Inlay of nails with rhinestones is one of the trends of the new season. Today it is fashionable for nails to sparkle with iridescent stones. However, far from always the design with rhinestones looks beautiful and expressive. The reason for this is often insufficient nail length. The material of this article will tell about how to make a high-quality design of nails with sparkling stones on short nail plates.
Features of short nails
What seems to us appropriate when decorating long nails is far from always suitable for decorating short plates. Firstly, in this case it is impossible to use large elements. The large size of the sparkling decor is able to visually shorten the already small length. Secondly, it will create a visual burden, in which it will seem that the main part of the nails had to be filed after breaking off.
It is important to think over the location of rhinestones, since the visual balance of perception will directly depend on this.
If at the same time the side walls of the nail plates are parallel, and the bed itself is elongated by nature, then there are more opportunities for placement and composition. When the bed is short and does not reach a beautiful oval, asymmetric compositions and lines must be avoided. Also in this case, a combination of rhinestones with another decor should be considered.
Harmonious accent
It is important to consider that rhinestones will attract attention. If there are a lot of them, they will create the effect of disco balls, merging into a single spot. In this case, even if the main varnish has an unusual texture, it will be lost against the general background.
Therefore, no matter how you would like to use everything at once, you will have to strictly dose the sparkling elements.
For harmony, they can be combined with glitter or broths. There are many ways to do this. For example, a rhinestone will look more harmonious, surrounded by broths, depicting with them the middle of the flower on an accent nail. In this case, you can use broths of different sizes, but rhinestones will be the main emphasis.
Tips
It is not necessary to attach large and voluminous rhinestones to the entire area of the accent nail plate, as it is considered indecent today. Moreover, you should not do this with every nail of a manicure. In addition, it is undesirable to cover most of the nail with such a decor, even if it is a flower or a geometric figure.
Also, do not try to depict rhinestones of the same size like a gradient, placing them from the base to the middle of the plate and further.
Do not contrast the sparkling decor with a catchy texture or design pattern.
It is important to use rhinestones correctly, which means that they will have to be glued pointwise.
It will turn out to preserve the illusion of lightness and spaciousness, which is especially important for short nails. Even one element can look better and more expensive inlaid placer. There are several ways to do this:
- pasted on top of the slider design;
- using as an element of art painting;
- emphasizing certain areas of the decor;
- aligning the cuticle line;
- combining with acrylic sand.
- Sliders As for the slider design, this option is one of the easiest. Here you need to select a picture on which a place for rhinestones is pre-watched. After fixing and drying, the pictures on it are drawn on contour lines and glued rhinestones.
- Painting. In this regard, the principle of placement is almost the same. First, an image is drawn, then it is decorated with rhinestones and glitter. In this case, the use of modeling gels is allowed, through which you can create stucco prints of volume type.
- Replacing a part of a drawing. Such pictures initially envisage the use of rhinestones in specific places. For example, you can draw a golden spike, and instead of grains, place sparkling stones in it. The difference from the previous options is the lack of the need to draw elements that will be glued to the picture.
- Correction of the form. This technique allows you to correct the imperfections of the nail bed. For him, they select several rhinestones of different sizes and create with them a neat arch at the base of the nail. If the nails are very small and narrow, it is better to use 1 rhinestone, and instead of others put dots in silver using a dots.
- With powder. Such use of rhinestones is suitable only in the case of an elongated natural shape of the nail plates. Here rhinestones are inserted not over the entire area of the nail, but in places, using a special textured powder with a gloss based on acrylic. For greater harmony, you can use rhinestones of different sizes.
Design ideas
A beautiful manicure is one that does not “scream,” but attracts the enthusiastic looks of others. You can do this in many ways. For example, it is possible to accentuate an arch with rhinestones at the base of the nail bed. At the same time, it is quite enough to choose a classic or a smooth gradient as the main technique.
Based on the gradient, you can decorate two of ten nails with a vertical of small rhinestones, choosing a sparkling decor of a transparent or color type.
It is advisable to rely on the texture and color of the varnish.
For example, you can conditionally divide a plate with a vertical gradient into two parts, one of them can be decorated with a lace pattern and separated with a vertical from small rhinestones.
Rhinestones can also be used in lunar technique, if the natural shape of the nails is elongated by nature. They can emphasize the hole, selecting elements of different sizes in a single color.At the same time, rhinestones with silver dots set by the dots can also be arranged. No less harmonious look rhinestones in the weave of lace and monograms. The combination with white contrast is also quite appropriate.
Decorative stones in design with artistic painting look beautiful. After drawing the picture, which should be simple and easy on short nails, the elements are placed pointwise on the picture itself and the adjacent nail. In this case, the adjacent plate should be decorated at the base with no more than 3-5 elements. This will be enough for expressive design.
If the technique with artistic painting is chosen as the basis, rhinestones can be used to create volumetric midpoints. In this case, you can choose a sparkling decor with a rainbow shine. When the area of the accent plate is enough, it is possible to support the rhinestones with silver by drawing a handle in the cuticle area with silver glitter.
If a cobweb is chosen as the pattern, then with the help of rhinestones dew drops can be depicted on it. It will look more harmonious if you choose transparent elements for decoration. Also, with rhinestones, you can create a flickering effect by drawing fir branches, frosty patterns. Such a decor looks beautiful when they decorate the center of snowflakes or imitate the leaves of plants when the print is very small. You can use colored rhinestones, depicting flower buds with their help.
If the nail bed is elongated, you can decorate it with rhinestones in combination with broths. In this case, the cuticle area is accentuated, leading the vertical up to the center of the plate, which ends with broths. Given that this design works well with the acrylic spray of a neighboring nail, you can use the technique of playing textures.
How not to lose expressiveness?
You need to remember: the more decor and accents, the worse. If you chose the option of decorating nails, in which there will be more than a few sparkling elements on the plates, you need to reduce the number of accent nails. At the same time, sometimes a single nail with several rhinestones may be enough in the design. As support, you can rely on a gold, silver gel, because it will look more harmonious. Silver or gold can cover the adjacent nail accent.
Also, do not glue one rhinestone in a classic manicure on the base of each nail, hoping that this will avoid an abundance of brilliance.
It is ugly and boring. The design of one nail plate will look better, which can be decorated with vertical and transverse stripes, placing several rhinestones in it. Even if the rest of the nails do not have shine, a similar manicure will look stylish and effective.
See rhinestones manicure design ideas in the video below.
