When the design of a manicure gives preference to dark tones of the color palette, one has to approach the issue of decoration thoroughly. This is due to the fact that overly bright and catchy contrasts can create a visual imbalance, simplifying the nobility and status of manicure. Read about how to achieve harmony in the design and decoration of dark manicure.
Nuances of color solutions
Dark shades of the color palette differ in perception from light analogues. If the latter fill the image with lightness and airiness, and also fit almost all wardrobe items, dark tones oblige to certain images and style. They especially need expressiveness of design, because even the slightest excess of decor will affect not only the appearance of nails, but also on the whole.
These tones are not suitable for all age categories of women. As a rule, they are chosen either for evening additions to the image, or as a way to attract attention. It is difficult to call them suitable for very young girls. Of course, it looks beautiful on models and covers of fashion magazines, but in everyday life it is perceived differently.
These are mature, juicy and sensual colors that are difficult to fit in adolescents' onions., even if in their outfits there are related tones. This palette includes black and blue, purple, chocolate, maroon, maroon, emerald black, dark gray tones of the color palette. In addition, each color may differ in temperature, giving off warmth or cold. To rid the tones of the visual effect of gravity, you have to beat the design with different techniques, complementing with suitable contrasts and decor.
Execution techniques
Consider the possibilities of visual ennoblement of dark manicure, due to which it can be made more appropriate in the images of women of different age groups. It is important to understand that these will be some kind of brighteners or softening paints, due to which the dark color will be perceived softer and more tender.
If we consider the classic manicure, then it more than others needs accents that distract attention from the dark background. To make the dark foundation more expressive, you can use, for example, a rub. It will allow you to take a fresh look at the depth and beauty of the color used, forcing it to play with different overflows. A coating with a metallic effect will be no less interesting if you decorate it with accent nails of dark manicure.
The design in the gradient technique, made with a smooth stretch from dark to light, looks softer. This design is suitable for all, without exception, modern women. It looks especially harmonious if it is made in related shades of the color palette. Filled with femininity and harmony, snow-type designs that use acrylic powder.
In addition to the usual sprinkling, this powder allows you to create different decorative elements. It is often used for classic manicure, performing lace patterns and imitation of frosty patterns and snowflakes on the surface of accented nail plates. And if this pattern is also silvered from above, then the gloomy base of the manicure will look very different, acquiring the missing lightness.
One of the best techniques designed for dark tones is the “veil” or “nylon” design. Not a single light coating is capable of conveying that beauty and airiness of a translucent design with a delicate pattern, as black, violet, dark blue and velvet-burgundy tones of the color palette do. Moreover, such a design is suitable for both mature women and young girls.
Decoration Nuances
Decorating a dark manicure is a creative task that allows you to show a sense of taste and style. If someone says that it is impossible to think up anything better than rhinestones and stones for dark pigmented coatings, then this is a deep misconception. There are many possibilities for decorating accent nails to give dark tones more expressiveness and elegance.
However, one cannot fail to note the fact that rhinestones and crystals can contribute to the decoration of dark manicure. Only now, if they are not dosed, then they can make even expensive and effective design cheap and vulgar. Any composition, consisting of a placer of stones and rhinestones, covering almost half of the nail, has long been considered a sign of bad taste.
If you want to decorate your nails with rhinestones, it is better to perform a small arch near the cuticle area or to mask the joint of two contrasting tones. In addition, you can use them as a single accent. An alternative to rhinestones is kamifubuki, with which you can give a different emotional color to a dark manicure.
One of the best decorating techniques is hand painting. Against a dark background, she looks particularly expressive, adding design shades of tenderness and grace. This is what changes the perception of design and allows you to decorate the nails of young women. The best drawings on a dark background are lace, as well as flowers made a shade several tones lighter than the original background color.
By the way, the center of lace flowers are ideal places for fixing small rhinestones. The main thing is that there are not many of them (two tiny sequins will be quite enough for one accent nail). In addition to floral motifs, you can decorate a dark manicure with an ornament in a geometric style. At the same time, you can choose different figures, perform them in a French, moon design.
A pattern on a dark background, made of silver lines with white contrast, will look beautiful. You can add light contrast to silver in a tone related to the main pigment. For example, chocolate manicure can be decorated with beige stripes or peas, straight and hollow triangles. The color of Marsala can be decorated with light powdery contrast and silver.
No less expressive is considered a manicure with foil tape. Such a decor allows you to perform a traditional jacket, decorate accent nail plates with transverse or vertical stripes, and create complex geometric patterns. Even one strip on a dark background is enough to make the design look more impressive and expressive.
Alternative to drawings
Dark manicure can take on a different look if embellished with stamping. This type of decoration is a finished plate made of metal with an engraved pattern of various subjects. As a rule, stamping is distinguished by the accuracy and clarity of the lines of the picture, often it consists of the smallest details assembled into a single composition. Unlike the picture, this decor is flat and thinner. On the nails, it looks gentle and beautiful.
It is noteworthy that stamping can significantly reduce the time for drawing a pattern. It is applied with a contrasting varnish and a roller, which is rolled over an accent nail. As in the case of hand drawings, stamping also provides for decorating the pattern. To do this, you can use the smallest kamifubuki, rhinestones or just dots drawn in gold, silver.
Stickers for dark tones have to be selected especially carefullyso that against the background of the main varnish they look harmonious and appropriate. The options are beautiful in related tones that adorn the design accents. This decoration of manicure today is one of the best. Recently, roll-type sliders have appeared that have a transparent backing. They perfectly fit on the pigmented layer and allow you to make lightness in the design of your fingernails.
Tricks of the Masters
There are tricks that allow you to stretch even the most concise manicure. It is also important to know the mistakes that are made during the design of nails of a dark color. For example, any design stands out against a dark background. But if there is a lot of decor, even a stylish solution with a noble texture of the coating will turn into motley without expressiveness and taste.
You can not decorate a dark coating with all the colors of the palette at the same time. It is important to dose the amount of contrasts, as well as to avoid unacceptable color combinations (for example, combinations with acid and poisonous tones that literally cut into the eyes).
If you want to create a special and status design, you can experiment with the contrast of matte and glossy textures. For example, middle and nameless nails can be painted with a matte pigment, and the rest with gloss. Stripes can be depicted on two accents with a matte finish: say, on average, a few vertical ones on the side. On the ring finger, draw strips crosswise and decorate the place of their connection with a strass or crystal in the form of a small rectangle (imitating a buckle).
When performing a manicure design, try to take into account one rule: registration of accents on one hand should not be completely the same. This is not only ugly, but also deprives the decor of status, because everything is unique - unique. Yes, the theme of drawings or other decor may be similar, but not copying each other.
Based on the classic design, you can create just one accent on each hand by completing two nails, for example, using the diagonal gradient technique. Adding white color to the stretch of tones, you can get an elegant and stylish design. At the same time, no other decorations are needed: white color will bring premium notes to the design better than a complex print.
Even a pattern of contrasting peas in the lunar design, put by a dot on the nails of the ring fingers, will “stretch” the dark base, giving it sophistication.If you want a knitted texture, you can use modeling gel or flock powder. Whatever decor is chosen as the basis for decorating nails, keep in mind that what is not so noticeable on a light background will be striking in the dark. Before fixing the decorative element, attach it to the dark background of your manicure. Sometimes this helps to avoid design errors.
Choosing a darker contrast to the dark color of the varnish, do not forget to soften this combination with a light shade. It should not be much, but two dark colors can make the design visually heavier. Sometimes even three rhinestones or a kamifubuki circle can change the perception of dark duets for the better. Tones should be selected to each other so that they do not compete with each other, and therefore it is worth shading one from the other with texture, combining, for example, gloss and matte, shimmer and matte, powder and gloss.
See how to make a dark manicure with your own hands in the next video.
