French Manicure Pen - Beauty & Cosmetics Message Board

tUrRrRa · 01-12-2007, 11:39 AM

Have any of you all tried the French Manicure kit by Sally Hansen that has a pen used to do the white tips? It looked cool to me and seemed like it would be easy to use.. but I wanted to see if anybody had tried it first!

So far the best thing I have found for panting white tips is buying one of those polishes with slim brushes meant to do designs on the nails. Walmart had a white and a silver glitter one (I bought both! The glitter tips look cute!) and Sally's sells them in a bunch of colors. The slim tip worked better on me than a regular one and the colors came out nice.

greenfairy84 · 01-12-2007, 03:31 PM

I bought one those pens a few wks ago and tried it out and it was a bit helpful but I still needed to use a q-tip because unless it's a very tiny little spot on your nail that needs clean up it will just smear the polish around because the tip doesn't absorb the polish. what happens is u get the pen with one tip and 3 replacements and once the tip has so much polish of it it basically gets clogged up and you have to put on a new tip. I even tried to use nail polish remover to get the excess polish off the tips but once it's on there it's not coming off. Not bad for only $4 but you won't get very many uses out of it.

I bought the french manicure nail polish set and I did like the thin tip brush but what i'm looking for now are the replacement nail strips that you tape on your nail and take off when the polish is dry to give you a perfectly even line. I also found that by cutting them with scissors to fit my nail they works much better.

tUrRrRa · 01-13-2007, 05:47 PM

Thanks for the reply.. that is very helpful! I know Walmart sells those little strips used to do the french manicures. When you use them, do you peel them off after the polish dries or before it dries? When I used them it seemed to "lift" the polish at the outer edge so that it kind of stuck up there if that makes sense. So now I free-hand it, and it comes out neat and looks just as good as the salon, but I have to take my time and be very careful. I want to try getting a paint brush dipped in polish remover and using it to brush just under the white part you paint, getting the perfect line.. I've had some salons do that, but I will have to go shop for the right brush!

greenfairy84 · 01-15-2007, 11:02 PM

Thanks, I'll have to look for them at wal-mart next time I'm there. I always wait for the polish to dry completely or it will demolish any chance of a straight line. That's another reason why I cut them with very fine scissors so that way the sticker doesn't pop up on the side letting polish seep underneath. it's a very tricky process trying to do your own french manicure unless your ambidextious. I think I will save the strips for my toes and go back to putting the white polish on the underside of my nails.

I would suggest getting a make-up brush,maybe a very fine eye liner brush. I would try that before buying the manicure pen. At least you'd get more usage if it does work out better for ya.

steph66 · 01-16-2007, 12:28 PM

i love those little pens! they're so easy to use and they dry fairly fast if you only do a coat or two. i soo recommend these.