Manicure in blue tones is one of the fashionable and modern areas of nail design as part of a female image. Consider what are the fashion trends of the season, what distinguishes design techniques, what is the modern ideal form of nails, which is appropriate for different seasons.
Popular shades
This season, blue is represented by a mass of delicate shades. Incredibly popular are gentle light tones of cyan, including sky-blue, gray-blue, lilac-blue, arctic, bleached denim and pale blue. Delicate colors are perfect for different women's bows, personifying the lightness and sophistication of the image. They look pretty noble, even if it's a laconic classic nail design.
In addition to light and pale blue shades, saturated pigments are in demand.
For example, bright blue and even turquoise blue tones are popular., cornflower blue and azure color. In this case, the shade of blue may have a different temperature. It can have inclusions of pinkish, gray, blue or greenish tones. Due to this, design color schemes in blue tones are complemented by options for blue-blue, turquoise, gray-smoky and other tones.
Execution techniques
Modern manicure has a lot of varieties of design techniques.Consider the main differences between blue manicure in the most relevant trends of the new season.
Classical
By this technique is meant a plain plain coating. Nails are varnished over the entire area of the nail plate. The classic design looks differently, depending on the use of top coatings that differ in texture and effect. For such a design, matte, glossy coatings, varieties with glitter, mirror effect, “chameleon” and “cat's eye” variants, as well as varnish products with a translucent texture, are used.
Matt
In fact, all the charm of this manicure is the matte texture of the surface. This can be done today using different design techniques. For example, you can achieve a similar effect using the original coating with a matte effect. Someone keeps the nails under steam for several seconds to achieve the desired effect, managing to do this until the varnish is dry. There are also finish coatings with a special velvety effect that mattify any pigmented gel polishes. They are applied at the very end of the manicure, and then, according to the general technology, dried under a UV lamp.
Veil technique
Blue voile manicure is one of the trends of this season. Achieve the effect of kapron pantyhose as follows: the pigment is diluted with a clear varnish and the nail plates are painted. Then they are decorated at their discretion and covered with a layer of the final product. This design looks incredibly stylish. At the same time, it may imply the use of not only blue, but also the inclusion of black in a minimal amount.
The main thing is to achieve a translucent texture.
With negative space
This technique is the know-how of the season. At its core, this is the design of the nails, in which part of the nail remains unpainted. For the technique, they use transparent gel polish, carry out the desired design, and only after it the nail plate is completely covered with a layer of top coat. For example, the design may be a specific pattern with an unpainted hole at the base of the nail. Or it can be a drawing on a nail plate coated with transparent gel polish.
With acrylic powder
This innovation allows you to achieve an interesting surface texture. It seems rough and voluminous, performed with the help of flock powder, which can be purchased at a specialized store. The range of such products is quite wide, which allows you to create a design not only in a plain blue color. If desired, the pattern on accented fingernails can be contrasted. Using acrylic powder, you can create the effect of a knitted pattern - fashionable design this season.
Shape selection
This season invites women to decide on their priorities, choosing the best shape for their nails. However, no matter how beautiful the sharp form may seem, such a manicure looks aggressive. Not always it allows you to harmoniously complete a delicate female image, given the tenderness of the blue color. Stylists pay attention to the fact that nails of different lengths and shapes are unacceptable: all nail plates should be visually the same.
The best form remains the classic elongated with a moderately rounded edge. Natural elongated nail plates are ideal: they allow you to complete any design, if necessary fitting not only a part, but the whole picture on its surface. Nails can be elongated, but too long is irrelevant today.
The edges can be a bit sharp, but by no means triangular, this period of fashion trends is a thing of the past.
Combination with other colors
Agree, far from always a plain manicure looks elegant and solemn. Yes, the classic is good for everyday onions, but very quickly it starts to seem boring.To somehow accentuate the nails, you have to use contrasts, and you need to be very careful with blue, because it can radically change the aesthetic perception, depending on which shade is added to it. Today, fashionable and harmonious combinations of blue can be called combinations with:
- gold
- silver
- coral;
- peach;
- purple
- bleached blue;
- mother of pearl gray;
- white
- black
- beige;
- brown
- terracotta;
- nyudovym;
- steel;
- bright cornflower blue;
- coffee;
- green
- pink;
- orange
- cream;
- sunny;
- lilac;
- creamy.
Pink-blue, violet-blue design looks beautiful, however contrasts should be selected thoroughly, giving preference to soft and muffled tones of the color palette. Nothing flashy and vulgar, no acid and poisonous contrasts. The selected tone will depend on the temperature of the blue tint, its intensity and the degree of pigmentation. Light textures are complemented by light tones of contrasting varnishes.
For example, in no case can you decorate the blue color with a poisonous green pattern: the color of the green varnish should be muffled and pleasant. If the colors are in harmony with each other, the same green-blue manicure will look fresh and beautiful. Unacceptable combinations with blood red, neon tones, as well as mixes of different shades of blue in temperature. This approach to the design of manicure deprives him of tenderness and femininity.
Design
Today, a lot of techniques are known for decorating nails. Usually, each master brings something of his own to them, which often gives an impetus to the development of new fashion trends. However, in general, the basis of the methodology remains unified. Let's look at what has changed today with the most basic manicure design techniques.
French
The beautiful design, called the French, which is the basis for decorating nails, today is somewhat updated. If earlier the design of the nail plate implied the presence of a so-called smile of an arcuate shape, today it tends to asymmetry and geometry. The jacket may be angular or having diagonal lines, sometimes roundish, but more often straight.
Of course, the familiar form is not canceled: it can decorate the fingers, as before, while becoming a thinner line.
Reverse jacket
Reverse French manicure is an inverted French service design, in which part of the nail plate is encircled at the base. Today, the allocation of the cuticle area is one of the main trends of the season, so the whole season it will adorn the fingers of modern fashionistas. You can make a similar design in different ways: for some, to contrast the cuticle area, contrasting varnish is enough, and someone prefers to use broths or ordinary rhinestones for this.
Lunar
By this design is meant the accentuation of the lower hole of the nail plates. Following current trends, they can be distinguished by the reception of negative space (easier - without painting at all). Often for such a design of nails, gel polish of two shades is used. For example, contrasts of white or silver are often added to a blue base. Wells are distinguished not only by color: depending on the design, they are decorated with crystals and rhinestones, indicated by a pattern or simply next to a pea in a contrasting tone.
Ombre
This design means gradient design. Perform it using several shades of gel polish, creating a smooth transition from the main blue tone to another. The effect of this design is always original and special. In their appearance, they are somewhat reminiscent of chameleon coatings, which are able to radically change the original color when cooling or warming. Often such a base is decorated for a certain time of the year. For example, it allows you to decorate nails under the sea coast or create a snow effect.
With drawing
Drawing on a blue background needs careful thoughtfulness of the subject. It is important not to disturb the perception of color. Stylishly look on this basis, drawings made in the same color in the sketching technique. In the absence of drawing skills, you can decorate the surface of the nails with stripes or ordinary peas (dots). Vegetable themes are in fashion. Actual dandelions, ethnic ornaments, plant branches, leaves, feathers.
Geometry is in fashion: triangles are super popular, vertical lines with dots, rectangular motifs, as well as stylized drawings from straight lines.
Dressing
Ornamentation of the blue base is a separate topic, which covers a number of stylistic techniques that make it possible to create stylish and unique, and sometimes masterpiece design options from a seemingly ordinary coating. Consider how it is customary to decorate nails today, so that the manicure is not only elegant, but also expressive.
With rhinestones
Rhinestones have not yet lost popularity, like bulk crystals. However, their abundance brings vulgarity to the design. No need to demonstrate an abundance of decor, because in order to show uniqueness, a few sparkling rhinestones are enough, placing them, for example, in the cuticle area. In this case, the design may be asymmetric. If the accent nail already has a pattern, take a look at where one sparkling rhinestone can be fixed on it. It can be the middle of a flower, a bud of a branch, a decor on a feather. The smaller the sparkling, the more appropriate and harmonious it is.
With broths
This substance is nothing but microscopic beads. They decorate the surface of the nail plates, giving them volume and relying on the unusual texture. Broths are applied to the topcoat layer before drying under a special lamp. After the decor is completed, it is brought under a UV lamp and dried for the required time (the duration depends on the type of product used and the type of lamp itself). Broths are also used as decoration elements, creating wavy lines, plant branches and even flower petals from them.
With sparkles
Choosing sparkles as the basis for decoration, you need to understand: without its dosage, this decor can violate the harmony of the design of nails in blue tones. The abundance of gloss today is irrelevant, and besides, the nail plates completely covered by it can cause a loss of expressiveness of accent nails. However, drawing the same gold or silver would be quite appropriate. He’s better to give a strass to the elegance of manicure and help to place accents on the nails. In addition, sequins are voluminous, unlike rhinestones and crystals.
Consider this nuance: in no case do not decorate manicure with rhinestones and silvering (gilding) at the same time.
With foil
Such a solution will appeal to modern fashionistas. This season, manufacturers have released for them several varieties of foil material for decorating nail plates. Of course, the texture itself is creative, so you need to carefully select it for blue manicure. This decoration looks original not only on long nails: it is suitable for nail plates of any length. In addition, it is appropriate for extended nails. Not only foil sliders are used for decoration: this season, more than ever, translated versions, pressed foil and thermal film are in demand.
With powder
The advantage of this decor can be called strengthening and hardening of nails. The substance itself is a polymer powder that is harmless to the nail plates and allows you to create a porous coating. Using various application methods, you can decorate the surface of the nails with a creative pattern. Acrylic powder is used, performing a French, as well as building. It can be transparent or white, camouflage and color.This is a means of giving the picture volume, and for decoration you can use contrasting tones of powder. However, you need to use powder in a metered way, because when there is a lot of such decor, it simplifies the manicure.
With a rub
Rubbing allows you to create a unique mirror effect. And if it has a special texture, you can make a design with an overflow of different tones. Mirror gloss on the nails is especially appropriate this season, such a pigmentation of the nail plates today is one of the main trends. The coating creates the effect of mirror dust, and it can be not only mirror, but also chrome, pearl, glass, and also holographic.
The convenience of this design is the ability to combine existing pigments, applying them to different shades of blue varnish in order to obtain new effects and halftones. Pigments can be:
- chameleons (e.g. chafer)
- unicorn options (mirror rainbows);
- imitation of the northern lights (the so-called aurora);
- holographic (prisms).
Unique flake options resembling a mermaid scale.
The rubbing is also notable for the fact that it allows decoration, including various drawings and ornaments.
Kamifubuki
This Japanese decor today is known to almost every fashionista. He did not lose his popularity and even significantly expanded his form. If earlier it was mainly circles of different sizes, today in the kamifubuki line you can find all kinds of hearts, triangles, squares, stars, rhombs and even hexagons. However, with regard to the blue color of the base of manicure, here you need to choose related shades and elements of different sizes.
This is how a manicure will not look simple, but with ease of implementation it will become stylish. Decorate nails using kamifubuki, you need to be metered. This decor can be used to create drawings. It can replace rhinestones, give nails no less elegant look.
Creating a manicure for different seasons
It is worth noting that the design of manicure today should take into account seasonality. In other words, universal solutions today are not as relevant as the design for a particular time of the year. This allows the design to convey the mood of a particular time of year or even month. In addition, it is rare for a fashionista to deny herself the pleasure of decorating the fingernails, taking into account the current season of the year.
An interesting fact is that with the changing seasons, the tones of blue will change. For example, a summer manicure needs delicate celestial shades and white contrast. However, if the summer shades of blue are warmer, the winter is cold. The same blue gel polish, but with an admixture of blue with a snowflake pattern, will look different on nails.
Of course, the drawing is one of the best techniques for emphasizing the seasonality of manicure. If in summer, let’s say, you want simplicity and bright colors, this is the case when combinations of blue with gentle pastel shades of the color palette are appropriate. So, you can decorate accent nail plates with floral and plant motifs. Made in gentle contrasting tones, they will convey the summer mood and harmoniously complete the female image. Drawings of falling leaves, voluminous ears created by acrylic powder are good for autumn.
In autumn, you can add volume drops created by transparent gel polish to the manicure design. With the advent of cold weather, you can think about the so-called knitted decor. The same acrylic powder here will look not just relevant, but stylish and deliberate. A knitted fabric created with its help will demonstrate the effect of the warmth of the texture.
All kinds of snowflakes, drawn dots, the use of decals are good in winter.
Geometry is generally relevant for any season.However, if the design has summer tones (for example, the color of fresh greens, pink, lilac, burgundy, orange), this design will gravitate to the warm seasons of the year. If you want to decorate a winter manicure with a geometric pattern, you should choose cold contrasts.
It is important to consider the use of glitter and sparkling decor. In itself, it is quite beautiful, but obliges to a specific case. Few women of fashion want to walk for almost a month with nails hung with massive crystals and rhinestones. And the point here is not even that it can be the famous Swarovski: whatever one may say, this manicure is festive, it is contraindicated for everyday life.
However, this does not mean at all that one cannot use what glitters: and foil and rubbing can be used to decorate nails. But in this case, the design must take into account the circumstances. If you do a manicure for the New Year holidays - this is one thing. When design is necessary for work, decorative elements are dosed to the maximum. Sometimes the foil is taken solely to accentuate a manicure, which means that it will adorn only 3-4 fingers and, possibly, partially.
Fashion ideas
We bring to your attention the most interesting manicure solutions in blue tones, demonstrating a sense of taste and style. This gallery will help you determine the type of design that you can think of based on the photo data.
- Design with negative space. Laconic french jacket in warm blue.
- No less stylish design in blue notes with nude contrast. Beautiful moon manicure with negative space.
- The classic design in blue and blue tones looks elegant due to the emphasis in the form of a picture. The design used several small rhinestones.
- A truly summer solution with kamifubuki and acrylic powder.
- A gradient in blue tones, inspiring dreams of a vacation at sea, will appeal to any girl.
- This technique in warm blue becomes expressive due to a sticker with the effect of a reptile skin.
- An unusual solution in the contrast of blue and pink. Using black gel polish for accent nails.
- Lightweight and airy solution with accent finger sticker decor.
Dosing of golden rhinestones.
- Creative pattern in geometric style brings something special, unique and stylish to the manicure design.
- In this example, the contrast of blue and pink is used, as well as the decoration of two accent fingers, making up one picture.
- An example of a combination in the design of acrylic powder and rhinestone. Great idea for a winter manicure.
- Lacy themes will not leave indifferent any woman. Skillful combination of blue and powder tones, competent arrangement of accents.
- This example will appeal to lovers of everything unusual. Pretty stylish and delicate solution with the drawing of negative space.
- Ombre effect with a smooth stretch from blue to pink. Original performance of contrasting lines.
- Foil design on accent nail. The combination of pale blue with cream in a classic manicure.
- An inverted jacket with a silver accent cuticle area looks incredibly stylish and spectacular.
What else to consider?
Whatever manicure you choose, pay attention to the quality preparation of the nail plates. Often, the esthetics of the final result depends on this, not to mention the durability of the coating. In order not to injure the skin when removing pterygium and cuticles, use a special softening oil, rubbing it into the skin around the nail plate. Before applying varnish products, do not forget to remove the gloss from the nail, otherwise the varnish will not stay on it for long.
Dry manicure
This technique today is gaining great popularity among fashionistas. The method, which has the names of European, Japanese or spa, is a variant of unedged manicure. He does not need to soak his fingers during preliminary preparation of nails for painting and design.The cuticle in this case is not cut, but pushed back.
This technique is considered more gentle for nails and skin of the hands. With the constant implementation of this particular technique, the likelihood of burrs is reduced. In addition, with European manicure, finger skin is not injured. Therefore, they are always healthy, which can not always be said about the usual technique.
Do not forget about the appropriateness of the design of manicure, because it is not done too often. Consider the fact that you will wear it for at least two to three weeks. For everyday onions, try to choose simple but stylish solutions without voluminous decoration elements.
Do not forget that manicure should complement the bow, but not compete with clothing or accessories.
On how to independently make a blue moon manicure, see the next video.