Rose French Tips

Today I tried out a new French manicure design with roses painted on the French tips. I added a silver line across the bottom of the tip and used swarovski crystals for decoration but if you don't want to add the sparkles the rose tips look great on their own for a vintage style design.

For this design you will need a white and pink polish for a French manicure - I used OPI Alpine Snow and OPI Bubble Bath. You will also need three shades of pink, a nail art brush and a green polish. Silver polish and crystals are optional.

How To Get This Look:

Start by applying a base coat.

Paint white French tips using your white nail polish brush by starting at one side of the nail and carefully painting horizontally across the tip leaving a smooth curved line that matches the natural shape of your nail tip. If the line is not smooth go back and do a second stroke of white in the opposite direction to even it out. (If you still can't master the French tip you can dip a small nail art brush in nail polish remover and use this to remove the excess white polish leaving behind a smooth line.)

Next paint one coat of a natural pink polish over the whole nail.

For the roses use a dotting tool and the lightest shade of pink to paint circles on the tips. (The circles don't need to be perfect.) 

Then, using a very fine nail art brush, use the two darker shades of pink to draw small curved lines on the light pink dots so that they look like roses. 

Now draw leaves next to some of the roses using green polish and a fine nail art brush.

Optionally, using silver polish and a very fine nail art brush, draw a thin silver line under the tip by following the shape of the white polish. Add swarovski crystals or diamantés in the middle of each nail on the silver line.

Finish by applying a top coat.