Silver manicure: decor features and fashion trends

Glitter always gives charm and mystery, so silver manicure is popular with women of any age. This trendy nail art goes well with dresses that have a transfusion effect and looks beautiful with dresses and trousers. Today, such a design is easy to create at home using silver varnish, foil or sequins.

Silver manicure is considered one of the innovations in the modern nail industry. Girls most often choose it for the solemn design of nails, while silver trim has found wide application in everyday looks.

This design combines several stylistic trends. It can be performed by various techniques for applying drawings and lines of silver color. Marigolds also look original, in which the plates are covered with a uniform color and fine shiny pollen.

For some women, this nail art is associated with nobility and chic, while others consider it too defiant and impudent. Despite this, silver manicure is becoming more and more popular every season, as it is ideal for both short and long nails. You can also get an interesting composition on plates of any shape.

A silver design for celebrating a birthday, wedding, New Year's Eve or for a romantic dinner with a loved one in a restaurant is considered a good choice. For everyday life, it is recommended to design nail art differently, choosing modest silver patterns or sparkles. Enhance the effect of glitter on the nails in this case, you can use accessories such as bracelets and rings. To make "smart" nail art a joy for a long time, manicure is best done with gel polish.

Silver color belongs to the cold palette, so it is unobtrusively and stylishly combined with any style and shade of clothing. Many designers consider silver to be the main component of the bow of a modern girl. In addition, a similar shade is in perfect harmony with all colors of the gamut. Particularly ideal is its combination with individual colors.

• With black. Silver-black nail art can be used both for evening strict attire, and for everyday decoration.
• With gray. This combination gives elegance and is often chosen to create a classic jacket.
• With blue. In this case, the metallic color softens the contrasting tone.
• With white. Combining these two shades, you can get an airy and unusually gentle manicure. The white-silver version is most often chosen for brides.

In addition, silver can be applied on a lilac or mint background, making it the central element of the composition. Solid purple nails decorated with chaotic lines or patterns with sparkles also look good. You can also paint the plates with metallic varnish and supplement them with a silver polish. The only thing that designers do not recommend using a gold coating in such a manicure, since these two types of metal do not harmonize well and look ridiculous on nails.

Silver design of nails is usually used for two-tone and monotonous manicure. For example, a jacket designed on the main part of the plate in monochrome shades and a smile favorably emphasized by a matte silver texture will be an ideal solution. A combination of French manicure on short and medium nail plates with sparkles also looks beautiful.

As for the decor, it is undesirable to decorate this manicure with rhinestones, since they can get lost on a bright background. They are best replaced with an image in the form of geometric shapes, or create a beautiful pattern made of rhinestones on a red or white coating.

• Spangles. They are applied to the nails using an adhesive applicator. To do this, previously applied to the surface of the plate colored varnish or base. Small decorative particles quickly stick to the base, and they are fixed with a top. Sequins of sequins look beautiful in fashionable manicure, they are placed in such a way that the number of sequins gradually increases from the base of the nail to its end. Each of the above materials provides an amazing effect and is characterized by unique features.

• Mirror rubbing. It is an aluminum powder that is rubbed into the coating with a finger or sponge. Such decor, as a rule, is made out on a color basis made with simple varnish or gel varnish. To get a sticky layer, you need to apply a special top on the nails. The result of design depends on the harmony of colors. So, silver pigment will look differently on a white, bright red or black background.

• Mica. It has a dry and layered structure that looks like a natural material. She is considered an ideal raw material for creating a silver manicure. To make such a decor, it is necessary to prepare the nail plates well, cover them with a base and dry in a UV lamp. Then the nails are sequentially stained with color gel polish in several layers, each of which is individually dried. Using an orange stick, mica elements are placed on a sticky surface and gently pressed, controlling that they do not go beyond the borders of the nail. After the original pattern is ready, the plate is wrapped in film and placed in a lamp for drying for 30 seconds, at the end the film is removed, and the nail is additionally covered with a finishing agent.

• Bouillon They are small round balls of silver color. To create a design, it is better to choose the smallest elements, this will help make the manicure more delicate and stylish. They are placed either on a sticky varnish layer, or make the base of gel polish. Then the patterns are fixed with a fixer, gently pressed to the surface of the nail and dried in a UV lamp. At the end of the broth, it is necessary to fix and polymerize again.

• Foil. It is widely used in silver nail art, as it looks impressive and is easy to apply. This material is fixed to the nail plate with a special glue. In this case, before the process begins, the surface of the nail must be covered with a base. To extend the effect of such a manicure, the foil is covered with a top, but the gloss effect may be slightly lost.

• With the effect of broken glass. The eccentricity and originality of the everyday image can be given to compositions in the form of fragments, they are perfectly combined with silver shades. Such a manicure looks like an image of a broken mirror. At the same time, the fragments look unusual both on a light and on a dark background.
• Prism. Silver nails, decorated with small shiny elements, will not leave indifferent any girl. The holographic pattern in this case is obtained with the help of a special pigment, which ideally fits on any basis. This nail art is best used for an evening look.

• Manicure with inserts. In this and future seasons, non-monotonous design is considered relevant, so silver inserts can be a great decoration. They decorate not only smile lines, holes, but also lay out various symbols and geometric shapes.

• Thermofilm. Its use is quite simple. First of all, the nail plate must be well cleaned and degreased, then the film is heated under the lamp for about 2 minutes and applied to the nails. The material should evenly spread over the entire surface, so if there are uneven places, they need to be straightened, and the excess cut off with scissors.
• Stripes. To date, on sale you can find various types of stripes. For design with the effect of silver, the ones that most often use geometric patterns with smooth edges are most often used. They are first glued, then removed. In addition, those strips that are glued and coated with a finishing agent are well suited for decor.

Recently, many girls prefer to do silver manicure on their own, since everyone can cope with the technique of applying such a decor. To create a beautiful design, it is enough to use a special varnish and decorate the nails with sequins, sparkles or beads.

Distinguish an unusual nail art this season will help a few new ideas.

• Silver manicure. This is the most fashionable design in which the nail plates are coated with a plain metallic varnish. At the same time, a silver hue can be both the basis and the finish. Gentle patterns with sparkles will also help to add chic.
• Manicure with varnish. The best choice for a modern look is a metal coating on the nails.Silver lacquer can be both a finish and a base. Additional use of material with sparkles is also allowed.

• Decoration with silver stripes. This trend has been popular for many seasons in a row. Stylists offer to perform decor vertically, horizontally and diagonally. Both simple elements and complex ones in the form of geometric shapes can act as compositions. This option is ideal for french in soft and pastel colors, and also looks great in combination with juicy summer flowers.
• Silver-gold design. Given the fashion trends, these two precious metals cannot be combined with each other, but such a solution is allowed in the style of nail art. To emphasize the nobleness of the shades, the masters recommend covering their hands with different colors, decorating the nails with drawings and patterns.

In the next video you will find five ways to make a mirror metal manicure.