People have different attitudes towards shiny accessories. Oriental women usually choose a bright design, where there is a lot of shine and rich tones. Europeans love French manicure with light mother-of-pearl. It would never occur to them to put a smile on rhinestones.
Glitter manicure on the tips of the nails is often abandoned because of the rough execution. But if you choose the right materials, the same design will not look vulgar, but elegant. How to add a brilliant shine to a manicure, and not samovar gold? Secret as sequins.
Fashion Trends
Glitter tip manicure never goes out of style. Companies that produce designer series of varnishes include particles of diamond chips, small foil confetti, mother-of-pearl, metal or plastic dust. Japanese designers gave the world kamifubuki - confetti of all kinds and sizes. Larger particles are usually called glitter. Quite small - with a shimmer.
Glitter polishes or gel polishes are used by designers to createeffects. Colorless coatings with various inclusions are popular. It can be an imitation of gold of different samples, silver, copper and metallic. This varnish is applied to an already created design. I must say, now almost no varnishes with one type of glitter are used. New interesting products have appeared. For example, glitter combined with shimmer creates a festive look. Large particles seem to lie on small ones, creating a three-dimensional effect. The surface is painted more densely. Glitter particles can be not just round, but in the form of stars, squares, crescents.
Shimmer lacquer - more calm, it can be used for everyday manicure. Stones, large kamifubuki can be attached to it. It's good for drawing. With a dry shimmer, you can rub it on wet varnish or a dispersion layer of shellac.
Various techniques
Now it is important not just to hint at gold in the design, you need to imitate it. Various means have been developed for this. First of all, it is a metal rub. It is applied over black gel polish. The tint is not always visible in the dry powder, so it is good to have a sample of the finished coating before your eyes when buying.
To create a radiant surface, shimmer varnishes are used, which are then decorated with dry glitter. To do this, it is applied to a transparent top or put large confetti.
If you need to perform a manicure with sparkles on the tips, you can stretch with sparkles according to the finished design. It is done with a fan brush. It is dipped into a jar of shiny dust andspend on the surface of the nail.
French manicure
A classic white and pink jacket turns into an evening design if you decorate the edge of a smile with sparkles and put a stone in the center. It is better to choose rhinestones from Swarovski, they successfully imitate diamonds. Sequins fit ordinary silver. Colors on a white background may reflect light differently, and it will seem that some of the sparkles have crumbled.
Glitter tip manicures can look very bright when placed on a dark backing. To do this, a smile is made in black, after which a shimmer varnish is applied or rubbed in. The photo shows the edge of a black smile. To leave such a neat border, you should use the stencil more than once. First, pink shellac is applied, then the dispersion is removed and stencils are glued. Cover the tips of the nails with black shellac. Remove the dispersion and lower the stencils by one millimeter. Coated with shiny varnish.
This design will become even more expressive if one nail is completely covered with glitter. To do this, when applying pink varnish, it is ignored. When stencils are installed to cover the smile with black gel polish, accent nails are also painted over. After polymerization, the dispersion is removed from all nails and stencils are installed, painted with shimmer varnish.
Pink Gamma
Girls love pink glitter nails. He is cheerful, elegant and gentle at the same time. But choosing pink can be difficult due to the many options available in lacquer. There are both warm and coldshades, pastel and bright colors. Glitter for a pink background is often chosen in gold or silver.
To make glitter imitate precious metal, manufacturers pay special attention to the size of glitter particles. It is better to choose those varnishes or gel polishes that use particles of different sizes. Some products contain, in addition to gold particles, silver or even pink particles. Let the contents of the bottle, visible through the glass, do not confuse. Such a varnish will most fully convey the golden surface.
Blue gamma
Blue polish is often determined by the color of the dress. When the main tone is found, the question of choosing a design arises. On a blue background, a golden jacket is often made. It turns out solemnly and strictly. But you can offer another option: the use of stencils for airbrushing. These are transparent plastic plates with a cut-out pattern that adhere well to a background covered with gel polish. Instead of an airbrush, you can also use a brush from a bottle, just try to be careful and not smear the drawing.
Glitter Manicure Ideas:
- The main background is made matte using a special top. Using a stencil, a shiny varnish is applied.
- Dispersion is removed from the main background, stencils are installed and top is applied. Perform a gradient drawing using dry shimmer and sponge. Polymerize. Re-apply the top already on the entire nail. Polymerize.
- A black pattern is applied to the main background using a stencil. Polymerize. Rubbing is done on the dispersion layer. Polymerize. Cover the finished work with a glossy top and polymerize.
Red Gamma
Red manicure with sparkles on the tips is perhaps the most festive design. The splendor of the red color is well complemented by gold glitter polishes. They make a stretch on the finished background or apply dry glitter to the top with a fan brush and polymerize the result.
As with the French glitter manicure, this design is often complemented with an accent on the ring finger. The nail is completely covered with glitter.
Bright colors
On a black background, all variants of manicure with sparkles look very advantageous. There are multi-colored dry mixes in which warm or cold shades predominate. Successfully imitate fire with a mixture of yellow and red elements, ice with silver and blue.
The larger the size of the shiny particles, the more noticeable the black background peeping between them. And the larger the sparkles, the brighter they burn on the nails. The task for the designer is to choose such a combination of fine dust with medium and large particles to get an even canvas.
Sometimes you need to hide the background so that it is not visible. Then resort to applying the substrate. To imitate colored metallic nails are covered with the appropriate color: for blue sparkles - blue gel, for red - red, for green - green, for gold - beige or ocher.
The photo shows a modern day designand night with kamifubuki. The diagonal line divides the nail into two halves - day and night. The cuticle area remains a neutral nude shade. The free edge area is covered with black gel. Large confetti - kamifubuki are placed on it. These foil pieces adhere well to base gel or very thick top. After installation and distribution, they polymerize the result with an orange stick. The resulting work is covered with a top coat and polymerized again.
Neutral gamma
For light designs, the tips of the nails are covered with white, yellow or pastel colors. Appropriate glitter is applied to it. But sometimes it is necessary to perform a neutral design, as is the case with additional jewelry - rings or bracelets. Such a case is not a reason to refuse sparkles. The task comes down to choosing the right shade of glitter.
Usually, a manicure with sparkles on the tips of the nails is done with shellac, but it is also possible to use ordinary varnish. Moreover, almost every collection has neutral shades of shimmer and glitter polishes.
Glitter tip manicure instructions
How to make a glitter coating to make it smooth and even? So that its particles do not scratch the skin and never hurt? It is possible, but not varnishes. Gel polish is used for smooth designs. The base or thick top is mixed on the palette with the selected glitter and kamifubuki. This composition will be applied to the tips of the nails.
Otherwise, the coverage procedure is the same as the standard one:
- Performmanicure, preparation of nails for applying a decorative coating, apply a base layer of gel polish, polymerize.
- Cover with nude color. Polymerize.
- Cover the area of the free edge with a backing in the color of sparkles. Polymerize.
- Apply the prepared mixture to the nail, smooth with an orange stick so that the sparkles lie flat and do not bulge. Otherwise, they will cling to clothing. Polymerize.
- Cover the work with the top. Polymerize.
This method will provide the strongest nail shine.
Conclusion
Glitter manicure on the tips of nails can be performed by any girl. On a regular varnish, while it has not yet dried up, glitter is sprinkled from a jar. After drying, apply the top - and the manicure is ready. It's a bit "spiky" design, but no less attractive. The main thing is to dry it well.
Treat yourself with some sparkle. Which color do you like best?
