Russian folk crafts are famous, among other things, for painting. Gorodets, Dymkovo, Zhostovo murals, Gzhel and Khokhloma are traditional Russian patterns. Why not make a manicure with native Russian ornaments? No one calls to complement the patterns on the nails with a sarafan and kokoshnik, on the contrary, such a design will perfectly combine with everyday clothes, introducing a little national flavor. For example, Khokhloma painting.
Performance Nuances
Since Khokhloma is characterized by very warm colors, the optimal solution would be to wear a similar manicure in September and October, when nature itself plays with such colors.
Khokhloma design is very complicated in execution and requires excellent drawing skills from the nail service master, and from the client a huge margin of patience, since the work will be unusually painstaking. Classical Khokhloma colors are red, yellow, orange and obligatory gold. In the painting on the nails, black color is often used as the background for this type of design, which is understandable - Khokhloma looks bright and spectacular on it.
Before you turn to the master with a request to create such a manicure, you need to study this question a bit and clearly understand what exactly you want to see on your nails. It’s better if you have a picture with you. Since there are a lot of types of Khokhloma painting, it will be much more convenient if you, the master, can see in front of you a certain “standard” to which you should strive. Then there will be no discrepancies.
Of course, you should explain to him in advance that you want this kind of design so that you are allocated a sufficient amount of time.
In the traditional hour or a half, such painstaking work just will not fit in, and haste in applying and drawing the smallest details to the benefit of manicure will not do.
How to draw?
As already mentioned, the background coating for nail painting "under the Khokhloma" is most often black, but nothing prevents the use of traditional scarlet or bright yellow colors. After applying and drying the basic tone, large elements are drawn.such as flowers, berries and leaves. Observing the traditions of Khokhloma motifs, it is necessary to adhere to a given color scheme - no blue, white, or purple. Green is allowed as minimal splashes. Sometimes a dark brown color is used at the base of the background or decoration of small details, but very rarely.
After the second layer has dried, the time for drawing small elements - monograms, dots, curlicues.
To do this, you will need the appropriate tools - a thin brush - the "unity", as well as dots, which are very convenient to put down equal and equal in size points.
other methods
If you were unable to find a master who can accurately and accurately reproduce Khokhloma patterns on your nails, or for some reason you have not signed up for a salon, there is a way out! Slider stickers, with which even a novice can make an excellent manicure, are sold in every specialized store. It is very simple to apply the slider - you need to wet it and, carefully removing it from the paper base, transfer it to the nail, being careful not to create wrinkles and wrinkles on the surface.
A base is made under the slider, as under a regular varnish, and a top is placed on top of it. This helps to securely fix the “decal” and to avoid delamination on its surface.
There is another type of sticker - the so-called thermal stickers. To transfer them to the nails, you need to heat each under the lamp. When cooled, they shrink and adhere more strongly to the surface of the nail plate, but care should be taken with such decorations.
They easily lose their shape, creases, cracks and wrinkles appear on their surface.
Design
As in any other nail painting, the quantity and quality of the Khokhloma drawing is limited only by your imagination. You can apply it on all nails or on two fingers of each hand, leaving the others plain black or scarlet. It is possible to place motives on the nails in such a way as if one of them smoothly flows into the other. Then the hand will look like a single and integral composition.
A combination of decorated nails with accessories looks interesting, for example, with a Khokhloma scarf or a mobile phone case. In this case, as elsewhere, it is important not to overdo it. One stylized accessory is enough to support the image. The abundance of "folk trade" details will turn a beautiful girl into a woman on a teapot. After all, this is not at all the effect that you want to achieve by choosing Zhostovo roses, Gzhel blue or Khokhloma bright colors for your nails.
You will learn more about how to make a beautiful manicure with Khokhloma from the next video.
