French manicure

French manicure is known for a long time. For classic french manicure some polishes are used: white, beige or pink and varnish fixer. Feature of  French manicure consists that edges of nails are painted over by a white polish, and all nail from below becomes covered by a pale polish of pink or beige shades. From above the polish fixer is put.

Classic french manicure

Shape of nails at classical French manicure rectangular,  nails are filed in a straight line and  corners are rounded slightly. Recently such manicure is done practically by all models advertising cosmetics and perfumery. If such shape of nails is ideally suited for your hands, having French manicure, you will look especially beautiful and feminine.

Reverse French manicure

Reverse French manicure – the next experiment and a variation on classics. This manicure becomes at the nail basis. Such way of manicure can visually reduce nails therefore on short nails demands special attentiveness to thickness of the strip and texture of polishes, and also to selection of color combinations.

Reverse French manicure can be different colors, it is not classic anymore. Such French manicure is also called lunar, because polished nail in this way reminds a moon. 

How to make reverse French manicure

To start it is necessary to put nail guide stickers not to reach the basis of nail. Then to polish a surface a nail to strips, to allow it to dry up and after accurately to remove nail guide stickers. Use liquid of polish removal and a thin brush accurately correct the line at the nail basis, then put on all nail a layer fixing means.

Black French manicure

Black French manicure is made of two types of  polish – black opaque for a basis and black glossy – for a nail tip. To create a black French manicure, it is necessary to cover all nail with an opaque black polish, and after its drying  to put a glossy black polish on a nail tip with a brush.

Colored French manicure

Colored French manicure is the French manicure of all colors and shades. Main principle here is: we divide a nail for two parts by means of nail guide stickers and we paint these parts in different colors. Let's look what turns out!

Glitter French manicure

Glitter French manicure is such French manicure, where the thin strip besides a polish becomes covered also by shine polish or one shine polish of any shades. Glitter French manicure can be gold, silver or multi-colored. It is made the same as classical, but  white polish here is replaced with a polish with spangles.

How to make classic French manicure at home

Classical French manicure is a base of all types of French manicure. Classics looks naturally, it is attractive and well-groomed. Let's understand how to do classical French manicure.

You will need white polish, polish of beige color and polish fixer.

1 step.  At first it is necessary to process nails, to give them a rectangular shape, cut off died-off thin skin and  remove all agnails, it means you should make usual manicure.

2 step. Cover with white polish acting tips of nails. Convenient to use nail guide stickers which are applied to a set for French manicure, they are on sale and separately, and it is possible to make them.

If you didn't find ready nail guide stickers, in house conditions it is possible to use a small slice of dense fabric  and to cut it on small strips 3-4 mm wide and 1,5-2 cm long (is wider than a nail for 4-5 mm). To make nail guide stickers keep on a nail, slightly moisten it with water and paste to a nail so that the edge acted only. Now paint tips of nails with white polish. With nail guide stickers it is possible not to be afraid that you will paint over more, than it is necessary.

Instead of nail guide stickers made of cloth it is possible to use an ordinary thin adhesive tape or an insulating tape. From it cut out the form similar to cut-off nails, and paste on a nail.

3 step.  After putting white polish let's it dry, and then carefully remove nail guide stickers.

4 step. Put a layer of a pale beige transparent polish, make it dry and cover with polish fixer.

Salon manicure

If you can not make  French manicure at home, you always can have it in manicure salon – qualitatively and beautiful. At manicure salon they can propose you to process nails, to clean them, to cut off a cuticle, to make up, treat, make design of nails. So if you wish to save time – find a good master.