Well Manicure: Design Options and Nail Art Techniques

Current trends in the field of nail industry are quite diverse. At the same time, there are techniques related already to the classics of manicure. One of these is the lunar nail design, which has already earned the love of many women, and once it was considered a completely extravagant option. Now the allocation of holes has become as familiar as the French neutral manicure. In addition, this design is combined with a wide variety of techniques, effectively complementing them.

This type of nail design appeared at the very beginning of the last century and was very popular with Hollywood stars in the United States. But later he was undeservedly forgotten. The second wind in the well-forgotten classic was breathed in by the famous designer Christian Dior. In 2010, he used the selection of holes on the nails of models that demonstrated his collection. And literally everything began to paint the nails with the allocation of the cuticle zone.

The option proposed by Dior is a kind of classic of the moon manicure. These are white holes in one of the shades of red. Also, the traditional option is to use natural shades that are used to create a jacket. White or milk holes are combined with peach, pink, light beige and creamy backgrounds. Most often, the selection of holes is combined with the French version or monochrome coating. It looks equally attractive both with a glossy and with a matte finish popular in the last few years.

A manicure with holes is often supplemented with a delicate graceful pattern of flowers, twigs or monograms along the edge of the hole.Recently, with a trend in geometry in the patterns on the nails, triangular and reverse holes have come. Triangular are done quite simply using strips of tape or stencils. They most often contrast with the main varnish or even go uncoated, winning due to the unusual shape.

Reverse holes (often called reverse jacket) emphasize the entire inner surface of the nail plate. In this contrasting combination, not only the zone at the base of the nail is distinguished, but also straight lines pass along the sidewalls. The sharper the contrast, the better this manicure looks. Favorites of the season are metallic shades. Double lunulae appeared not so long ago. They create an extra emphasis. They are usually performed in one color. The first hole is in the usual place. And the second is made in the form of an arc at a distance of 2-3 millimeters from it and it is usually thinner.

This design looks good on any shape and length of nails, fits any fingers in any shape. With all its spectacular appearance, the coating is quite democratic and affordable for every woman. You can make it at home. No special tools or equipment are required for this. Only a varnish of a contrasting shade is needed. And when you perform the negative space technique, you can completely do without it. If you are not sure of the hardness of your hands and the correctness of the future line, take special donut-shaped stencils to help, which you can do yourself.

In the coming season and next year, designers do not limit our capabilities. Many colors and shades are offered. You can use both classic combinations and trend tones, and sometimes provocative and unexpected. Each woman will be able to choose the design option for the lunula to your liking and for the appropriate time of day and event.

Initially, a moon manicure is a combination of white holes with a red base color. Other traditional combinations look advantageous: black and white, gray and pearl, blue and milk. In the French style, you can use the most delicate nude shades, which will differ from the main coating by two shades. Also, bold persons can choose a combination of holes and a jacket in bold bright accents from ultramarine to neon lemon.

The juicy rainbow of pure flowers on the nails is still popular. The holes, like the main coating, can be of different colors on each finger. In a fashion combination of strawberries and vanilla, mint and melon shade. Milk chocolate is good in a matte finish and successfully combines with transparent or not colored holes at all. The same effect can be obtained when combined with naked holes in the color of burgundy, black or dark green. You can use a transparent varnish in the lunula, so that it does not remain completely uncoated.

For an elegant manicure, designers do not recommend combining more than 2-3 color options. A manicure with holes, especially if they are made in a triangular shape, in itself already attracts attention with its extravagance and clarity of geometric shapes. At the same time, gold and silver in the form of sparkles and glitter remain favorite options for creating a festive version of marigold coating. Light manicure is suitable for everyday wear, decorating the nails of the bride. He will give the image elegance.

The selection of holes is often combined with various types of decor. At the same time, such a design is also allowed in the office, if there are not too many sequins, rhinestones and other elements. Most often you can find a combination of holes with rhinestones. When making it, it is advisable to choose a small decor. From rhinestones, you can lay out the entire lunula (more often this is done on an accent finger) or attach them only along its edge. You can plant only 2-3 stones at any place on the surface of the nail plate. They are arranged in a chaotic or strictly geometric order, emphasizing the basic design element.

To decorate the lunula will help sculpting from 3D material and other volumetric elements. This option should be chosen for the most solemn events, such as a wedding manicure. You can pamper yourself with a voluminous realistic design and go on vacation. Elements can be located directly on the lunula, along its edge or side. In this version, the lunula is often made obliquely, almost from corner to corner, and emphasized by an accent of beads and voluminous flowers.

Kamifubuki is a great option for a party or graduation. Colored metal circles can be chosen in any color and size. The drawing will be quite concise, but no less stylish. Good on the nails with holes look and broths of different colors and diameters. They create the effect of luxury and celebration. You can issue them with individual details of the decor or lay out the entire hole as a whole. This option is especially good for long nails.

Designers creating a fashion for coating nails, tried their best. Now we have many options for every taste, for every season and for any situation. You can embody one of the ready-made solutions on your nails or supplement the trend manicure with your ideas. Recently, nail art has tended to mix textures and techniques, so you can safely create masterpieces on your nails without fear that it will be too much. The main thing is to remember the rule of accent nails and not to forget about the relevance and suitability of the case.

When playing in contrasts, you will never be a loser. If you don’t have time at all, just take two spectacular classic colors: red and white, black and white or black with red. This combination is very stylish. To create a fashionable design, you can use one varnish, leaving the lunula free from coating. This design has been successful for several seasons. And the girls who make it say that the nail plate breathes better, and the nails grow faster.

Lunulas may not necessarily be round and oval. Geometry is trending: you can draw them with a straight line along the diagonal, a square or a fashionable triangle. Nails with bright lunulas of saturated or dark shades are especially distinguished. Usually they are distinguished by lighter colors, but saturated ones attract more attention to themselves. Back holes are another popular trend that is especially recommended for owners of short nails, it makes them visually longer. In this technique, not only the area at the base of the nail, but also its side parts are painted with a contrasting color. The most fashionable color is a combination of silver metallic on the rim with black or nude shades.

Double holes love young people. This design usually combines fashionable caramel and fruit colors. The second hole is often made transparent or shiny. Another fresh effect is a pattern in the form of a stylized eye on a white hole. Such a pattern is loved everywhere in Turkey. It is believed that it protects against the evil evil eye. The original design of the hole can be done using dots. A number of points can be put along the contour of the hole. And the area inside is painted over with a contrasting color or left free.

They like to combine moon manicure with a picture. Moreover, most often it is done only on accent nails. You can place the pattern on the main color of the nail, and leave the hole free and even colorless. Another option is a monochrome base and lunula painted with patterns. The most common patterns are veil, monograms, flowers and other floral motifs. Often they draw a thematic or seasonal design. Then the nails are covered with oriental bright patterns, autumn leaves, snowflakes or hearts.

Among the most chic options is the addition of a lunar manicure with shining particles and rhinestones. In this case, you can get a variety of effects. A metal rubbing or mirror manicure will give the nails a catchy style, this option will suit young and courageous. Unobtrusive translucent glitter is suitable for design with a twist on every day. Rhinestones that can be placed in a row, fill the entire nail, part of it or create whole patterns from them will help to add luxurious shine to the nails.

Popular techniques with the creation of a volumetric textured coating are also very successfully combined with lunar manicure. The openwork pattern or imitation of a knitted sweater with bare holes looks especially touching. Another technique using flock is advantageously complemented by glossy wells of contrasting tone. The main thing is to choose the right shade and the right combination of colors. For example, caramel and black, creamy color and dark burgundy, golden and emerald green will look advantageous.

The selection of techniques and coatings looks interesting and unusual. You can alternate, for example, a glossy base and matte lunula. Also, 3-4 techniques can be used in one manicure. At the same time, the design will not look clumsy or bulky, because on each nail no more than two techniques are used. So, in one manicure often use a pattern of monograms, rhinestones and double holes. You can combine the technique of “broken glass”, reverse jacket and fashionable geometry. In the wedding manicure, volumetric molding details, lace painting, rhinestones and holes are used.

Making a moon coating is not difficult, regardless of whether you work with a simple varnish or long-term gel. It’s easiest to draw even holes using simple donut stencils, although usual for French manicures will do. You can cut them yourself, so as not to splurge on purchased ones. If you are confident in your artistic abilities and eye, you can try to design them simply with a brush by hand.

Lunar design, like any other type of manicure, requires careful preparation. Properly, it will only look on well-groomed handles. Moreover, the emphasis in this type of nail art is placed on one of the most problematic areas of the printail area. Therefore, inaccuracy, burrs are simply inappropriate in this case.

Before embodying one of the fashionable ideas on your nails, you need to carefully make a hygienic manicure. To do this, first carefully remove the old coating. We moisten a cotton swab or disk in a nail polish remover and wrap it around the nail plate. From above we put on a tight cap of foil. Keep it like this for about 3 minutes. Then, with a couple of movements, remove the nail polish, it should move away quite freely.

We make a nourishing and strengthening bath for nails and hands. You can add sea salt, nutritious olive or rose oil to it. After the procedure, grease the nails and hands with cream. You can begin to form the desired length of nails and remove the cuticle. To do this, it is better to choose an unedged technique, since the cuticle can be injured.It will swell and a moon manicure with an emphasis on the area near the cuticle will not be the most successful option. Therefore, we take an orange tree stick and a special emollient, we work slowly, very carefully.

When all the preliminary procedures have been completed, degrease the nail plate with a clinser or regular alcohol. Be sure to apply a protective transparent base coat on it so that the varnish does not soak into the nail and does not stain it. It’s good to use a base with an additional healing or nutritional effect. We dry the nails for 5 minutes in air or a minute under the lamp (depending on the type of coating). You can start painting.

To complete this design You will need varnishes of contrasting shades, for example, red and white, like Dior's, as well as small silver rhinestones and a top coating.

• We put a stencil on the cuticle area. From its outer edge we cover the nail with red varnish. Dry thoroughly and apply a second layer.
• When both layers of the primary color have dried, carefully remove the stencil.
• We paint the remaining empty half-nail at the base of the nail with white varnish.
• Until he dried, a pair of accent nails right on the wet coating with glue rhinestones, placing them one after another in a row, on the edge of the lunula.
• Dry the manicure thoroughly and cover it with a transparent finish for durability. We pay special attention to the tips of the nails.

Negative space gel polish manicure with holes in the shape of a triangle. This manicure is just the trend of the season. All that is needed for him is a gel polish of his favorite shade, thin strips of adhesive tape and a UV lamp.

• Glue on each narrow nail at an acute angle to each other (about 30-45 degrees) 2 narrow strips of adhesive tape. You can use a special manicure, regular stationery or pieces of masking tape.
• At the top of the corners, fill the free space with gel polish starting from the stickers in the direction of the tips of the nails.
• We make 2 layers, drying each under a UV lamp for at least 3 minutes.
• Carefully remove the stencils.
• We cover the nails with the top, dry and remove the sticky layer. Trendy nail art in graphic style is ready!

See how to make manicure gel polish using the negative space technique in the next video.