Today it is difficult to find a woman who would not like a manicure of a calm color. The uniqueness of such tones lies in the fact that, with all their tenderness, they can make a design special without shouting about it. However, these shades also have their own characteristics, the knowledge of which will allow using calm colors for different bows.
Features
The calm colors of the color palette include natural, nude and pastel colors. Shades themselves can have different temperatures, as well as the degree of saturation. This allows you to successfully fit them into a specific style, taking into account the related tones of the things in the wardrobe. As a rule, most calm shades go well with dark contrasts and neutral colors, which include white, gray and black.
However, when it comes to choosing the shape and length of the nails, it may turn out that the same color looks completely different on the nails of different shapes. Pastel and flesh tones, with all their nobility, visually expand the nail plates and are able to create the effect of their shortening. Therefore, they are better suited for medium-long nails. At the same time, calm tones look no less harmonious on long nails.
The best color combinations
This year, fashion believes that using more than three shades in the design is undesirable. In this case, calm colors will be the best background for further decoration or changing the texture. Combinations of nude and white do not go out of fashion. Today it is considered a very stylish solution, as well as replacing the nude one with a flesh-colored or even pinkish-lilac one.
Often, black is added to the design to emphasize a calm background. Even a laconic pattern, made by him alone, looks more stylish than a stained glass drawing, replete with variegated colors. It is fashionable to combine related tones, while emphasizing some contrast.
Everything else should not distract attention from him, but because the design of the remaining nails looks better in the classical technique or one of the varieties of the jacket.
The best combinations of colors in pastel, calm colors include combinations:
- grayish-pistachio and peach-pink;
- powdery, smoky gray and white;
- bluish and bodily;
- peach and white;
- marble and pearl blue;
- blue-gray with white and pink;
- bleached mint with white and silver.
In addition, a manicure looks beautiful, made in a combination of coffee with white and flesh tones. It is fashionable to combine lilac varnish with pink and blue with milk. At the same time, accents can be placed with both white and silver varnish. The black print changes the mood of the design; it makes it elegant or even solemn.
Used Techniques
Manicure in calm colors can be performed on the basis of different techniques. For example, one of them is a classic. You can paint 8 out of 10 nails with one color, and for accents, choose a contrasting shade of varnish. If you do not want to use only one color in a manicure, you can take two or even three, but at the same time they should be combined with each other. Looks good in classic manicure tones of a sister group.
You can take as a basis a French manicure, and accents to perform in a classical manner. For example, lace motifs across the entire area of accent nails will look beautiful in such a design. Monogram accents look no less interesting; this print theme is ideal for light and gentle tones of a calm group. In addition, the jacket is an excellent base for geometric designs.
A chic decision today claiming to be the pinnacle of design art in nail art is to perform a moon manicure with holes in the style of geometry. Narrow triangular lunulae, extending from the base of accent nails to the upper edge, visually lengthen not only the nails themselves, but also refine the fingers. A manicure with holes in calm colors looks beautiful when it is made using the negative space technique or creates the effect of layering a geometric figure on an overgrown nail.
The design in the gradient technique will look especially gentle. Such a manicure today is considered one of the best, while it can be not only vertical. Cross and even diagonal stretching of flowers is in fashion. The ombre effect can also be created with the help of temperature varnish, although there is a more gentle option: the technique of the veil. The transition in it begins from a translucent base and ends with a dense pigment.
Design ideas
Today, the variability of manicure in soothing colors allows you to decorate your image with the most delicate and extraordinary solutions. For example, it is fashionable to indicate in a design its belonging to a particular time of the year or even a month. For summer, this can be expressed in floral or floral themes, in winter you can bet on the cold colors of the palette. Even a laconic spikelet on a ring finger will indicate an autumn design. In the spring, you can depict icicles on the accent nail of a jacket.
You can play on the texture of gentle pastel coatings, using different powders, each of which is able to change the texture of varnish in its own way. For example, acrylic sand can accent glossy or voluminous. Such powders are used to create volumetric patterns. Let's say they can create the texture of a knitted sweater, depict snow, powder or even flower pollen, give volume to the middle of the flower.
Especially good for calm and bright tones are the so-called rubs. This acrylic powder is able to matte a light dried gel polish.It, depending on the variety, can make a regular pigment nacreous, metallic, textile, velvety. In bright colors, it looks amazing, while the rub can be an intermediate element, because often they draw on it, work with stencils, stamping and acrylic sand.
The design of accent nails turns out to be incredibly beautiful when they are distinguished with a special manicure film. This design is called "broken glass." Due to the light color, it looks very beautiful and really resembles a broken glass. You can decorate accents with a special foil ribbon, using special glue for it.
Decor Nuances
There can be many ideas for a manicure design in soothing colors. So that such a manicure does not lose its tenderness and sophistication, it is worth considering the nuances of its decoration:
- you can not use more bright pigment in the design of nails;
- the volume created by multiple layering of stamping patterns in different colors is undesirable;
- ugly drawings look in different subjects on adjacent nails;
- you need to correlate the purpose of manicure with the inner world of a woman, this is the basis of a harmonious complement to the image;
- rhinestones on accent nails are attached pointwise and dosed, maximum, they can decorate three out of ten nails;
- cloning of the print is excluded, it is important to consider its direction on two hands;
- the lower the gloss, the better, more important is the bet on the noble texture of the varnish, rather than filling the plate with a shimmer and glitter;
- hand-painted should be beautiful, inept and uneven lines spoil the look of manicure.
It is important to consider the perception of color and pattern.
For example, black color makes the design luxurious, but it can remove the lightness that is inherent in light and calm tones. Silver looks great coupled with light and delicate tones, but looks better in the form of a contour stroke than in the form of a full fill of the nail. Multi-colored flowers are capable of introducing folklore notes into the design; one flower, even without coloring, will look perfect on a calm background.
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