How to make a stylish manicure with flamingos?

The summer design of modern manicure often surprises with the theme of decoration. Sometimes, in addition to traditional solutions, not only colorful insects appear on the nails, but also exotic birds. One of the most popular options for designing accent nails today is a design with flamingos.

How to make it yourself, so that the whole manicure looks professional, read on.

Flamingo manicure cannot be attributed to the universal design of nails, as it is not suitable for everyday looks. In addition, he is limited in his choice of style. For example, it will not be appropriate in bows, implying a strict dress code, and also not suitable for representatives of bohemia and shocking fashionistas.

Due to the fact that in most cases the bird is executed in pink, contrasts must be selected very carefully so that the main idea of ​​the design does not lose its expressiveness. Therefore, various additions to the print must be dosed so as not to overload the manicure as a whole and not deprive it of its high status.

The fact is that on short nails an exotic bird will be lost. In addition, it will be necessary to reduce its size, and with a decrease in size, drawing will be simplified, which will affect the result.

In order for flamingos to truly be a decoration of design, at least nails of medium length are needed. Of course, if its shape is elongated by nature, this may also be enough to decorate accent nail plates. As for the saw, it can be different, for example, completely straight, straight with rounded sides, slightly rounded, semicircular. The only thing that is not suitable for design with flamingos is the shape of the nail in the form of a trapezoid, in which the sharp edge is partially sawn. This form needs more geometric themes, part of the picture may be lost because of it.

In order for a flamingo design to fit harmoniously into a woman's bow, you can choose related tones of gel polish from clothes or resort to shades of a pastel group. The following combinations look beautiful:

• pink and blue;
• white, coral and green;
• mint, pink and white;
• turquoise and mint with white;
• pink with white and lilac;
• peach with white and yellow;
• mint with pink and silver;
• emerald green and pinkish;
• lilac with purple and black;
• blue with silver, pink and white.

You can “plant” flamingos on accent nails of a manicure in different ways.

For example, in the classic version, this is hand drawing with the drawing of microscopic elements. Such prints are drawn with a very thin brush, gaining a tiny amount of paint on it. Someone uses acrylic paints instead of special coloring materials, but they are partially smeared when a top is applied to them, and especially with a matting effect. Gel-paints during application add volume to the drawing, therefore, to achieve a flat image they are taken to a minimum.

If you can’t draw on the nails, you can resort to alternative methods that allow you to dress your nails in a shorter time and without resorting to the use of paints. It is worth considering the most interesting techniques.

• Stamping - This is nothing like stamping a pattern from a translated metal plate. If desired, the engraved pattern can be painted, like a stained glass technique, which will allow you to get a color image of a flamingo with a contrasting outline stroke. Stamping is good because the lines of such a pattern after applying it from the roller to the nail itself are smooth and accurate. The entire procedure takes very little time, which fans of this design of nails like.
• Stickers They are noteworthy in that they can decorate accent nails more professionally than drawing. At the same time, a thin film of the slider also strengthens the nail, which grinds when working with hybrid varnish products. At the same time, the buyer can choose a design not only in the form of a photo, but also in a watercolor technique, which can imitate the effect of a manual drawing. And after sealing the sticker, the manicure will look superprofessional, as if it were done by a master of the nail salon.

To destroy the myth of the impossibility of independent design using hand-painted techniques, it is worth noting step by step how each of us can draw a flamingo if there are no stickers or stamping at home. It's better to draw realistically, but for this it’s worth enlarging the image.

So that the pigments are not smeared during the drawing process, you can use the gel varnishes available in the home manicure kit.

To work, you will need the following elements:

• base;
• top
• light nude varnish;
• two pink varnishes with varying degrees of saturation;
• white pigment;
• peach gel polish;
• black varnish.

You need to stock up on dots with different nozzles, a thin brush and a needle.In addition, you may need a brush to mix different varnishes and a piece of foil, from which you will have to make a temporary palette. Leaning is in the photo of the lesson, which will clearly show what and what should be done to get a realistic design.

The technology in this case will consist of the following steps:

1. the nail is treated with a primer, after which a thin layer of base material is applied to enhance adhesion to gel polish and dried in a lamp;
2. slightly sticky base is covered with a layer of light nude varnish and dried;
3. apply and dry another layer of light pigment to cover the nail plate;
4. a drop of pink varnish is added to the palette, typed on a dots or brush and a silhouette of the future bird, similar to two, is drawn;
5. adding a brighter pink varnish to the palette, draw a silhouette, giving it volume;
6. outline the location of the eye;
7. in some places, at your discretion, you can combine light and bright shades, after giving the bird volume, the nail is dried in a lamp;
8. take a white varnish and form the basis of the beak and eyes, after which the nail is dried again;
9. taking a light peach color, make out the beak so that the tone does not outweigh the emphasis in one direction, the shade is used to paint the head and neck of a flamingo;
10. black varnish encircles part of the beak, the head of the bird from below and part of the neck from the side;
11. blacken the lower part of the beak, carry out drying;
12. gain a little white varnish and put glare in the eye, paint on the beak and plumage;
13. after the next drying, the nail is covered with a topcoat;
14. until the finish is dry, rhinestones are placed in the right places on the surface of the nail;
15. the design is dried and once again coated with a finish layer, then dried again and the residual tack is removed.

To make a manicure with pink flamingos not only beautiful, but also correspond to the latest fashion trends, when performing it, you can resort to various tricks that today are considered trendy:

• make accent nails glossy, and all the rest matte;
• secrete a bird’s breast with rhinestones;
• use acrylic powder to decorate the drawing of the bird;
• decorate other nails using broken glass;
• apply veil technique for adjacent nail plates;
• use a pearl rub, changing the texture of a monophonic coating adjacent to the accent of nails;
• use manicure foil partially, creating a gloss effect on the plumage;
• give volume to the bird using a transparent modeling gel or initially creating a volume design using colored gel paints.

In addition, you cannot decorate all nails with birds: just one that will attract attention. Birds looking from all nails will create the feeling of a bird farm, which is completely unacceptable for the image of a city dweller.

If, in addition to flamingos, you want something else, let it be stripes in the color of one of the contrasts or feathers. In order not to destroy the beautiful idea, you can not increase the number of accent nails more than three on one arm. In total, there should not be more than four out of ten.

It is worth considering the following examples of beautiful nail design with accent decoration with an exotic bird:

• chic design for the summer, accent drawing and broken glass technique;
• delicate gradient in a fashionable combination of blue and pink tones;

• design with the rubbing, changing the perception of the design due to the partial rubbing of the powder;
• a good example of a small flamingo on nails of moderate length;

• design in pink and white with black contrast, the use of rhinestones;
• chic coral pink gradient on oval nails with a drawing of the head of a flamingo;

• a gentle solution with one expressive accent;
• beautiful and juicy manicure with flamingos decorated with rhinestones.

A video tutorial on creating flamingos on nails is waiting for you in the video below.