From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shannon Kuharik
Second, I work only with natural nail and I am having a really hard time with the french manicure. We do this by hand and I cannot for the life of me get a crisp line. I have tried buying nail art brushes but they did not help. Of course I could have bought the wrong kind. Hi Shannon.welcome to the group.and welcome to an amazing profession that will be so fulfilling over the years! I was taught a very unique technique to do French polishes.or any nail art, in fact. My teacher was a nail tech of 7 years (Oh how lucky I was!) and when she laid down the color for a design.she would take the first stroke across the area she wanted to paint.and then quickly flicked the brush back and forth over that area..and the color would sort of settle down into a perfect coating. No brush strokes at all! It's hard to describe.but holding the brush, loaded with color, but not too much (be sure and swirl your brush stem against the bottle opening so there won't be a big ole drop of polish running down the stem and side swiping you!) and run your first swipe of color across the area you want to cover.maybe another stroke if it's wide.and then flick, flick, flick flick.the brush back and forth. This..sort of disturbs the surface tension of the new color I guess??...and it will all settle down into a solid area of color with no brush strokes in it. You have to be fearless! You can really push your product to perform if you will!!! Also, are you bracing your pinky finger against something as you wield the brush? This is a "fulcrum finger" technique..use either your other hand or the client's hand to brace your pinky finger and all the wavering will go away. As for Frenches.I personally use art brushes.but the kind that are striper brushes in the little tall bottles. Some are square some are round.but the brush is a longer, very thin, round brush, rather than as big as a polish brush. It's So Easy and V-Rush are two that I can think of off the top of my head. You can get the most PERFECT line of white across the tips of the teensiest nail with these brushes! Also, don't be afraid to snip a wild hair out of your brushes. Or to trim them if they are too square-ended. You can even trim a few hairs off of a white polish brush if you like! Another way of crisping up a French (but not my favorite because it disturbs the base coat) is to use a tiny brush with acetone on it to back-wipe the French smile line. If you're going to overlay the entire nail with a sheer color, and if you back-wipe enough to remove all the base coat in that area, you might be able to see where you've wiped when you do the overlay. If you're just going to top the whole thing with a clear top coat.it's invisible. And so, that thinking has lead me to my current favorite way to do French polish: Clean, dry nail..apply some sort of protein-type primer, do a perfect, thin white line with my striper brush, THEN apply a base coat over the whole thing. Next a sheer overlay coat for color and to perfect the nail beds.and then a good top coat. Putting the base coat over the white tip gives you just that much more protection and they wear really well. Hope this gives you some ideas to try! Best wishes and enjoy every day of your wonderful career! Karen Morning Glory Key West --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NailTech" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/NailTech?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
