French manicure with gel polish: from options to creation

French manicure today is equated with classic design techniques. It has been on the crest of the wave since its inception, and today it is 40 years. Experienced nail service specialists now create nail polish with advanced technology. Consider what are the main fashion trends for this year regarding the jacket, find out what color solutions are popular today. In addition, we will introduce novice craftsmen to the rules of step-by-step instructions for creating this elegant design.

French manicure, which appeared in America for the sake of reducing the time for painting the nails of actresses, today is variable in design. In the traditional version, it necessarily implies a flesh base for the background and a white pigment for coloring the overgrown edge, which is called a smile. Due to the use of natural varnish, it looks harmonious in any women's set. In addition, natural beige or nude is suitable for nail design for women of different age groups.

However, the jacket cannot be called an ideal design for a short nail bed. On such nails, it creates the effect of a visual shortening of the plate, which can deprive not only the nails themselves, but also the fingers of elegance. The choice of a specific shade is also of great importance for an elegant design, because each woman has her own due to the characteristics of her skin and color type.

Today there are two main types of French designs: traditional and inverted. In ordinary French manicure, a smile is made from above in the place where the nail grows. The second option is notable for the fact that the contrast arch is located at the base of the nail plate. Both types of jacket look beautiful and stylish. They are both varieties of the same technique, although they have their own differences in terms of design.

Someone calls the reverse jacket lunar design. However, today fashion clearly defines a manicure with holes as a separate type of technique, since the look of the reverse jacket and the lunar one is different. For example, in a reverse jacket, the hole follows the contour of the base of the nail, while in the design with holes, the hole itself does not frame the background coating, but has a shape turned away from the growing nail. In the opposite, the same manicure is important the very contour of the smile, which is a kind of completion of the design.

You can add to the two main techniques and an alternative or fantasy smile. It is created in a variety of ways, including hand-painting, stamping, stickers, and disposable stencils. In most cases, when working with any of these techniques, individual smiles are obtained, they are difficult to repeat exactly. Fantasy smiles are unique in that they often become an adornment of laconic French design. They can indicate its seasonality or purpose (for a wedding, going out, office work).

It is generally accepted that French manicure is suitable for any form of nails. But let's be honest: the technique is designed for elegance and grace. Therefore, everything that smacks of aggression, be it length or excessive sharpness, will not fully convey the beauty of a jacket. More recently, short nails were in fashion, but today fashion believes that a slight lengthening is necessary for a jacket.

Ideally, the overgrown edge should be no more than 5-7 mm. This is enough for any design, as well as the choice of a specific smile shape, depending on the characteristics of the shape of the nail. In addition, this length is enough for a combined manicure, if you want to decorate the nail bed, in addition to the upper smiles, with holes. This length is also convenient because the color of the jacket can be any, it will not seem vulgar even in the case of choosing bright varnishes.

As for the shape of the edge, today fashion trends clearly define the three best options. In the first place, they put a rounded square on which a smile looks not only perfect, but also allows you to decorate the top edge with a variety of decor. For example, a fantasy smile can be performed on this form. The second place of honor went to the almond-shaped marigolds. Today, this flowing shape with a rounded top is considered incredibly delicate and feminine.

In addition to the rounded square and almonds, the oval shape is considered popular. It is considered universal, suitable for any design, color and decor. French on oval nails looks beautiful and sophisticated. This form is able to visually ennoble not only the nails, but also the fingers. It looks very nice on nail plates with an elongated bed.

The modern jacket today has overgrown with a mass of options. At the same time, the basis of the technique can be not only traditional: the French manicure of the new season can be combined. For example, a jacket can be an independent design, the basis for a combined technique with the classics. And also it can be used as accents of other technique. In this case, it is performed only on accent nail plates.

One of the leading trends in the new season will be the accentuation of the flawlessness of the skin of the hands and the shape of the nails. Fashion believes that this is the basis of the foundations, and therefore offers to get rid of unnecessary decor and variegation.

The minimalism of this season is manifested in everything: from the purpose of the manicure to the amount of decor. Already today, the number of accents is decreasing: 10 equally decorated marigolds are considered tasteless and variegated. An accent should be understood as a nail decorated differently from all the plates with smiles. It is desirable that there are no more than four accents in French design.

At the same time, as experts of the nail service note, the accents should be located on two adjacent nails (ring and middle fingers). If you want to decorate a jacket with just one accent, you need to place it on the nail of your ring finger. At the same time, it is not at all necessary to make a smile on it, although, depending on the design, you can make it fancy.

One of the trends of the new season is that manicure belongs to a certain season of the year. Using different decor or, say, hand-painted, this can be embodied in the French design to the best extent. Various drawings can be an excellent tool for the embodiment of seasonal design: for autumn, these are raindrops with umbrellas, falling leaves, sketches of an autumn city. Summer jacket can be decorated with a variety of bugs and butterflies.

That being said, butterfly wings can be a great alternative to the traditional smile. You can create a smile in the form of branches with leaves and unblown buds, flowers. Hearts also look beautiful in French design, creating an original form of a jacket. A winter jacket can be decorated with various snowflakes, frosty patterns, including Scandinavian ornaments and ethnic motives.

Mehendi designs are mega-popular, as well as all kinds of lace that can be used to decorate French accents. In spring, you can create various imitations of a gradient in the place of a smile, draw melting icicles, snowdrops. To support a particular mood, you can use a variety of decor. For example, kamifubuki, better than any other decorative material, will indicate that the design belongs to the Christmas theme. Rhinestones will indicate the solemnity of the appointment.

Despite the conflicting opinions of beauty bloggers and professional craftsmen, powder materials today are stylish and effective tools for changing the texture of the most common coatings. As for rubbing in, it is better to use pearl dust for a jacket. It is weightless and able to create a special effect even on a transparent base without pigment. Today, it is this polyester powder that is considered the most trendy.

Acrylic sand, sugar and flock powder are varied. These powders are used to decorate a jacket. They do not create a smile, but as a background of accents or a volumetric pattern, they look very impressive. In this case, the print can be completely simple and geometric. Even an ordinary vertical with acrylic powder on the accent plate will attract the enthusiastic looks of others.

According to the fashion trends of the season, decorative elements of French manicure should not be voluminous and too large. Given its lightness, you need to be more thoughtful about the choice of each element. For example, inlay can be done with opals or Swarovski crystals, but not with a scattering of stones and not covering the entire nail plate. It is impossible to complicate the manicure, because this makes the image of a woman boring, and sometimes completely ridiculous.

The arrangement of rhinestones should not be chaotic: they are fixed dosed and strictly in places that are suitable for this.For example, it is now fashionable to highlight the cuticle area with a light bow made of small sparkling stones. You can also use rhinestones for the centers of flowers on accent nails of a jacket. To make the stones look more organic, they are often combined with broths.

Today it is considered ugly to wear false nails. They often bounce off at the most inopportune moment, moreover, they negatively affect the nail plate, forcing it to take the form of the artificial tips themselves, which is often accompanied by painful sensations. However, building up is quite welcome, as well as strengthening the nail plates with a special tool with a thickening effect. In addition, fashion trends also suggest that French manicure be performed using the aqua design technique, capturing often fantasy smiles with several layers of modeling agent.

The traditional jacket, which is relevant out of time and season, is performed using white and flesh-colored varnishes. Today, due to the variety of tones, beige is often replaced with nude tones, which, in addition to the natural base, have inclusions of pink paint. They look beautiful and natural, such a manicure suits any image of a woman, regardless of her craving for a certain style of clothing.

Today, the color schemes of the jacket are varied. The actual combinations of the new season are combinations:

• powdery and blue;
• flesh and lilac;
• nude and lemon;
• powder and blue;
• marsal (emerald) and beige;

• red, black and cream;
• wine with pinkish and white;
• creamy with black;
• beige with black and gold;
• nude and eggplant.

Studio masters try to adhere to the naturalness of the background, focusing color solutions on the contrast of a smile. They consider the naturalness of the background to be the main factor in the elegance of the jacket. Camouflage is often used for design, combining it with white or black, diluting the strict duo with gold or silver paint. By the way, gold and silver are very popular today in the design of a jacket, as well as various glitter, which can create the effect of light and weightless pollen.

For blue, it can be white or creamy; red works best with flesh or powder. A colored jacket needs muted and noble shades, while tones can be related to a particular piece of clothing or even an accessory.

Depending on whether it is a hardware manicure or nail decoration at home, the tools and materials for work may vary. Craftsmen use a Fraser, preparing nails for coloring and design with the help of the apparatus. At home, you can use regular nail scissors, nibbles (cuticle tweezers) and an orange stick. A must-have tool will be a pusher with a spatula to push back and raise the cuticle.

In addition to the basic set, the work cannot do without:

• base material;
• topcoat;
• background pigment;
• material for a smile;
• means for degreasing nails;
• manicure napkins;
• disposable stencils;
• a thin brush for painting;
• drying lamp.

If any design is planned, among other accessories, decor elements are prepared. As for the smile, it is better to use an acrylic-based gel paint diluted with a top or base for it. To give the background a special effect, you can prepare a pearl rub. You can beautifully decorate accents with tape-type transfer foil. In addition, if there are application-type sliders at home, you can use them as well.

For a smile, you will have to use a brush or stencils.The second elements can have different shapes (straight, angle, zigzag, circle, wave, heart-shaped).

After everything is prepared, you can start performing the jacket. The work will consist of several stages: hygienic manicure, preparing nails for staining, creating a background, making a smile, designing and sealing all layers. Let's consider in more detail each stage of work.

This step is the basis for any manicure, because well-groomed hands in themselves attract the attention of others. If you do not process the nails properly, then no coating will stretch the untidy hands, and therefore the untidiness of the entire set. To begin with, hands are washed or treated with an antiseptic. However, this treatment has an important feature: regardless of the manufacturer's brand, the antiseptic has a moisturizing effect.

This means that if it gets on the nails, and even in large quantities, then the adhesion of the plates with the layers of varnish products applied to them may decrease. Using the antiseptic to a minimum, they begin to process the nails. First, a special cuticle remover is applied to the area around the nail plate. It will further contribute to a more delicate and painless removal of the growing skin and pterygium.

After the nails are treated with the product, the fingers are dipped in a bath of warm water for about 3-4 minutes. The water temperature in the bath should be about 35-40 degrees. Having withstood the allotted time, they wipe the hand dry and begin to remove the cuticle and pterygium. To do this, take a pusher and move the side with a spatula aside, and then raise the cuticle.

The pusher should be handled carefully, it should not be pressed in, so as not to injure the skin. After the cuticle has been pushed back and raised, it is trimmed using nibblers or nail scissors. When working, the tool should be at the same angle so as not to form dashed lines, which usually cause burrs. Next, you should take an orange stick and walk it around the nail, cleaning the pterygium.

If at this stage pieces of an uncut cuticle come out, they are immediately trimmed with tweezers or scissors. This treatment is performed on each nail, after which you need to rub a little emollient oil into the skin. This will calm her down, and also prevent irritation if some of the movements are still harsh and traumatic.

Now you need to do sanding, the gloss will have to be removed to improve tenacity. To do this, use a buff and literally with two or three movements in one place, delicately remove the gloss. Then the sawdust is removed with a brush, and then the nails are completely treated with a dehydrator (degreaser). At this stage, you can start creating the background, and then the smile. Let's note the step-by-step creation of the base of the jacket.

• Take a base, apply it in a thin layer on the surface of the entire nail, then dry it in a lamp.
• A pigmented gel polish of a background color is applied on top of the base. It is also dried.
• Take a thin brush and paint on the edge at the base of the nail bed.
• The main background paint is painted over the surface of the nail, and the coating is dried in a lamp.
• Next, create a smile by painting it with a brush or using a stencil. When working with a stencil, it is applied, stepping back from the edge of the nail, lightly pressed so that the varnish does not flow under the template and paint over a smile. The template is immediately removed.
• The coating is dried in a lamp and then sealed with a top layer. It is also dried.
• After 30 seconds after drying the top, the residual stickiness is removed from it.

Today, the design of a jacket can be very diverse, it is unlimited in the flight of creative thought. The classic version may not have decor at all, which is good for a business lady's set. In this case, it is enough to arrange the nails with a powdery color, or to give them an extraordinary effect with a light veil with the effect of matting or pearls.

Those, whose soul asks for bold and bright experiments, can take a closer look at the use of fimo. Of course, such a design may seem somewhat inconvenient, but juicy fruits, cut into thin layers from special sticks, will look very impressive on the nails. Moreover, juicy fruits are one of the hot topics of modern design. The only thing is that not all the nails of the hands need to be decorated with them, but only accents.

Beautifully decorate the jacket with island or foil transfer. You need to use special glue for it. With the help of this decor, you can even create a French gradient, which today is considered one of the trends in nail art. By the way, this material can be used both for background accents and for a smile. Foil in a reverse jacket, made with velvety matte varnish, looks super expensive and status-like.

The play of texture contrasts is fashionable. For example, a jacket can be created in one color, but at the same time with a different type of material: on a matte background, you can draw a glossy smile. Without too much screaming, such a design will speak of a sense of the delicate taste of its owner.

One of the French trends is to create a smile through dots. At the same time, the peas that are painted for them can be of different sizes and colors. Dots allows you to add fresh notes to the design, such a manicure looks special.

Even professionals have different nuances during their work. What can we say about the design at home, where there is often no apparatus or the best types of coatings. Therefore, it is worth taking note of a few useful recommendations.

• The coating may peel off due to insufficient drying, therefore, its duration must not be shortened. It is necessary to dry each applied layer.
• The file for work should not be worn down or shiny. This is also the reason for the fragility and peeling of the coating.
• You can’t skimp at work, and therefore each time, applying a new layer, you need to walk along the end of the nail.
• A coating with a water-based or other type of sticker dries longer, because under the design the base (top or ultrabond) dries longer.

• It is easier to remove varnish that has got on the skin around the nail with a pusher spatula. In this case, you need to remove the coating delicately so as not to injure the skin.
• The reason for varnish flowing is insufficiently clean cleaning of the pterygium. Before drying, this is eliminated with a rubber hoof, after drying - only with a cutter, after which the coating is trimmed with a thin brush.
• Stencils are used only once, if, when they are removed, part of the varnish is peeled off from the background, the line is drawn with a thin brush.
• The coating also breaks off from the constant steaming of the hands. It is necessary to use gloves when using household chemicals on the first day after applying the varnish.

Regardless of whether on natural or artificial nails, the design is performed on the pigment layer, if any.It is better to dilute the gel with a top; when using paints, you can mix them with each other. You can also paint with a beveled brush, using the technique of one stroke with the formation of several shades at once, for example, a flower or a leaf.

The French of the new season can be different, which is proved by the examples of professionals:

• ideal for publication;

• juicy fruit-themed summer solution;

• option for connoisseurs of a combination of pigment with gold;

• great option for office and office-business style;

• laconic, but quite effective version in red and black contrast with thin smiles-stripes;

• ombre jacket in pale pink color with the effect of temperature varnish;

• a jacket in lilac-black contrast is one of the fashionable colors;

• effective and bright solution in the spirit of minimalism;

• French design in neutral colors with lace design;

• white jacket for a wedding with minimalistic decor.

For information on how to do a French manicure correctly and quickly, see the next video.