Is there a certain technique to doing a french manicure yourself? i keep messing up. help!?

Do It Yourself French Manicure


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Ooh La La ... Do It Yourself French Manicure


by Kathryn D'Imperio





Want professional looking nails without spending your day’s pay in the salon? With some practice and a little patience, you can enjoy fancy nails anytime you want for only the cost of your nail polish!





Their pale pink base and bright white tips characterize the ever-popular French manicures, which are a common request at nail salons everywhere. Professional nail stylists may paint your nails alone or they may apply fake tips if you desire. Based on your personal preferences, a nail designer will give your nails a strengthening and conditioning workout prior to painting them. If you get your nails done with fake tips, you may have to make a trip back to the salon to get your French tips “refilled” when your nails have grown noticeably.





Keeping longer, healthy nails will be most conducive to sporting a French manicure. To complete your own French manicure, begin with the following steps to prepare your nails for the procedure.





* Using a cotton ball soaked in nail polish remover, wipe off any old nail polish prior to painting nails. Wash hands and soak in warm water for a few moments.


* With an orangewood stick, gently push back the cuticles so they are all even with each other once the water has softened your skin.


* With nail clippers, beauty scissors or a nail file, shape your nails evenly.


* With a steady hand, carefully paint only the tip of each nail with a white hue. A second coat may be desirable, depending on the thickness and opaqueness of the polish. Allow polish to dry between coats.


* Using a slightly transparent pink or nude color, paint the entire nail once the tips have dried. A second coat may be necessary. Allow nails to dry thoroughly.


* Once all the coats have dried, apply a clear topcoat to protect your new French manicure. To lengthen the manicure’s lifespan, make an effort to paint a clear coat on each night. Be sure it has ample time to dry completely.


* If you are feeling especially creative and ambitious, kick off your shoes and match your tootsies to your fingertips!





This procedure is best performed on a lazy morning or evening when no other pressing errands or tasks will get in the way. After painting your nails, avoid doing things with your hands while they dry.





For an easier painting technique, check the beauty section of a drug store or superstore for a French manicure kit. The set should contain, at the very least, nail polish in white and pink or beige and a clear topcoat. Some manicure sets - like COVERGIRL’s French Manicure Kit – will contain tiny, sticky nail guides. These make the manicure process 100 times easier by allowing you to place the guides on each nail individually, leaving a small margin where the polish can spill outside the tip without tainting the rest of the nail.





As the holidays approach, let your crazy side out by concocting a wildly modified French manicure - green and white for St. Patrick’s Day, pastel shades for Easter, black and orange for Halloween and red and green for Christmas. Have fun and remember, even if you find the do-it-yourself French manicure difficult at first, practice will provide you with the skills you need to create beautiful and perfect manicures all year long!Is there a certain technique to doing a french manicure yourself? i keep messing up. help!?
Um. There are things you can get at drugstores that are stickers that you put on yer nail and then paint above them. But if im going to do a french manicure i usually practice on my toes. but make sure to wipe a lot of the polish off on the side of the bottle so it doesnt glob up and then i usually do little dots and try to smooth them out. It takes a lot of practice. But if you have just 1 mess up spot or so a wooden cuticle stick can help clean them up.


namasteIs there a certain technique to doing a french manicure yourself? i keep messing up. help!?
IT is hard to do it yourself. There are two ways. Apply white to top in one motion following the curve of your nail or do it in two sections, from one end to middle of nail and then the otherside to middle. You have to find which way works best for you. then apply the pink or clear over entire nail. You might need to coats of white first. It's hard to explain without showing you. I hope this helped.
it depends what you bought if you bbought the sticker thing get some one to hold it for you while you paint your nails
If you have a steady hand, you can learn to do a better job than the professionals. Just get a bottle of white nail polish, clear nail polish, an eyeshadow brush (NOT a sponge), some pure acetone, and a little glass (a shot glass is perfect). It must be pure acetone because this works much cleaner than polish remover, and it must be an eyeshadow brush and not a Q-tip because the Q-tip will not work as neatly and can get fuzz stuck in the polish. Carefully pour some acetone in the shot glass and put the eyeshadow brush in there. Paint the tips of your nails white, and go down a little further than you want the white. Take the brush with the acetone and erase what you don't want using rounded, sort of sideways strokes. Let the white dry for a while and paint over with the clear. This takes practice, but I got to where friends and family members were asking me to do their nails and some even trying to pay me. It's not that hard. The stickers just make it way too difficult and sloppy (I've found), and they don't last nearly as long as the kit I described to you. Good luck!
what you can do is get some colored tape (black electric tape) and line it up to how u want ur tips to be...then u paint it with the polish u want to use...then take the tape off....and then let it dry sum b4 putting on the clear coat...dats it...or go to a salon and get it done...
save yourself the aggervation, and get it done professionally...
When applying the white, always brace your pinky on the table or on your hand.


Also you can get a natural bristle paint brush, dip it in polish remover and wipe away any white you don't want. With this technique you can't use a basecoat (not that you really need one with really light polish) and if you are using white and pink, you have to put the pink over the white.


For a quick and easy french manicure, just swipe the white on the ends of your nails and cover with a top coat.