White manicure is often associated with a wedding ceremony. In fact, it is perfect for everyone: respectable ladies for an official meeting and young girls for a romantic date. Some are interested in the classic options, others - new trends in fashion and unusual images on white nails.
News and fashion trends
White manicure is always in fashion. It is in harmony with any color scheme of clothes. Color itself symbolizes purity, purity, peace, goodness, divinity and happiness. It combines all the existing colors of the light spectrum. In ancient times, white clothing personified nobility, grandeur, prosperity. Psychologists associate this color with fidelity, perfection, innocence.
It is not surprising that white manicure is becoming more widespread every year, gaining popularity with incredible speed. It looks modern, elegant and sophisticated. Sometimes they simply apply a layer of white varnish to the nails without using any additional details and shades. In this case, the nails still attract attention with their sophistication and beauty. Two conditions must first be met:
- varnish should be selected high quality;
- the nail surface must be sanded smoothly and soundly.
In this case, the varnish will cover the nail plate tightly and smoothly, without roughness. Matte plain manicure is recommended for medium-sized nails, and for short ones - it is undesirable. Despite the fact that the matte manicure looks original and beautiful, it emphasizes the aging skin of the fingers, so older ladies should not use it.
Matte white color goes well with sparkles, golden and silver stripes.The surrounding people are always impressed by the matte surface with glossy flickering splashes.
To create contrast it is very fashionable to combine a white tone with any dark color of a varnish. Black peas of different sizes on a white background are the latest fashion. All nails are covered in white, and two in black or red. An unusually bold combination with red colors looks enchanting and slightly bold.
Any decorative element applied to the nail plate gives elegance and solemnity. Various patterns, flowers, symbols look great on a white background. This season it’s fashionable to use floral design. Gentle petals, branches, greens are drawn with a thin brush using a palette for mixing paints.
The most popular recognized floral arrangements with the image of roses, tulips, sakura. Widely used oriental pattern. The print with the image of flowers for many years remains the most popular and fashionable design. There are various techniques for reproducing a floral pattern.
Very often used watercolor technique:
- the print is applied with gel paint, gel polish or watercolor, additionally decorating with various elements;
- mix colored gel with a top or base;
- draw an image with a special brush;
- shade before drying;
- Shade depth with darker colors;
- veins and contours of the flower are drawn.
Rhinestones, small beads for nails and sparkles are also in trend. Multi-colored rhinestones adorn the center and flower petals. Sometimes green crystals encrust the stem and leaves of a bud.
The design made by color translucent stained-glass gel is unusually in demand this season. The most trendy is the image of a large burgundy bud covered with purple or scarlet stained glass transparent varnish.
Beautiful embossed flowers are created using gel-paint without stickiness, carefully working out veins and framing the edges of the petals. The formation of the petal occurs by dipping into the monomer brushes for sculpting and removing the spool from the powder for modeling. Decorative molding is appropriate for various celebrations.
Fashionable, bright, beautiful, voluminous flowers can be created independently at home. First, the nail surface is covered with white gel polish, then the outline of the flower is drawn with black gel. A mixture of colored paint with acrylic sand draws petals. In conclusion, the picture is fixed with the top.
The novelty was stamp stamps, called stamping for nails, with a huge selection of designs. Their use does not require the ability to draw. The main condition: to correctly implement the technology of printing. The procedure can be carried out independently at home. Complex compositions and delicate canvases are applied easily and without extra effort.
For nail design, the use of sliders is perfect:
- cut out the desired picture;
- immersed for about 45 seconds in water;
- tweezers separate the desired fragment from the base of the sticker;
- attach the drawing to a surface coated with acrylic or gel;
- leave to dry completely;
- top coated with clear varnish.
On nails covered with the most ordinary varnish in two layers, the sliders are very easy to glue. They are applied to a dried surface with tweezers or with a stick with an adhesive side. To fix the picture, crush with a cotton swab, eliminating bumps and air bubbles. To keep the slider for a long time, a transparent lacquer-fixer is applied on top.
Classic options
French classic manicure does not go without covering the nail with white varnish. There are two options:
- wedding design involves the image of white lace, exquisite flowers, monograms;
- The second version of the classic manicure is a white jacket with a picture on the ring finger of a flower.
Classic manicure fits any length of nails.Ladies of all ages can decorate nails with a classic design for absolutely any event. In this regard, French manicure is universal. You can decorate it with rhinestones, stickers, patterns, powder, sparkles. A picture of any color looks great on a white background.
Black and white color combination is considered a classic. A chessboard, longitudinal and transverse stripes, hieroglyphs, ornaments, geometric figures, zigzag patterns are depicted on a white base of the nail. Often on a white background depict black little cats and dogs. To reproduce fine lines, veins and dots, use a thin brush or needle.
The black and white version is perfect for business meetings. Young girls and respectable ladies are happy to use it in their daily lives. Any black and white design looks original and magical.
White jacket neatly and elegantly looks on nails of any length. A white thin edging is applied to the tip of the nail, covered with a transparent, cream or pale pink varnish. French is perfectly combined with various patterns, pastes, sparkles. On short nails, a white jacket looks great in combination with drawings and sliders. Especially beautiful is the diamond-shaped ornament that visually lengthens the nail.
An attractive combination of a white nail base with a golden tone. The lunar manicure with gold splashes on a white background, recognized as a classic version, has a lot of varieties. The basal hole is white in color, and the nail plate is a different color. The white surface may have a transparent or colored root well.
Unusual design
Various patterns on a white surface look spectacular. It has already become a tradition to decorate nails for the holidays. Bright Christmas toys on a white background are painted for the New Year, hearts for Valentine's Day, a St. George ribbon for May 9, the Russian flag for June 12. The picture is placed on all nails or accentuate the attention of people, placing the picture on one, and sometimes two fingers of each hand.
Sometimes a white nail plate is decorated with soft sand and a matte top. It turns out a magnificent velvet design with amazing flowers. A manicure with a volumetric image made by gel paste is done in special cases.
The matte image with foil in the casting technique is also attractive and unusual. In this technique, special foil is used, previously dried in a lamp. First, the surfaces are treated with gel polish, then the ornament is applied with saturated gel paint. Fat-free foil is applied matte side gradually, in order to avoid the appearance of bald spots. Then the drawing is covered with two final layers of transparent varnish.
Silvery and golden stripes that can be applied using a special metallized adhesive tape look unusual on white nails. Black stripes on a white nail surface make a strong impression on others. They can be located longitudinally and transversely. Stripes of a zebra look originally on the nail. Longitudinal lines are often laid with rhinestones.
Beautiful examples for inspiration
White design looks elegant with the application of shimmering powder, crystal chips, acrylic sand and other decorating elements. Craquels are created using a special white varnish with the effect of cracks in the paint layer. A gradient manicure caresses the look. Marble nails are also very popular. On a white background, a thin brush makes stains that imitate the texture of the stone.
Thematic design is often used. In winter, snowflakes and snowmen are depicted on nails; in the spring - mimosa, snowdrops, lilies of the valley; in summer - butterflies, ladybugs, chamomiles, poppies; autumn - yellow and red leaves. For winter themes, calm tones are good, spring tones are gentle shades, summer and autumn tones are bright: turquoise, blue, green, red, pink and yellow. There is also a newspaper manicure.
The inspiration is a wide variety of images on a white background:
- flowers, twigs, trees, mushrooms, berries, fruits;
- butterflies, insects, birds, animals, fish;
- hearts, balloons, polka dots, geometric shapes;
- ornament, patterns, hieroglyphs;
- specks, stripes, dots;
- notes, anchors, steering wheel and any other thematic drawing.
You will learn how to make a white jacket in the next video.