Beauty is always in fashion and classic manicure will always be relevant. But if you just change the color of the varnish to a bright one, a manicure with its simplicity can become an interesting decoration. For example, replace the usual white color in a French manicure - and you get … a yellow jacket.
French manicure. Who came up with it?
In fact, in this case, the name misleads us, and the jacket was not invented in Paris. Its inventor was Jeff Pink, the owner and founder of the world famous brand ORLY. Once, in the recent 1976, in Los Angeles, the director of the dream factory approached him and asked him to come up with a manicure that would fit any costume so as not to change the color and design of the nails after each dressing of the actresses. Then Pink thought that only the natural can be universal. This is how the French manicure was born, in which the color of the nail bed is made pink or peach in natural shades, and the free edge is white. Initially, the creator called this coating Natural Look, it became French after a fashion show in Paris, where all the models were given a jacket. Then he came into fashion and to this day is relevant and universal.
How to make a yellow jacket
Methodapplying a classic French manicure to the nails is simple: first, the nail is covered with a base color of a natural shade, then the free edge is drawn with white dense varnish manually or using a stencil. The base color can be anything from transparent to dense and rich pink and peach. Here the choice depends on the taste and skin tone of the owner of the nails.
Sometimes even in manicure you want variety. The easiest solution may be to change the usual colors and shapes. For example, transform a classic pink and white design into a colorful one. The yellow jacket on the nails looks very unusual and bright: it gives brightness to the wearer, looks great with bright clothes and cheers up on a gloomy day. It is impossible to be sad with a bright manicure!
The yellow free edge does not require a color coating of the nail plate, it is very harmonious and on a transparent basis. The technology for creating such a jacket is simple:
- Make a manicure: file the free edge, give it the desired shape; push back the cuticle.
- Apply base coat, let dry.
- If you want to make a colored base for the nail plate, then apply the desired color and dry it well. If the bed remains transparent, then immediately proceed to the next step.
- Using stencils or manually paint the free edge with yellow varnish.
- Fix the dried layers with a finish coat. Yellow jacket is ready!
Experiment
Yellow jacket can have a variety of variations:bright free edge can be any shape - from rounded to angular, symmetrical and intricate, it can have an additional design in the form of fashionable painted layers of a different color under yellow, etc.
A yellow jacket with a pattern can also be done as you like: make a picture on the nail itself or only on a smile, on all fingers or only on a few.
Don't limit yourself, let your imagination run wild!
