To provide a method for producing an artificial nail, and to provide an artificial nail.

A method for producing an artificial nail includes: a preparation stage of supplying into a printer, a film which includes a design face formed in a flat plate shape, and a support face formed in a bent shape on the opposite side face of the design face; a design stage of forming an artificial nail pattern with a boundary between a first end part formed on a cuticle end part side on the design face of the film, and a second end part formed on a free edge side by forming the artificial nail pattern so as to position each of the first end part and the second end part on a position where the thickness of the cuticle end part is formed more thinly than the thickness of the free edge; and a body molding stage which includes a molding step of three-dimensionally forming the film formed with the artificial nail pattern by many artificial nail frames formed in a nail shape, and a molding mold including reference plates connected between the artificial nail frames, and a cutting step of cutting the film formed with many nail shapes to each nail shape with a cutting machine installed in the upper mold in the molding mold.