The design of manicure today is given a lot of attention. What kind of ideas today are not found in the vastness of the network, while among them the manicure with lips stands out especially. This trendy design allows a woman to be in the spotlight.
Nuances of color and shape
Choosing the best color combination for nail design, you can build on clothing or available accessories. If you take into account that a manicure made with gel polish will stay on your nails for at least two weeks, it is better to choose more calm tones of pigmented varnishes. And at the same time, the clothing style, for example, shocking personalities, on the contrary, prefer everything that is bright and eye-catching from the crowd. The color of the manicure will depend on the shape of the nails., because on short and flat nail plates, light tones of the base visually reduce the already insufficient length and expand the shape. At the same time, on long nails, dark shades will already require a more careful choice, since long nails with bright decor will look completely different than short and moderately long ones.
Choosing this or that color, you need to correlate it with your images, so that the manicure harmoniously complements, but does not break the fashionable bow.
Color combinations
Depending on the chosen clothes and female style Harmonious color combinations can be called combinations of background and lips in the following colors:
- blue with gold and white;
- white with red and black;
- nude or beige with burgundy and white;
- white with Marsala, black and gold;
- red with pink;
- milk and terracotta with black;
- white with pink and red;
- white with fuchsia and black;
- sand with coral, white and black;
- black with red;
- white with gray pink;
- gray blue with white and red.
In addition, drawings can be not only color, but also monochrome. For example, made in black on a white basis, or vice versa.
Design Techniques
Given the different possibilities of decorating, there are three ways to decorate nails with an unusual pattern. The first of them involves the manual drawing of lips, and sometimes the whole composition. Lips can be simple, in the form of prints, with a tongue or lollipop. Someone depicts them together with part of the face, someone complements with stains, giving the appearance of a watercolor technique of drawing on a wet background. Manual creation of a picture is convenient because it does not limit the wizard in choosing the best design. The drawings are created in different ways: one master uses a thin brush, another likes to work with dots more, the third one uses special pens with acrylic helium dyes. Sometimes modeling gel is also used in the design, creating with it a voluminous print.
Everyone chooses his own technique, while it will be easier for a beginner to work with a brush or pen. Those who want to decorate an accent nail quickly and professionally can buy ready-made plates or stamps with an engraved pattern for design. This method of decorating manicure will allow you to create a high-quality pattern of thin lines in a matter of seconds, and most of these patterns can be painted at will. If there are no stamps, and drawing seems an impossible task, you can buy ready-made stickers with lips. It’s easy to stick them on prepared nails. This will take no more than a minute, along with spreading on the nail. After finishing sealing, the nail will look as if it was made by a professional master of nail salon.
Professional Tips
A manicure with lips is a rather spectacular, but peculiar design of nails. No matter how much you want to embellish a design of this type, you will have to take into account not only fashion trends, but also the compatibility of decoration elements. The first thing to consider is the dosage of the accents themselves. To make lips on nails look stylish, expressive and not lost against the general background, you will have to reduce the number of accent design nails. Lips with a drawing will look good if they do not repeat on the other nails of one hand. In this case, it is allowed to repeat to another or similar drawing, which will be even more useful.
If you plan to use rhinestones for decoration, it is important to pay attention to the size of the lips: small lips along with large rhinestones will look ugly. In this case, it makes sense to replace the rhinestones with gold or silver glitter. There should not be any flowers or other distracting drawing from the main topic. For printing, it is advisable to use no more than four contrasting shades of acrylic paints. All superfluous will affect the general form and simplify it.
The location of the lips is carefully selected. You can pre-set the point so that the picture is in the center of the nail plate, rather than skewing on one side.
If you want to use a stamp, you can decorate it not with colored paints, but with gold or silver gel polish. However, in order to make it look beautiful, you cannot overlap the black contours of the picture, which make the image more expressive. At the same time, it is undesirable to complicate such a pattern with other patterns, and even on one accent nail plate. It will not look beautiful anymore, because attention will be divided both on the lips and on another image.
How to do it yourself?
Painting lips is actually not that difficult. For this, it is worth considering an exemplary technology using acrylic paints. You will need the main pigment for the background, white color under the base (if the pigment is dark or bright), lip gloss, brush (dots) and decor (if desired).Step-by-step print is created in various ways.
Imprint
This option includes the following actions:
- on a prepared and polished nail, apply a thin layer of base coat and dry it in a lamp;
- the nail is covered with a layer of pigmented varnish for the base and dried;
- another layer of background pigment is applied and dried again;
- if the background is dark, paint the foundation of future lips using white gel paint;
- the outlined contour of two lips is filled with white paint and dried in a lamp;
- the white base is filled with red or pink (gold, silver or another tone) gel polish, overlapping the entire white color;
- the nail is dried in a lamp and add volume to the lips using black paint (draw small strokes along the contour of the lips inside and out);
- After another drying in the lamp, the design is fixed with a layer of top coating, which is also dried for hardening.
With tongue
If you want to draw lips with teeth and tongue on a white background, you can do without a white substrate, since in this case there is no dark base that overlaps the original color of the red (pink) pigment. For such a design, the following steps should be taken:
- after staining the nail in white and drying, draw the contour of the lips with red acrylic gel paint using a thin brush;
- the mouth is drawn open, leaving room for teeth and tongue;
- draw a small semicircle under the lower lip and paint over it (this is the future language);
- thin strokes first outline the contours of the upper teeth, then underneath on one side they paint over the tongue;
- take black paint and brush around the teeth, the contour of the lips and tongue;
- the part remaining inside the mouth is also covered in black, the shadow on the tongue is painted;
- the nail is dried in a lamp, after which it is coated with a topcoat and dried again;
- if the top is selected with a sticky layer, remove residual stickiness.
With a cherry
To draw a more complex lip design, for example, with a cherry in your mouth, you will have to devote more time to the sketch. So, you should adhere to the following sequence of actions:
- after the nail is painted white and dried in a lamp, they take a grayish paint and outline the contours of the future drawing with thin, barely noticeable lines;
- first, a small circle (cherry) is drawn just below the center of the nail plate, the upper lip above it and the lower lip below;
- the contours of the lips and cherries are filled first with burgundy, and then with a pinkish paint, creating the effect of volume;
- inside and on top draw a layer of light pink paint, leaving room for teeth;
- take black gel paint, trace lips, cherry, paint over everything inside the mouth, except for the teeth;
- with a light green paint they draw a twig of cherry, then give it a black outline;
- white paint creates glare in the picture;
- the print is dried in a lamp, then coated with a layer of finish and subjected to final drying.
See how to make volume manicure with lips in the video below.