
Romantic French
Nails by Yolanda Hernandez of Hair Today, Nails Tomorrow in Fresno, Calif.

Nails by Yolanda Hernandez of Hair Today, Nails Tomorrow in Fresno, Calif.

Nails by Ellen Torchia of Beauty Airbrushing in North Bend, Wash.

Creating and maintaining a permanent French manicure for your clients doesn’t need to be intimidating. This step-by-step guide to mastering the pink-and-white backfill includes a list of common pitfalls to recognize and avoid.

Are some of your clients too shy to try nail art? Fear not. We rounded up a few nail artists and asked them to come up with simple designs that are big on subtlety and short on flashiness. Take inspiration from their work and start turning your French and polish-only clients into nail art patrons.
Madonna. Britney, and JLo are fans of Creative Nail Design’s French manicure polishes.

There are those clients who forgo nail art for the sake of a French manicure or a crisp seasonal polish. This doesn't always bode well for nail techs who long to get more use out of their airbrush. Here we show you how to hook non-nail art clients on airbrushed nails by offering a level of personalization and service that polish alone can't provide.

Nail tech Vicki Brenner shares her secret to getting French manicures to last longer.

How to keep an airbrush French fresh and doing backfills.
French manicures are the belle du jour for fall. With these variations, your clients’ nails will look trés chic.
Why not offer your acrylic-wearing clients this easy-to-do French overlay service for their toes? The results will be pure profit.

The pressure is on... whether you are giving client a French manicure, or you are at a competition attempting to create the perfect sculptured set... the smile line is always on your mind. Here are some tips to help keep you on your toes while making the perfect smile line.

You can dip it on, sprinkle it on, squeeze it on, or brush it on. Some nail technicians have never heard of it others denounce it and still others swear by it. Is power and glue a technique that went out in the eighties, or could it be staging a comeback?

Provide clients with a deluxe French Pedicure in less time using Estelina’s Slipaway Paraffin Treatment, Toeless Booties; and pedicure product line.
Orly International storms the nail color barricades with French Revolution, an alternative French manicure.
NSI’s products and techniques make a French backfill easier and faster. Accurate placement of a new smile line will make this service last up to four weeks.
Designed with the growth in the market for permanent French manicures in mind, these colored monomers don’t clean like laundry soap, they just make the nails look cleaner.

Orly not only launched the French Manicure, but promoted its development into the fashion statement it remains today.