Bright french-color manicure ala france

French - from the English word and means French manicure. Yes Yes! Do not be surprised. Exquisite style french came to Europe, and then to us from America exactly 39 years ago. 1975 Hollywood is in vain looking for an answer to the question of the film business and the fashion industry: how to create a nail cover that would suit all clothes and at the same time save a lot of time creating a daily manicure for actresses and top models? The British found a solution to the problem and called it French for advertising purposes, since France at that time, and even now, is the trendsetter of world fashion.

Unlike the usual classic style of the jacket - this is when the tips of the nails simply remain white, and the rest is covered in pink, beige or cream, the modern bright design of the jacket looks different. The white part of the nails was replaced by other, more aggressive colors of lime, pink, purple, metallic, red, black, blue, as well as with a touch of bronze, silver and others. Some ladies even began to combine color French manicure with assorted patterns, hieroglyphs and patterns.

Nuances of ala francée color design

Before you start creating a bright French manicure at home, you need to get acquainted with some of the terms that this article will often use. These are often used words like - smile line, nail bed, antennae. What does it mean?

Each person has their own line of smile nails and it is determined by the free edge, after which it begins to grow. To explain it clearer, we note, if you cut your nails to zero - this will be the natural smile line. The size of the smile depends on the raised corners of the white part of the manicure. They are also called mustaches.

If you decide to make a bright manicure slightly lower or higher, that is, visually change the size of the body part, you need to draw a smile line in the place where you like and then this part will be called the nail bed.

In order to examine in detail the bright French manicure, you need to fulfill the basic requirement: the height of the antennae and the color tips is the same for all nails.

Popular options for color coating nails french

We offer for your consideration two options on how to create bright french nails that are so popular nowadays.

Option number 1 - With the help of special adhesive strips or pattern

1.  We drop filed and rounded nails into a warm bath, after which we move aside the softened cuticle with a boxwood or orange stick.
2. Apply a primer or base coat on the nail and dry it.
3.  Select a template (stencil) and paste it along the border of the smile line.
4.  Paint the tips with a bright palette in two layers. This technique will fix the free part of the nail bed and will not allow it to peel off.
5. We give time to dry, so that the template is not smeared when it comes time to remove it.
6. Remove the template and two - three layers apply lacquer with a translucent texture along the entire length of the nail.
7.  We fix the result with lacquer - fixer.

We have completely left the classics in the white-bodied gamut, create a bright french design in a completely crazy color gamut, you can safely combine different shades of lacquer, if you are confident in your possession of the brush and natural accuracy. You can create a color french on the nails, which outwardly will slightly resemble a rainbow or zebra. Looks good, for example, a combination of pronounced red with blue or dark green.

Option number 2 - bright french at home with a line drawing of a smile by hand

1. We round the nail file in the traditional way with the nails and drop our hands in the bath prepared in advance.
2. Carefully remove the skin at the base of the nails.
3. Apply a primer coat (base). If the edges of the nail plate you are too brittle, then you can apply varnish and under them.
4. We determine the length of the nail bed and mark 3 points on each nail. One dot in the middle is the length of the manicure. The other two on the edges - the border of the white part of the antennae.
5.  Spend a white pencil on these points and get a smile line. Try to keep the line carefully, slowly.
6. We paint the tips of the nails with a rich color varnish with a thin brush, it is possible to use a varnish with small or large glitters. Need to paint from one edge of the nail roll to the middle of the antennae. Then vice versa.
7. We wait for 3 minutes, after which we cover the nails along the entire length with a colorless varnish.
8. Apply the main coating layer of lacquer - fixer. Make sure that the varnish lies evenly and does not stain the cuticle.

Color French manicure with a pattern

Having learned the basics and techniques of bright design manicure jacket, you can easily master the bright jacket with a pattern. For this, it is naturally necessary to have artistic skills and good imagination. Although nowadays you can easily find interesting and original stickers that in few seconds will decorate your fingers with a unique pattern. No need to be shy and shy to express yourself if you wanted to decorate your nails with the image of a funny face or some kind of cartoon character - act !!

You can decorate with a pattern as one nail, for example, a nameless one, and make patterns on each nail, but do not overdo it !! Sometimes drawing on a bright French manicure may look awkward and too coarse because of its size and color saturation. As an option, it is a color French manicure depicting traces of a cat.

Bright jacket with a cat design

1. First, determine the color of the varnish on the smile line, and then apply it, taking into account the length of the free edge of the nail. Let dry thoroughly.
2. Proceed to drawing a cat's foot with a thumb. First, put the widest point in the middle, and around it draw 4 points a little smaller.
3. We carry out the previous procedure on each finger, but the cat steps must be at different levels. After the drawing is over, we wait for complete drying.
4. For those girls who love a combination of bold design with a bright color jacket, you can choose one of the fingers and draw a cat silhouette on it. Again we wait for drying and cover all the nails with clear lacquer, and then with fixer, in order to preserve our art for a longer period of time.

Experiment with a smile line. It can be not only from the traditionally round shape, but also in the form of a corner.

Be sure to pay attention to the structure of the nails, their length and thickness. So on long nails with a rectangular or oval shape, all kinds of design look good, for example, a bright color jacket, and on short-cropped nails, a broad smile can create the appearance of short fingers. Meanwhile, a thin edging of the smile line with a bright-colored varnish, on thickened fingers, will be appropriate and universal.

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