However, you are more dependent on correcting the smile line with a gel brush dipped in Isopropyl Alcohol. So you can easily paint the smile line and correct it as needed before you dry your French manicure Shellac nails. You can use any color in CND’s vast palette for the nail tips when doing this style of French manicure. One of the latest trends in nail design is doing CND Shellac and Vinylux French manicure with a colored smile line instead of a white one.

If you are going for a DIY job, Mavala’s nail expert Lynn Mason has shared a few additional tips to help you, er, nail the look below. Top tips to nail the no-manicure manicureHow To Removal CND Shellac Gel Polish• Step 1: Saturate the cotton pad of a remover wrap or foil with an acetone-based remover. Step 3: Securely grip the finger and apply slight pressure to the fingernail. Using a twisting motion pull the wrap/foil off the finger. Colour Layer: Seal the free edge and apply a second thin layer of colour for coverage and cure for one minute. Step 2: CND Shellac Power Polish Base Coat Application - ensure to shake the bottle to mix and remove excess product from the brush before application. Apply the base coat to the nail plate and ensure to cap the free edge. Cure for 10 seconds with a 36Watt UV light.

Shellac has a sister polish CND Vinylux, which has absolutely the same color palette as Shellac. All the colors are identical.

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And you also need to make sure no polish is left on your skin, especially when you seal the edge and paint the white tips. If you want to make a colored smile line instead of the white one use any bright or pastel-colored Shellac instead of Cream Puff or Studio White on the tip of the nail.

Actually, some people even prefer applying only one layer of a pinky nude polish to make their nails look as natural as possible. Before Shellac and other gel nail polishes were invented, it was a pain to do a French manicure with ordinary polishes. Before you apply the Shellac base coat you need to remove any excess cuticle and hangnails and purify the nail plate by using nail cleanserwith a lint-free wipe.Colour Layer: Seal the free edge and apply an extremely thin, translucent layer of CND Shellac Luxe Colour Coat to all five nails