Nail art today is one of the most popular nail designs. By mixing various colors and producing smooth color transitions, it is possible to achieve an amazing effect. One of the most contrasting and bold combinations is red with a large palette of shades.
How do they do it?
Thanks to the used technique of nail design, you can quickly and without unnecessary efforts to achieve a unique design. Gradient nails look elegant and spectacular. Even a novice can cope with the task, since coating does not take much time. As a nice addition, you can use gradient manicure as a platform for decoration. Newspaper equipment, butterflies and birds, rhinestones and other elements look picturesque on red.
For manicure at home, you will need materials and tools such as:
- base color;
- three color coordinated varnish for gradients;
- sponge;
- clean towel;
- paper;
- clear nail polish.
The sponge should be small so that it is convenient to mix and blend colors. At the very beginning, the base color is applied, that is, red. The nails should dry completely before applying the gradient. On a piece of paper, you can experiment and make several sketches with a sponge to determine how many colors will be used, in which order. On a small piece of foil, mix the necessary varnishes and pat them with a sponge. Only after this is applied to the surface of the nail plate. The sponge is slowly moved up and down.
So apply several layers to achieve the desired gradient. Everyone must dry completely before applying a new one.When everything is ready, add details, for example, drawing, sparkles, rhinestones. The top layer of transparent varnish must be applied on top. It helps to preserve the scenery and prevent them from coming off.
Mastering this technique can be difficult, but the result is always pleasing. At first it’s not so easy to achieve a smooth transition, but the longer you practice, the less time it takes to create a gradient. It is best to use this technique on long nails, since the coverage area is larger. To get a neat manicure for short ones, you will need more patience and attention. The brightness of red gives a decorative highlight, great for summer.
Choose a gradient or ombre?
Red color on nails has become especially popular this year. He is very diverse. This is not only the color of scarlet poppies, but also such as:
- Bordeaux;
- crimson;
- terracotta;
- strawberry.
If the tips of the nail are slightly darkened or, conversely, lightened, then this technique is called ombre. You can make a transition from one shade of red to another, or even use three, four tones. It just looks great combination of different colors, for example, red with black and yellow.
Transition Options
The easiest option to try when creating a manicure at home yourself is a transition from red to other shades. It will take five different in tone varnishes, which cover the nails from the thumb to the little finger.
If there is no way to buy so much, you can mix one with a different amount of white, but calculate so that it is enough for two hands. The first finger is covered in burgundy, then each next finger is a tone lighter. Already to the little finger, the shade should become pale pink.
There are other options to use one technique to make nails attractive. Red ombre manicure offers you to get acquainted with several directions for applying the transition.
- Horizontal harder to do since the sponge touches most of the skin around the nail. The line is drawn from the cuticle to the end of the plate. To make the transition smooth, you need to be patient. When the transition is contrasting, for example, from red to black or white, the design attracts attention and acts as the main emphasis in the image, so do not overload it with additional details. Such sharp combinations are extravagant, this color looks great with gold or pink.
It’s easier to work when strips of different shades are applied to the sponge, only then to the nail, and not vice versa. Masters perform the transition using a thin brush.
- Vertical Ombre is made from one side to the other. Most often, up to five different shades are used, contrasting, bright tones that seemingly cannot be combined with each other look especially impressive.
- For creating geometric gradient You will need special stencils in which cells are provided. Each is filled with its own color. You can fantasize about how the gradient will look if you use more colors.
Important! Red-black manicure is very popular lately. To create it, the nail is covered in two colors in half, the border is smeared with a toothpick, and then pass with a small sponge. The combination looks especially impressive in the matte version.
Popular ideas
Girls are not accustomed to stop there. In fact, this technique allows you to experiment, create something new. Today it has become popular to make a gradient from the center of the nail plate, which looks unusual and stylish. Depending on whether the shade brightens or darkens to the edges, the visual perception also changes.
Unusually, but very elegantly obtained using two contrasting tones and a jacket.For example, from the cuticle, the nail plate is covered in black, then a transition to red is created, but the composition ends with a dark crescent. Such a French manicure language does not dare to be called restrained, in combination, two techniques have allowed to create something incredible.
It has become very popular to use chrome parts in manicure, this also applies to the gradient. Mirror chrome looks gorgeous from the base of the nail with a smooth transition into bright red.
An easy way to create a gradient on the nails is described in the video below.
