Lunar manicure: design subtleties and methods of coating

Lunar manicure is considered one of the best nail design techniques among modern women. Today, fashionistas are especially fond of fashionistas for having overgrown with various design variations and allowing them to add notes of sophistication and aristocracy to the bow. However, each season brings with it something new and special, which makes the design fresh and original. What are the surprises of fashion, what is now relevant and how to be in the spotlight regardless of style and status, the material of this article will tell.

Someone considers lunar manicure to be a kind of jacket. He is called Dior, because he owes his popularity to the great Christian Dior, who considered him incredibly gentle and feminine, returning him to the image of models. Externally, the nail, made in the technique with the holes, has a clearly marked lunula. If the french, in addition to the background, emphasizes part of the overgrown nail, then the lunar manicure contrasts the main background and the hole at the base of the nail.

The hole can be semicircular, triangular, symmetrical, asymmetric, and also fantasy. In each case, its shape will depend on the shape of the nail plates, the length of the nails, the nuances of the design and its subject.

For example, today a hole can be not only a contrast to the main background. Often, lunar manicures are performed using negative space techniques. This means that part of the nail is covered only with transparent varnish.The hole made in this embodiment creates the effect of an overgrown nail. This gives the appearance of an extension of the nail plate. In addition, the hole can be not only single, but also double. It looks beautiful along with a thin secondary arm.

Today, regardless of fashionable adjustments, there are no special prohibitions on the shape of nails. However, experts are sure that the perfect moon manicure looks on the nails with a narrow nail plate. However, they note that medium or moderate is considered the best length. In addition, the popular natural natural or even short length. She will be fashionable for the next few seasons.

To make the lunar manicure look beautiful, it is important to choose the shape of the edge based on the characteristics of your nail plates.

Almond nails returned to fashion. Asymmetry is today considered ugly, and the diagonal cuts of the edge visually skew the manicure with the holes.

Stilettos with a characteristic long length and sharp edges are trying to return to fashion. However, today they do not fit into the fashion trend, which emphasizes naturalness and femininity.

Modern moon manicure is notable for its versatility of design. Today, there are many opportunities for decorating nails, from the choice of coating to the precious decor.

Sometimes the emphasis is on the high cost of the texture; in other cases, luxury is created through sparkling crystals. The choice of the best design depends on the preferences of the client and the taste of the master.

Sometimes after seeing a beautiful design option on the Internet, a woman wants to recreate it, and therefore she goes to the master with a ready-made solution. However, fashion is rather capricious, and what was fashionable yesterday may seem tasteless today.

For example, now in trend:

• highlight the cuticle area with rhinestones of different sizes, while using mainly small elements;
• fill the hole with manicure foil of various types, choosing the desired shape and width;
• create the illusion of an overgrown nail by working in a negative space technique;

• use the original effect of layering the moon pattern on the background basis;
• work with two, and less often three different techniques, making the moon manicure combined;
• decorate nails in the techniques of “sweet bloom”, “powder”, “veil”, “broken glass”, “wet design”;

• to build up nails with two materials of different color, refusing from patch plates;
• use seasonal design themes for work, indicating its belonging to a certain time of the year or even a month;
• to carry out manicure accents on the ring fingers, accenting them with a contrasting color, pattern, specific technique, powders, unusual texture.

Today, it is considered indecent to decorate all nails with the same pattern, or vice versa, perform a different pattern on all ten fingernails. This approach to design is outdated, and besides, with all the desire, it cannot pretend to expressiveness. Given the fact that the nails will be decorated with holes already, the addition of accents and their design should be approached thoroughly. Sometimes the very design of the holes is already self-sufficient and does not need colorful competition.

However, there are some nuances here: if a drawing is taken as a basis, it will look better on a plate painted completely in one color.Depending on what the shape and size of the hole will be, the design may also have subtle smiles inherent in the classic French in the color of the pigment of the holes.

A manicure can be half moon, oval, reverse French. It is super fashionable today to create a hole design with a triangle. Especially stylish are narrow holes located from the base to the upper edge of the nail plate.

There are unspoken rules that guide nail art professionals. Since the lunar manicure, unlike the classics, already has a drawing, it must be properly decorated. The abundance of decor or its inappropriate location can add heaviness and diversity to the design, which is especially bad for a gentle and elegant manicure with holes. To create a beautiful design, you need to know several techniques of experienced masters.

For instance:

• the holes on all fingers should be the same;
• it is possible to accent precisely the nails with holes, than to complicate the nails with another design;
• use for design no more than three or four shades of the color palette;

• when choosing a volume accent, all other nails should not have a picture at all, while laconic staining of the holes with white or light color is allowed;
• when choosing a geometric design, its symmetry on the nails of two hands is extremely important;
• accents on a plain background will look beautiful if the holes are made in contrasting color on a solid or powder basis;

• holes with a classic look stylish, while on each hand there can be two;
• if the design is performed with two holes on one hand, it is better to do them not with the ring and middle finger.

To soften the contrast of shades, one of the accents can be made in bright color, the other in light softening. Moreover, on one nail the print area may be larger than on the other. The game of contrasts and patterns will allow them to look more harmonious. If you want to use a stucco pattern in the design, it is undesirable to take away more than one nail under it. Sometimes instead of stucco molding, a contrasting texture or its unusual effect will look better.

Lunar manicure can be bright and creative. However, creativity should be achieved through a professional design approach.

The use of stained glass technique with coloring small elements with multi-colored pigments will be more like a children's coloring than something stylish. The same pattern created using stamping, but without coloring, will look better on the accents of the moon manicure, if not simplified by different pigments.

Creating a beautiful design, you need to consider the shape of the hole. If it is a triangle, maximum simplicity is needed - it can be placed on a round or oval shape. For a round hole, patterns under lace, mehendi, kawaii themes are good. Glamor can also be created on top of a monophonic base. For example, the holes can be made with small rhinestones or even simpler with dots of contrast pigment using dots with different nozzles.

Today, color schemes will depend on the specific purpose of the manicure, as well as the image of the woman. Also important will be the clothes and accessories available in her wardrobe. The best choice of colors may be shades related to certain things.

The most harmonious solutions include combinations of pastel shades. As a rule, they complement the image more gently, can fit into most images of women of different age groups and, more importantly, are suitable for different styles of clothing.They combine perfectly with the tones of the neutral group, which allows you to add elegance, lightness or notes of luxury to the bow.

At the same time, due to the variety of coatings and clothing styles, you can supplement your onion with manicure in muted and noble colors, as well as neon and LED options.

Luminous types of coatings are one of the trends of the new season, which will surely appeal to representatives of youth subcultures. In general, the most harmonious and stylish options can be distinguished from the rich list of color variations.

For example, stylish combinations of colors for a modern moon manicure will be combinations:

• red wine and white;
• yellow and bleached beige;
• green and black;
• pink, black and gold;
• peach and blue;
• blue and silver;
• blue and black;
• purple and silver;
• marble and gold;
• powdery and white;
• Marsala and pink;
• fuchsia, purple and silver;
• burgundy and peach;
• white and yellow-orange;
• blue and pink;
• pink and turquoise;
• white and purple;
• white and lilac;
• powder and black;
• emerald and gold.

In addition, a light lemon tone is in fashion today. Even laconic semicircular holes of such a tone on a solid basis, coupled with a black pattern on accents, will look very gentle. A combination of neutral tones is also popular. In this case, the holes are often white, made on a black background. They will look beautiful if you perform a background manicure to imitate the gradient using a translucent black varnish and compacting it to the upper edges of the nail plates.

Apply the moon pattern on the nails in various ways. For example, with confident movements of the master, this may be manual drawing. This is how accent nails are drawn, lace is drawn on them, lines are drawn, contouring, vertical stripes are made, which are further decorated with rhinestones or kamifubuki. For the holes in this case also use a thin brush. By the way, it is she who is painted with unpainted areas of the nail plate at the base of the nail, giving it great accuracy.

A great help in the design of the moon manicure are disposable stencils. Today they are distinguished by a variety of drawings and shapes. They can even make fancy prints on accents of lunar design. In addition to stencils, you can resort to the use of manicure strips of different widths and shapes.

An alternative to strips is foil tape. It is also inexpensive, convenient in that it can be used both as an auxiliary template and as a permanent decor. Foil adhesive tape today differs in width, may have a different texture of the front side. He looks in the design of a manicure with holes beautifully and elegantly.

When you need a fantasy hole, resort to the use of stickers and stamping. Stamping involves stamping. This is a set with pre-made metal plates with engraved designs.

Apply varnish to the plate, distribute it with a scraper, removing excess. Then the pattern from the plate is removed on the roller, and from the roller on the nail. The disadvantage of stamping is the fact that it is difficult for them to make the same holes, even with a lace pattern.

Decals are convenient in that they can be adjusted until the base (top) applied for fixation is dried. Such sliders can have angular and rounded notches, due to which even on a plain nail you can create a moon design.And if you stick a sticker with a recess under the hole on the nail with a lunula, contrasting to the main background, this will enhance the contrast of colors.

Decorating a lunar manicure, whether it’s a lunar or a lunar version, is a creative and exciting process. Few artists will not offer their client new options for decorating, which will emphasize the uniqueness of the design without crossing out its status. For example, today it is fashionable to use powders with different effects in design. Some of them give the accents of manicure volume or an unusual texture.

It can be either glitter options or flock powder, which allows you to add a felt texture to your fingernail. This decor looks unusual, but it is specific, has a large fraction of particles, and therefore it is rarely used except for winter design. Summer manicure with holes can be decorated with so-called acrylic sugar or sand.

A very interesting type of material is rubbing. Today, this powder has a lot of varieties. The same powder creates a completely different effect on pigments of different colors. For example, the black color of one rub can make a mirror, the other - chrome-plated, the third - holographic, the fourth will give a color with tints that resemble the shell of a May beetle. White pigment can be made frosted, pearl, rainbow, holographic.

Powders are used for seasonal design. For example, for winter and New Year’s, flock powder and rubbing with a holographic effect are good. Beautiful and gentle manicure for the summer can be done with pearl dust. Summer design can be made with the effect of mother of pearl, rubbing in this regard is better than shimmer varnish. It is also convenient because on top of it you can draw, glue a different decor.

In the salon, the master performs hardware manicure. This is what stops many women who want to learn how to design at home. However, today there is nothing impossible, and therefore you can buy the device in a specialized store or use the usual manual type manicure set. If there is no apparatus with nozzles at home, it is worth preparing a basic set:

• a pusher for pushing and lifting the cuticle, trimming pterygium;
• manicure scissors;
• tool for removing excess varnish with rubber tips;
• shaping file;
• soft grinder or buff;
• drying lamp.

If you plan to use stickers instead of a picture, you should prepare a container of water to remove the paper backing of the sticker. If you need to highlight the holes with dots, prepare dots. In addition, the work will need:

• cuticle softening oil;
• manicure wipes;
• degreaser;
• a primer;
• amplifier;
• pigmented varnishes (for background, holes and patterns);
• base material;
• finish.

The decor is prepared based on the design features. This can be kamifubuki, rhinestones, crystals, rubbing, stickers, foil in the form of tape or tape, a film for the broken glass technique. In addition, you may need a gel-type glitter for gold or silver.

A well design is created in many ways. It is not difficult to make it at home if you follow the instructions that explain the main stages of work step by step. Always the preliminary stage of manicure is the removal of the cuticle and pterygium. To less injure the skin and easier to remove all unnecessary, the fingers are dipped in warm water for about 10 minutes.After they are wiped, a pusher is taken and the pterygium is removed. Raise the cuticle and cut it with nail scissors.

In order for the process to proceed without injuring the skin, oil is used to soften the cuticle. After the nails are given the desired shape, it is necessary to remove the gloss from the nail plates. To do this, use a special soft grinder.

Next, you need to remove the remnants of sawdust, for which you can use a degreaser. They also remove residual oil, which can cause poor adhesion of the nail to subsequent varnish products. At this stage, the preparatory part ends and the stage of decorative manicure begins. Prepare varnishes, top, base, lamp, decor, patterns and brushes.

First, you can apply an amplifier to the nails. In addition to increasing the tenacity of the material with the nail, it will make the nails thicker, which is especially true for thinned nails that are prone to brittleness. Apply the material in a thin layer, after the nails are dried in a lamp.

Base material is applied to the dried coating and again dried in a lamp. The base is applied in a thin layer, otherwise it will stick poorly, and it can leak over the cuticle and side rollers. After the base, the nail is covered with pigment and dried in a lamp. If necessary, pigment can be coated with nails twice: a manicure will look better when the pigment is not transparent.

Next, take the templates for the holes. For example, these may be semicircular options. They are glued with a sticky side to the base of the nails, without pressing into the pigment, but trying to ensure that the template does not have voids in the place of the edge. After that, take a contrasting varnish and cover it with the upper part of the nail, without touching the one that is closed by the template.

After the nails are varnished, the templates are removed immediately. Only after that, the nails are dried in a lamp. If you do not remove the stencil and first dry the gel polish, then remove it without ruining the manicure will fail. After drying the pigment, take the top and seal with it all the previous layers. The top coating is dried. So the option without decor is performed, this is the main technique.

If a manicure is performed without templates, the technology remains unchanged, only instead of stencils they use a brush, which designates the hole itself. If you need triangular patterns, but there is only manicure tape, it is they who make the triangles at the base of the nails. Rhinestones are glued to a layer of un-dried top, as are kamifubuki. However, if kamifubuki can be covered with a layer of top, then rhinestones from this lose the beauty of their overflow of splendor. The secondary layer of the top should not cover them.

When you need to decorate your nails, after the second pigment proceed to decorate. For example, if stickers are used for accents, a top is applied, a transparent protective film is removed from the sticker. Then it is dipped for two to three seconds in water, the paper substrate is removed and fixed on an un-dried basis, spreading from folds and choosing the right place. Next, the design is dried, sealed with another layer of the top and again sent to the lamp.

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