French Manicure Nail Designs

French manicure nail designs are becoming more artistic and creative than ever. This is because manicurists can now use a manicure pen to create unique designs.

You can do designs on your own nails but often these are not strong enough to be a good canvas for french manicure nail designs. The manicure pen needs a smooth glossy surface to draw on so most people have fake nails put on or UV gel nail extensions. Fake nails are easier for the manicure artist to work on and do bold unusual designs on. If the nails are natural the designs will be more subtle in nature.

To create a French manicure, the manicurist uses a white polish to just paint the free edge of the nail creating a nicely curving smile line to best enhance your natural nail shape. You can also coat this with sheer pink enamel, either before or after you have created your French white tip, depending on the look you want to achieve.

The most popular designs are paisleys and simple flowers. A single rhinestone surrounded by the petals of a hand painted flower can be quite stunning. French manicure nail designs can also be created using fiberglass extensions or embedding media. However most embedding media such as bullion beads, glitters and acrylic shapes need to be applied by a professional manicurist because they are so tiny and finicky to work with. A popular type of manicure lately is to embed tiny dried flowers directly in the acrylic bed of the fake nail that has a French manicure.

Sometimes you can also find a manicurist that is just a great artist. This type of manicurist can create the greatest designs with just a manicure pen. However these types of artists are few and far between and you might consider some of these works too tacky to wear.

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