Glazed French Manicure: Bubble Bath and Funny Bunny Combo
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When I was a teenager, I often spent my after school job money on acrylic French Manicures.
My mom would drop my sister and I, plus any of our friends, off at the salon next to the mall. $35 dollars plus a few hours later and I’d have my nails done.
My favorite manicure at that time, in addition to the occasional airbrush designs, were French Tips.
French Tips, also known as French Manicure, are a light pink base on the nail bed, with white on the tip of the nail.
To do a French Tip Manicure, you need a sheer pink polish, a white polish and some time to focus.
In this post, you’ll see a Glazed French Tip Manicure using our readers’ favorite light pink as the base, OPI Bubble Bath, with our readers’ favorite white as the tip, OPI Funny Bunny.
To get started, you will need:
Sheer chrome powder (I used DND Chrome Powder in White Silk)
Base coat
Makeup sponge
Thin nail art liner brush
Top coat
Once you’ve gathered these supplies, begin your manicure by cleaning and prepping the nail bed, then applying your favorite base coat.
OPI Bubble Bath swatch
Next, get your favorite liner brush and use it to draw a smile line on the tip of each nail. You want to draw the line right where your nail bed meets your nail tip.
Nail art liner brush
It’s okay if your smile line painting hand is shaky at first, it takes time to practice drawing a curved line in one fell swoop.
Visualize a smile on your nail as you paint; it helps focus and steady your painting hand. I like to imagine my nails smiling, I know it’s cheesy but it works for me to get that smooth curved line.
OPI Bubble Bath & Funny Bunny French Manicure: drawing the smile lines
When your smile lines are drawn, begin painting in the rest of the nail tip using the regular bottle brush.
Wait for your first tip coat to become tacky to the touch. Repeat this process a second time for even coverage - paint your smile line first and then fill in the rest of the tip using a regular brush.
OPI Bubble Bath & Funny Bunny French Manicure: drawing the smile lines
Above is what it will look like as you start filling in your white tips.
Finish filling in your French Tips and let the paint dry until it is tacky to the touch.
After each nail is covered in chrome powder, use a makeup sponge to remove the excess powder.
Apply your top coat and this will be your finished result:
Glazed French Manicure w/Bubble Bath & Funny Bunny
OPI Bubble Bath & Funny Bunny French Manicure: drawing the smile lines
OPI Bubble Bath & Funny Bunny French Manicure: drawing the smile lines
Glazed French Manicure Instructions
1 - Gather these supplies:
Sheer chrome powder (I used DND Chrome Powder in White Silk)
Base coat
Makeup sponge
Thin nail art liner brush
Top coat
2 - Clean and prep your nail bed
3 - Apply your favorite base coat and let it dry completely
4 - Apply 2 coats of OPI Bubble Bath and let it dry until it’s tacky
5 - Draw your smile lines using OPI Funny Bunny with one hand flat on a stable surface while you paint with the other hand
6 - Paint in the rest of the nail tip using the regular nail bottle brush
7 - Repeat steps 5 & 6 to draw on your tips in a second coat
8 - Apply chrome powder to each nail with the flat pad of your ring finger
9 - Use a makeup sponge to remove the excess powder on each nail
10 - Apply your top coat
That’s it!
All in all, this Glazed French Manicure adds a little oomph to your classic French Tips.
After all these years of watching the manicurist do it, and then learning to do it myself, I still think the French Tip is one of the prettiest manicures you can do and adding the chrome powder makes the whole look even prettier.
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