You can also draw the smile line with a nail art stylus AKA the dotting pen tool dipped in white Shellac nail polish. Shellac requires a multi-step process to apply it to your nails and to ensure it looks great and stays on the nails for at least 14 days, as CND promises.

You can use any color in CND’s vast palette for the nail tips when doing this style of French manicure. One of the latest trends in nail design is doing CND Shellac and Vinylux French manicure with a colored smile line instead of a white one. Loved by everyone from Molly-Mae Hague and Maura Higgins to Hailey Bieber and Ariana Grande, shiny and healthy looking nails in an understated hue are the go-to right now, whether on a shorter, natural length or longer looks created with the help of extensions.

CND Romantique is available in the following product types:

Colour Layer: Seal the free edge and apply a second thin layer of colour for coverage and cure for one minute.

It’s an opaque pure white polish. Not milky, with no cream or pink undertones. Just simple pristine white. You also need to apply the base coat, add two layers of the base color, such as light pink Shellac color, paint a smile line with Shellac Cream Puff or Studio White and apply the top coat, curing each layer as you go. Cream Puff is CND Shellac’s and Vinylux’s most famous shade of white in their huge array of nail polishes. CND Shellac Luxe is a 2-step gel polish system that is ready to remove in 60 seconds with no nail damage. UV Lamp Required.If you want to make a colored smile line instead of the white one use any bright or pastel-colored Shellac instead of Cream Puff or Studio White on the tip of the nail.

Cream Puff is the perfect white color for painting the French manicure nail tip, which is also called the smile line. Shellac has a sister polish CND Vinylux, which has absolutely the same color palette as Shellac. All the colors are identical. Since it’s an opaque white color, it’s often enough to use just one layer of Cream Puff to paint the smile line on each nail. It instantly offers full coverage.Step 3: Securely grip the finger and apply slight pressure to the fingernail. Using a twisting motion pull the wrap/foil off the finger. Before Shellac and other gel nail polishes were invented, it was a pain to do a French manicure with ordinary polishes. Cure each layer of the base color, the smile line and the top coat in the lamp after you apply them. How To Removal CND Shellac Gel Polish• Step 1: Saturate the cotton pad of a remover wrap or foil with an acetone-based remover. How To Apply CND Shellac Gel Polish• Step 1: Meticulous Nail Prep - ensuring to push the cuticle from the nail plate and remove all surface contaminants with a cleanser.