To create a French manicure, you would use the white enamel to just paint the free edge of the nail creating a nicely curving smile line to best enhance your natural nail shape. You can use a sheer pink enamel, either before or after you have created your French white tip, depending on the look you want to achieve.

French manicure nail art can look stunning with very simple designs. For example, a hand painted flower and a Swarovski rhinestone is quite simple to create but looks clean and fresh with the French manicure background.

Other French manicure designs can be created using acrylic (liquid and powder) or fibreglass or UV gels. All extension or enhancement products have a white tip option for achieving the French manicured look, and with Creative Ten's range of embedding media, as a skilled nail technician you will be able to create permanent French manicure nail art using real dried flowers, acrylic shapes, glitters and bullion beads to name a few.

The embedding process is simple and instructions can be found in the Creative Ten gallery, along with a list of all of the necessary products you will need to create such stunning designs. French manicure is the most popular service a professional nail technician can offer. It is clean and fresh, goes with anything and you can make it fun with painted flowers, rhinestones, flicks, dots and glitters.

A French manicure look that is gaining in popularity is the reverse French or coloured tip. The reverse French still uses the pink and white enamels but uses the white over the entire nail then the pink on the tip. This can be painted in any colour enamel you have. Good combinations are bright pink and bright yellow or metallic purple and silver. Another popular twist on the French manicure is created by replacing the French white tip with a coloured glitter, especially for the summer months or for a party. You can use glitter slices, iridescent flakes or regular glitter, and choose from a range of vibrant colours from the Creative Ten online shop.