The desire of a woman to look after herself is quite natural. Harmoniously combining clothes, accessories, makeup, shoes and hair, we get a stylish and modern set. However, the approving element of the female image is the relevant nail art. Since winter is just around the corner, we suggest to plunge into the subtleties of winter manicure in order to manage to get fashionable types of coatings and materials for decorating nails.
Nail shape
Despite the fact that beauty bloggers have a lot of conflicting opinions on this subject, professional masters clearly identify the standard of beauty that you need to strive for. A few months ago, long nails and sharp stilettos were popular, today you need to find a middle ground between short and long nails. The length of the overgrown edge of the plate should not exceed 7 mm. This option is considered ideal, nails of medium length are comfortable in everyday life and also look beautiful with any shade of coverage.
As for the shape of the saw, of the seven known varieties, the nails are considered the best in the form of a square rounded on the sides. In addition to her, an option worthy of attention will be almond-shaped nails. Their smooth and rounded line saw cut into the standard of femininity. And also an oval can be called a successful form of nails.
To choose the most suitable option for herself, a woman should take into account not only the size of the nail plate, but its length, as well as the shape of the fingers themselves. The shape of the nail bed also matters. For example, oval nails are recognized as a universal option.They are comfortable, do not interfere at all, are easy to care for, and can give your fingers elegance. In addition, this form is less susceptible to fragility than others, and therefore it is suitable for thinned marigolds.
Almonds are characterized by incredible femininity., such nails attract the attention of others; any winter design will look beautiful on them. The same can be said of the rounded square. This form is impeccable, but, unfortunately, it can not be done on any nails, because with a short length and a flat nail bed it will look ugly.
Fashion trends
Winter manicure is one of the fashion trends of this year. At the same time, you can make a fashionable design in a variety of ways. The first thing you should pay attention to is shades. The priority is cold blue and blue tones, they are better than other colors of the palette are able to bring the right atmosphere into the manicure. Dark shades of the color palette will become popular shades.
In addition, fashion believes that in everything should be felt some restraint and coldness. Therefore, it is worth creating a manicure with an emphasis on minimalism, to which the look of nail trends is directed. First of all, this is a reduction in design accents, restraint in the choice of decorative materials and their strict dosage. It is important to think over the size of prints so that they look not only beautiful, but also expressively.
It is fashionable to highlight the place of the cuticle, for this you can use different decorative elements. Today, the places of emphasis are more clearly defined: the ring fingers and their neighboring averages are given away for them. In general, it is worth striving to ensure that there are no more than three accents in design. At the same time, their theme should be unified, but the drawings and patterns themselves should not clone each other.
It is popular to use different powders in order to create a texture game. Due to matting or, conversely, giving the texture, for example, mother of pearl or northern lights, even a laconic type of coating can be made special. And you can also use the veil as a background for further decoration. The veil is an excellent base for the background, on which you can perform volumetric drawing.
Fashionable colors
The upcoming winter season will give fans of fashionable designs a lot of original and harmonious color combinations. At the same time, fashion does not limit women in choosing colors, offering not only tones of blue, but also colors of pastel, flesh and neutral groups. Incredibly popular professional craftsmen call dark pigments: saturated emerald, eggplant and marsala shade.
In addition, a fashionable color scheme is the use of several related tones of the same color in the design. Effective combinations of the season will be combinations:
- wine with white;
- blue with blue;
- blue with blue and white;
- maroon with silver;
- blue with white;
- black with coffee and white;
- cockchafer with white and purple;
- eggplant with silver;
- white with dark gray;
- black and blue with milky;
- powder and blue;
- peach and blue;
- red with white.
The best techniques
Winter manicure of the new season can be performed on the basis of different techniques. At the same time, the design can be both independent and combined.
Classic
For example, you can take classics as a basis (staining nails over the entire area with one color). You can decorate such a manicure with a game of matte and glossy textures. For example, you can draw lace with glossy gel polish on a matte background of accent nail.
Varieties of gradient
Trendy winter design will be the gradient. Moreover, it can be not only vertical or horizontal. Today, you can create an ombre effect on the nails of different fingers. Each of them is painted with varnish that differs from the other pigment by half a ton. A smooth stretch of this type looks very nice, but it is better to use related shades of the same color for design.
The winter ombre of the geometric type looks super beautiful.At the same time, a combined manicure with nail polishing with one varnish is performed. For emphasis, several tones are chosen and a gradient pattern is made in the form of, for example, a triangle, square, circle or oval. Stretching is performed inside the selected shape.
French
One of the easiest solutions for winter will be a French manicure. It can be either traditional bodily or made in various color combinations. Design on accent French nails can be done on a painted basis, as well as using the negative space technique. For example, covering a transparent varnish with a light veil, and then performing a lace design in the form of frosty patterns on the basis of light mother of pearl, you can create the effect of crystal or snow.
Broken glass
Winter manicure in the broken glass technique will look great. In this case, it is desirable to use light shades in the design, since it is they that will more resemble the effect of broken glass. To such a manicure has a high status, it is preferable to dose the decor and perform it on only two out of ten nails. For dark varnishes, you can choose a holographic film - it will make the right mood for a solemn manicure.
Veil
This technique will be appropriate to use for emphasis. However, if earlier it was necessarily accompanied by a pattern, today the execution of vertical stripes on top of the translucent base is gaining popularity. By the way, they can be made using the gradient technique, sprinkled with acrylic powder on top. In addition, elongated triangles that are trendy today, stretching from the base to the edge of the nail plate, look stylish on the veil.
Design ideas
You can use different materials for winter design. For example, a flock powder with a felt effect would be a great option. She is better than other materials capable of creating a design with a Christmas connotation. It can cover the nails completely or create patterns.
If you want clearer lines and contours, you can replace this powder with acrylic powder. This substance can add volume to the picture. You can use it on top of an unsaturated gel polish after fixing the manual painting. And also this powder can create an interesting effect, if you emphasize them with individual elements of the slider design.
As for stamping and stickers for the winter manicure of this season, the focus will be on frosty patterns, large snowflakes, knitted patterns, lanterns and Norwegian ornaments. Fashion offers to pay attention to drawings in the style of mehendi and dot patterns. Today, this trend is gaining momentum in popularity, such a design is considered stylish and effective.
As for Christmas bears, deers, snowmen and bullfinches, such pictures often simplify a stylish design. If you really want something special in the design of the manicure that gives the atmosphere of a holiday, it is better to bet on colors and texture. For example, the same knitted pattern of red and white will look better on the nails than children’s snowmen and comic deer.
Studio masters prefer more stylish solutions. They offer their customers a spectacular gradient using tape foil or, say, glitter. Sequins create a french effect, giving the design a semblance of champagne bubbles rushing up. You can use pearl rub for the snow effect. Today it is considered the most popular powder among varieties of polyester powder.
A stylish solution for the winter will be decorating nails with a water design. It is created with drops of varnish directly in the water, then they are painted with a toothpick, and then a finger is lowered into the water. Such a design is always unique, and in cold colors it will look calm, but very impressive. You can add such a basis by stamping.
Season decor
Decorative elements should be selected taking into account the months of the year. That is how a manicure will more harmoniously flow into one or another female set.For example, for the beginning of December, a simple drawing that can be done manually, using a sticker or a stencil is quite enough. By the end of December, you can switch to rhinestones and stones.
This decor can designate a cuticle area. Kamifubuki will also be useful, which can emphasize accents, for example, in the form of a jacket of accent fingers. It’s not worth scattering them all over the plate, but on the part of the nail plate, and even better at the base of the vertical strip, they will look very impressive.
Glitter acrylic powder is also advisable to use on New Year's holidays. That powder that does not shine is good for all months of winter. As for the veil with the effect of holography and metal, such options are good for the holidays, but inappropriate for daily bows. And also it is worth taking into account the fact that the mirrored textures of the powder are gradually becoming a thing of the past today.
Inlay can be made with opals and Swarovski crystals. However, in order for them to look expressive, do not clutter them with the entire area of the accent nail. A fairly small composition at the base of the plate, and on one arm (no more). You can simply sprinkle the neighboring accent with acrylic sand or rub a weightless veil into it.
Rhinestones can be arranged on lace foil, stamping and stickers. For the effect of hand-painted when using the slider design, you can trace the contours of the picture in some places.
Workshop on creating winter manicure with gel polish - in the video below.
