Country Class: DIY Bow Accent French Tips

Happy Monday Everyone!

I'm still extremely behind on my blogging and have tons of drafts sitting out there waiting to be shared with you all!

I'll keep pressing on between school and work and eventually I'll get them all caught up!

But for now, I'll show you all how to recreate my manicure from 2 weeks ago!

This is the same process as my breast cancer manicure which you can find at the link. I'll include all the steps here, just not in as much detail.

Here is the finished look:

What you need:

A neutral base color (I used Sally Hansen Smooth and Perfect in Satin)
American Classics Gelous base/top coat
A color for your tips (I used Essie Bikini So Teeny)
Black Polish (either in a decorating bottle or use a nail art brush)
Top coat (I used Seche Vite)

After this manicure only lasted 8 days, I decided to try something different. I didn't dot his technique with this manicure, but I'm going to post it with this one so you can all actually enjoy your manicures for longer than a week as well! Coming soon will be my tutorial where my manicure lasted about 11 days!

Step 1. Paint a base coat on your nails. I use one that I bought from Avon recently.

Step 2. Paint your neutral color and allow to dry.

Step 3. Now take your tip color and wipe the brush so there's a small amount of polish on there. Carefully paint the "outline" of your tips.

Step 4. Paint a thin coat of Gelous over top.

Step 5. Paint a second line over your tips.

Step 6. Choose your accent finger and paint a black line where your tip ends.

Step 7. Paint 2 triangles that meet on the line.

Step 8. Paint a layer of top coat.

Step 9. Paint one last layer of Gelous and let dry.

Now, as I said, I didn't follow this method. I used the first method which is mentioned at the beginning of the post. I think what happens when you use gelous as a base coat is that it doesn't stick well to the nail, which seemed to cause my manicure to peel right off my nail. When I used a different base coat, my manicure lasted much longer, as you'll see in my next post!

Here is my wear test for this manicure!