creating a French manicure at home is as follows:
- preparation of nails and cuticles for design;
- applying a base layer;
- creation of a french;
- using a brush to correct errors;
- topcoat.
So it’s worthwhile to act if, apart from the brush inside the bottle with varnish and tape or tape, nothing else is at hand.
If there is a thin brush in the arsenal, all points are repeated, only now a smile is drawn starting from the removal of a smooth arc. You can do it going beyond the edges, but you can be more direct. The points through which proportions can be kept very well help, they are applied along the edges and in the middle. From point to point, an even arc should be obtained.
This method allows you to draw a jacket on long nails. Using gel polish, you will need to apply more points that connect together.The first are located on the sides, then in the middle, the points should be equidistant from each other. When all the landmarks are interconnected, then the empty space is completely filled with gel polish.
Stylish Design Ideas
The nail design is popular in the modern design of nails, and specifically antifrench. French is applied to the cuticle area, thus the exact opposite of the classic version is obtained. The advantage of this form of decoration is that you can apply the crescent even on short nails.
For antifrench, there are also arched-shaped stencils. They are sold in the store or can be printed independently. Three millimeters must be retreated from the cuticle. The sequence for creating this type of jacket is the same as in the usual. Such a manicure is sometimes called lunar, indeed this is one of its varieties.
As for ideas, in a classic form, such a decorative design of the nail plate looks original and neat. Modern designers have come up with a lot of options for how you can beat the technique and present it in a better position. You can experiment with:
- technique;
- decorations;
- texture;
- form;
- color.
French has become popularly performed not in white, but in any other you like. Looks good red, black or turquoise. The main background is selected so that it contrasts with the border. Very simple and easy, any girl can create an original, youth or business image.
You can use several colors on the tip or a whole palette, create a colorful rainbow. The line does not have to be in the form of an arc, it is easy to make it zigzag, wavy or with twists and all these are also great ideas for creating a magnificent French manicure.
The jacket line decorated with sparkles, sand or other decorative elements looks beautiful and festive. It can be distinguished with a thin brush in a different color. Such design options are not suitable for office style, but suitable for a party.
The tip of the nail plate can be painted over with glitter varnish or covered with velor fibers. Looks good mica, foil or beads. The last popular trend was caviar manicure. There are many options for how you can beat the French, it all depends on the imagination of the author.
A smile can be done diagonally, V-shaped or even double both on the side of the cuticle and on the tip of the nail. French can become part of the pattern, complement several shared techniques.
Professional Tips
You can learn how to make a beautiful jacket yourself, for this there is a step-by-step guide for beginners. You will need to adhere to the basic advice of specialists. The easiest way is to buy a ready-made set for a jacket, which will allow any girl to quickly and without help create clear lines at the tip of her nails.
If there are a few shades, then you can achieve diversity by simply mixing several varnishes with each other. Camouflage shade can be obtained by mixing beige and red or pink. When the main color is bright enough, it must be combined with the color of the jacket, you can see possible combinations on the Internet, there is a ready-made palette. Before applying any coating, the nail plate must be degreased, which improves the adhesion of the varnish to the surface.
You can use the old brush from the bottle with varnish, it is pre-cut in the shape of a semicircle, so applying the composition will be easier. Errors are easily eliminated with a thin brush. There is another approach to the design of the jacket. You can apply several layers of nail polish to the nail in the middle, wait until it dries a little and use nail polish remover to dip a wide flat brush, remove excess from the cuticle side, forming a smile as you would like to see it.
If rhinestones or sand are used as decoration, then a top coating is applied on top, which does not allow them to peel off over time in contact with water. Matte jacket looks very good, there are special varnishes and gels on sale. They are easy to use, and the application technology is the same as in any other case. To make it easier to remove the varnish from the skin, in case the coating accidentally gets on it, you need to smear your hands with a greasy cream at the very beginning.
You can create a funny picture not only by using dots, but also by using a simple ballpoint pen, which is no longer needed. Even if you get an uneven line after using the corrector, you can easily mask it with a small layer of sparkles, which are applied to the joint of the main coating and the jacket.
To make the white color look especially bright, you can pre-whiten your nails using lemon juice or a simple toothpaste with a brush. As a result, the tip of the nail plate stands out better, the intensity of the yellow pigment on the nails decreases.
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