Helllllloooooooo. No french here. My salon is home of the original Greek Manicure!!! Lol I'm from waaaay old school In fact my my mom handed me a flyer I created in 1980 to advertise french mani that said "Introducing French Manicure""" how funny. Back then we free handed it all the way. Not till I saw a Veitnamese woman do it w a brush did I change my ways! On very short nails I use the white from a striper/nail art bottle. On toes too is way easier than reg brush from the white polish. For fingernails.... Here is a trick to possibly help you w the smile After you have laid your white down pick up ur clients hand and like when you check the shape of the tips. Palm facing away. I swipe all nails this way because you get a better balance from corner to corner. We all are tend to favor one side or the other so this help to match up the corners perfectly and maybe ergo-freindly! Hope this helps.
Hey yall-whoever has a video camera take a short video and upload to Utube so they can see how its done!!! Bye now On 9/27/08, KeyzKaren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > -- Sent from my mobile device Athena Elliott MNT CMP Houston Texas www.SPAthena.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
