Slider design is firmly held among the leaders of the best options for modern nail art. It is easy to perform for women at home on their own, as well as for professional masters in nail salons. Let's take a closer look at the features and varieties of this decorative material, all its advantages and disadvantages. Let's talk about how to apply nail stickers, how to prevent common mistakes.
What is slider nail design?
Some people call nail stickers sliders, others call them stickers. These words are synonyms. This device helps to make a very original design on the nails. The variety of overhead films is simply amazing. So, you already guess that a manicure with sliders is the art of marigolds with adhesive decorative films that have various patterns. They can be decorated in a variety of styles: classic, ornate, sophisticated, Chinese painting.
Sliders are special colorful stickers placed on a paper backing. Some of them have a protective film covering the plate from mechanical damage and dirt. Stickers are sold in ready-made sets with a specific theme and color scheme. Usually there are 10-12 pictures in sets. The size of the sliders is adjusted to the size of each nail. But they can still be cut. The films are transferred to the nails manually. The slider nail design is very easy to do.
Advantages and disadvantages
Sliders for short nails and long plates have many advantages. The idea of decorating nails with stickers can be compared to decoupage. Here are the benefits of a slider nail design:
- Different in different textures, which enriches the design of nails with unusual effects.
- Different technique of applying sliders allows you to create the illusion of hand painting on the plates. Very often nail stickers are confused with a pattern made with a thin brush.
- Pretty easy to use. Every woman can cope with such a design at home.
- Professional artisans praise sliders for their versatile surface designs.
- The range of film material is very large.
- Images on the sliders are very clear and UV resistant.
- No matter how many films are on the nails, they do not change the intensity of the image.
- Allows you to style nails very quickly.
- They are very inexpensive.
- Do no harm to skin and nails, nocause allergies.
- If you follow all the nuances of technology, then they stay on the records for a long time and firmly.
How to use sliders for nails under varnish, many lovers of modern nail art know. They also highlight some of the disadvantages of these colorful films:
- Sometimes they do not fit perfectly on the surface of the records. Small wrinkles have to be removed.
- Films are very thin, sometimes torn.
- The convex shape of the nails becomes an obstacle for them.
- Sometimes there are not quite high-quality sets.
- Each slider needs to be adjusted to the shape and size of the plates.
Varieties of sliders
According to their shape, two lines of stickers on nails are distinguished: on the entire plate and only on a certain area. These pictures can be of different thickness, complexity of work. Thicker films can create creases, thin sliders do not. The background of stickers can be pigmented and transparent. The transparent version is applied to the main background of the coating, which is similar to hand-painted. It is better to stick a color picture on a white base, so the shades appear better. For dense films, the base may not be painted in a light tone. Partial elements on the nails are made on transparent bases.
Popular Images
Nail stickers are like photo design. Films can be with repeating and diverse elements. The decor is simple and intricate. Most commonly used nail designwith color sliders. Lace patterns are very fashionable. Botanical prints with twigs and leaves are also at the peak of popularity. Silver and gold sliders are considered fashionable. Young girls choose images of cute faces from Disney cartoons, Halloween theme, confectionery. Quite often, self-adhesive films are decorated with rhinestones, glitter.
Very often seasonal designs are created with sliders. For spring, pictures of tulips, magnolias, snowdrops, flowering twigs are used. For the summer period, they choose a marine and fruit theme. In autumn, stickers with multi-colored leaves, raindrops are pasted. In winter, they prefer snowflakes, Christmas trees, snowmen. For any time of the year, geometry and the space theme remain popular. The design of nails with sliders inscriptions is quite popular.
Aquarium design is quite a trendy option. For its implementation, the pictures are transferred to a transparent base. It turns out voluminous and stylish nail art. You can use any stickers for aquarium decoration, except for dense ones that are not translucent.
Water-based slider design
Water stickers are the most common. These are films with a thin layer of glue that lag behind the paper as soon as they are dipped in water. They are easy to remove from the base with a light slide. Water stickers are used by novice masters, as well as experienced nail art connoisseurs. Such cunning devices are of four types:
- Sliders designed for the entire surface of the appropriately shaped nails. Corrected onlylength, sometimes width.
- Dense films. They can be applied on a transparent base. The most common type is French manicure.
- Transparent patterned stickers designed for white or light backgrounds.
- In the form of applications. Cut with nail scissors.
Why do many nail art lovers prefer water stickers? They fit well not only on the surface of nails, but also on gel and acrylic. With sliders, the manicure lasts a very long time. This design is not afraid of contact with water.
Self-adhesive sliders
The very first stickers appeared that did not sink into the water, but had an adhesive base. It is enough just to tear off the fragment from the paper base and press it to the nail plate. Even a teenager can handle this task. Many have come across sticky stickers in interior design. So stickers for nails have the same instructions. There is a wide range of holiday and everyday options on sale.
Radically change the selected nail art will help even the simplest bow or heart. Monochromatic varnish after that will no longer look so boring, the application will become a highlight of the design. Self-adhesive nail stickers are used by even the youngest fashionistas.
3-D effect
There are sliders with raised textures that help create very realistic pictures. For their manufacture, an optical illusion is used, forcing our eyes to perceive patterns in one way or another. 3-D effect stickers are characterized by a smooth finishno step transitions. For this, special graphics are used. An optical illusion makes the droplet appear voluminous, and the flower blooms.
Applying to dry polish
Many beginner nail art lovers are interested in how to apply sliders on nails. Let's start with the simplest and easiest way to decorate marigolds. The easiest way is to stick the sliders on the dried gel polish. Nail design with stickers is performed on a white varnish, gradient or other color of the plates. To begin with, a base is applied, then the main coating, everything is dried in a lamp. To perform nail design with sliders, you will need the following devices: base, top, UV lamp, buff, file, dehydrator, acid-free primer. You will also need a certain number of necessary stickers. We offer you the procedure for sticking sliders on a dried varnish:
- Give your nails the same shape, get rid of the regrown cuticle and ingrown skin on the sides.
- Use a soft grinder (buff) to remove gloss from the surface of the nail plates.
- Treat your nails with a dehydrator or acid-free primer.
- Apply clear or white nail polish on nails, dry for 2 minutes in a UV lamp.
- Apply a second coat of polish and dry.
- Take a set of sliders, use nail scissors to fit each sticker to the shape of your nail.
- Moisten a paper napkin with water, put a slider on it. Wait 30 seconds, then use the pad of your thumb or index finger to gently slide the film away from the paper base.
- Using tweezers, transfer the film todried varnish. Stickers have a thin layer of glue, so they adhere very tightly to the surface of the nails.
- Spread the design with a brush or tweezers, lightly dry in the lamp.
- File the excess edges of the film with a nail file. If wrinkles are formed, then straighten them with a primer.
- Cover the slider with top, dry in the lamp.
- Remove excess stickiness from nails.
How to use sliders for non-cured polish?
At home, they usually use sliders for short nails. They can be glued on ordinary varnish, but you should not wait for it to dry completely. Stickers hold securely if they are attached to gel polish that has not dried. To do this, follow the entire procedure described in the previous section of the article up to point 5. As soon as you apply the second coat of varnish, do not dry it. First, carefully apply the application on it, only then send it to the lamp. After drying, be sure to fix the result with a transparent top.
Causes of flaking
On a regular varnish, stickers are well preserved for a week. On gel polish, they can last up to a month. Here are some reasons why they peel off quickly:
- poorly sealed the slider on the end of the nail top;
- poorly smoothed the picture, did not remove air folds;
- not dried enough stickers;
- top not applied to the whole picture.
It is important to note that the experts do not lower the sliders into the water, but simply place them on a damp cloth. Excess moisture can also causeflaking.
