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How to Give Yourself a French Manicure

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Summary: Give yourself a French manicure by following the basic steps of a manicure, except instead of applying a top coat of nail polish, use a white tip. Use a sheer pink or natural nail polish for the base coat of a French manicure with tips from a beauty professional in this free video on nail care.

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Jacqueline Oliphant has been in the beauty business since 1996. Her skill set is vast, from nails to skin care, stage makeup and wigs, fashion and beauty. Oliphant is fully licensed in...read more

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"Have you ever wondered how you can give yourself a French manicure? Hi, I'm beauty artist Jackie O and today we will discuss how to give yourself a French manicure. The only difference in a regular manicure and a French manicure is the polish application. You still follow the same basic manicure steps and procedures to giving your manicure. The last step which is your polish technique is what you want to pay attention to. You want to apply your base coat, and then of course when it comes to your polish application, instead of doing the two coats of polish you will want to do two coats of either a sheer pink or a natural nail pink. You want to make sure that this application is dry before you apply your white French polish tip. Once your polish application is done, you want to finish off with using a stark white polish application at your tip. You want to make sure that it's just enough white polish on the brush, or you can just swipe the free edge of the nail. You want to go from corner to corner and just basically swipe the nails to make sure that they have the French tip. This is the discovery of the French manicure look. I'm Jackie O, beauty artist and we have discussed today how to give yourself a French manicure."

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