How to Do Your Own French Manicure at Home

Video Transcript

"Hi, my name is Rachel and I'm a Freelance Fashion Writer and the owner of AustinStyleWatch.com Street Fashion Site and I'm going to talk about how to do your own French manicure at home. If you go to the mall or go to a salon to do it, you might get an acrylics or they might use specialty tips or there are also people that are trained to that steady hand but as far as a person sitting at home trying to paint their right hand with their left hand and trying to keep a straight line on that French tip all by themselves, it's a difficult task. So, we're going to talk about a very nitty gritty very DIY how to get a French manicure at home. So, natural you're going to want to start with clean cut nails with no nail polish on them. So, once your nails are kind of buff and clean and ready to go and make sure you cleaned off that nail polish remover before you put on any new coats, you're ready to get started. So, the first thing you're going to want to do and you can use French tip tape and they sell them at places like Sally Beauty Supply or a lot of Pharmacies. A lot of them also don't have it. So, we're again going very at home very DIY. We're going to use scotch tape. So, what you're going to want to do is take out a little piece of tape about as long as your nail is and cut the end in a crescent shape just as though it will be French tip. Remove the tape from your scissors and then go ahead and cut that right off the end and you might want to go ahead and cut all ten while you're at it because it's really hard to cut them as you paint kind of ridiculous. So, go ahead and cut your ten little tips. When you're done cutting those, you're going to go ahead and apply it to your nail and this part is really important to go nice and slow and make sure you don't have any air bubbles because if you have air bubbles, paint will go under them and it'll keep you from having a really straight French tip line. So, make sure you shake up your white paint and it's actually better to roll it than it is to shake it up shaking it kind of stirs up air bubbles. What you're going to do once you have that tape on there nice and straight with no air bubbles, go ahead and take your paint and just paint as messy as you want right over the end of that tape because we're going to pull that tape off and you're going to have a nice straight line. So, you can kind of avoid that stress of is it straight enough? Go ahead and let that dry and when it's ready you're going to go ahead and take the edge of that tape and peel it right off and you got a straight line just as though the pros did it at the salon and once it's all dry again you're going to go ahead and cover it with an opaque color or a clear color and you got a French tip just as good as the pros. This has been how to do a French tip at home."