Women's beauty is a huge work, countless amount of time, a lot of effort, dozens of procedures and impressive financial costs. In fact, in order to maintain a breathtaking attractiveness and always stay in trend, beautiful representatives of the weaker sex go to all sorts of tricks in pursuit of bringing their appearance to the ideal. Various gyms, solariums, beauty salons, beauty parlors, hairdressers, nail salons, showrooms, shopping centers - where girls just don’t have to come for another portion of beauty. And even if, due to some factors, they do not have the opportunity to visit the next body care master, they have to carry out a lot of procedures at home. And all just to look perfect - from the top of your hair to the tips of your nails.
By the way, about nails: one of the most popular and simple manicure design options todayIt’s not without reason that nail designs with 3D stickers are considered. How to stick nail decoration elements on a gel polish of a similar plan? What designs with their application at this stage of development of the nail industry are the most relevant and in demand?
Benefits
In the domestic manicure service, the use of stickers as a nail design has appeared quite recently. Needless to say, in this regard, Western countries are ahead of us a long time ago. While they were already in full swing testing acrylic nail extensions, our Soviet girls hardly managed to get regular nail polish.
But time is fleeting: everything changes, modernizes, improves. The so-called biosubstitutes have entered the main stage, and as an alternative to extended nails, today the “kitchen” of manicure art is actively promoting the use of gel polish and shellac on natural nails. At the same time, decorating the nail plate with all kinds of stickers is considered one of the most convenient and easy to use. Today literally every modern fashionista knows how to apply such simple designs on gel polish. But what are the benefits of this design?
- Easy to use - nail design in this way attracts many because it is the easiest way to create a beautiful pattern on the nails without any special artistic skills. Even if you are not a master of manicure art or have never been able to draw beautifully in your life, with this kind of stickers you will be able to create an amazinga composition of neatly drawn lines and artistically correct outlines without any drawing skills.
- Speed of application. In addition to the fact that a manicure with nail stickers is incredibly easy to model, it is also quite quickly drawn up. No need to pore over the finesse of the curls or the symmetry of the lines for a long time, no need to diligently direct the contours and hone the small flaws in the pattern. Magic stickers will do everything for you. Nail design under gel polish or surface gluing of blanks on the top coat with this simple attribute of manicure decor always looks neat and attractive.
- Aesthetics - the effect obtained as a result of this method of decorating surprises with its beauty and ease. The right combination of tint accents and the correct location on the nail plate allow you to get the desired manicure to perfection. Sticking stickers on gel polish (as well as on regular polish, regular gel) is a real pleasure, because it is not only easy and fast, but also incredibly beautiful.
- Loyal pricing policy - such an element of nail decoration can be fully attributed to the budget ones. If we talk about oriental-type stone inlay or a specific combination in the design of pearls with rhinestones, then against their background, a manicure with nail stickers is mere trifles.
Flaws
You can talk about the advantages of stickers on gel polish at home or in a nail salon for a long time. But what are the disadvantages of this method of naildecorating? And are there any negative factors in the application of such a technique for decorating the nail plate?
Rather, everything here does not depend on what a similar decoration element is in nail aesthetics. Here, more attention needs to be paid to how to stick stickers on gel polish or any other base surface correctly. Without following the relevant recommendations on the sequence of correct application of illustrations in the form of such translations, you risk spoiling the overall appearance of the manicure. Do not rush, try to transfer the adhesive blanks to your nails carefully. And then you don't have to think about whether this attribute of nail aesthetics has any disadvantages at all.
Varieties
Before you disassemble the instructions for the step-by-step application of adhesive blanks to the nail plate, it is worthwhile to figure out what varieties exist among them. After all, the answer to the question of how to stick stickers on gel polish directly depends on what kind of stickers you are dealing with.
Depending on the basis of the substrate, stickers are:
- water - they provide adhesion to the nail by pre-soaking the workpiece in water;
- adhesive - the basis of the working side of the material is a synthesized layer of glue, due to which the sticker is removed from the substrate without additional effort and glued directly to the nail plate.
Depending on the method of placement on the nail, stickers are divided into several types.
- Local - representoften any specific pattern (rose bud, silhouette of a swallow, image of a butterfly) with its inherent shape and are glued to a specific area of the nail plate. For example, if this is a French manicure, gel polish stickers with a transparent base are glued mainly to the nails of the ring and middle fingers. This is often done in the lateral part of the line that delimits the snow-white smile and the gentle nude of the base of the gel coating. Thus, a bright accent in the form of a neat sticker looks even more expressive.
- Solid - we are talking about pre-cut to the shape of the nail blanks, which are completely applied to the plate and adjusted to the natural size and shape of the nail. Solid stickers are most often an abstract pattern, which allows you not to bother with the shifts and placement of specific patterns on the plate.
- Universal - provide for the possibility of both complete and partial coverage of the nail. That is, the blank can be glued to the nail as a whole or cut out the part that you liked the most.
Depending on the appearance and aesthetic component, stickers can be presented:
- sliders;
- photo backings;
- translations;
- 3D stickers;
- lace;
- metallic.
The imagination of the developers of manicure decorations does not stop there, every day the most unusual and extravagant ideas of contemporaries burst into life. But at the same time, it is important to know how to apply stickers on gel polish and how to stick them on yournails properly.
Modeling technique
The meaning of any manicure manipulation is that the nails require preliminary preparation. Only after they are cleared of the remnants of the previous design, will follow the further stages of the formation of a manicure with slides.
The step-by-step technique for decorating nails with stickers consists of the following simple steps:
- Preparation. Nails are cleaned of dirt and residues of materials from the past manicure. Hands are immersed in special baths with warm water (some do the procedure for steaming hands with hot cream) in order to subsequently easily clean the dead skin cells of the cuticle and other elements of all kinds of contaminants (dust, varnish residue, etc.). Then the nails are dried and prepared for the next stage - sawdust.
- Gel nail polish. The standard set of actions when working with shellac or gel polish may differ only in nuances, but in general, the technique for correcting nails involves either strengthening them with a gel, followed by applying a colored biogel, or carrying out a procedure without thickening your plate with a gel. First, the nails are filed, given the desired shape, then the applied first layer of gel polish is polymerized in an ultraviolet lamp, after which the master applies as many layers of the base material as the client requires, taking into account the saturation of the resulting color. The richer you want to get as a result of the shade, the more layers of gel polish are applied.
- Overlay stickers. Howstick a slider on nails under gel polish? If you want to get a long-term effect, it is better to use the imposition of the workpiece just under the finish. If you don't like to go around with the same design for too long, then it is quite possible to stick a water sticker on the gel polish, for example. The gluing procedure itself is carried out in no time: the desired fragment is cut out of the plate, lowered into a saucer with water for 1-2 minutes, and then released from the substrate with tweezers and applied to the nail. It is important to properly level a thin film with a pattern on the surface of the nail plate, because the aesthetics and accuracy of the final result depend on it. To fix the application applied to the nail, the slider is covered with a transparent finish.
Important Tips
In order for your manicure to be as close as possible to the desired effect - a sophisticated and attractive end result, you need to follow a few especially important tips.
- To easily separate the film with a pattern from the substrate, use a toothpick: like a fixative, you will hold the paper, and with tweezers, grab the cherished translation and separate it from the base of the sticker.
- Use cold water to soften the material. Water that is too hot can wrinkle the printed film and make it unusable.
- Nails must be dry before sticking: do not use cuticle softening oils, they can cause your sticker to “ride” alongoverly oily surface of the nail.
- After applying the water sticker to the nail, be sure to blot it with a lint-free cloth or cotton pad to remove excess moisture.
- Do not cut off the tip of the solid sticker on the end of the nail - better use a nail file. It will do a great job of cutting off the unnecessary edge of the slide, but the quality of the manicure will not suffer, and you will not cut off the excess.
Sliders
Slides (or sliders) are a small rectangular paper plate with pre-designated forms for removal from the substrate. These forms resemble a nail plate, slightly enlarged so that it can be adjusted to the natural size of a natural nail. In this case, the colors can be very diverse: nail stickers with inscriptions on gel polish are also acceptable, and all kinds of patterns imitating the skin of reptiles - pythons and crocodiles, as well as various prints of wild animals - cheetah, leopard, zebra, etc.
Often, in order to create a manicure using slides, water is not required - they are initially made on an adhesive basis of the substrate and applied to the nail all over.
Photo backgrounds
Another original type of such a plan for manicure applications is considered to be a photo substrate. The point is that on such elements of nail decoration, patterns or prints are usually not drawn, as is the case with transfers and sliders. This is where the so-called photographic negative effect comes into play. Very successfulin this vein, stickers with images in the form of portraits. Miniature photos can include images of Franklin with his notorious image on a hundred dollar bill, as well as portraits of domestic and foreign star idols. There can be a lot of options. How to do a manicure with gel polish with stickers in the form of photo substrates? The technique of its creation one-on-one is similar to the design of marigolds using sliders. The most successful is a manicure on a snow-white base - here the boundaries of the outlines will be visible much more clearly than on any other background.
Translations
Translations are the same water stickers that were mentioned earlier. Basically, these are separate clippings of various flowers, branches of amazing plants, petals of bright buds. In a word, one of the most frequent themes here is spring. Nail design with spring decor has always been considered a manifestation of femininity, serenity, some kind of girlish immediacy. That is why all these flowers and butterflies are so appropriate and so by the way are produced in the collections of translations for nails. They can be made both in black and white (silhouette patterns), and as multi-colored stickers. In spring, nail design is better, of course, to refresh with bright colors. Therefore, bright lemon, raspberry, green, orange, red, blue, purple shades of the base gel polish are selected as the basis. In addition to pasted transfers in the form of daisies, for example, dotted rhinestones can be placed in their central zones. The design will take on a twist and lookeven more elegant and attractive.
3D stickers
The fundamental difference between these stickers is that they are sold already cut off along the contour of the object depicted in the figure. It can be a Christmas tree, a penguin, a panda face, a candle, a letter, an umbrella, a petal, and much, much more. The essence of such stickers is that they are denser in thickness, and therefore protrude somewhat above the level of the nail, literally 0.5-1 mm above the surface of the nail plate. In spring, nail design using such stickers can be chosen in a fruit and berry or citrus style: a juicy apple or a bright orange in the cut look very accentuated both on a transparent nude background of the nail and on a bright light base.
Since 3D stickers are made on an adhesive basis, the technique of applying them to the nail actually manifests itself in a couple of movements: separation from the stencil and application to the surface of the nail.
Metallic
Glamorous metallic has been one of the favorite designs for women for several seasons. Adhesive substrates - analogues of foil - look chic on the nails. This amazing mirror effect looks amazing both in full coverage and in the case of decorating the French manicure smile line with it. And if you take a golden foil sticker as a basis, then with blanks of this color you can create a truly solid and noble design.
Lace
How to use stickers on gel polish, if asadhesive material used imitation of expensive openwork lace? The technique is still the same: the basis of the application is often formed on glue. Therefore, it will not be difficult to separate expressive black or the purest snow-white guipure from the substrate and place it on the plate in the desired angle. Here, the subtlety of the work of a master (or a girl seeking to create a guipure manicure at home) lies precisely in the accuracy of applying the source material to the plate itself, as well as in choosing the correct angle. The background also plays an important role: if the lace is black, the ideal option for the base gel is a snow-white color. If the lace is white, then the background, respectively, is better to choose in dark colors. It can be anthracite, graphite, electric, opal, emerald, fuchsia, chocolate, marsala and many other colors in a similar shade group.
Lace stickers are best attached with a more durable compound, so regular polish is unlikely to work here. For a stronger fixation on the nail plate, it would be best to use a gel polish finish, followed by drying in a UV lamp.
