It is not at all surprising that it has long become a completely integral part of the delightful image of many girls. After all, such nail care not only gives them a more well-groomed and healthy look, but also looks very harmonious with absolutely any outfit. In order to somehow facilitate the process of creating a French manicure, manufacturers began to produce a special whitening pencil.

What is the purpose of the whitening nail pencil

Stunning French manicure until recently was a very time-consuming procedure. For this procedure, two bottles of different shades of varnish were required. The varnish should be white and transparent. Also, French manicure requires strips of self-adhesive paper.

A special whitening pencil can save us from painstaking sticking of strips and flawless staining of all the tips of the nails.

The pencil allows you to give your nails a flawless white color. It should also be noted that thanks to such a whitening pencil, the manicure lasts much longer.

How to whiten nails with a pencil?

The process itself can take several minutes. After that, an instant effect and a well-groomed look on the nails are visible for three days. For bleaching, thoroughly clean the inside of the nail plate and give them a suitable shape. It will be better at the very beginning to soak your nails in a bath of warm water.

And then use a special spatula designed to clean nails. After all the edges of the nails have dried, color them evenly and gently. Remember that it is necessary to color the edges with a bleaching pencil from the inside. Also, to enhance the effect, the pencil can be slightly moistened. If white fingerprints remain on your fingers, they can be removed using wet wipes.

In order to make a perfect jacket on the nails, a pencil is used for French manicure.

It differs from the classic one by its strict appearance and beautiful performance. An important element of French manicure is the so-called white smile, which must be carefully drawn on the tip of the plate.

For French manicure in salons, white varnish and a thin brush are used, however, such a procedure is quite laborious and takes a lot of time and effort. Therefore, you can independently use a pencil for French manicure.

How to use a pencil for french manicure?

Before you start doing French manicure, you need to prepare your hands. Rinse hands well, wipe them dry. When using creams, wait until they are completely absorbed. Remove residues with a tissue. It is important that the hands are completely dry and clean, otherwise the rod will subsequently be erased.

Using pencil

The tool should be sharpened for ease of application on the surface of the plates.

When performing a jacket, usually the surface of the plate is covered with a basic transparent base. After it has completely dried, the tip of the nail is covered with white varnish, a "smile" is formed. When using a pencil for a french, white varnish is not applied, which makes the procedure of French manicure easier and faster.

With the tip of a sharpened rod, you need to carefully draw a plate from its inside, that is, draw it under the bottom. This procedure can be done several times to achieve the desired saturated color. In the process of drawing a smile, pieces of the rod can get on the skin of the fingers. The remnants should be immediately washed off gently with a damp cloth or cotton swab, while being careful not to touch the already painted nail.

After processing all the nails, you need to apply a transparent varnish to the plate.Thus, a white smile is formed on the nails, and the design idea will be similar to the real one.

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The difficulties of using a pencil

When using a pencil for French manicure, remember its fragility.

Do not wash your hands, stain them or rub them, because the rod instantly erases and the surface becomes ugly.

You can carry the tool with you all the time and tint the nail plate as needed, but this requires special monitoring of the condition of your nails. Therefore, it is better to use a graphic tool for a jacket in the case when your hands will always always remain dry and clean.

French pencil can be used every day, gradually tinting the nail on the inside. Most often, such a tool is equipped with a lid that has a pointed tip. Such a lid is convenient to use in order to cleanse the nail from overgrown skin, to move the cuticle.

Also, when using a French manicure product, you must always monitor the condition of your hands. During the day, the graphic coating stains the skin of the fingers, as a result of which the appearance deteriorates, and the hands become dirty and untidy.

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Wax tool for design.

To make the nail treatment more viable, a wax pencil was created for the jacket. It is more durable than a simple option, as it is made on the basis of wax. It is not washed off immediately, but after 4-5 rinses. That is, the coating is more durable, with little effort being spent to create it.

At the current pace of life, many things are simply uncomfortable. Using bottles with varnish or bottles of nail polish remover is fraught with the danger of spilling their contents, ruining the floor covering and your favorite clothes. Therefore, today they are slowly but surely replaced by more convenient and practical pencils for manicure.

With their help, you can varnish the surface of the nail, draw various patterns on it and correct the errors of manicure.
Such varnishes, having the appearance of a regular pencil or felt-tip pen, are conveniently stored in a handbag or glove compartment of the machine, without fear that they will spill and spoil any important document. There are so many similar pencils, and they all have different functions. However, the most common is a white pencil for nails. And this article is dedicated to him. And after reading it, you will understand whether you need it or not.

Functions of White Nail Pencil

White or, as it is also called, a whitening pencil for nails primarily serves to whiten the nail plate. Very often dirt accumulates under the nails, which is difficult to remove, especially true for owners of long nails. This makes the appearance of the nails, and the hands as a whole, very unattractive. It is in this case that a white pencil for nails is simply necessary. It is enough to carefully clean their nails with them, and they will again become snow-white. This is simply an indispensable thing for those whose nail plate has a yellowish tint. A pencil will also help with the restoration of nails after removal of extensions, as it can easily hide all defects. For the manufacture of such a pencil, medical chalk or white clay is used. Therefore, its regular use will strengthen nails.

No less often, a white pencil for nails is used to create a classic French manicure. This method is described in all articles about the French. The technology of such a manicure is incredibly simple and does not require a lot of time. To do this, you just need to apply a transparent varnish to the nail, immediately after using a pencil. But if the natural shape of the nail is wrong, then in any case, to achieve the ideal smile line does not work out.
In addition, this pencil has a very convenient cap, which can be very useful for moving the cuticle. Also, it can be used to clean the inside of an overgrown nail from dirt.

How to use a pencil?

1. It is necessary to wash your hands and clean the inner surface of the nail using a pencil cap.
2. After the hands have dried, you need to moisten the tip of the pencil with water and draw along the inside of the overgrown nail. Before that, sharpen the pencil well.
3. Carefully wipe the pencil on the skin.
4. If a French manicure is performed, then, to complete it, apply colorless varnish to the nails.

In addition to the above advantages, this pencil has a number of disadvantages, which should not be ignored either:

Often the result does not meet expectations, and the nails do not become snow-white;
- the pencil is washed off after the first collision with water, after which the whitening effect does not remain at all;
  - white stains remain on the skin around the nail, which are often difficult to wash off.

Thus, this pencil is absolutely not suitable for creating a persistent manicure. However, in a situation where it is necessary to quickly and briefly make the appearance of nails more attractive, it will definitely help. In addition, such a pencil is inexpensive and is sold in all cosmetic stores. And due to its compactness, it does not take up much space and does not cause any inconvenience.

French manicure for many years does not go out of style. It is obtained in various ways - by extension, on natural nails or using false. Most often the jacket on natural nails is done using white varnish and a stencil, however, there is another, less common way - a pencil for French manicure.

Why do i need

Natural nails may turn yellow over time. At the very beginning of regrowth, the free edge of the plate has a snow-white color. But over time, it begins to turn gray and stain. This can occur due to the use of colored varnishes, as well as peeling, for example, oranges and other everyday activities. Dust may even stick to your nails, making them darker, etc.

To solve this problem helps a whitening pencil for nails. However, this name is not entirely correct, it does not bleach, but simply stains the plate. To do this, sharpen it sharply, remove dirt from under the free edge, and then draw a pencil under it along the smile line. This will help to remove the remaining dirt, and also paint the tip of the nail in a healthy white color.

Composition and features

At its core, this product is directly a white pencil. Depending on the brand of the manufacturer, medical chalk or white clay can be used in it to create a lead. The stylus is placed in a wooden case, as in ordinary pencils for drawing. It is dense enough to be sharpened sharply and to draw a line under the free edge.

There are other forms of release of this pencil, which are much more reminiscent of a corrector for manicure. They are used almost as well and give similar results. French made with the help of such a device does not look like overgrown or painted with varnish. A pencil, rather, gives a more natural effect of healthy nails without coating. Although, according to the manufacturers of this device, it is enough to create a full-french jacket and you just need to apply a transparent varnish to the nail. But practice shows that this is far from the case.

First of all, the difficulty is that such a pencil repeats your natural smile line, which can be uneven, blurry, wavy or asymmetric. In addition, it does not give a sufficiently clear border and a sufficiently saturated white color. And also, the result of using such a pencil disappears after the first - second hand washing. However, it does not take up much space, which means that you can successfully take a white nail pencil with you in order to correct the manicure if necessary.

Minuses

The main disadvantage of using such a pencil is the extremely low durability of the manicure obtained with its help. In essence, using it, you simply apply a layer of chalk on the inner surface of the free edge of the nail. Naturally, the result of such staining remains unchanged only until the first hit of nails in water. This is especially noticeable on long nails, on short and very short, but the manicure can last a little longer - until the second - third wash. In addition, directly near the smile line, chalk can also remain, as water does not always fall there.

The second minus, which has a whitening pencil for nails is the inconvenience of its operation. It is especially difficult, and sometimes completely impossible to use it on short and very short nails. The fact is that the conical shape of the stylus does not allow you to make a manicure quickly and accurately. While the sharp tip of the stylus falls close to the smile line, the rest of its width paints not only the nail, but also the finger underneath. It is almost impossible to avoid this drawback during operation, as well as eliminate it after application, since the chalk is simply smeared or erased from the nail too. This makes the use of a pencil impossible, especially for those whose nail bed is located far enough from the fingertip, that is, a sufficiently large part of the free edge is above the finger.

However, even if you understand how to use a whitening pencil for nails so as not to get your fingers dirty and you will not wash your hands during the day, it still does not guarantee you a perfect manicure. In the process of performing simple actions with your fingers, the skin of their tips will still come into contact with the free edge, and your hands will sweat. This together will create all the conditions for the chalk to remain on the skin of the hands.

In addition, such pencils are often very soft. To apply color in such a way is even more difficult, since it gets dirty more and more unevenly, but the main problem is different. The coating remains sufficiently sticky all the time after application, heating up from the skin. As a result, dust and other particles of dirt accumulate under the nails many times more intensively, and a manicure loses its attractiveness within three to four hours after application. In addition, if it is done on short nails, then there is a possibility that the pencil coating will dirty not only your fingers, but also your palms and everything around.

Wax pencils

More recently, wax pencils appeared on the market. They eliminated some negative features and disadvantages of Cretaceous and clay analogues. In particular, if you applied a wax pencil coating, then the likelihood that it will transfer hand washing is much higher. In addition, it is precisely such pencils that give the most dense layer and are most evenly and easily applied.

However, they are also completely smeared on the finger during application. But during operation, coatings even on short nails do not get dirty, as they are resistant to sweat and the wax coating itself is not sticky. After several applications, your own nail becomes more dense and white, it may even become less stratified. This is the therapeutic effect of such coatings.

Varnish pencil

Such a pencil is something like a traditional corrector from a clerical manicure. It is made in the form of a plastic handle with a thin nose at the end. In the nose there is a small ball, when pressed, the varnish contained in the handle enters the nail. Thus, the principle of operation and the method of using such a pencil is similar to a clerical corrector.

The disadvantage of such a pencil is that it gives a thin strip about 1 - 1.5 mm wide. Thus, it can only be used on short nails. After all, if you try to shade it with a long free edge, you will notice that it lies extremely unevenly.

Whichever pencil you choose, clay, chalk or wax, when applying it, you need to be guided by several rules. They will not only simplify the application process, but also extend the life of the manicure and make it better and more accurate.

At the end of such a manicure, it is recommended to cover the nails with clear varnish. It is better to seal the edge very carefully, because the varnish can “wash off” the coating. At the same time, if it remains on the brush and as a result gets into the bottle, this may contribute to the fact that the coating fades or becomes cloudy.

Application

Below we will describe the technology of how to use a pencil for a French manicure yourself. Almost all such pencils are intended exclusively for home use and are not used by craftsmen. Before starting a manicure, sharpen your nails and carefully remove dirt from under them.

After the top coat of varnish has dried, your manicure is ready for use. Read more about what a white pencil for nails, what it can be and how to use it, is described in the video in this material. The use of such a pencil is suitable for everyday manicure in the style of nude.