French manicure design options

French design is a classic manicure. Appearing 40 years ago at the request of one of the Hollywood directors, he still maintains a leading position in nail design. However, each nail season makes its own adjustments to the design of the jacket, and therefore those who need to be not only beautiful, but also modern, should familiarize themselves with the material in this article. We will dwell in detail on fashion trends and design options for French manicure that give out a modern woman.

French manicure today is divided into two main varieties: traditional and reverse. In the classic version, the basis of the technique is a nude or flesh-pinkish background. The decoration becomes a smile that imitates the contrasting color and width of the grown edge of the nail plate.

As for the reverse jacket, it is a mirror image of the usual French design. His smile is located at the base of the nail, in the area of ​​the cuticle.This variety differs from lunar manicure in that the handle of the inverted jacket follows the outline of the base of the nail bed. In the moon manicure, it is opposed to the growing edge.

Today, French manicure should strive for naturalness and femininity. This is a fashion desire that is confident in the need to emphasize the feminine and maximum simplicity. Fashion trends tend to minimalism, which can be created by dosing decor elements and the number of accents. As for the variegation and excessive complexity, the design of the jacket with its decoration of all ten nails is now considered boring and spoils the whole aesthetics.

Fashion draws attention to the fact that an abundance of accents deprives the design of expressiveness. She clearly indicates that, ideally, two out of ten nails are enough for decoration. So the background will be noticeable, and accents will attract the attention of others. If the fingers are strewn with decor, the eye will not cling to anything. If two emphasis is not enough, you can add two more to the design, but no more.

The places of accents were determined. An ideal option is to accent the nail of the ring finger. If the design idea needs more accents, they are performed on adjacent fingernails (middle fingers). This design looks more aesthetically pleasing and balanced than a manicure with accentuation of the nails of the thumbs or little fingers.

The print on one nail should dominate. The second emphasis should be his support or a modest addition, which is the connecting link connecting the design with the main background of the jacket. If, for example, a drawing is chosen as the basis, on one of the nails it can occupy the entire area of ​​the plate, on the other - only a small part of it. At the same time, support should be carried out in a single theme. It is impossible to combine incongruous.

It's time to pay attention to the texture. It is she who is often lost under an abundance of inlaid, this is what can simplify the design, making it vulgar. In the new season, the arrangement of sparkling decor should be well thought out. To french looked feminine and elegant, to place rhinestones or crystals, opals need to be precise, carefully choosing places for them, taking into account the characteristics of the print or design composition.

Taking into account the specific time of the year is a current fashion trend, which suggests paying attention to the choice of certain pictures and decor in connection with the season. For the summer, they are certainly insects, all kinds of bugs, butterflies. In winter, you can recreate frosty patterns on French accents, draw snowflakes, powder the edge of a smile, thereby simulating snow. In autumn, you can turn to the crop theme, decorate your nails with a design with ripe ears, colorful leaves, raindrops. In the spring it is worth taking a closer look at the idea of ​​awakening nature. These may be early birds, sky drawings, snowdrops, first dandelions.

All forms of nail plates are available to French. However, this season the fashion has already decided on its favorites. Superiority went to the form of a rounded or soft square. Today, such nails are super popular, they allow you to realize the French design by combining it with any of the manicure techniques known today. In addition to square nails, almond-shaped nails with a rounded tip are popular. Also in fashion is an oval shape, which is recognized as universal, suitable for any design and length.

More recently, short or ultra-long nails were in fashion.Today, nail service professionals call the best average length, as it allows you to not limit the choice of color schemes, and is also convenient in everyday life. The ideal length of the plates is one whose free edge of the nail does not exceed 0.7 cm. This is enough to give the upper edge any shape.

We are accustomed to high-quality hygienic manicure and do not think about its varieties at all. Fashion, however, offers its fans a gradual transition to an unedged technique with the sealing of the cuticle. This method is good in that it minimizes skin injury and reduces the risk of burrs. Such nails look well-groomed even after two weeks from the moment of performing hygienic manicure. This method has already been praised by professionals.

Fashion believes that it is time to abandon false nails. They are inconvenient not only because in most cases they do not fit the shape of the arch to their nails, but they also bounce at the most inopportune moment. In addition, such nails look unnatural. However, if the question is about building, today it has gained great popularity. Such nails are in trend, the jacket on them turns out to be strong and durable.

The design of a modern manicure should be special. The times when women decorated marigolds with completely identical drawings have sunk into oblivion. Today, the pattern does not have to be repeated exactly. Turn, tilt, a separate element may differ, but the drawing itself should not have clones. This is not only ugly, but also simplifies the design of the jacket.

Fashion offers those who resort to nail modeling to take a closer look at the voluminous jacket made using the technique of an aquarium manicure. In the wide smile that is characteristic of such a design, there is enough space to accommodate a different and sometimes unusual decor. Along with glitter and sparkles, such nails are decorated with dried flowers, tiny shells and even sifted sand. Top they are sealed with several layers of modeling tools.

When performing a service jacket, it is important to understand that nails with a smile should prevail in design. Moreover, it can be very different (traditional arcuate, in the form of two triangles superimposed on one another, in the form of a heart, wave, zigzag, lightning). Sometimes in a manicure a smile is completely concise. However, this is necessary in order to highlight the emphasis with a stylish and expressive design.

It may also be a smile, but only in an unusual shape. For example, it can be made in the form of lace curls with a line bordering the smile zone. However, if the design provides for combining a jacket with any other technique, for expressiveness of accents it is better not to complicate the shape of the overgrown edge. A smile in this case should be as simple as possible.

Accents can be performed in the techniques of classic, moonlight manicure, ombre, broken glass, veil, powder. As for the classics, it will be the basis for any design. You can draw on a nail painted in one color, on a plain background you can glue stickers, manicure film cut into pieces, foil, rhinestones or other sparkling decor. In addition, a painted nail can be ennobled with powder material, choosing from the large assortment the right option, taking into account your own preferences.

In the trend, the combination of a jacket with a gradient. However, the design can be done in different ways. For example, a gradient can be used as a background for a French manicure, performing a smile on top of a smooth stretch. French manicure will also look beautiful if the gradient is the basis of an accent nail.

In addition, the gradient can be designed as an independent figure by stretching inside it. It can be a triangle, square, circle, oval, polyhedron. Another fashionable solution will be a French ombre with a stretch of shades from nail to nail. This design is performed with a single-color staining of nails in a related color scheme. Tones are chosen with a slight difference, so that in general a smooth and beautiful stretch of shades of the same color is obtained. Smiles on the nails should not complicate the design.

Decorating nails is comparable to art. Its capabilities can be limited only by the skills of the master. Consider a few relevant ideas that the mod offers in the new season.

Such decoration is created by means of powder, broths or acrylic sand. Depending on the type of substance, the technology for working with it will differ. In one case, you can simply sprinkle with acrylic powder or broths (microbeads) a nail with a sticky top applied to it. If you want a more filigree design of the accent of the French, you can put any pattern on the painted nail and sprinkle the plate with powder. After drying and removing all unnecessary, a beautiful pattern will remain on the nail.

You can decorate the jacket with manicure fine-grained powder - rubbing. The material has a lot of varieties, they can decorate both accents and all nails. At the same time, it can easily replace any mother-of-pearl varnish, since it has a more weightless shimmer. Rubbing on the ring finger nail can be used for further decoration. It is on it that you can apply drawings on top, and then sprinkle them with acrylic sand. The most fashionable powders of this type today are the options “mermaid”, “northern lights”, “May beetle”.

You can decorate the nail of the ring finger with mica flakes, which are rubbed like a rub. In addition, these flakes can be used to simulate a French smile, whether it be a traditional or reverse version of a French manicure. The shades of this material are variable, while the effect of flakes can create completely different. For example, the less they are typed on the applicator and rubbed, the more random and original they look.

This design looks unusual and fresh. At the same time, nail service professionals also use stickers, disguising them as artistic painting. Aqua stickers are a great substitute for hand-drawing, they are easy to use and significantly reduce the time required to complete a French design. At the same time, they can be very diverse, and therefore with their help you can not only close the entire area of ​​the accent nail, but also portray a fantasy smile, which is very fashionable today.

When performing design on the ring finger, you can use varnish of the same color, but with different textures. Say, you can cover the accent nail with a matte gel polish, then take a thin manicure brush for drawing, type glossy varnish and perform a simple lace pattern. Such a design will look very beautiful and expressive. You can gloss all the nails except the plate on the ring finger. It can simply be painted with varnish with an unusual texture (suede, velor, satin or velvet).

On the nail of the ring finger, the bow made of small crystals or crystals will look beautiful. In this case, it can be located symmetrically or asymmetrically. Sometimes inlay is used in the form of a diagonal or it is filled with some design element of an accent nail plate. You can glue such a decor on the same slider design, if he succeeds in choosing a suitable place in the picture.Let's say it could be a bug’s body, the oblong body of a dragonfly.

If the design is intended for art painting or alternative printing, one nail for the design will not be enough. It is necessary to identify one main emphasis, but it will not be possible to do without support, which will link the print with the main background of the jacket. In this case, two adjacent marigolds are left under the design and do not complicate their smile (you need a regular monophonic surface).

For example, in one accent you can draw a large print, occupying almost the entire area of ​​the plate. It can be an owl, a cat's head, a leopard, a large butterfly. The second nail can convey the mood of the picture, supporting the theme of the print. In the case of an animalistic image, a leaf of an exotic tree may become support. If the choice fell on a bird, a feather can be depicted on the next nail.

A chic version of the embodiment of something extraordinary will be the watercolor technique. This design is created with water-based artistic watercolor, which is sold in tin tubes. The technique needs buffing (treatment of a painted and coated top with a soft grinder). Such images look easy and unique.

You can use translated foil to decorate neighboring nails, combining it with an aqua sticker. At the same time, tear-off foil with gold or silver can be used to decorate accent nails. By the way, it is foil today that is considered the best type of decor for reverse french. If you want to highlight the emphasis on the background of marigolds decorated with a golden smile, you can decorate the upper part of the nail, giving the accent a gradient look.

The original technique for applying decor will be stamping. In this case, it is possible to apply drawings from engraved plates not only in one, but also in two multi-colored layers. A stamping addition can be a stencil.

An interesting design option for two adjacent nails will be a composite print. For example, it can be a butterfly with open wings, dandelion umbrellas flying in the wind, a snake, a city at night with the ends of the bridge divorced, or a sketch of the city landscape. This design looks very beautiful. If he is not overloaded with an abundance of elements, decor and does not shout about himself with catchy tones, he brings expressiveness and high status to the manicure design.

French manicure this season can be the most diverse. For example, today you can beat the design of the smile itself. On an accent nail plate it can be depicted, for example, in the form of a cat, fox, panda, flower petal, leaf of a plant. Sometimes it is presented in the form of cobwebs, shells, starfishes, juicy fruits created through fimo.

One of the extraordinary solutions is the implementation of a smile with dots (manicure tools with spherical nozzles of different sizes). In this case, the smile pattern can be monophonic, contrasting, simple or complex, resembling an ethnic ornament. Masters use this design not only to decorate the traditional upper edge of accent nails.

It is fashionable to draw ethnic patterns, working with dots and thin manicure brushes. Thus, drawings of mehendi are born, which today are considered one of the most popular for decorating manicure accents. The convenience of this type of prints is the fact that they are performed on top of a painted base, in this case there is no need to draw a contrasting smile separately.

You can create a French gradient using kamifubuki. Japanese multi-colored confetti today are considered one of the mega-popular decor options.At the same time, they are not used for all nails: they only adorn accents, and metered, combining elements of different sizes for greater harmony of design. Against the general background of the coating, it looks like champagne bubbles rising up. The colors of kamifubuki should be related to the chosen french base.

In the current season, decoration of the jacket with a variety of shimmer varnishes is especially relevant. Often in the design they use both fine pollen and large spangles at the same time. You can tightly cover the jacket’s smile with glitter, thereby forming a French millennium. You can stretch with a shimmer, draw a glitter bow in the form of an almost contour stroke, with the exception of the top. You can fill any shape with glitter or create a spraying effect by performing some kind of drawing.

The Hollywood jacket needs thin stripes on the nail plates, in addition to the basic design. However, in general, there are no clear rules here. Various color variations and contrasts are allowed, manicure in neutral tones is encouraged. A French twist needs to use several tones to draw a smile. Today, in this version of the French manicure, black and white contrasts are especially relevant.

Unlike a decorative art jacket or design with fantasy smiles, a fan jacket needs decorative elements such as sequins, beads, lace, tiny feathers, and pieces of textile. At the same time, you can decorate not only the nail base covered with varnish.

Today, fashion does not limit fashionistas in choosing color solutions for decorating their nails. However, she draws our attention to the fact that the selected tones should be harmoniously combined with each other. In addition, it is important that there are not too many of them in the design, since variegation can kill any chic design idea. It is better that the priority option is to use a soft color for the background. It can be a nude, a skin tone or any color of pastel colors.

As for pastels, in the current season it is these shades that are considered the best for French design. They are harmonious, understated and combined with most items of women's clothing or available accessories. In addition, each of them is perfectly combined with neutral colors of the palette (white, gray, black), which today are at the peak of popularity. If you want the jacket to match the latest fashion, you can add a little silver to the design.

Harmonious combinations of shades of this season can be called mixes:

• pink and white;
• white and mint;
• black and nowhere;
• light pink and raspberry neon;
• beige and white;
• purple and fuchsia;
• silver and eggplant;
• emerald and black.

Very popular combinations of various shades with nude tones. Flesh tones with a slight addition of pink color harmoniously combine with black, pink, white, eggplant, wine, Marsala, emerald tones, turquoise, fuchsia. They soften the contrasts with yellow, orange, red, blue, which cannot be said about the contrast of the same color inks with white. At the same time, the white contrast against the background of a nude and a colored smile will look softer.

As for the shades for the evening set, it is certainly the dark colors of the palette. If we talk about the most trendy options, you need to choose between wine, eggplant and emerald. It is these tones, according to fashion, that today are the favorites of the color palette. At the same time, they all look great on a translucent background in veil technique.

We suggest you turn to examples of current French design, which, better than any words, indicate design features taking into account new trends.

• A fresh look at French design using a secondary bow.

• Option using a matte texture of gel polish and inlay accent nails.

• Overlaying an acrylic pattern on a gradient background, a bright combination of nude and wine color.

• Delicate jacket with stucco accents, beads and broths.

• An effective and concise solution with emphasis on the ring finger nail.

• Option for winter with the use of blue and gold glitter.

• French with a pattern using the mehendi technique and inlay of accent holes with sparkling crystals.

• Harmonious union of nude background and eggplant shimmer varnish. Openwork lace accents.

• Volumetric design with volumetric print and embossed smile.

• Chic evening french violet shade with emphasis on the cuticle area of ​​accent nails.

• Pink jacket with golden rhinestones and a contour outline of a wide smile.

• French made using the broken glass technique.

• French design created using golden tear-off foil.

See how to make a quilted French manicure in the next video.