Ideas and ways to create beautiful nail designs

Every woman dreams of being beautiful and well-groomed, while a manicure plays an important role in creating a perfect image. The realities of our life are such that the fairer sex is constantly in a frantic rhythm of life, which dictates its requirements for the decoration of nails.

This year the fashion for manicure has become quite flexible, today any coatings are trendy: bright and unobtrusive, decorated and natural, simple and complex. The main thing is that the hands look well-groomed, neat and stylish.

For many years, fashionistas sought to grow nails and give them a pointed shape. In the current season, the main trend has become smoothing of the nail plate. Today, at the peak of popularity, rounded and smoother nails and average length. Nails should not be too long, but at the same time they should not be cut at the root.

Most often, manicurists recommend their customers one of the following forms.

• Almond. This is a fading into the background, but nevertheless still popular sharp narrowed form that harmoniously looks on long nails. The technique got its name because of the similarity of the nail plate with a nut - near the base, such nails are oval, and by the end they become narrower.Such nails make the hands more elegant and sexy, however, keep in mind that such a form dictates strict requirements for the quality of the manicure.

• Oval. In 2018, the fashion on the nail design made a sharp roll in favor of naturalness, and the oval shape like no other is close to a natural nail. That is why ovals are most in demand among fashionistas. Popularity is also given by the fact that any decors can be successfully implemented on such nail plates. The design is optimal for everyday manicure, and for holiday coverage. The oval shape is considered universal, practical and aesthetic.

• Square. Such nails are considered a classic of nail art, however, already a little outdated. Despite this technique, it is still in demand today, it looks pretty stylish, although it should be borne in mind that only long and graceful fingers adorn the square, but wide nails in this design only become even wider. The square shape of the nails goes well with shiny polish and various decors - glitter, rhinestones and beads, especially if the square is not strict, but slightly rounded.

• Ballerina. This is a real hit of the current season, this design is ideal for the most daring and stylish women. For the first time, such a form became fashionable in the 90s, and recently they again burst into the number of the most top trends. Visually, such nails resemble pointe shoes with a square nail tapered to the tip, and this is where the name of this technique came from. Oddly enough, but it is precisely such nails that significantly minimize the likelihood of breaking the nail plates and damaging them.

Each season surprises fashionistas with original trends - the nail industry is no exception. Here are the current shades of nail polish in the current season.

• Natural color - This shade invariably keeps at the peak of popularity. The most popular are pink, caramel, and peach tones, which are stylishly in harmony with any bows and allow the girl to look restrained, but at the same time elegant.
• Gothic Suitable for girls of the appropriate style. Optimal black, eggplant, dark green and purple colors, while stylists recommend adding gold or silver details to such a coating.

• White For several decades now, tones can be different - from dairy to pearl. Such a coating can be either matte or glossy. Marigolds decorated with this varnish are suitable for young girls, give them lightness and airiness. To make the coating more stylish, it makes sense to experiment with the overflow of several shades and apply jewelry with rhinestones.
• Red - This is a classic of nail art. Coverage perfectly emphasizes the image of fatal and confident ladies. The varnish looks great on both long and short nail plates, the shade is optimally combined with clothes and complements stylish accessories.

• Navy blue. The peak of the popularity of this shade came in the last year, however, in this it did not lose its relevance, however, its interpretation has undergone some changes. This year, cosmos or fabulous winter colors that look best in cold seasons are in fashion. At the same time, depending on the shape of the nail plate, the decor may be appropriate both in the office with a strict dress code and at a festive party.
• This year's absolute favorite of fashion shows has become coal shade, which is considered truly universal - it looks great with clothes of any style.

• This year's trend is metallized coating, which is achieved using special rubbing. Metallic silver is confidently on the list of popular coatings. Most often, such a shade is used by owners of short marigolds.
• Aquamarine - This rather unusual and bold shade is very popular in spring or summer. This mix of tones, associated with clear skies and green grass, looks stylish and aesthetically pleasing on nails of different lengths.

• Always relevant brown tones with burgundy shades - such a varnish is in harmony with any way, in any situation it looks noble, elegant and non-trivial.
• Duochrome - This is a novelty of recent years. Such varnish with different types of lighting plays with different colors and looks simply luxurious.
• In summer, stylists advise applying more bright, lemonade shades.

• Yellow optimal for creative girls who always strive to look unusual and bold in everything. This coating is in good harmony with soft blue and light lilac tones.
• Saturated green best not to apply alone. It is combined with white, as well as blue and nude notes.

• Very popular in summer marine themethat makes its adjustments to summer nail art. Blue shades are very popular, reminiscent of the purity of the horizon and the blue of the sea.
• For the autumn months designers recommend taking shades reminiscent of this beautiful golden season. First of all, these are fruit, berry and wine colors, brown, chocolate, orange, as well as olive varnishes and khaki.

Plain coatings of nails look restrained and very concise, so stylists recommend supplementing them with various patterns and patterns that are harmonious on both long and shortened nails. Graphic decors are especially popular this year, which not only emphasize the style and originality of the woman, but also visually lengthen the fingers.

Typically, patterns include images of various geometric shapes and abstractions. Typically, such decors are applied using thin brushes and stencils, which can be purchased or homemade. However, if you do not have the opportunity to purchase or make templates, you can always use ready-made stickers.

Floral ornaments are not far behind geometric decors. The image of the flower or its delicate outline looks great on the nails with a monophonic coating. It is optimal that the varnish color does not merge with the shade of the flower, otherwise the manicure will look simply tasteless. Typically, fashionistas use combinations of black and white, yellow with blue, red with golden. Most often, white varnishes are used for floral ornaments, in this case, on the nails, you can draw any floral images with a wide variety of tones and tints.

Another trend is art painting, which is applied with the help of several decorative varnishes and thin brushes. Typically, manicure masters draw a variety of dots, color washouts, lines and original strokes that combine into a single picture and become stylish patterns. Animal prints look very original, the theme of our smaller brothers this season has become one of the most popular among teenagers and young girls. They decorate their nails with funny faces of tigers and pandas, and silhouettes of kittens and butterflies keep up with them.

In recent years, matte varnishes have been gaining rapid popularity, and the most diverse shades and tones look good on nails. The ombre technique, which is also called gradient manicure, does not lose its relevance. A similar transition is usually created with a sponge and several varnishes so that the shades smoothly transition from one to another.

A simple manicure is the best solution in a situation where there is absolutely no time to perform complex decors and drawing drawings, but at the same time I really want to get beautiful neat nails. Consider a few simple techniques that will make your nails stylish and effective in minutes.

• Stamping. In this case, drawings are applied to the nails with the help of special stamps. Such a manicure can be done very quickly, while the modern cosmetic industry produces a fairly wide range of plates, so every woman can choose the one that will best match her image and style. Another undoubted advantage of stamping is saving time and money.

• Using stickers - Another technique for express decoration of nails, which is very popular among novice nail art masters, in this case, stickers decorate either all nails, or 1-2 on each hand. In most cases, standard stickers on a sticky basis and water are used, which should be moistened before application to the nails.

• Application Accessories - This is a fairly popular technology. To diversify the monotonous coating, you can use various bows, flowers, butterflies and other decor accessories. To get the perfect finish in just a quarter of an hour, you can simply paint the nails in one tone, this decor is always in trend. And to make the coating more stylish, you can cover each nail with different tones of the same color or with contrasting varnishes.

• At the peak of popularity, a design called negative place, make it easier than simple, while it always looks refined and relevant. In this case, part of the plate is left without coloring, and varnishes apply lines, various points, stripes and small geometric shapes. To consolidate the effect obtained, such a coating is supplemented with transparent varnish.

• The best option for quick decor are considered glitter or large glitter, they are able to quickly and without any effort make the nail plates elegant, while it is best to use such a coating on one or two nails, and paint the rest with ordinary matte varnish.

• Very interesting decors can be created using scotch tape, in which case patterns consisting of multi-colored blocks can be drawn on the nails. To begin with, the nails are varnished in one shade, wait for it to dry completely, glue part of it with adhesive tape, and the remaining open plate is painted with another coating. In this case, a two-color manicure is obtained.

• Very easy to execute moon manicure, its popularity has not waned for several decades - this is not surprising, because such a technique gives great scope for imagination and imagination.The essence of such a coating is that the lunula of the nail plate is painted in a contrasting color or, conversely, remains completely uncoated.

• Close to moonlight French manicureat which the overgrown part of the nail is formed - the so-called smile. For many years it was painted white, but recently, the fashion allows you to implement any other color schemes, making such a decor is quite simple.

• Original, quick and easy to apply polka dot coating. Round spots are easy to make with a special tool called dots. Outwardly, it looks like a pen with a tip, while the craftsmen use devices of different diameters.

If you have free time, you can create more original and sophisticated decors on your nails. This season, the so-called newspaper manicure is in fashion, which, despite its novelty, has already won the hearts of millions of women around the world. This is a very effective coating, in which the image printed in a magazine or newspaper is transferred to the nail plate.

For the first time, the idea of ​​using printed text on nail plates came to the mind of a little-known French cosmetologist, a woman who for many years dreamed of creating a fashion trend in the field of beauty. Her dream came true - just appeared, newspaper decor became one of the most sought-after among women around the world.

The gradient has been quite popular for many years. This technique involves a smooth transition from one color to another, while the color scheme can consist of several shades of one tone, and contrasting. Ombre is applied on the nail plate vertically or horizontally. Pretty complex and time-consuming are floral prints. To create such paintings, you can spend from 1 to 2.5 hours, the working time depends on the picture and the experience of the master.

Whatever type of nail decor you choose, it is important to understand that even the most complex nail art will look bad if your hands are not groomed. This means that before decorating the nails, you need to make a good quality manicure, remove the cuticles, keratinized side rollers, give the nails a suitable shape and sand the nail plates.

The list of tools that will be required for manicure can vary significantly depending on what technique you stopped and what materials you plan to use. You will need a starter tool kit, without which it is impossible to make nails neat:

• means for removing decorative varnish;
• wipes without lint or cotton pads;
• nippers or special manicure scissors;
• pusher;
• a remover, which is necessary to remove overgrown cells near the nail;
• a set of files to create the necessary shape of the nail plate;
• buff for grinding the surface;
• base, decorative and finish coatings;
• if desired, you can stock up with peeling for the skin of the hands and emollient cream.

After you have prepared all the necessary materials, you can begin to prepare your hands and nails for applying decorative varnish. The work is carried out in the following sequence, we consider all the manipulations step by step.

• Remove the remains of an old covering. To do this, wipe the old coating with a cotton pad or lint-free cloth soaked in a tool for removing old varnish. This step should not be omitted even if there is no varnish on the plate - the liquid degreases the nail, so that the coating lays better and looks brighter and more saturated.
• Give your nails the desired shape. To do this, first cut the nails with nippers or special scissors, and then file them.Usually in order to give the nail the desired shape? use files with a degree of abrasiveness of 180-210 grit. Many move the nail file from right to left - this is fundamentally the wrong approach, because at the same time the nails begin to delaminate. To avoid such an unpleasant result, it is worth guiding the nail file in one direction, while the movements should be soft and smooth.

• Seal the edges. Using a buff or nail file with low abrasion, process the edges of the nails, as sealing is another measure that prevents the separation of nails in the future. After that, you need to walk several times on the nail plate to polish the surface. Here again, you should repeat the advice - do not overdo it, it is not worthwhile to achieve a mirror surface, because if the surface of the plate is perfectly smooth, then it will not be so easy for the varnish to catch on it.
• Remove the overgrown cuticle. The keratinized lateral ridges, as well as the cuticles, are cut off or pushed away with an orange stick, while special oils are applied that prevent the rapid growth of the epithelium around the nail plate.
• Cut off burrs. If there are burrs on the fingers, then they need to be cut off with scissors or removed with nippers, this should be done as carefully as possible, because in the places where the burrs originate, abscesses and small inflammation quite often occur.

If you have prepared the nails, then applying a decorative coating will not be difficult for you, especially if you use several recommendations of nail service specialists. Consider this process in stages.

• To begin with, you need to put a foundation - many neglect this step, however, do not lose sight of the fact that it is the base coat that protects the nail plates from aggressive varnish ingredients. Usually, any transparent varnish or special compositions from the strengthening series are used for this.
• After that, color varnish is applied. They begin to paint from the center of the nail, slightly departing from the edge of the cuticle, and bring the line to the very end of the nail in one quick movement. After that, make a couple of strokes at the edges so that the plate is dyed as evenly as possible.
• It is recommended to apply varnish in several layers - this is necessary in order to hide all the defects of the first coating and get a real juicy shade.
• Keep in mind that the second coat should be applied only after the first is completely dry.

• To fix the coating, a top is applied - this is a finish varnish that improves the glossiness of the coating and extends the life of the decor.
• Experienced masters have revealed several tricks that allow you to make manicure at home simple and effective:
• To make the coating as easy as possible, wash your hands with soap before applying.
• Give preference to the highest quality varnishes, while it is very important to make sure that the expiration date of such a coating has not expired.
• Before opening a bottle with a decorative varnish, shake it and hold in warm palms.
• It is best to use a varnish with a liquid consistency, if the composition is thickened, then dilute it with acetone or a decorative coating remover.

Fashion trends do not stand still, every year dictates new trends in the nail industry. This year, naturalness and naturalness are in fashion, which in any situation looks gentle and well-groomed. However, bright colors do not lose their relevance, they are often combined with stylish decors and original designs. Here are the top trends of nail art this year.

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