You Can Give Yourself a Perfect French Manicure Using Scotch Tape!

It's hard enough to paint our nails, but giving yourself a French manicure is almost unimaginableable unless it's done in a salon. Not anymore! You can give yourself a beautiful French manicure from your very own home with the use of some scotch tape.

What you'll need for a French is two different colored polishes, a neutral, light pink or buff beige and then a white for the tips. It's also great to have a top coat for the finished look. Set aside a q-tip with some nail polish remover to help clean up any mistakes. Most of all we can't forget our secret weapon, the scotch tape (you can also use masking tape if that's all you have).

1. Remove any existing polish from your nails and make sure they are trimmed to the length you like.
   
2. Place a piece of tape over each nail bed on all your fingers, leaving the tip exposed. The tape will serve as a stencil for the white tips on your French manicure. Make sure to tape all of your nails before starting the polish.
   
3. Once the tape is place on each nail, paint your nail tips using the white polish, it's okay if you get some on the tape.
   
4. Let the white tips completely dry. Once dry, carefully peel off the tape from each finger.
5. Now apply your neutral, pink or beige to the entire nail, going over both the unpainted area and what was already painted on the tip.
   
6. Allow nails to dry for at least 15 minutes and then if you like you can apply a top coat to give your French a clean, shiny finish.
7. If you made any mistakes you can now clean them up by dipping the end of a q-tip into the nail polish remover and wiping off any excess polish.
   

Voila! Your nails should have clean natural look to them, that will make all your friends jealous.

*If you feel like adding a little funk to your French, then try some bright colors in exchange for the neutral and white. When you really want to pamper yourself do the french to both your hands and feet!

See how other people have used similar at home manicures and what they think by clicking here, on Seventeen.com.