There are so many nail decorations! Nail design even has its own fashion. Previously, a manicure with rhinestones was considered festive and suitable only for the young, now it is included as an addition to many options for an office jacket. Short nails and rhinestones are two incompatible concepts, our grandmothers thought. Nevertheless, many designs with gel polish for short nails delight with bold decisions.
Rhinestones in 2018 are more in demand than before. Now these are not just sets of Chinese plastic drops and hearts. They are given a place in production by more than one large company in the nail industry, including manufacturers of the famous stones from Swarovski. Manicure with rhinestones has become not just a decoration. By his appearance, you can determine the status of a lady. Some rhinestones are quite expensive, so they are used several times, carefully removed from the nails.
Many variants are available, some of which will be discussed.
What are rhinestones?
The purpose of rhinestones is to replacegems. Previously, clothes were decorated with sewn-on beads made of precious and ornamental stones or pearls, gold and silver buckles, pendants and other details. Now the whole range of jewelry is hard to imagine. A considerable share is occupied by rhinestones.
They are not only made of glass, although stamped or faceted glass rhinestones are very beautiful. Products made of rock crystal, an ornamental stone that looks like glass, are considered exquisite. But mostly acrylic, zirconium and some types of plastic are used in the production of rhinestones.
There are Swarovski crystals separately, which are difficult to distinguish from diamonds. They are made in two types: with a conical and flat base. For nail designs, a flat base is used, which adheres better to the surface.
Rhinestone manicure ideas are based on the quality characteristics of these gem substitutes. Cheap plastic crafts may have manufacturing defects in the form of burrs, irregular shapes, clouding. They are not suitable for nail design. They can, if desired, paste over shoes, and nails are always in sight, so the slightest defect will immediately become visible. That's why craftsmen prefer Swarovski crystals.
Kamifubuki
In 2018, the fashion for kamifubuki remains. This is foil confetti that comes in all colors and sizes. On the nail, they reflect light in different ways, depending on the angle of the direction of the rays. This property is used in the gel polish technique. The photo shows a red manicure with kamifubuki rhinestones. Three sizes used: medium round and hexagonshapes, large round and small round.
Kamifubuki of different sizes are placed in the hole area, they can overlap each other. On the rest of the surface of the nail put one or two small accents. To keep the rhinestones well, they are covered with a sufficient layer of top. The advantage of this option is smooth nails that do not cling to anything, but at the same time have a manicure design with rhinestones.
These confetti are best done on one or two fingers, so as not to be vulgar. But you can choose kamifubuki very large. Since the nail in the hole area is very convex, it is better to put such sparkles in the center. If you choose a red manicure with rhinestones, then all nails, except for the nameless one, are covered with red gel polish and a matte top. Unnamed are covered with black gel polish. Then red glitter is sprinkled over the dispersion layer and kamifubuki is placed. Top coat.
How to use rhinestones?
Rhinestones come in different sizes and shapes - from round to faceted, from drip to round. Creating a manicure design with rhinestones, the master is like a jeweler. The rule “better less than more” applies both in the workshop and in the salon. The worst thing that can happen in a rhinestone design is to make it heavier, which looks tasteless.
However, this does not mean that rhinestones should be placed on the nail rarely, at intervals. Finding the middle between the heap of stones and their sparseness is a task that requires artistic taste. Accuracy has a significant impact on the final result. A slight displacement of the stone from the desiredplaces will immediately catch your eye. Especially the streaks of glue.
More recently, stylists did not recommend combining a manicure with rhinestones with modeling or Chinese painting. Large stones were left for extreme length nails - usually artificial. This was largely due to the lack of quality materials in nail design. Now the situation has changed radically: the painting is supplemented with rhinestones (the main thing is to choose harmonious colors), rhinestones are placed in the center of stucco, often one nail is decorated with a continuous laying out of different-sized stones.
Fashion is changing. At the beginning of the development of nail design, rhinestones on each finger evoked sympathy and a smile: bad taste, what to do … But a fashionable manicure with rhinestones appeared and quickly became a classic, in which stones are evenly placed on the surface of the nail. You can tie them up with a mesh, doing it with gel paint, you can leave it just like that. The design looks spectacular on any color, with any rhinestones. It is called "Rivets" and was first used in a black background and metal rhinestones in the Gothic version. But now, made with small Swarovski crystals on a pale pink background, it adorns the catalogs of many wedding salons.
Colorful design options
Using cat eye gel polish will provide a winning backdrop for a vibrant rhinestone manicure. To avoid a tasteless pile of jewelry, make all nails different, observing the same style. For example, the nails on the middle and ring fingers are covered with black gel polish, they make a red “cat's eye” and put red rhinestones. The rest of the nails are made red matte. On the index finger they put Swarovski crystals in the zone of the hole, on the little finger - one red strass in the zone of the hole, and on the big one they lay out a square with white rhinestones with a red strass in the middle.
This design looks good in other colors: blue, green, turquoise, amber. The golden design looks very impressive. Instead of a magnetic gel, you can use foil or a mirror rub for one nail, cover one or two with gold glitter and put rhinestones over the entire surface. It is better to choose white rhinestones so that they do not get lost against the background of gold.
Light and pastel colors will not be able to convey the depth of the magnetic polish, but there are no less interesting options for them.
When are rhinestones on nails inappropriate?
There are situations in which rhinestones look defiant or simply uncomfortable. These are mourning events and a work dress code. Here you can add baby care.
- The first situation is mourning. Traditionally, the mourning dress code assumes the absence of any jewelry, except for wedding rings. The exceptions are products made of agate and black pearls. Modernity makes its own adjustments, and small stud earrings are already acceptable. However, decorating a manicure with rhinestones is considered disrespectful to the deceased and his family. Perhaps only a matte manicure with rhinestones made of opaque black plastic on a black background will resemble mourning lace.
- At work related to food production (cook, confectioner), any coating for nails is strictly excluded. Accordingly, and rhinestones. It would notit's really nice to find them in a cake.
- Caring for a child, whose delicate skin is easily injured, excludes all protruding and sharp decorative elements: they cling to everything, scratch, can fly off and get where they don’t need to.
Of course, if the nails are very short, and the nail plate is small, it is better to refuse rhinestones. They will visually reduce the nail, and this is a dubious decoration.
Fashion ideas for using rhinestones in design
The principle of "all nails are different, but in the same style" is used by many designers. This allows you to create a real composition without overloading each nail with individual details. To do this, it is enough to master several techniques and combine them. One of the fashion trends of 2018 was a matte manicure with rhinestones. Here are some of its options that can be performed in the composition:
1. French. Pastel base colors can be made matte by covering with a special top. There is a top for regular polish and for gel polish. If necessary, the dispersion layer is simply removed from the color coating and is not covered with a glossy top. A smile is performed with a glossy top. Small rhinestones are put in a line on the smile line.
2. Lunar manicure. On matte nails, the hole is completely isolated with rhinestones, placing one large stone and several small ones. On one nail, the hole is made glossy and its line is highlighted with a line of small stones. One nail is decorated with a “reverse jacket” - stones are placed along the cuticle line.
3. Two matte nails with rhinestones.
The photo shows one of the options for such a composition with twomatte nails in a contrasting color, a moon manicure on one of them and a stenciled rose on the other.
Short nails and rhinestones
On short nails, the “thorns” design looks good, which is done with small rhinestones with sharp conical tops. They can be gold, silver, black. The background for the design is suitable for rich dark tones - black, burgundy, purple, blue. If you choose classic transparent rhinestones with a foil base for its execution, then the background can be light pastel colors. Gold rhinestones with round tops are suitable for red, yellow, turquoise colors.
Rhinestone manicure for short nails can be very elegant. For a little black cocktail dress, a nail design made with black gel polish and a diagonal arrangement of multi-colored rhinestones on the ring finger will suit. The mesh, drawn on short nails, will be decorated with the setting of small stones in the interweaving of lines. You can fill the entire nail with rhinestones, but do it only on one finger.
Isolation of the cuticle zone will not reduce the nail, but will add charm to it. If the nails are very small, you can perform a manicure with rhinestones on short nails, complementing the stones with gold or white broths. They can lay out a semblance of lace.
Gel polish and rhinestones
To put rhinestones on a regular varnish, you need glue. You can carefully put them on the varnish that has not dried to the end. In the case of gel polish, the technique is different. So that the stones hold well, are not filled with top and do not appear aroundwhitish areas, you should know how to do a manicure with rhinestones using the gel polish technique.
Rhinestones are placed before top gel coating on a dispersion layer or on a nail rubbed with alcohol. They are glued to nail glue for rhinestones. After a few minutes, cover the work with top gel, trying to carefully cover the glue with it. If this is not done, when the dispersion is removed from the top, the glue will turn white, resulting in ugly white spots around the stones.
For the same reason, in a manicure with rhinestones, glue is not used when decorating a finished gel polish already covered with a top. Well, unless you cover it with another layer. But now there are such thick top gels, some without a sticky layer, that you can put rhinestones directly on a fresh top, and then dry in a lamp.
If you drown the rhinestones in too much top layer, the whole effect will be lost, although it will be more convenient to wear such a manicure - it doesn’t cling to anything, it won’t fly off for anything. But the radiance will disappear, since the edges that reflect the light will go under the coating. This should be avoided.
White and pastel designs
Manicure ideas with rhinestones on a light background are very numerous. Due to the fact that all pastel colors blend well with each other, flower paintings are used with a stone center in a contrasting color.
Monograms drawn with white gel paint may have a small pebble in the curl. For white drawings, silver and gold rhinestones with smooth hemispheres are suitable.
As always, spikes and stripes of them look good, which can be located both in the middle of the nail,so on the edge. You can use them instead of the white tip of the smile, because the base is already white.
In 2018, it is fashionable to leave part of the nail open. This does not mean that there is no coverage in this area at all. Base gel and top are present in any case. And one or two strasses will help to highlight this zone.
Wedding Manicure
Classic in wedding manicure, pink and white colors, go well with Swarovski crystals of medium and small sizes. Ordinary glass rhinestones with a foil base are also suitable. The bride can choose light cold tones of pink, the older generation of ladies can choose warm shades of pastel rose or nude.
Pale pink manicure with rhinestones should not leave the impression of an office jacket. It is the right stones that will do it best. If the bride can make a composition of rhinestones of different sizes and colors, then ladies of an elegant age can select the entire nail with stones, but only one.
French and rhinestones
A classic smile can be made with rhinestones. They can also lay out a hole. To make a manicure with rhinestones original, on one nail a smile can be on the side, from the cuticle to the free edge. And you can do it on both sides of the nail, then the area in the middle will resemble an hourglass. It can even be left the color of a natural nail. It is very fashionable.
In the area of the hole, it is good to make acrylic molding - a flower with leaves, in the center of which put a beautiful stone. In the photo, this option is complemented by small silver bouillons that represent the stem. A symmetrical composition of rhinestones of different colors and sizes looks interesting.
Conclusion
The ideas presented here are just a small part of what salon masters do every day. Sometimes interesting designs come up when discussing everyday options. Don't leave them for the holiday, wear them now! And tomorrow there will be new ones. Good luck.
