How to make a french gel polish

Now there is a huge variety of manicure and nail decor. However, French manicure does not lose its popularity (although it also happens to be of completely different types). And so that the Frenchman pleases longer and shines brighter, it is worth doing it with gel lacquer.

For a start it is worth deciding on the look, because the French manicure has a lot of them, and you can choose the right option for any occasion. As the most used types of French manicure can be identified:

1. Classical. A very popular option due to its versatility, simplicity and at the same time elegance. It uses soft natural colors: the nail plate is covered in pink or transparent, and the tip of the nail is highlighted in white. This option is perfect for everyday wear and for celebrations.
2. Lunar. Inverted version of the classic version, it also calls reverse. There are two variants of such a manicure: whites do not allocate the tip of the nail, but the hole, making a crescent, or repeat the cuticle area. The color scheme can also be quite diverse, this manicure looks very original, due to which it gained its popularity.
3. Hollywood. One of the bright options for such a manicure. It is achieved through the use of contrasting colors and painting the tip of the nail with various ornaments and drawings.
4. Art. This option can no doubt be called the brightest among all. Colors can be any, the main rule is that they contrast with each other. In addition to contrast, various bright and brilliant decorations are often and often used here: beads, rhinestones, figurines, etc. Such a manicure is perfect for bright girls who like to attract attention to themselves.
5. On foot. Classic french perfectly looks not only as a manicure, but also as a pedicure, giving your feet a neat, well-groomed look. If desired, any type of jacket can be done both on the arms and legs, it all depends only on how comfortable it is for the girl.

Manicure gel varnish has a number of undeniable advantages, which more than enough compensate for some of the disadvantages. Among these advantages are:

1. Therapeutic effect. Often, girls can not boast of their own strong and beautiful nails, many of them are very soft and exfoliating. Gel Polish will help strengthen your nails and help them grow longer. Plus, the gel polish itself is completely safe, it does not contain allergic substances or impurities that harm the nails.
2. Strength. By itself, such a manicure is very strong and durable. With high-quality application, it will stay for 2-3 weeks, even if its owner often does household chores.
3. Home application. To make such a manicure, it is not necessary to go to a professional, everything can be done by hand, the main thing is to purchase the necessary materials.
4. Diversity. The range of colors for such a manicure is huge, and most importantly, not necessarily limited to one color, you can combine several options and decorate your nails in every possible way.

The disadvantages of this type of manicure include:

1. Price. In the salon manicure gel varnish will be quite expensive because of the high price of gel polish. However, this can be compensated by making a manicure at home.
2. Special lamp. If you do a manicure yourself, you will have to buy a lot of materials, including an ultraviolet lamp, since such a manicure does not dry by itself.The cost of the entire set will also be quite high, however, it will still be more profitable than constantly going to the salon.
3. Thinning With frequent use gel polish can thin nails, but it depends on the individual characteristics of each girl.
4. Fake Very often, under the guise of quality and expensive gel polish sell fakes. It's hardly possible to determine this on your own, so if you have a familiar master, it is better to first consult with him.

There are a lot of ideas for french gel polish. Since the fashion for French manicure does not fade away, various new items are constantly appearing. There are more and more master classes on the use of various techniques. Therefore, we can say that the number of combinations is limited only by fantasy. Among the brightest and most popular are:

• Manicure with acrylic powder. It is very popular among girls with brittle nails, because, among other positive characteristics, it strengthens the nails well. This is a huge field for creativity, with the help of such powder you can make and neon manicure, and with metallic sparkles, and matte, and many other beautiful and original options.

• Ombre. Another fashion trend to date. Moreover, it is present not only in manicure, but also in hair coloring, clothes, etc. This type of manicure is a smooth transition from one color to another, while you can make a double color spectrum or even use more colors, add drawings, stickers, stones or any other decorative elements.

• Multicolored. A multi-colored manicure will look original when each nail has its own special color or design. The main thing is to choose colors and shades so that they are combined with each other, forming a single composition. For example, when the long-awaited spring comes, you always want something bright. Why, in this connection, do not make one nail of a delicate pink shade, another orange with sparkles, the third purple, the fourth blue, and the thumb yellow. Get a very stylish spring design.

• Dark. Dark manicure is always stylish and elegant. And this is not only black color, as many people think, a manicure in dark colors can also be diverse. For example, matte dark green looks very beautiful, decorated with some pattern. The same black can be varied by adding red flowers to it. Always relevant and universal will look deep burgundy color.
• Translucent. One type of manicure, which is at the height of fashion. It can be both monophonic and colored, most often not used for all nails at once, but for individual and imitates the texture of lace fabric.

In order to create the perfect French manicure at home, first of all you need to buy all the necessary tools for it. It includes:

1. UV lamp. It is better to buy a lamp more powerful, because if it is not powerful enough, it will take much longer to dry.
2. Orange stick.
3. File.
4. Means for degreasing nails.
5. Cuticle softener.
6. Base.
7. Direct gel polish. Several colors, depending on the wishes. A white or whitening pencil can be a good alternative to white varnish. It is very easy to use, even a stencil is not needed and after it the nails look very natural.
8. Stencil to draw a smile line.
9. Top
10. Gel polish remover.
11. Brush If you want to make a manicure with a picture, then you need an extra thin brush.

So, when the entire manicure set is prepared, you can start preparing the nails. Do not underestimate the importance of the preparatory stage, properly conducted training will allow you to enjoy a beautiful manicure for a long time. The preparatory stage includes the following steps:

1. If there is any coating on the nails, it must be removed.then wash your hands thoroughly so that no nail polish remover is left.
2. Cuticle covered with a softener for 5-10 minutes, and then cleaned with an orange stick.
3. If you have burrs, they must be removed.. It is also necessary to remove the pterigy, how long the lacquer will stay on the nail depends on its quality removal.
4. Further, using a nail file, you can give the desired shape and length. After fileing it is important to remove all dust.
5. After all these procedures, nothing more needs to be done with the nails.except to leave them alone for a while and let them dry.

After all the preparatory procedures, you can start applying gel polish. The application technique includes the following instructions:

1. First a thin layer applied base base and dry under lamp.
2. If a girl can not boast perfect nails, you can use camouflage gel polish. This is a gel that is applied to the nail (except for the regrown area) to make it smooth. Camouflage-gel creates an artificial nail over natural, but it does it as naturally as possible. Camouflage gels have a shade of natural leather: beige, pink. After applying the nails are dried under the lamp for several minutes.
3. Next, a color coating is applied to the regrown area.You can choose any shade, it all depends on the desire. Then the nails are dried again under the lamp for several minutes. If you use a bright or dark varnish, it is best to cover the nail in several layers, it will give color saturation.
4. After everything is dry You can apply the top and dry your nails again.
5. If necessary, you can take a napkin and wipe the nail with a special tool to remove the sticky layer, however, now many manufacturers of varnishes make them so that a sticky layer is not formed.
6. After all the procedures you can apply moisturizing oilif it is not, then you can use the usual olive.

A detailed workshop on creating the perfect French manicure, you can see in the next video.

The French-made gel polish perfectly emphasizes the beauty of natural nails, but many girls face the fact that there is no time or money to go to the salon. Therefore, it is now so popular to make a manicure itself at home. Learn the secrets of the perfect manicure and learn how to do it at home is easy, most importantly, to practice and over time it will get better and better. Here are a few tricks for those who are just starting their journey in the field of home manicure:

1. When buying the necessary set of tools, it is better to buy professional equipment and varnishes.. It is, of course, not cheap, but it will last a long time and keep your nails healthy and beautiful.
2. When choosing a gel polish, you should pay attention to the consistency and which one is more convenient to work with. Everything is individual, someone likes more liquid options, someone more thick.
3. Many before getting a manicure, acquire only what is needed to create it, but about the fact that you may need to remove, forget. This, of course, cannot be called a serious problem, but it is better to buy the entire necessary kit at once.
4. If you really want to make a drawing, but there is no experience, for starters, you can simply draw the points in a contrasting color. It will look stylish, but does not require special skills.
5. All layers must be applied carefully., carefully making sure that the varnish covers the entire nail, but it does not spread.

If the brush to accurately create beautiful points is not enough, you can use the Dots.

It is easy and convenient to use it, if at first only neat points are drawn, then over time you can learn to draw with the help of dots whole masterpieces. The technology of dots is as follows:

1. Some lacquer applied to the palette.
2. Dots tip is strictly perpendicular drops in lacquer.
3. Drawn by applying dots. You can leave them in the form of points, but you can continue to fantasize.

Without a doubt, moon manicure is now very popular, so It will be actual to consider the instruction how to do it at home:

1. Manicure. First you need to prepare the surface of the nail to work, namely, remove the pterygium and cuticle.
2. Degreasing. After that, you need to degrease the nails, because if this is not done, the coating will keep less time.
3. Base. Next, apply the base paint. It can be both transparent and have a shade, it already depends solely on the wishes. It is best to apply the base in several layers, thanks to this, the main color will be brighter and the manicure more durable. After applying the base is dried under the lamp.
4. Bright varnish. After drying the base, a bright lacquer is applied to the entire surface of the nail, the color may vary depending on the wishes. The focus should be on the area near the cuticle and paint it as smoothly as possible. After applying the bottom layer is also dried under the lamp.
5. Color varnish. After that, you need to attach a stencil to the base, or just gently paint the nail with colored varnish, without touching the light area. It is also dried under the lamp.
6. Top When everything is ready, it remains only to cover the manicure with a top and dry it again in the lamp.

See the video below for a master class on creating such a manicure.

The greatest problem when creating a beautiful French manicure is itself a neat job with a smile line. Now there are a lot of devices to facilitate this process, but still you need to approach the work with all the responsibility. The most popular options are:

1. Stripes. To buy such stencils is not difficult, often they are in the kits for the French manicure, you can also buy them separately. Nothing supernatural - just strips of adhesive paper, which can be of any shape. For a classic jacket fit the shape of the arc. Using strips is very simple: you need to glue the stencil to the nail, leaving the tip open, after which you can safely draw it. Then, waiting for drying, you can simply peel off the strip.
2. If there is no doubt about sleight of hand, You can create a beautiful French manicure without using stencils, and with a brush. You can use a brush from a jar with varnish, you can buy a thinner one separately.
3. For express manicure you can use a whitening pencil. A full-fledged manicure can not be called, but if there is no time at all, and you need to bring your nails in order, this option is ideal. A whitening pencil is applied to the back surface of the nail, either on wet hands or wetting slate.

French manicure is so versatile that it will look good on both short and long nails. Many girls prefer long nails, which is not surprising, because they visually lengthen the fingers, and the manicure options with such nails are much more. They can be given completely different forms:

1. Sharp. Very elegant and catchy option. Such a manicure is best done in the salon, with a proven master, since it is important to model them correctly in order to avoid damage.
2. Square.
3. Oval.
4. Can be combined different forms of nailsFor example, square and oval.
5. Nails with edges.

On any form of long nails french will look great. However, if things are easier with long nails, then to create a beautiful manicure on short nails, you will need to try more carefully. Owners of short nails should note the following:

1. Overgrown part of the nail for French manicure should be no less 3 mmbetter to grow to 5 mm.
2. A narrow smile line will look more elegant and beautiful., because if you make it too wide, the entire nail will visually appear smaller. To create the illusion of additional lengthening can help a variety of drawings, located along the nail.
3. If you want to make a festive decor, it is important to stop in time and not to overdo it. You can make a low-key picture or add some sparkles. It will look beautiful and tender. While adding too many decorative elements, the overall look may turn out to be vulgar.

In general, reviews of various gel polishes for french positive. The best among many companies are called varnishes from Kodi. The women note its durability, lasts up to 4 weeks, and beautiful shine. If you paint your nails with a bright white shade in two layers, then you can achieve perfect coverage, this is paying special attention. As features, customers emphasize that all varnishes dry quickly enough, except for white, which requires a longer drying time.

If we talk about the shortcomings, the customers note a not very diverse color palette, as well as a high price, but with a note that its quality is worth the money.