Nail Tutorial - Classic french manicure & Lines

Classic French Manicure & Lines

I Love classics. From classic movies like Gone with the Wind to fashion icon Audrey Hupburn... Something about the word Classic stirs romance in my thought.

Think Paris. Well I never been there but the postcards on Effiel Tower and building surrounds it are , well in my words classic. So yes I am having a bit Paris fever now and decided to create a very simple Classic French manicure mix with brown,gold line manicure.

Here's what you need: 

Base

1. OPI - Chocolate Moose
2. Nicole OPI - That's Putting it Mild

Nails Art

1. OPI - Angel with a Leadfoot
2. Nicole OPI - That's Putting it Mild
3. Acrylic Gold

Nail Art Brushes

Here's how:

  Preparation - Start off by doing your own basic manicure, cleaning your cuticles 

                               and prep your nail ready. (Click here for my version)

 Step 1 - Apply your fav base coat

 Step 2 - Apply base colours (I have alternate the colours)

 Step 3 - Let's start applying our French manicure

                  - Wipe out one side of nail polish brush and on the other side wipe out 3/4, 

                    leaving only a small bit at the tip (you would want the polish on the brush 

                    as little as you could)

                  - Paint the center on the free edge of your nude coloured nail (It is entirely 

                    up to you how deep or low you want your nail free edge to be. A longer 

                    nail bed creates the illusion of longer fingers)

                  - Next, Paint on the left and right side of your free edge 

                    (try your best to keep it in a straight line)

 Step 4 - For this part you could either use the same white nail polish or acrylic paint

                  - Prepare a drop of white polish on your work station and thinly coat nail 

                    brush with the nail polish

                  - Paint a line on the very edge of your nail. Have this line longer then the 

                     previously painted free edge

                  - From the inner end of the line, paint a curve. Curving from the tip to the 

                    center of previously painted free edge

                  - Do the same for the other side of the nail and you would end up with a 

                    nice curve free edge

 Step 5 - After painting your free edge on all selected nails, add on a 2nd coat. 

                   Don't worry if the paint is not smooth, it will work out after applying top coat

 Step 6 - Now for Lines. I be using the nude colour for the line

                  - Prepare a drop of nude polish onto your work station and coat thin brush

                  - Gently glide a line of nail polish onto nail, the keyword is Glide 

 Step 7 - Do the same from Step 6 to other nails

                  - You could apply 1 or 2 nude lines onto nail

 Step 8 - Now to apply gold acrylic paint

                  - Mix a drop of acrylic paint with a drop of water, mix it well till you 

                    have a diluted paint

                  - Similar to Step 6, Glide on either a thin line or thick line

 Finish - Apply top coat and there you go, my version of a classic nail art

Hope you love my very simple Classic nail art...

Let classics be our bestfriend

Faith.Love Feline