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To start by applying your first coat of polish, you want to select the color that is complimentary
to the person's skin tone. You're going to start with the same nail as you always start
with. And again you're going to start in the center of the nail, and then just work out
towards each side. And if you need to, come back in the center again. It's ok if you get
polish on the skin, you can always go back and clean that up later. But you're trying
not to. You want to take your time to make sure that you don't get any polish on the
cuticle area, especially if it's a red. Red, browns and blacks are the hardest to get off
the skin. They tend to discolor it a little. Your first coat of polish is just going to
kind of be a cover, cover up. You're just covering the natural nail plate. You'll have
to go back and finish with a second coat before you can apply your top coat. And as I polish
the nail, I also swipe just a tiny bit of color to the free edge, so that the polish
doesn't chip quite as fast. The polish will generally tend to wear off of the free edge
of the nail, which is the very tip out here, before it will any other part. So you just
want to give it a little extra protection by actually applying polish directly to the
free edge. Again, any little bit of color you get on the cuticle can be cleaned up later.
If you get too much polish on your brush itself, just wipe it back in the bottle. You don't
want it to run down the fingernail, or the finger itself. And once you get the last nail dry, you want
to again allow two minutes before you start your next coat of polish. Now I got just a
little bit of polish on her skin, so I'm going to take my brush, that I use for my French.
I'm just going to dip it in the acetone, and just go back and clean up where I got any
at. And that just nicely cleans it up. Removes any excess polish. And that is how you apply
your first coat of polish.