Friday, December 13, 2013

Easy French Manicure

An extremely popular nail style, the french manicure, is hard to create yourself, and expensive to buy.  I have used various methods trying to create a clean french manicure, and most have either taken too long or have turned out sloppy and unpolished. Finally I have a successful method.  For a small price, and about forty minutes of your time you too can create an easy, clean french manicure.
I found these circular stickers at Walmart for about two dollars. I cut three of them in half, one for each nail, so I left the extra half on the sticker sheet. I then placed the half circle in the middle of my nail, making sure they were all completely flat. The sticker on my thumb wasn't wide enough to cover the whole nail, but I will talk about how that can be fixed later.
Now with all circles firmly on your nails, choose whatever color, (usually white is used), and paint the top half of your nail.  Apply at least two coats, make sure they are even, not too thick/heavy.
Wait at least fifteen minutes before you peel off the half circles so that you don't accidentally take some nail polish off too.
To clean up your nail use acetone. Pour a little bit of acetone into a small container, (I use a shot glass, it works perfectly), and use a small nail brush. I purchased the MAC nail brush kit which has every kind of brush I need! Dip the brush into the acetone and run it under the white nail polish to make the manicure more clean, I do this for my thumb nail since the sticker doesn't cover the whole nail, I have to shape the edges of the manicure.
To finish off the manicure I used Orly's "Won't Chip" top coat nail polish, your nails will last longer and look a lot better with a bit of shine!

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