French Manicure (this works!)

Post by **_Jersey Girl** » Sun Jun 15, 2008 6:59 pm

Hey Ladies,

I found the best thing ever on you tube! It's a way to do a French manicure at home and it works! I own about 50 thousand bottles of nail polish and lacquer and had what I needed or close to what I needed to do this at home. I only messed up one nail and by the time you're done doing the layers, it's not even noticeable!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urRjzs53akE

What I used:

Orly Rubberized Base Coat
White pearlized polish (it's what I had)
Pinkish translucent polish (again, what I had)
Orly Top Coat

The only thing I'd change are the middle two polishes but even so, it looks pretty good! I have a pink clear coat someplace else and I'll try that next time in place of the pink translucent. Watch how she does it when she switches to her non-dominant hand. You can actually use the same technique when using your dominant hand.

Enjoy and let me know if you try it!

p.s. I originally found the site for another reason (you'll know when you see it) and after viewing several videos I saw that the woman is actually LDS. How fitting!

Post by **_Dr. Shades** » Mon Jun 16, 2008 7:05 am

I could only get as far as the top coat before screwing it all up.

Post by **_Moniker** » Mon Jun 16, 2008 7:58 pm

Thanks for posting the video, Jersey. I like French Manicures and maybe this'll save me a few bucks. I thought it was interesting how she used her non-dominant hand -- great idea!

Post by **_Jersey Girl** » Wed Jun 18, 2008 4:15 am

Now I'm becoming obsessed with this. I bought some inexpensive polish apparently made just for French Manicure. I opted for inexpensive just incase I didn't like the color contrast. Well, you get what you pay for. The white was terrible: gummy, smeary...almost like a bottle of white shoe polish! The pink was good though.

I'm going over to Ulta tomorrow to get the products used in the video.

Post by **_JonasS** » Wed Jun 18, 2008 11:35 am

Dr. Shades wrote:I could only get as far as the top coat before screwing it all up.

Why would you need to do it?

Post by **_Gazelam** » Fri Jun 20, 2008 7:10 am

JonasS wrote:
Dr. Shades wrote:I could only get as far as the top coat before screwing it all up.

Why would you need to do it?

Because sometimes Shades likes to feel pretty. He studied Kabuki theatre in Japan.

Post by **_Jersey Girl** » Fri Jun 20, 2008 7:31 am

Guacamole! Check this out!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FRuX-Dj2Fc&feature=related

Post by **_Jersey Girl** » Fri Jun 20, 2008 7:35 am

Jersey Girl wrote:Guacamole! Check this out!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FRuX-Dj2Fc&feature=related

Here's the product website:

http://www.frenchtipdip.com/Homepage.html

I so need this!

Post by **_Jersey Girl** » Fri Jun 20, 2008 7:37 am

Okay, why couldn't you pick up a set of fake French Manicure tips and use those just like the tool above?

Post by **_Jersey Girl** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 3:59 am

Continuing what has now become my obsessive search for the perfect at-home French Manicure, I happened upon another youtube video that uses a different painting technique:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7oajHj_Mvo&feature=related

and then...I learned by searching around that Sally Beauty Supply carries special little strips that make the line for the tips.

Where I'm going tomorrow:

Sally for the strips and for the Essie nail polish used in the first video though I may have to swing by another beauty supply store for the polish. I didn't go to Ulta but found no evidence of Essie products sold by Ulta when searching online.