How to glue sliders on gel polish?

The trend of decorating nails with sliders today is one of the most popular in nail art. They are bright and beautiful, and sometimes even look like hand-painted. However, despite the fact that they appeared a long time ago, far from all can use them correctly. Let us dwell in more detail on how to properly glue sliders on gel polish.

Often, sliders call all kinds of nail stickers that are available for sale. However, these are water pictures with a protective top layer and a paper backing. They are thin, in addition to a layer of protection, have a working film with a printed pattern. Depending on the variety, the film may have a transparent or color, as well as a monochrome background.

The sliders themselves can provide for the complete overlap of the entire accent nail or the decoration of any part. Therefore, they are divided into two types: photo design and applications on a transparent background. The process of transferring the image will consist in removing the film from the paper base and fixing it on the surface of the nail prepared for the design. At the same time, neither the color of the image, nor its effect, nor the size matters.

Sliders sell in sets, each of which differs in a certain color scheme and theme. In this case, often pictures are paired with a symmetrical pattern, which is convenient for choosing an option for emphasizing a specific nail plate. Trademarks produce separate sets for arms and legs, which differ in the number of sliders and their size.

To work with the slider design, you need a flat brush and tweezers.In addition, the master can prepare a special rubber hoof, which can wipe the leaked composition under the aqua sticker. It is worthwhile to understand that the work process will include the stage of hygienic manicure. Therefore, the required materials and devices in the work will be:

• drying lamp;
• orange stick or pusher;
• manicure wipes;
• degreaser;
• base material;
• topcoat;

• a pigment layer for a substrate;
• decor (optional);
• cuticle;
• cuticle remover;
• nail scissors;
• soft grinder and file;
• bath with warm water.

It is useless to glue the sliders on unprepared nails. Hygienic manicure should be an indispensable step in the implementation of the design. First, the nails are given the desired shape and length, a softening agent is applied to them to remove the cuticle. After that, the fingers are lowered into the bath for several minutes, then wiped dry and the cuticle is lifted, the pterygium is cleaned.

Sticks pass around the nail, checking the quality of work, if necessary, again cut off what was bypassed for the first time. After that, the fingers are greased with oil. If you do not use oil, proceed immediately to remove the gloss buff. Next, the sawdust is removed with a brush, after the brush for the same purposes they use a napkin and dehydrator. In addition, the nails are degreased to enhance tenacity.

Pictures are not glued to unpainted nails. Immediately assess the condition of the plates and, if necessary, strengthen with a special composition. It is dried in a lamp. After that proceed to the application of the base layer. More often it is a transparent composition with a characteristic stickiness. It is applied in a thin layer to prevent leakage behind the lateral ridges and cuticle.

The base layer is dried in a lamp, and then the future substrate is applied to it. As a rule, this is a white gel polish, because other tones will distort the sharpness and saturation of the original slider tones. However, if the background of the aqua sticker is transparent, it is applied to the colored background, for which the pigment of the desired color is selected. The thickness of the slider also matters: if the film is thin, a white backing is required for it. When the sticker is a bit dense, one base is enough.

You can glue the slider into 4 types of material: a transparent base, white base, top and ultrabond. At the same time, all of them will give a strong and reliable connection, which will allow the sticker on the nail to hold out all the time while the hostess will wear a manicure. However, if you want to use a white base, you do not need to apply two preliminary layers, it will replace both of them.

Returning to the step-by-step instructions, we note that the standard process of fixing the slider will include, in addition to the base layer and pigment, another layer of base material. However, this time you do not need to dry it, because it is at the expense of it that the aqua sticker will be held. It is necessary to apply the material carefully and thinly, since with further expansion of the picture, its excess can leak beyond the limits of the nail plate.

There are two options for preparing a slider for design. In the first case, it is cut out on one side according to the approximate shape of the base of the nail and the width, and then the protective film is removed and lowered into a container with water so that the working film is easily separated from the paper substrate. However, professionals in the field of nail art note that this technique is inconvenient in that you can wet the front of the sticker with it. This is undesirable, as it may affect the longevity of the mount.

The best option, in their opinion, is to moisten the cut out image on a wet towel for 30 seconds. This time is enough for the film with the pattern to move away from the substrate. In addition, its front side will remain dry, which is important for the durability of the design. It is tightened with tweezers and immediately transferred to an accent nail.You don’t have to worry that the length of the slider is longer than that of the nail, because after drying it will be possible to remove it by sawing the edge of the plate with a file. When straightening the slider, it is important to remove as many wrinkles that form during long work with the film. After that, the coating is dried in a lamp.

If you do not dry the decorative layer, the coating will begin to chip in a couple of days from the time of application.

In order for the slider to lie flat on the surface, you need to use a flat brush in your work, expelling air pockets that can form during transfer. Of great importance in this case will be the layer of the non-dried substrate. It is not necessary to warm the picture, but to straighten it, achieving a uniform and even coating without wrinkles.

All excess is removed with a cuticle (at the base) and a file (at the edge). In order not to cut the edge with the picture, you need to keep the file at an angle. If small wrinkles are formed during operation, you can get rid of them with a primer. However, this composition is not so simple and is able to dissolve the sticker completely. To remove only the folds, you just need to touch the brush with the composition of the working surface.

Masters often prefer to give sliders the look of hand-painted. To do this, they use special acrylic paints in the form of a gel, as well as pigmented gel polish, which is diluted with a top to obtain a more convenient consistency of the composition. Drawing is an emphasis on certain contours of the drawing, its spraying, for example, with pearl varnish, as well as the painting of individual fragments with paints.

After adjustments have been made, the craftsmen dry the design in the lamp and begin to seal. More often it consists of two layers: base and top. In this case, the base will glue all previous layers with the top, and the top composition will be the final material in working with the sliders. Both the base and the top must be applied thinly, because the total number of layers is already sufficient. The thicker it is, the more likely it is to reduce the manicure's wearability.

The base is applied to the slider and dried, after which the same is done with the top. However, one and the other material must not forget to walk along the end of the nail. If you plan to place rhinestones in some places of the applied slider, they are placed on the nail before drying the top. After drying, you need to fix the rhinestones by applying another layer of the top.

Working with sliders for nails is not difficult, but requires accuracy. It is important to choose the size so that the substrate does not peep out on the sides. In addition, you need to correlate the picture with the available colors of gel polishes, achieving harmonious combinations. Even a novice in nail art can apply it, but if you fix the design without following all the steps of a consistent technology, you can not count on a good result. In order not to suffer with size adjustment, you can pre-prepare a template specifically for the size of your nail and cut the sticker exactly on it, adding length.

Three ways to apply sliders are shown in the following video.