Purple manicure: specific colors and fashion ideas

The violet color has a lot of shades in its spectrum: from spring light lilac to saturated purple shade of the southern night. Why not use all these beautiful tones in manicure? We will try to reveal several secrets about nail design in purple in our article.

The origin of lilac (it is also lilac, violet, violet, etc.) is due to the fusion of two primary colors - red and blue. By experimenting with the proportion, adding a little more red or blue, you can achieve a purple color of varying degrees of coldness. A cold tone of lilac (violet) means a predominance of blue, and a warm plum - an advantage of red tones.

Purple manicure is preferred by nature discreet, but knowing their own worth. Delicate lilac tones are suitable for romantic girls, and royal plum shades are suitable for status ladies. However, this does not mean that one must adhere to stable stereotypes. The purple color is the true color of femininity, has been relevant in clothes and accessories for several seasons, and the nail industry also follows fashion trends. Totally purple manicure or its purple accents are so diverse that every representative of the fair half of humanity should try on their image.

Before you “dress” your nails in purple tones of varnish, You need to familiarize yourself with the general principles of purple manicure.

• The colder the tone of the chosen purple varnish, the paler the skin should be. Purple color is more suitable for the cold season and for girls of the cold type of beauty.
• The violet palette will be appropriate for long and short nails, however, you need to take into account the intensity of the selected tone. For dark, saturated tones of varnish, short, small-length nails are more suitable.On long nails, dark varnish sometimes looks too extravagant.
• So that the saturated shade does not paint the nail plate, you first need to apply the base base of a transparent color.
• The shape of the nails with such a manicure should be perfect, purple manicure will emphasize any flaw in the form.

The times when women applied one tone of varnish to all nails are long gone. It is now in fashion to use several colors that are compatible with each other. The purple color in manicure can and should be combined both with calm pastel colors, and with such bright and saturated as the purple itself. Among the classic and always relevant combinations, one can note the tandem of lilac with pink, beige, black, white color of varnish. In a summer combination of yellow and lilac (dark or light), green mint with violet will look bright and bold.

Unusual, festive and precious will be a manicure in which amethyst and turquoise tones, purple and emerald, plum with gold or silver are adjacent. Recently, a very fashionable gradient manicure design (with a smooth transition from one tone to another) can be created by combining lilac with light pink, raspberry, purple. But if you do not want to experiment with different colors, you can choose a certain tone of purple, and as a highlight use its matte, metallized, powdery or glossy version on one hand.

A variety of ideas and options for manicure in lilac design excite the heads of nail stylists, whose fantasies have no limits. Let's look at the classic options and the latest innovations of the season.

• Intricate painting. To create a mixed manicure of white and purple varnish, you will need to cover your nails with white varnish, then, dipping a brush of purple varnish in the liquid to remove, draw a curved line resembling a tree branch. Mixing of white and purple varnish. To top it off, you can add several dots in white. You can also take a blue tint and experiment with drawing lines.

• Create fancy purple orchids two tones of lilac varnish will help - darker and lighter. On nails covered with a beige, white or pastel pink base, with the edge or in the center it is necessary to apply a large light lilac drop. It should be applied with a dots, but if it is not there, a cotton swab or a round tip of a pin needle will do. Then from the center of a large drop we apply dark lilac drops of a smaller diameter in the shape of a flower.

• Using dots - a nail tool that helps to create drops of different diameters, ornate lines, petals and flowers, you can come up with a lot of options for purple manicure. In this technique, it is customary to apply the base color on the entire surface of the nails, and then decorate the droplets and lines with varnish of a different tone. So, on a plum shade coating, droplets of golden or silver varnish will look great. In this case, the shape of the drops can vary from large to smaller or change their location: only on the edge of the nail or in the hole, in the form of a triangle. At home, dots can be replaced by an ordinary ballpoint pen, pencil, invisibility for hair.

• For lovers of clear lines in manicure, you need tape to implement a geometric pattern on the nails. Adhesive tape can be glued on the nails in different ways: divide the nail in half diagonally, across, in the form of triangular edges and even a square in the center. For maximum effect, you can use two or three contrasting shades. It can be lilac and white with mint green or yellow, turquoise and eggplant, black and violet, etc.

• Rub for manicure. An unusual mirror effect is created by the so-called rub for manicure, which can be created in purple design. It is not difficult to purchase a rub in modern beauty stores, and you can apply this miracle powder yourself at home.The main thing is to choose a base, in our case it is violet or lilac gel polish, as well as rubbing the desired grinding and finishing coating-top (matte or glossy if desired).

• French style lilac Suitable for every day or for the office. The edges of the nails can be decorated with a square "smile" or oval. Stick the stencil or tape of the desired shape on the fingernail painted with the main coating (amethyst, light beige, pink), and after drying paint the edges on the stencil (black, blue or white or dark purple). The “inverted jacket” will also look original, when a “smile” at the base of the nail is painted with a contrasting color using a stencil.

• Create Gradient Manicure with smooth transitions at home, you can do it yourself with a regular sponge. Stripes (falling on each other) of two or three tones of varnish, combining with each other, are simultaneously applied to it. From the sponge, the pattern is imprinted on the nails, while in order to avoid fingerprints on the skin, stick the skin around the fingers with adhesive tape.

• Stamping manicure help create any desired pattern or pattern on one or more nails. On painted nails with a base coat of dark or light purple tones, you need to print a special manicure stamp with a pattern or pattern. A stamp is applied in a contrasting tone varnish from the base varnish, gold or silver patterns against a purple background will look great.

• Fringing or circled manicure. Its essence is in coloring the nail around the perimeter in a tone contrasting to the main one. To make such a manicure in a lilac design, you should paint your nails with the main varnish of violet tone, wait until it dries completely, then with a thin brush in the shape of the nail make a contrasting accent. Any colors are chosen, most importantly, their competent selection. If you wish, you can make a full border and walk the brush along the entire nail, repeating its shape, but you can leave the border on only three sides around the perimeter of the cuticle. For the upcoming holiday, ornaments in the form of rhinestones will be useful in such a manicure. Remember that decorating with rhinestones manicure should be in moderation, only one or two nails.

About how to do a manicure with a fringe, you will learn in the next video.