Characteristically French nails are a pale pink base and white tips and they're easy to create at home with the use of French tip guides, but don't stop with the pink, white and clear top coat - mix things up for nails that are so gorgeous you'll have people asking how you created them!
Here's a few designs to give you some ideas -
Step one (after filing, cleaning etc) paint your nails with your pale pink base coat and allow to dry. Put on a second coat and allow to dry.
Step two - add your nail guides and then add the white nail polish, allow to dry. Add a second coat of the white nail polish and allow to dry before removing the nail guides.
Step three - add a clear nail polish as a top coat. The result is a gorgeous, simple and classic nail design.
Now, it's time to shake it up!
If you like the simple look and don't want anything too different you could simply get some rhinestones and add a simple rhinestone to the middle of the nail (horizontally) where the white and pink meet - this just adds a little sparkle without steering too far from the classic look.
If you want to add some color then you can simply choose a color you like and use that instead of the white, or use a different bright nail polish on the tip of your nails - I saw someone a couple of weeks ago who had yellow, green blue, pink and white on her nail tips and it looked very fresh - perfect for spring.
A look which I fell in love with the first time I saw it can be seen in the image above where you combine black nail polish with French nails for a very chic and sophisticated look that is also a little different. Add a matte black polish to your nail and then add a glossy black to the tips - I love, love, love this idea.
A look that my daughter has enjoyed a few times uses the shatter or crackle nail polishes. Add the base color to the whole nail and then use the crackle effect on the tips - of course you can also use the crackle on the nail with the base color only on the tips and it's just as effective.
Another idea is to use for example black nails with hot pink tips and for one nail on each finger reverse it and have the nail hot pink with the tip black - it looks good and there's lots of different color options to choose from.
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