DIY - French with a twist

As you know I totally love gel nail polish because it doesn't hurt my real nails but it lasts long, it drys fast, and it reinforces the strength of your nails so they are stronger! I just tried an experiment with my at home gel polish system which I find to be as good as going to the salon! Talk about an automatic $45+ savings each time after the first time you use it!!!

Anyway, I used the Sensationails brand of gel polish do it at home starter kit. As you can see by the photo below it comes with the light to cure the polish, gel polish color, clear base/top coat, cleaning solution, Emory board, cuticle pusher, wipes, and primer. I think I paid $40 at Walmart for it and I've already used it at lease 5 times and I still have a lot left so lots of money savings!!!

My experiment was to apply a regular nail polish as a French tip and only use the primer and base/top clear coat to see how long it would last. Here are the steps I used:
1. Clean nails with cleaner
2. Apply primer
3. Apply thin layer of base/top clear coat and cure that under light for 30 second beep on the light
4. Wiped with cleaner to shine
5. Applied regular clear tape to top of nails
6. Used Julep nail polish in a pale pink to paint above tape to create a French tip
7. Allowed polish to dry and removed tape (cleaned up any hard edges with a q-tip doused in acetone)
8. Applied another layer of the clear base/top coat and cured for 60 seconds
9. Wiped off with cleaner to shine

So far after a week only one nail had a problem where the regular polish French tip was. I think it was because I didn't cap that nail good enough and that is so important because all the others still look great!!! Next I am going to use my 2am me time for some pedicure nail art!! :)