French manicure with gel polish

French manicure with gel polish.

We talk about French manicures.

first you want to prep your nail, to all your regular cuticle work.

file and shape the free edge after you're done filing the free edge make sure that you go underneath of it with something sharp to get all the wheat berry bits that have landed underneath of the free edge when you've filed it because that will make your gel

polish manicure chip.

very easily if you don't remove those first so you've done go ahead.

Apply your base coat when you're using base coat you want to do it very thin. like the thinner you can do it the Better. got nothing on your brush but there is some stuck up here so it's going to work its

way down the brush so just be careful that you don't your brush doesn't flood.

as you go on so apply your base coat

to the nail I've already done these to

apply it very sparingly when you have a very short nail like this one if you want to cap your free edge without getting polish. over the skin come at it

from behind and just push your brush up

over the edge and as you drag it back

that will put some polish underneath of the free edge and then it's capped. So I'm going to pop these in to cure.

when you're doing the French manicure, you want that crisp white edge don't you if you go ahead now and apply the white polish over top of the base coat it's going to kind of spread and bleed into the base coat so you don't want to apply it straight on the base coat. cuccio pink polish that I got from Nail salon.

it's called pinker pink I'll pop the you can use any kind of translucent polish for this though just make sure that you cover the whole now and your free edge. pop that in to cure then we'll do the one okay we're ready. so just color in the nail make sure that you have enough on the free edge and

take your nail art brush the whole way across the free edge. don't get it on the skin like that way across make sure you're free it just counts you can do the same thing if your client has a little bit longer now just go across the smile line.

so now if your client has just had a fresh set of extensions, on or if they're lucky enough to have a really long natural now what I do as you go across the smile line with gel polish brush and remove most of the polish from the brush and then I'm just going to drag from that line all the way down to

the free edge. very light strokes when you're using

light colors of gel polish all right and paint it with your dry gel brush.

when you're working with light colors with gel polish especially white you have to use a really light stroke like feather like I call it if you push too

hard you're gonna spread the gel polish away from the brush and you're gonna end up with lines, and ridges so come up to your nail with your brush almost at the same angle, and just use really light

strokes barely touch the nail it's good practice to see how lightly you can touch it without before you're not touching it at all also don't be scared

to just let the nail settle for 10 to 15 seconds ,because it's gel it's going to self another level naturally so if you leave it there for 10 to 15 seconds all the little brush strokes are going to spread into each Other, and you're gonna have a smooth finish.

if you put it in the lamp straight away after brushing on your light colored gel it's gonna be in the same spot that you brushed on and you're

gonna have little lines that will make it Unpleased into the eye so leave it to set for a few seconds and then you can put it in the lamp. so you shouldn't

need to do any cleanup with this process but in those article I assume that you need to clean it up.

say you've done a snail and it's messed up so I like to use a flat angled brush and I use some lint-free wipes and I pour you can excuse me a little bit of finish wipe in there and I just brush my brush on it you don't want it to be too wet then you're just going to come in with the short side of your

brush and clean it easy finish wipe, get yourself

one of those brushes so now you finished your finish your whites you can go ahead and put on some clear top coat.