The subtleties of creating an oval shape of nails and stylish design ideas

Oval shaped nails are considered a classic manicure of any technique. Today, this form is one of the three favorites of nail fashion trends, so those who are trying to be on the crest of a fashion wave, you need to know what are the subtleties of creating the perfect oval. The material of this article will tell about how to properly make such a shape and decorate it in the best ideas of the season.

The oval shape is unique in itself, feminine and elegant. Appearing many years ago, it does not lose its relevance, while visually ennobles not only the nail bed, but also the fingers. You can make it on your own and extended nails, moreover, in an oval shape, all manicure techniques are available, ranging from classics to “broken glass” and powder. Almost any woman can choose this form, regardless of her age and commitment to a particular style.

Oval nails allow you to create a manicure for any purpose, from the option that fits into the strict dress code, to the evening outfit. In an ideal understanding, the shape of the upper edge of oval nails is a mirror image of the arched zone of the cuticle or hole. Their only drawback is the vulnerability to mechanical damage. Unlike other forms, they are prone to brittleness and chips.Their owner will have to more carefully handle their nails, protecting them from any clues.

If you approach this issue from the point of view of nail service professionals, they will say with confidence: the oval shape will look best on the nails, the base of which (with the exception of the nail plate of the thumb) will be oval. So the form will balance the nail bed, which eliminates the visual severity inherent in the wrong choice. In addition, it will allow you to create a natural design of manicure.

One cannot but note such a landmark as the ratio of the side walls to each other. If they are parallel, the oval will be the best shape option. In this case, there will be no need to mask the visual imbalance of the nail plate, if it is far from ideal. In addition, the oval shape is suitable for trapezoidal nails. However, in this case, to create a visual balance, you will have to choose at least the average length, because short in this case is a taboo.

If we consider the issue from the point of view of the shape of the fingers and hands, it’s worth considering, because too thin and long fingers in a tandem with a long length of nails will look ugly. And also hands with long oval nails seem bony. If the nail bed is elongated by nature, then with a short length, such a shape on thin fingers will look quite harmonious. When the hands and fingers are chubby, the oval, in principle, will mitigate the situation. But only the length in this case will have to be limited to medium, in order to prevent disfigurement of the hands and fingers. If you ignore this nuance, hands with long nails will look aggressive, they will lose femininity.

You can make oval nails not only in the salon. Today, modern women have a lot of opportunities for the formation of an oval at home. The approach to this issue begins with the implementation of high-quality hygienic manicure, because without it, the manicure will not look beautiful, and most importantly - well-groomed. Let's take a step-by-step look at the main stages of the oval-shaped technique.

You will have to use a file, manicure scissors or a cuticle (tweezers to remove cuticles), an orange stick, a pusher with a spatula. In order not to hurt the skin and protect it as much as possible from irritation, it is advisable to purchase a special oily cuticle remover. This is a clear product that will prepare the skin for painless removal. It does not corrode the skin, but softens, thereby simplifying the implementation of manicure.

Carefully opening the bottle with the cuticle remover, apply a thin layer on the skin around the nail bed, excluding the area at the top where the nail grows. As soon as the product is applied to the nails of one hand, they are softened in a bath of warm water. It is advisable that the temperature be at least +40 degrees, since cold water is harmful to the bones. After 4–5 minutes, the bath is removed, the fingers are wiped and they begin to clean out the excess skin. To do this, take a pusher (a metal tool with a spatula), first push it back, and then lift the cuticle.

Further, by careful movements, the excess skin is turned upwards, thereby forming the line of the future cut. It is cut off with a cutter or scissors, trying to remove it with one line. Removing the nail from the excess skin allows you to visually lengthen the plate, which is especially important for short and wide nails. After the skin is cut, check the quality of scrubbing using an orange stick. It is carried around the nail. If something at the same time rises from the slice up, the blemishes are immediately cut.

The length is chosen by the shortest nail. It is important to consider that on all nails it should look the same. You have to use your own eye, you can not spare too long nails and leave them, even if only one is broken. It is necessary to use a file in work. At the same time, her movements should be directed only in one direction. Ignoring this nuance will lead to delamination of the nail and a quick chipping off of the applied coating. The file is pressed flat with respect to the nail and moved in the direction from the base of the nail to its edge, while trying to make sure that the file is delicate.

First, file the sides of the nail plate, only then proceed to rounding. As rounding is done, ensure that symmetry is observed on both sides of the plate. You can focus on the basis of the nail bed. It will be useful to check the quality of work by turning the nail from itself with the top edge up. It is not necessary to equal the sharpness of the upper edge of the oval, because it will be different for the little finger and, say, the thumb. The narrow and small tip may appear sharp, while the wide and large may look like a soft square. To avoid errors when working with the file, it is worth paying more attention to the base of the treated nail.

After the nail is filed, it will need to be protected from possible damage. Do this by decorative manicure. If it is not yet provided, you can apply a soothing cream to the skin treatment area. Buffing the nail plate is possible only before the direct application of gel polish. You can’t cut them with coarse abrasive, for this use a soft grinder.

It is worth taking into account several recommendations from professionals.

• If the oval-shaped nails break off, they need strengthening. They do this by means of a special composition for thinned plates or by the extension method. However, you need to understand that not only the form can be vulnerable: the material being stacked also does not like mechanical shocks.

• So that the manicure on the oval nails does not peel off, you need to try to avoid frequent steaming of the hands. It is necessary to wash the dishes in rubber gloves, prolonged steaming is excluded. To maintain the shape for as long as possible, it is preferable to choose an average length: it is not so susceptible to brittleness. Ideally, the length of the overgrown edge should not exceed 5 mm.
• When performing the oval edge, it is important to consider that the cut is carried out not only on the sides of the nail plate. They draw the entire line, they do not partially create it.
• To extend the durability of a manicure on oval nails, you do not need to choose an excessively voluminous decor. He will cling to anything, thereby provoking brittle nails. It is especially undesirable to glue such a decor on the edge of the nail plate.

Today it’s difficult for fashion to surprise women with sophisticated nail designs. And yet, she offers many fresh ideas through which you can show the feminine, without resorting to unnecessary pathos and scream. The oval shape in this regard will play into the woman’s hands: it is smooth, natural and always attractive to the opposite sex, which cannot be said about stylet, “ballerina” and terrible shape-coffins. We outline the main trends or fashion ideas that can be used to create a unique image.

Today it is important to show the beauty of the basic texture, thereby emphasizing the sense of taste of a woman. Remembering the saying "the simpler the woman, the more difficult her manicure" is, without regret, get rid of excessive shine and pretentiousness. All this interferes with a harmonious female set and complicates the choice of clothes for a specific design and decoration.The priority is the game of matte and glossy textures, as well as the use of unusual materials with the effect of textiles and animal skins. The effect is not so bright, but it is fundamentally different from the usual coatings, with velvety, relief or satin sheen.

To make the design on oval nails look beautiful and elegant, you need to reduce the number of accents or the so-called nails with the design. Ideally, there should be two or three today. If you really want more, you can add one more. In the new season, multicolor is considered a taboo, while it is still acceptable in aqua design due to the peculiarities of the technology itself.

An ideal manicure today is often performed using two shades. At the same time, contrasting varnish is chosen for accents, and the print on it is performed using the main (background) color. The best tones of pastel colors are pink, blue and mint. In addition to them, trendy shades were marsal, wine, eggplant and emerald. Megaactual neutral colors of the color palette (black, white, gray, silver).

The best manicure techniques for oval nails are combined designs. For example, it can be a traditional or reverse jacket with two accents made in a classic manicure. In addition, it is fashionable to perform a French gradient using a smooth stretch smile. Also relevant is a jacket made on top of a vertical or horizontal gradient. An ombre with a smooth transition of related shades from finger to finger will also become a fashionable solution.

The veil technique is very popular, on oval nails it looks especially feminine and elegant. Today there is no need to draw a contour stroke over such a background. Design can be done on top of the veil itself. Say, it will look beautiful lace acrylic curls and monograms, as well as vertical with a matte texture and modest inlay.

As for the lunar design, on the oval shape it looks great. In this case, you can beat the design with various triangular figures, stretching them from the base of the nail plates to the very top of the overgrown edge. Filled with gold or silver, they will look very impressive against the background of a laconic coating. And also here you can use the negative space technique, in which part of the nail is not painted at all.

Powder drawings, monograms, flowers, knitted patterns can be created by combining a jacket or moon design with classic. Drawing gel polish on a colored background and sprinkling it with acrylic powder, you can create a unique design of nails that will not go unnoticed. At the same time, it is fashionable to carry out such prints in multi-colored or with imitation of a gradient.

You can not go past the polyester rubbing and spectacular mica. These materials are unique both in terms of application and in terms of effect, which refine any texture on which they would not be applied. Fashionable varieties of rubbing today are "pearl dust", "northern lights", "May beetle". Mirrored options and metallic are today considered difficult for design. Lightness and weightlessness are important.

If you want to show the modernity of manicure on oval nails, it is worth referring to the design belonging to a specific time of the year. For example, with the first steps of winter, it's time to replace pictures with autumn leaves with decor in the form of snow powder, snow-white flakes of snow, which, by the way, can be represented by acrylic sugar. Next, the time will come for frosty patterns, mitts, snowmen, deer, bullfinches and snowflakes.In spring, you can please yourself with manicure with the first flowers, in summer - generously decorate your nails with juicy fruits, insects, flowers, plants, leaves.

Nothing will indicate adherence to fashion trends like any geometric design. It can be triangles, circles, ovals, polygons, rhombuses, or even ordinary straight lines with points of different sizes located on them. Sometimes figures are hollow, sometimes filled with contrasting colors, with or without outline strokes. A distinctive feature of modern geometric design is its simplicity and emphasis in gold or silver.

Megapopular lace, monograms and flowers. The boho trend is gaining popularity with its characteristic brightness of shades and a variety of ethnic ornaments. In addition, mehendi patterns and point solutions created through dots are in fashion. A pleasant surprise was the use of animalistic pictures in the design. Other options that ennoble manicure on oval nails include decorating them with stripes and peas.

The most expensive design today is hand-painted nails. It can be made using different techniques, among which watercolor painting is especially popular with customers. In addition to her, the priority is a slider design, which, in addition to decoration, perfectly strengthens nails. Stamping, powder, rhinestones and crystals are popular. Regarding the latter, it is worth noting: they must be dosed and positioned pointwise. You can give an oval shape and decorate your nails with colorful confetti, stickers, water manicure.

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