Tag Archives: French

Since I started messing around with my nails I’ve seen a lot of people doing the reverse french method, which is basically putting a semi circle at the base of the nail rather than putting the color across the tip.  There are a number of methods for doing this, the most popular using paper hole stickers like in this tutorial …

No, not that kind of French, that was with a kid named Aaron about 20 years ago.  I mean a French manicure! After my massive staining from a previous manicure, and using a lot of dark polishes lately, I felt like something a bit more fresh and natural looking.  I tried absolutely everything to get those stains off, lemon juice, …

Today I was out running some errands and had to pop into Etos and Kruidvat to peek at their polishes.  I picked up a few Essence products to try them out. The tip guides seemed to work pretty well, except I acted like a big cheapo and tried to use the same one again and again which lead to things …

For three months I had acrylic nails and I LOVED THEM! Unfortunately I wasn’t able to keep them due to the costs.  Here are some photos of the designs I had during that time. I really loved having the acrylics but unfortunately it turned out that the upkeep was too expensive.  It gave me a taste of life with beautifully …