Each new nail season presents fashionistas with different surprises. Certain techniques come to the fore, specific designs are preferred, something is out of date, and forgotten or irrelevant rises to the top of popularity. Among other options for manicure, the reverse jacket is considered megapopular today. Read about what he is now and what is needed for his expressiveness.
Features of antifrench
This word is called inverted French manicure. His temple is located at the very base of the nail plate. Such a coating is erroneously called lunar, because the reverse jacket also accentuates the cuticle area. However, nevertheless, these are two different techniques. The reverse jacket has a thinner bow, it does not turn into a hole of various shapes and cannot be fancy. This is a strict line, which today seeks to reduce thickness.
In fact, antifrench is based on a combination of two contrasting varnish tones. One is the base, the second draw a bow. It is noteworthy in that due to the arch visually lengthens the nail plate. With this feature, the nails seem more elegant, which is very important for a flattened natural form.
The reverse jacket can be called a universal nail design, because depending on the chosen color and pattern, it is able to fit into almost any female image. Like the usual French manicure, he ennobles the woman and hints at her sophistication.
Color schemes
To date, two types of reverse jacket are known. One of them involves the use of classic tones for French manicure. This is a nude or skin tone for the background and white for a smile.The second type includes a variety of color solutions, which today are not limited by anything other than purpose and seasonality. The most popular color schemes are combinations of background and smile:
- nude with black;
- blue with white;
- white with gold;
- black and yellow;
- gray with white;
- black with white and silver;
- white with black;
- turquoise with white;
- wine (Marsala) with white;
- coffee with gold;
- green with gold;
- pink (powdery) with white;
- coral with white;
- neon raspberry with light gray;
- fuchsia with white;
- peach with black color.
The secret of beautiful design will be not to oversaturated with accents and to accurately draw a thin arch of antifrench.
Combination Technician
The inverted service jacket is notable for the fact that it is not only self-sufficient, but also allows for combination with other manicure techniques. This is expressed in the election for accent nails of some base different from it. For example, one or three (rarely four) nails can be made in a classic or moon manicure, decorated with powder or acrylic sand. Looks nice reverse jacket using techniques of veil and broken glass. For design harmony, it is not necessary to use more than two techniques in it: it is undesirable to add more than one other technique to the antifrench.
How can I decorate?
Decorating an inverted French manicure today is given special importance. Experienced craftsmen, keeping their finger on the pulse and watching fashion shows, are the first to try one or another new design. Thanks to their creative impulse, today we decorate the antifrench with elements such as:
- art painting;
- small rhinestones and crystals;
- stamping or stickers;
- kamifubuki or broths;
- rub or powder.
Regarding the theme of the drawing of an inverted French manicure, we can say with confidence: it can be any, but appropriate for a specific image. This is a gilded crown, and lips, and roses in wet technique, and marshmallow prints (ice cream, hares, cats, chupa-chups candies). In addition, someone likes bows on accent nails. Foxes, dream catchers, owls, city landscapes are in fashion. Some stickers allow the use of small rhinestones or sparkling crystals on top of them in the cuticle area. It is better to decorate others with tiny kamifubuki, using more elements for the center, and very tiny ones for the sides. Sometimes you need to supplement the picture with printed dots, rather than rhinestones. The gold or silver border of the reverse jacket looks beautiful.
In addition, you can decorate the design of accent nails with imitation of the gradient. To do this, the lower arm is repeated with different shades of related tones, which creates a special effect. As for the most stylish solutions that have already been noticed by zealous fashion fans today, logomania is a trend. Antifrench is decorated with the logo of a particular Fashion House or a popular sports company.
As a rule, such an emphasis is unique in design; it should not be repeated. Logos make decorating nails with rhinestones more appropriate. Here you can use a silver or gold outline, decorate with rhinestones elements of letters or the picture itself. Especially popular today are logos in neutral colors.
Best options
Today it is difficult to surprise modern women of fashion with one or another nail design. Nevertheless, thanks to the efforts of fashion and the constant increase in the assortment of nail products, there are many ways to give design not only beauty and expressiveness, but also uniqueness. Based on the main trends, you can add something special to your nail image that will speak about the uniqueness of nature.
- For example, you can bet on the unusual texture. The use of matte and glossy coatings looks unusual, while drawing gloss on a matte background on accent nails.
- Transparent drops look beautiful on the jacket. This design does not need other additions.It is enough to color the accent nails completely without drawing the handle, and place on them with the help of a wooden toothpick a drop of a transparent modeling gel or top.
- If you want to decorate your nails with gold, it’s not at all necessary to draw arches in the cuticle area of all nails. A contour can be “gifted” to several nails, and 1 out of ten fingers can be decorated with a golden pattern.
- When betting on water stickers, you should choose them in tone with two contrasts of manicure and decorate them with nails over the entire area. Ideally, it could be lace or floral motifs, interweaving twigs.
- Extremely popular decoration accent nails reverse jacket gradient. You can use for this no more than two nails out of ten. No other tone or pattern is needed in this case.
- Chic antifrench on nails of various shapes can be created with accents in veil technique. A translucent background with a delicate lace pattern applied to it will make it possible to add notes of luxury to the female image.
- One of the most fashionable solutions for today is imitation on the accent of a grown nail. In this case, a thin arch is also drawn, and rhinestones are glued from the base or stripes are drawn, combining the decoration technique with imitation of a growing nail.
- It is super fashionable to create an asymmetry effect by drawing the contour of the bow above one side than the other. You can draw lines symmetrically up to the top edge.
- One of the squeaks of the season was the accentuation of the cuticle area with dots of different sizes, which can be done with different sizes of balls and toothpicks.
- It is beautiful and fashionable to decorate the accents of the reverse jacket with acrylic powder, which is often called manicure sugar or powder. Depending on its fraction, the presence or absence of gloss, as well as the texture, options are selected for different times of the year.
A detailed master class on creating antifrench nail designs is in the video below.
