The desire of a woman to prove herself, to show her personality is quite natural. I want to be special and attractive to everyone. Often, in the search for the most stylish image, attention falls on the details and, as an option, on the manicure. Nail decoration today is a special kind of art. And if you choose the right design, the result will not be long in coming. The material of this article will tell about what is fashionable in nail art today, what are the actual color solutions and shapes of nails, and much more.
News and fashion trends
A modern look at nail trends opens up a ton of possibilities for adding notes of high status and sophistication to your bow. The approach of the new season will be marked by a focus on minimalism in everything. This is the decor, and the number of different textures in the design, and even the number of shades. It was not without reason that fashion chose this solution: getting rid of variegation, design gains expressiveness.
More than ever, it is important that the basis of design is a status background. Fashion emphasizes: you do not need to cover your nails with too much decor or layering prints, covering the base. This is ugly, so the background varnish is lost in the design, and the abundance of variegation does not catch the eyes of others. What can we say about beauty, when each nail vying screams about its decor, competing with a neighboring one.
Fashion offers to turn to a careful selection of the main tone and think carefully about the coatings that would look with it not only harmoniously, but also appropriately.It is important that the design is suitable for a specific purpose, and this can only be done by getting rid of everything superfluous. Selectable tones should be noble and muffled. However, their degree of saturation can be completely different, like the temperature of the tone.
A new trend was the seasonality of design. This is necessarily a certain season or even a specific month. Festive design is also welcome: New Year, Christmas, March, as well as various marshmallow themes for Valentine's Day. Seasonality should be expressed not only in the choice of shades, it is important to indicate it through decor or drawing.
For example, for some celebrations it can be inlays with stones, opals, Swarovski crystals and liquid stones are in fashion. Pebbles can and should be decorated with a design for publication, at a wedding, a gala event. But you need to do this correctly, because not every holiday needs to cover their nails with solid inlay. Fashionable dot arrangement of sparkling decor. Let's say it looks better in the amount of several pieces of a tiny size in the cuticle area than on the entire nail.
The innovation was the reduction in the number of accents and the determination of their places. The best option is to perform a manicure accent on the nails of the ring fingers. Such designs are distinguished by the expressiveness of the design due to its contrast with the main background. If two accents are not enough, they are increased to three to four, completing the design on neighboring (medium) nail plates.
Today's design option is a composite design or print, located on two (rarely three) adjacent nails. At the same time, it is important that when performing a composite drawing (for example, a city landscape, sketches of a night city, a girl with dandelion umbrellas), the main background is visible. It is this nuance that determines the ease of design, which is what the basis of fashion trends strives for.
The main trends that give the design notes of luxury and sophisticated taste have been identified. This is, first of all, the direction of design towards the feminine. Aesthetics of design is important, taking into account the size and shape of the plates with the dimensions of the pattern or fixed decor. It is important that everything looks balanced and harmonious.
The favorites among the decorative material were determined. Today it is a variety of powders with which you can change the original type of texture used coating. This is acrylic powder and rubbing. Regarding the latter, it is worth highlighting the varieties “mermaid” (pearl with overflows), “May bug” (under the shell of an insect) and “northern lights” (the effect of rainbow overflows).
One of the trends is yuki mica flake material. Using it, you can diversify any type of surface, while the effect of the material will vary depending on the intensity of processing of the working coating. Holographic letters are popular, Japanese kamifubuki, which can modify any manicure technique, have been erected in a cult. Topical coverings with various unusual effects (flowering, stained glass).
Creative directions in design are placed in a separate linewho are able to please and surprise even the most shocking fashionistas. Despite the fact that a separate branch cannot be called comfortable in everyday life, this design is so creative that it becomes a catchy object of general attention. This is an unusual form (dough, fingernails, daggers, fingernails), and a weird decor (noses with a mustache, faces with hair, pieces of fur, pompons, LEDs, small insects).
Actual color combinations
This season, the choice of one or another contrast solution will depend on seasonality. In this case, the saturation of shades can be very diverse. For example, bright and dark colors of the palette are especially relevant now. This is necessarily wine and burgundy, emerald and eggplant, plum and marsala.These tones add notes of luxury and high status to the bow.
Especially relevant today is the nude scale. Shades of beige and pink tones are an excellent basis for design in various techniques. In addition, the nude is perfectly combined with any color of the palette, whether it is a light pigment or a bright and saturated contrast. Its combination with neutral colors of the palette (white, black and gray) is also relevant. In addition, nude tones look good with a shimmer (silver and gold), such combinations are at the peak of popularity today.
Depending on the chosen manicure technique, you can use related tones of the same color in the design. For example, according to this principle, a gradient from finger to finger is being created today. Discrepancies between tones should be small so that against the general background the design has a smooth stretch of shades. The use of contrasting combinations of three tones is also allowed.
The actual contrast today is a duet of gray-pink and powdery (or white). At the same time, to soften the contrast on a white background, almost always perform a drawing using a leading shade of manicure. It is fashionable to combine red with white, powder with bronze covering the black substrate. If, at the same time, you still use a matte coating with velor effect as the basis, then such a design will be not only status, but also trendy.
In order not to puzzle in the search for the most stylish combination, you can resort to the spectacular options that the mod offers. For example, combinations will look pretty pretty:
- here and the black veil;
- black with turquoise-beige print;
- pink with blue and satin rub;
- lavender with pale pink and mint;
- black with greenish-blue holography;
- pink with lilac accents;
- white with blue contrast;
- cold and warm pink;
- black with green and white print;
- creamy with lilac;
- coral with peach and black;
- black print emerald;
- Marsala with black;
- aubergine with powdery accents.
The popularity of powdery shades is explained by their soft softening of any tone. Without too much scream, they balance the contrast, making it more interesting and elegant. That is why powdery tones today are more relevant in duets than combinations of the same bright colors with white. As for the black color, it can be added to any paint, but it is necessary to evaluate the amount of dark pigment, because when it is small, it emits a background companion, and with a large amount it suppresses colored varnish.
Popular shades of pastel colors. These are light pink, blue, lilac, cream, milk tones. In addition to them, the popular shades are light mint and turquoise. Often they are combined into one design, which looks quite beautiful and fresh. Of the bright colors, raspberries and the color of fresh greens are worth noting. By the way, green shades today are becoming very popular. In winter, they are chosen mainly in the cold range, warm ones will be more appropriate in the summer.
Length and shape of nails
The new season pleases modern fashionistas by the fact that we finally returned to the smoothness of shape and average length. More recently, fashionistas had to rush between short and long options. This made it difficult to choose a harmonious shade, since on long nails he sometimes looked defiant. Today, fashion suggests choosing a middle ground, considering that the ideal length of the overgrown edge of the nail is an indicator of 0.5-0.7 cm.
Indeed, this length is convenient in everyday life, it is more resistant to brittleness and injury. And if you can’t grow your nails, you can resort to building. Today this procedure is quite high quality and allows you to get the nails of the desired shape due to the use of the desired type of forms or tips. Artificial nails can be worn without correction for about 2-3 weeks (depends on the growth rate of the nail plates).
As for the form, fashion has chosen its favorites, inviting its fans, keeping their finger on the pulse of new trends, to choose their option from the top three. The best type is recognized as marigolds in the form of a rounded square. They look aesthetically pleasing and beautiful. Based on this form, you can perform all, without exception, manicure techniques, including classics, two varieties of service jackets, a version with holes, a gradient, powder, a veil, and broken glass.
The same can be said of the almond-shaped nails, which triumphantly returned to fashion this season. Their smooth edges are combined with any technique and theme. This opens up a lot of opportunities for creating designs tailored to a specific clothing style and purpose. Today, almonds are quite feminine, it has a rounded tip, which is good in everyday life. Such nails will not cling to objects, and this is important for the wear of the coating.
The third place went to oval nails. To date, they are recognized as an indisputable classic that suits most women and does not force them to limit themselves in choosing one or another manicure design. In addition, the round shape of the region is quite feminine, which is especially important for the image of a modern woman. All known design techniques are available to oval nails; this form visually ennobles not only the nail plates, but also the fingers themselves.
Classic Design Ideas
Among a wide variety of fashion offers its fans a number of options with an emphasis on classics. In this line you can conditionally include classic solutions for every day and design, refusing abundant decoration. Today, fashion has many tools through which it is possible to make status even the usual classic manicure, which is a laconic nail painting in one color.
For example, it can be a smooth gradient stretch. Moreover, you can move away from the prevailing stereotypes and perform not only the vertical or horizontal option, but also the transition from nail to nail. If this seems boring, you can please yourself with a laconic design in the form of a modest geometric figure with a stretch of selected shades located inside it. Such a design will look mega cool, despite all its simplicity.
You can rub the satin rub in the glossy finish, which not only mats the surface of all the nails, but ennobles it with a weightless veil, reducing the usual glossy shine. The rubbing can also refine the jacket, which today is equated with classic designs and confidently rests on the crest of a fashion wave since its inception, and this is already 40 years old. You can apply a light mother-of-pearl veil on a transparent coat of a jacket.
An insanely beautiful design is considered to be a reverse jacket with a velvety texture and a thin line of a smile extending from the base of the nail plate and almost to its very top. Also, a manicure with a game of texture with the same background color and contrast is considered a laconic, but very effective design. In this case, you can take a matte gel polish as a basis, and make a smile gloss. Such a design looks unrealistically beautiful and effective in the women's set.
You can take the jacket as a basis and fulfill it with unusual types of gel polish. For example, designing a service jacket with a base in the form of a magnetic gel polish will turn out to be very bright and status. You can smile at him with a glossy pigment a couple of tones brighter than the selected background. Even in black, such a manicure will fascinate the eyes of others.
If you want something more spectacular, you can use stained glass type coatings that can create a depth effect. Despite the fact that they are more often used for design accents, applied in a thin layer over a dark substrate, they will look very catchy.By the way, these coatings can be combined with each other on top of a dark substrate, thereby creating the ombre effect, which today is considered one of the trends in design.
Manicure options with decor and drawings
Decorating nails with different techniques allows you to decorate the design and convey the mood of a woman. Decor tools for this season are very diverse, from powder materials and all kinds of sugars to dried flowers, small shells, confetti and even ordinary sand.
Judging by the fact that the most expensive manicure today is the option with hand-painted, it is precisely it that is considered the best way to introduce the necessary themes into the design. Moreover, such drawings are always unique and have no repetitions. As a rule, art painting involves the execution of the main drawing and two minor ones, through which they create a connection between the accent and the background of the remaining nails. If we talk about the topic, then these are necessarily animal prints and birds of paradise, such drawings today are at the peak of popularity.
Mega-effect drawing with water-based artistic watercolor. With its help, nail service professionals create real masterpieces of tiny size, not inferior to the paintings of many artists. A very popular design is floral and floral themes. At the same time, to create the effect of lightness, the master only emphasizes the contours of the drawing in some places, using not one, but several tones of various dark colors for this.
The technique with spreading effect is in demand. Such accents are created through a special base and similar varnishes. Drawings on nails are obtained from ordinary lines, dots and commas. In this case, the flowering effect can be stopped in the lamp, achieving the desired result. After tracing some contours and adding rhinestones, the print takes on a special look.
An extremely popular design option is created through slider design. These are water pictures with a different (color or transparent) background, which can cover the entire surface of an accent nail or a small part of it. The best and perhaps the most stylish options for such decor today are prints of a diagonal cage with silver, dream catchers, ethnic ornaments, a variety of lace and mesh with curls. The Scandinavian theme of patterns and geometry, mehendi and dot prints are relevant.
One of the stylish design techniques is geometry, made using the negative space technique. Such a manicure involves decorating accent nail plates directly on top of the unpainted part of the nail. It looks especially beautiful if the design uses the texture of bronze or silver. You can decorate nails with rhinestones on a transparent background, mixing them with broths for greater aesthetics of inlay.
One of the most spectacular decoration tools is transfer or tear-off foil. With its help, you can create unique nail designs. At the same time, this type of foil is very harmonious in combination with a slider design in the form of an application with a transparent substrate. You can use foil for the design of manicure, made in different techniques.
Design for teens
Today, fashion has provided a stylistic approach to design for different age groups, without ignoring youth subcultures. For example, you can decorate the nails in the themes of glamor, retro, Gothic. Regarding the latter option, it is worth considering its craving for everything bright and catchy. This is exactly the case when a bunch of prints and color brightness is considered the peak of perfection.
Gothic design, contrasting everything with its visual depressiveness, adheres to dark and even gray-black tones with gloomy theme of drawings. These are skulls (often for some reason decorated with flowers, daggers and snakes), strange images of cemeteries, spiders, cobwebs, birds on a gray background, a certain symbolism.The solution, of course, is not the most feminine and attractive, but such a design today has its fans.
The kawaii theme is megaware for young people, characterized by a craving for everything pretty. This is manifested in the choice of shades and patterns. As for the tones, these are more often pastel or the so-called marshmallow shades (pink, lilac, bluish, mint). The prints of this design are also specific: they are sometimes puppet-like. These are all kinds of sweets, kittens, bears, pandas, emoticons, bunnies, drawings in the style of cute anime chibi characters with a big head, small arms, legs and a body. A feature of this design is the low dosage of accents. Sometimes there are five or more of them in the design, and on each nail, characters that are not connected to each other can be depicted.
Speaking of youth design, one cannot but mention logomania. Today it is a trend in youth manicure, which indicates the high status of its owner among his peers. Often, a laconic, it would seem, logo of a certain brand works real miracles, pulling to the highest level the most common monophonic solution. Indeed, even a couple of letters of a certain trademark, inlaid with just one rhinestone or crystal, prompts you to take a fresh look at such a design.
Among other design, it should be noted and options with a school or student bias. Nails decorated with mathematical or other formulas, letters, some inscriptions, hieroglyphs look very stylish and spectacular. They attract the views of others, which is liked by fashionistas who adore being in the spotlight.
I really like teenage girls, and adult girls, the theme of a variety of hearts, love stories made on nails. It is created through prints or slider design. In addition to her, young people prefer to use fimo in their design (decorative elements cut from a long stick, for example, in the form of tiny fruits). Also, modern youth manicure tends to copy the design of accessories or even some specific items (say, a beautiful pen with a pattern, handbags, shoe decor, or even elastic for hair).
Examples for inspiration
Nothing demonstrates the beauty and possibilities of manicure design as illustrative examples. Let's turn to the best ideas that can inspire the creation of your masterpiece.
- A very bright design with stars on an orange background will decorate the bow of an extraordinary youth personality. The matte texture of the main coating brings a special status to the design.
- A delicate solution in blue tones with a floral accent. Great design, able to convey the sophistication of nature.
- Bright manicure in pink with black contrast and sparkles cannot be disliked by modern fashionistas. With all the simplicity of the design, it looks very impressive and memorable.
- An example with a combination of different textures and accentuation of manicure with a delicate floral pattern. The design uses the technique of the point arrangement of rhinestones.
- Another glitter solution, this time in dark colors. A good choice of print for an accent nail plate. Using a modeling tool to create the effect of dew drops on a flower.
- Bright and quite effective design, made using the technique of spot drawing. An excellent reception for creating a design for wardrobe accessories.
- The technique of “broken glass” in all its glory. The use of gentle pastel colors, inlaid with stones and lace. Somewhat complicated, but very beautiful and feminine option.
- One of the most stylish designs to date. Stretching the jacket on a vertical strip over the main background. Use a trendy shade of eggplant in a duet with a warm yellow companion.
- A good example of a finger to finger gradient.Decoration of the main technique with voluminous lace created using acrylic powder. Diagonal inlay accents.
- Pale pink manicure with acrylic shiny sugar and voluminous pattern. A harmonious solution that can ennoble a female set. Used themes of lace leaves.
- Spectacular evening manicure in black with beige contrast. Beautiful decoration with lace and stones will decorate the dress for publication.
- Juicy manicure for the summer in orange and yellow tones with an orange print. Passed juiciness of fruit, a successful addition to the design of transparent volumetric drops.
- Mint marshmallow manicure with voluminous knitted pattern and painting. This design is sure to appeal to adolescents who love everything kawaii.
- The geometry, which is located on a translucent gradient of accent nails, looks unrealistically stylish. Thin lines that create a concise pattern make the design light.
- Lilac-pink manicure with a gradient and geometric ornaments, made under the stained glass version. Combination of classical and lunar techniques.
- Unusual moonlight manicure for the summer with a butterfly accent on a solid background and tiny black rhinestones. Due to the negative space technique, lightness has been conveyed. A simple pattern on the main background and realistic print increase the status of the design.
- A spectacular ombre in an eggplant hue is complemented by just one accent in the form of a plate inlay with sparkling crystals.
- Incredibly feminine design with stucco volumetric flower, made in one color with the background. The design was complemented by a gradient effect created with acrylic powder.
- Beautiful design in Marsal color with a floral motif and dotted arrangement of rhinestones.
Carrying out this or that design, it is important to think over every trifle of design. Particular attention must be paid to ensure that it looks professional, this is its aesthetics and status. Whatever you choose as the basis of decor (draw a picture or stick a slider, print with a stamp or decorate a nail with a regular sticker), you need to do this carefully. In addition, it is important to consider the compatibility of the decor.
For example, crystals will not always look beautiful with multi-colored confetti or, say, shimmer gel varnishes. Sequins are good in themselves, such decor will compete with stones, which will ultimately cause a fashion failure. If the emphasis is on a matte texture, you do not need to contrast it too sharply with an abundance of gloss, and even complicate it with a large pattern. You should not lay one decor on another or create thematic drawings on this principle. As a rule, the complexity of such accents will deprive the design of expressiveness.
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