White gel polish: design options and recommendations for use

Hybrid coatings for nails are easy to use and durable. They are unique, look fresh and delight the eye, allowing you to realize the most diverse design. Among the huge list of color solutions, gel polish of white color is especially popular in the new season. Let us dwell in detail on its features and techniques through which even the most concise manicure can be made unique with it.

White gel polish is conventionally assigned to the universal colors of the palette. It goes well with many contrasting shades, looks good on nails of various shapes. However, this color is quite demanding on the length of the nails. It looks more aesthetically pleasing on medium-long nails. It visually shortens and flattens short plates, which is important to consider when not long enough.

This color is able to emphasize the features of the nail plate. This is bad for those cases when the side walls of the nail bed are not parallel. Enhancing the imperfection of the natural shape of the side walls of a trapezoidal or barrel-like type, the white color of the gel polish makes both fingers and hands ugly.

The white color of gel polish is beautiful, but rarely can do without color or neutral contrast. The fact is that in itself it does not carry an emotional coloring. On the one hand, it’s good, because white color fits most items of women's wardrobe and many accessories.However, on the other hand, it is contrasts that help him acquire the right mood and high status.

White gel polish is demanding on the woman's age. If it looks good on the nails of young fashionistas and gorgeous women, then ladies in age can use this varnish only as an accent (background for design). This is explained by the accentuation of the skin, which, with age, alas, becomes wrinkled and flabby. And the white color of the coating will especially attract attention to it.

White color is a full reflection of light rays. It is for this reason that many overly diluted tones are considered white. Thus, you can identify many different tones of white, for example, in the color palette there is a tone:

• pure white (without color impurities);
• soft porcelain (barely gray, glossy);
• frosty (almost white-blue, translucent ice);
• snowy (slightly lighter than frosty);
• ivory (white with a yellowish tint);
• milky (matte with a barely noticeable admixture of beige);
• pearl white (mother-of-pearl white with a grayish tone);
• sea ​​foam (with an admixture of beige and cream);
• flour (soft matte);
• coconut (white matte, slightly transparent);
• opal (matt white);
• lunar (slightly lighter than milk).

Different shades of white gel polish look completely different on the nails of women of different types. For example, for the winter color type, pure white color and shade with a barely noticeable bluish tint are good. Summer type needs a soft color. Suitable options with the inclusion of a gray tone. Sharp white will not look beautiful here. In general, you should rely on the rule: a shade of white should be in harmony with the white of the eye. It is he who will be the best for a particular woman.

Girls with a spring type are better off choosing white options with a yellowish tint, as well as an ivory shade. “Autumn” needs white with the addition of cream or beige. This color type needs the darkest tones of white.

White gel polish is unlimited in design and manicure technique. It can be used for techniques such as classic, traditional or reverse jacket, moon design, gradient, veil, broken glass, powder. In each of them, he can look chic, adding notes of elegance and high status to the set. However, this will have to take into account the type of coating, because often this very nuance spoils even the best design idea.

For example, choosing a classic manicure with a single-color nail painting, it is important to rely not so much on the decor as on the texture of the coating. For example, the white color, decorated with a light mother-of-pearl veil, will look more aesthetically pleasing than the poisonous matte version, which is striking. Here you can also pay attention to the matte varieties of gel polish with a textile effect. Without shouting about themselves, such options will significantly raise the status of even the most concise manicure.

At the same time, it is already possible to create drawings on any background in a pure white tone, so that they seem clearer. White gel polish for the gradient can be different: a combination of shades with different “temperature” and degree of transparency is welcomed here.

In addition, white color goes well with colored pigments, allowing you to perform a beautiful stretch both vertically and horizontally, and inside any figure on the accent nail of a manicure (pedicure). It can be used as a basis for the further application of acrylic powder, thereby creating an original volumetric texture of the nail. For veil technique choose a translucent texture, "broken glass" needs a glossy varnish.

The choice of one or another contrast for white gel polish may be limited by its “temperature” and degree of transparency. It is easier to combine soft white with a tiny addition of gray; this tone is more versatile. Regardless of the white tone, it goes well with nude. At the same time, the nude tone can be either light or dark, warm, cold, glossy, matte.

Being a neutral color, it looks good together with a black or gray tone. In addition, it can be decorated with silver and gold, as well as bronze. In this case, the version of the pattern made with gold (bronze or silver) on a specially created black substrate from gel varnish or special gel paint will be especially beautiful.

White contrasts have become fashionable combinations of white this season:

• with pink and gold;
• blue and silver;
• blue and marble;
• black and green;
• mint and turquoise;
• blue and pink;
• red and orange;
• gray and silver;
• lilac and purple;
• eggplant and nude;
• emerald and black.

Red-white, wine-red contrast and a combination with burgundy is today considered one of the trending mixes using white gel polish. The same can be said about the use of white in a design with silver and gray-white contrast.

Depending on the type of gel polish itself, white is used in various drawing techniques. For example, in the standard version, it becomes the background for the design using the technique of watercolor painting, in which the coating is buffered to obtain the necessary roughness. When you need a background for drawing with gel or colored gel varnishes, the coating is not sealed with a top.

If you need drawings in the flowering technique, use a special white gel polish with a special structure. It differs from ordinary analogues, since it contains a substance that accelerates the spreading of varnish in all directions. This is what allows in a matter of seconds to create various flowers and patterns on a white background using similar pigments with a flowering effect. Their palette is small today, but such a design looks unusual.

As for the actual manicure drawings that can be created using white gel polish, their subject matter is diverse. In addition, it depends on whether the gel polish itself is considered the background or paint in this case. If it is used as paint, they draw all kinds of lace and lace, nets, mehendi, dot patterns. In addition, it is a great color for floral themes, various monograms. White lacquer performs a contour stroke of the created patterns.

If the varnish is the background on the accented nails of a manicure, you can draw on it whatever your soul desires, from simple peas to complex art painting with partial penumbra. However, it is important to consider the seasonality of design, which is one of the leading trends in nail fashion this season.

If the street is autumn, it is worth starting from a specific month, dressing your nails with a print with colorful leaves, exposed trees, frozen puddles, the first snow powder. Winter design can even emphasize a specific mood, for example, anticipation of the Christmas holidays. These are deer, gifts, Christmas decorations, garlands, snowflakes, knitted patterns. For spring design, you can turn to the theme of the first flowers and early birds.

Megaactual on a white background geometric and scandinavian ornaments. In addition, fashion includes a manicure-boho, which can decorate accent nails with a white backing. It is fashionable to decorate nails with elongated triangles, diagonal lines, and french dots.

You can decorate a manicure using white gel polish with various decorative techniques. For example, you can use for this purpose the popular kamifubuki, depicting with their help a gradient or even a "smile" of French manicure. If you want something else, you can pay attention:

• stamping;
• slider design;
• 3D stickers or fimo;
• rhinestones and crystals;
• sequins and flakes yuki;
• transfer and tear-off foil;
• acrylic powder or rubbing.

There can be many ideas for using decor. For example, a plain white background can be covered with a rub, on it draw some kind of pattern and sprinkle it with acrylic sand. This design looks very unusual and spectacular.

If you like stones, you can inlaid with them accent nails of a manicure, combining stones with rhinestones or broths.

White gel polish is applied to prepared nails. First, they perform a hygienic manicure, getting rid of the cuticle and excess skin that grows into the nail from the sides. It is cleaned with a pusher and scissors or a milling cutter. After shaping the edge and aligning the length, the nail must be buffed, passing along its surface with a soft polisher to delicately remove the gloss.

Next, dust is removed from the nail, degreased and a primer is applied, followed by a layer of base coat. Moreover, each applied material is necessarily dried in a special lamp for hardening and solidification of the applied substance. After the base for painting is prepared, the nails are stained with gel polish. Given that it does not dry without a lamp, you can take your time and gently stain the nail plate.

So that the varnish does not flow over the side rollers and cuticle, it is applied with a thin layer. For half a minute from the time of application, it spreads evenly over the entire area of ​​the nail, and therefore will not strip. Immediately after staining, sending the nail to the dryer is undesirable. Since the layer will be slightly sticky after staining, do not touch it with your hands. To make the line of color at the base of the nail smooth, it should be painted with a thin manicure brush.

Given that one layer, as a rule, is not enough for staining the nail, the operation of staining and drying is repeated. At the same time, one should not forget to walk along the end of the nail plate, sealing it with as thin a layer as possible so that during socks it does not break off the base.

After drying the second layer, you need to complete the design, and then seal all the layers with a finishing agent (top). It is applied in a thin layer, spreading evenly over the nail, overlapping pigment and design, not forgetting the end face of the nail plate. After that, the coating is dried in a lamp. 30 seconds after drying, it will remain to remove residual tack using a nail polish remover without acetone.

Apply the coating correctly, not forgetting to use both the base and the top. According to the reviews of the masters, it is important to carefully select the texture of both the background and the “companion”. For example, the color pigment “cat's eye”, with which space design is created today, goes well with white. White gel polish looks beautiful on a translucent background using the "veil" technique.In addition, you can create a texture game using both matte and glossy gel polish in the design.

Finally, we bring to your attention several examples of the successful use of white gel polish in the design of manicure.

Laconic solution with accentuation of the cuticle area with gold foil.

Design in neutral colors with asymmetric inlay accent nail.

Gorgeous wedding manicure with lace lace.

A bright solution in a combination of red and white.

French design using silver fills the manicure with elegance.

The option with rhinestones will not leave indifferent any fan of sparkling stones.

Floral design on a white background looks easy and airy.

The subject of geometry is leading among other types of design this season.

A chic combination of delicate shades in a winter manicure.

An original and bright solution for the summer using juicy contrasts.

Delicate design with floral theme decorate the image of romantic nature.

Stylish geometric design will appeal to fans of minimalistic solutions.

See the following video for an overview of white gel polishes.