You Can Do: French tip Pedi!

If you told me I'd be doing my own French tip pedicures 5 years ago, I probably would have LOLed. I started taking a stab at them two years ago. I had some success, I remember struggling a lot and having to redo toes all the time. But, after finding the perfect tool, they are so much more easy to do, and do well!

First off, you will need the elf concealer brush. It is $1 at Target. Perfect.  Or a brush similar. I love this one because of the flatter tip and it's bristles are very dense, which makes it a breeze to control a French tip. 

I put down my favorite basecoat: Orly Bonder- Rubberized Basecoat. Once this dries, it has the perfect amount of stickiness to control the placement of my white tip. Take the brush and dip it slightly in white nail polish (I used the white polish from my Revlon Nail Art in Night & Degas). Take it and start to make short little vertical strokes on the end of your nail. You can either keep making little strokes across the nail, or you can hold the brush the same way and draw the thin guide line, horizontal to the nail bed. Don't expect it to look perfect at this point, you will need a second coat. 

If you happen to mess the line up on any given toe (it happens to me all the time!), take a second brush (any small dense brush will work), and dip it in nail polish remover and smooth out the line, correcting your mistake. You can also do this for any white polish that accidentally goes onto your skin. (Cutex and OPI make a polish remover pen that can be used for getting polish off skin as well)

For the second layer, I use my long thin brush that comes with my white nail polish. I love that Revlon made this tiny brush in their nail art sets. It's so easy to make lines or polka dots or hearts. In this case, I just smooth it over the line I already created. If you mess up at all, do the exact same step with the brush in polish remover. 

Now it's time for the topcoat! As already mentioned in this blog, I'm obsessed with Seche Vite. It's by far the shiniest topcoat I've ever used and it dries so quickly and rock hard! There's been plenty of times I thought I screwed up my mani or pedi by knocking my nail against something, and this topcoat is resilient so quickly!

By the way, I find my French tip pedis look way better when I have a tiny bit of toenail grown out. It also makes finishing the line on either side much easier. 

Check out my previous tutorial with all my nail polish tricks and tips. You can apply that blog to toenails as well!