French manicure
A natural or pink nail with a pale tip across the free edge.
The oldest request in the book, and still the most common. The classic is a white tip with a sheer pink body; the line can be straight, curved, or angled, and the tip can be any colour at all — a thin black or chrome line is the same technique.
What makes one expensive is the line: it has to be the same width on ten nails and symmetrical on both hands.
Also called: french tips, french
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