High-quality neat manicure is the basis of any image of a modern girl. Today, simply groomed nails are not enough. Design should be relevant and at the same time unique, distinguishing its owner from the crowd. Fashionable gel-based manicure has long been loved by fashionistas. Persistent beautiful coating will please you for several weeks. You can make it not only in the salon with professionals, but also independently at home. Simple and effective patterns can be created using step-by-step instructions.
Features
Manicure with gel polish has a number of features. Most of them are quite positive, they can be attributed to the significant advantages of this coating. Probably the only drawback is the somewhat high cost of materials for creating a fashionable design compared to the usual varnish. Gel coating is more expensive, in addition, for fixing and drying, you will need to purchase a special ultraviolet lamp. But if you calculate how long such a coating will last, and then compare with ordinary varnishes, then the benefits of the gel will be obvious.
The design of nails using the technique of gel polish looks very impressive, but with all the apparent complexity to master the creation of manicure is not so difficult.
A light pattern consisting of simple lines, dots, curls is able to make any girl. You can hone skills on paper or on nails with ordinary varnish. Step-by-step instructions and materials created specifically to facilitate the process for beginners will help to create beautiful drawings and combinations.They allow you to make clear drawings: these are stickers and stamps, special stencils and scotch tape.
Patterns and drawings created on the nails with gel polish are suitable for all women, without exception, regardless of age and form of clothing. It is important to harmoniously select the design to your style and the situation in which the manicure will be worn. For everyday life, it is better to choose delicate colors and a minimum of accessories in addition. On the way out or to create, you can decorate the nails with all kinds of combinations of techniques and shining materials. It is worth remembering that modern fashion trends tend to naturalness and laconicism. Therefore, abundantly decorate is worth only two selected nails, and on the rest you can put small accents.
Gel coating provides a wide range of colors. Experts recommend choosing an individual solution for yourself in accordance with the unique color type of skin and the shape of the nail plate. A unique combination can look more impressive on nails than the most trendy colors of the season. Thus, you can create a manicure that sets you apart from the crowd and attracts special attention.
Essential Tools
To create a manicure with gel polish, you will need special tools and coatings. Some of them must be purchased necessarily. Others depend on the chosen manicure design. Facilitate the work of professional tools. They do not need to be purchased in large quantities, if you are not going to make the creation of manicure your profession. One or two types of each tool is enough. Gradually, you can buy the necessary materials.
Save on quality is not worth it. It’s better to buy one good brush of a universal type instead of a dozen cheap ones. If you still don’t have the opportunity to purchase professional tools, and really want to create a beautiful picture on the nails, do not worry.
Some of them can be replaced with improvised inexpensive means.
At the initial stage of creating a manicure with gel polish, you will need the following materials and tools.
- Basic and final coatings for gel polish. Top coating with or without a sticky layer (for a fashionable matte manicure).
- Gel polishes of the right colors. You can start with 3-5 common shades, on the basis of which most patterns are built: white, red, pink, black, gold, green.
- Brush for painting with natural hair. Better to take the thinnest and medium.
- Dots - a special tool with a metal ball on the end, resembling a pen for writing. It is used to create various patterns of dots and curls. Can be replaced to start with a regular used pen.
- Drying lamp (UV or LED lamp). You can start by taking an inexpensive Chinese version.
- Means for manicure correction: cotton pads, primer, nail files, clinser, gel remover, orange wood sticks, foil, ordinary sheets of paper, a plastic palette for mixing paints.
To create additional patterns, you may need: rhinestones, microbeads, glitter, shimmer, special foil, stones, broths, kamifubuki, flock, acrylic powder, bulk for molding, velor sand and other materials.
Mastering simple techniques
Most of the most complex drawings, if they are well considered, are based on a combination of ordinary elements: dots, commas, straight lines. Performing them is easy. To get a neat pattern, you can use dots, scotch tape, stencils. When applying, it is worthwhile to carefully monitor the amount of pigment collected on the tool so that there is not too much of it.
A simple plain manicure in a fashionable color looks attractive. If you complement it with fashionable little accents, you get a unique design. Thus, you can draw a contrasting color hole at the base of the nail or the edge using the technique of French manicure. You can shade all the nails or only accent.Adding a strip of rhinestone along the edge of the lunula or even alongside the nail will look attractive.
If a rather bright shade is used for manicure, you can try the negative space fashion technique. To perform it, you will need tape or stencils. The bottom line is that part of the nail remains unpainted. Usually, the lunula is left untouched by the gel.
And also with the help of curly stencils unpainted make the fate in the middle of the nail in the form of hearts, outlines of figures, the silhouette of stars.
Gradient - a very popular and delicate pattern, consisting of flowing flowers into each other. It can be smooth (ombre) or crisp, even geometric, consisting of the same stripes or shapes of different colors. Modern technology gives a wide flight of imagination. You can combine not only the shades of one tone, but also the most vivid colors.
Flowers and floral patterns are popular among women in all seasons, regardless of the trends of changeable fashion. Beginners can perform simple drawings from plain Dots circles or learn the simple technique of painting on wet gel polish. More complex and naturalistic drawings are created with the smallest details by brush and using volumetric sculpting. If you don’t have time to draw a pattern at all, you should use a stamping kit or stickers.
The predatory print is back in fashion. It is not difficult to draw blurry ovals in dark color on a light background. The trend and pattern of zebras from uneven contrasting stripes. In the current season, the main thing is the choice of a trend color. Animal design should not exactly repeat the coloring of animal skin. It can be a combination of red and green, gray and orange, yellow and indigo.
Circles form the basis of many complex patterns and patterns. With their help, you can make any pattern, beat national motifs, various textures, create a floral pattern or catchy monograms. Even a few dots of contrasting color, placed at the base of the nail, will make fashionable the usual monochrome coating. Eternal classic - polka dots also consists of circles and dots of different sizes. Sequins and kamifubuki - a fashionable version of the evening club manicure in circles. From the dots you can create any pattern: butterfly, animal, sun, ladybug.
Monograms are another popular pattern that adorns many types of manicure from everyday French to luxurious wedding. To create it, you need a brush, dots or an ordinary toothpick, ballpoint pen. A dot in contrasting color is put on the main varnish, a comma is drawn from it. The next part of the ornament is done in the same way. You can put curls of different sizes and let them in different directions. They create a luxurious ornament or floral decor.
Geometry has been popular for more than one season in all techniques and types of nail coatings. This design looks very fashionable. And to make it on your own fingers is quite easy with tape or stencils. You will need varnishes of two or three contrasting colors and a brush.
To create a more delicate image, you can add brilliant accents to the manicure with wet glitter.
Glitter and stones can give a luxurious radiance to any manicure in minutes. So that the design does not give up tastelessness, you should learn how to correctly place the decor on the nail plate, choose the optimal size and quantity. Surplus in this case is worse than the effect, as if something is missing. We put luxurious accents on one nail. On the rest we glue only small pieces of decor or even leave it with the base color. Most of the elements are glued onto a wet gel polish, and then dried with it under a UV lamp.
Raindrops are an interesting and easy-to-use technique that particularly well complements different types of manicure in the spring and summer season, as well as in autumn. Delicate translucent droplets are created using the usual topcoat and brush or dots.They are placed in different sizes and in a chaotic manner, simulating spreading droplets of moisture or fresh dew. The design with flowers, fruits, ombre and simply plain coating will make this method more realistic, lively and fresh.
How to make a nail design at home?
Creating a wide variety of patterns on the nails is a leisurely and creative process. Be patient, have the necessary tools and get started. Do not forget the inspiration received when viewing different types of beautiful design. If you have already chosen a simple drawing for beginners, it is worth preparing the nail plates for creating a manicure.
To do this, remove the old coating and make a bath for nails. The cuticle is removed in the usual way, and the nails will need to be given the necessary shape and length. The nails saturated with useful oils will need to be degreased. Then a transparent base is applied under any coating. After drying it, you can independently make a beautiful manicure with decor at home.
With pictures
A neat design will help you create detailed instructions step by step.
- We draw flowers popular with all girls. To do this, choose unpretentious forget-me-nots.
- We paint one or two layers of the main tone, you can choose white or pink. Each individually dry under a lamp.
- With the help of a dots or a tool replacing it, put several dots in yellow at a distance from each other. These are the middle of the flowers.
- Around each of the dots, put five dots of a slightly larger tender blue color and dry.
- Next to the resulting flowers, as if from under the petals, we draw green leaves, pulling them into a triangle from the point set by the gel.
- Dry again well under the lamp, and then cover it with a clear topcoat.
Romantic hearts look original on nails.
They can treat themselves not only to Valentine's Day. Choose delicate white, pink and red colors. If you prefer brighter colors, you will need red and black varnishes.
On a transparent base through one nail, apply a pink gel, and on the remaining fingers - white. Dry under the lamp and repeat the second layer. Then, on a white background with dots, we draw pink hearts of small size. To do this, put two points side by side and connect them down at a right angle. So we draw on each finger several small hearts in different directions. We do the same on a pink background in white. Do not forget to dry the coating and cover it well on top for durability with the top.
With decor
Creating your own attractive manicure with decor is not difficult at all. To do this, you need small stickers, rhinestones and transparent glitter. We apply stickers with the selected design to the base coat. It is recommended to put them on the side of the nail or at the base. It is better to decorate the little fingers, index and middle finger. Then we apply transparent glitter on top of the stickers, there should be few shiny particles in it. On the accent fingers - the ring finger and the little finger on the base of the nail near the lunula, glue a few rhinestones on the still sticky glitter. Dry the manicure under the lamp and cover with a transparent top.
Simple ideas for a beautiful manicure for inspiration
- Spangles of different colors and sizes, designed in one line, look fresh and perky. A design with dew drops can transform any simple coating. Neat dots are simply put dots one after another. It turns out the actual geometric pattern, which is completed in five minutes.
- Fashionable polka dot pattern - timeless classic. Depending on the size of the peas and the chosen colors, it can look romantic, extravagant, stylish, luxurious.
- Gradient is an up-to-date technique in all seasons. It looks good on any length of the nail plate. Choose color transitions to your liking.
- Black and white manicure always looks elegant and unusual. It is enough to put on a accent nail a laconic row of contrasting points - and you are already in the trend.
- Fashionable geometry looks stylish and easy to do, just with strips of tape.
Choose rich colors or emphasize fashionable transparent coverage.
- In fashion animalistic design in a modern embodiment. Zebra stripes do not have to be made in natural colors. Enough hints and light touches. And shining accents suitably complement the simple pattern.
- Cute hearts and delicate rhinestones will decorate short nails, super popular for more than one season. Choose nude shades and set appropriate accents. The nails will look very neat and feminine, and everyday manicure will sparkle in a new way.
- Classic red always looks luxurious, even in monochrome. Complemented with peas in two other popular colors, it turns a simple manicure into a stylish and sophisticated retro. Attention is provided to you.
- Yes, the French is not the same. The strip is diagonal, and even black. It is emphasized by a brilliant silver accent in the form of a contrast strip. Such a bold design decision will please extravagant lovers of the updated classics.
- Who said ladies do not wear a tailcoat? Very much! As well as an elegant men's shirt with contrasting buttons and a bow tie to match. Of course, we are talking about elegant manicure! You cannot refuse its owner in good taste.
- Good old English classic, time-tested. To emphasize the style of your outfit with a pattern on the nails is a special chic. Choose a harmonious manicure and approach the creation of your image of an impeccable lady with a touch of humor.
- A delicate floral decoration goes to all women without exception, which is why he has so many fans. Choose fashionable clean and nude shades. For short and medium nails, a pattern with buds on thin elongated legs is ideal. It makes the fingers visually longer and sleeker. Choose an interesting option for yourself from many bright ideas and feel free to create. Let the process give pleasure, and the result will please and create a positive mood.
See how to make a simple design yourself in the next video.