Wearing a monochrome manicure is boring. The design will help. Every year there are new ideas that quickly become ready-to-wear fashion. It also happens that a long-known technique suddenly begins to be applied in a new capacity. So it was with water manicure. It began with the happy idea of transferring the friendship bracelets to the nails to the Korean master. The design immediately gained worldwide popularity. Thin threads with pendants crossing the nail plate reminded me of a water manicure.
Its principle is simple: varnishes are dripped into a bowl of water, which spread over the surface and form a colorful film. With a thin object, several lines are drawn, shifting the varnish, and the desired pattern is achieved. The nail is lowered into the bowl, thereby drawing onto it. Despite the simplicity of the operation, non-professionals spend a lot of time on this design.
Many people have a question: "How to make a water manicure at home?". It's all about preparation. To design with a varnish film on a gel polish coating, additional use of a top gel and a lamp, as well as an alcohol-containing liquid to remove the dispersion layer will be required.
What you need to cook
To successfully perform a water manicure at home, you will need some special manicure tools and materials:
- Orange sticks.
- PVA glue or a special protective coating for the design that protects the skin.
- Varnish thinner.
- Nail polish remover.
- Fine tweezers.
- Point point dots or needle.
- Lint-free wipes or towel.
- Base for varnish.
- White lacquer.
- Top for polishes.
The lacquer used in the design
For a beautiful design, it is important that the varnishes are fresh. Then they will quickly disperse on the surface of the water, last longer while creating a drawing and dry faster on your hands. Not all shades are suitable for water manicure. What varnish do you need? It is undesirable to use glitter varnishes, transparent ones too. Since a film will be applied to the nails, opaque varnishes will be required that will not shine through. Usually enamels or pastel varnishes are suitable for this.
Gel polishes on the surface of the water will not be able to make a film, because they are heavy and sink. But there is another way to imitate this design.
What types of such manicure exist
There are several types of water design. One can be made in the classic way by applying varnishes to the surface of the water and dipping your fingers into the vessel. But the masters came up with an alternative way in whichno need to get your hands dirty. A thin varnish film dries quickly, and then it is carefully removed from the water surface and used as sliders. The necessary elements are simply cut out with nail scissors and placed on the nail, covered with a base for varnishes.
The film retains elasticity for some time, so it can be spread on the convex surface of the nail. If it is dry in places, just make an incision so that it fits perfectly. After a few minutes, which are necessary for the moisture to dry, the work is fixed with a top.
Some drawings similar to water manicure can be done on the nail itself over fresh gel polish before polymerization. You should work quickly and confidently, because the gel polish does not retain the pattern for long. It spreads, flows into the cuticle. For this reason, complex patterns will not work, but friendship bracelets, flowers, rainbows and abstraction can be drawn easily.
Principles of creating a drawing
In order to get a beautiful pattern, put more than ten drops, trying to get exactly in the center of the previous one. The larger the bowl, the more drops you will have to put. It is optimal to take a bowl or bowl the size of a teacup. Water should not be warm, but cold will not work either. In warm water, the solvent evaporates quickly, and the film hardens too quickly. Cold water makes varnishes more viscous. Room temperature cool water is the way to go.
In the process of working on the pattern, you have to draw several times with a sharp instrument (dots, knitting needle, needle ororange stick) over a lacquer puddle. Each time, touching it, the dots is covered with a sticky layer of varnish, which interferes with subsequent precise movements. It sticks to the surface of the picture and pulls parts of the picture along with it. To prevent this, simply wipe down the tool after every swipe.
If you draw from the center to the edges of the bowl, the stripes will be directed from the center, as if forming leaves. If you do the opposite, you get a flower. These are the easiest elements of water manicure for beginners.
Lacquer stickers
If you have gel polish on your nails, it's very convenient. You can apply the desired tone in advance, on which the varnish film will fall. To complete the background, it is not necessary to achieve an ideal coverage: all the same, a colorful design will cover all the flaws. One layer of white is enough, and if there are unpainted areas on the nails, this will not be visible.
Although the “Water Manicure” nail design is not made with gel polishes, you can make it with nail polish stickers. A detailed description of the master class is given in the video. It explains all the subtleties of this method, leaving room for creativity. For example, half of the nail can be left without a sticker, a strip for a jacket or a hole for a moon manicure can be cut out of the film.
If you mix light green, dark green, black and white, you get an imitation of malachite. Having cut out an oval fragment, glue it on the hole and decorate it with a frame. Charmicons are suitable for this. Wood imitation is made from several shades of brown, as well as any kind of marble.
Watergel polish manicure
It is not necessary to make a film to decorate with lacquer patterns, you can use another method. In order for the varnish to have good adhesion with the gel polish when dipped, the nails are prepared. The fact is that a water pattern cannot lie on the gloss of gel polish. But if you buff the surface a bit, you'll be fine.
In the process of processing with a buff, the coating may come off in some areas. To prevent this from happening, gel polish must be applied generously. After drying from the smallest particles of water, the work is covered with top gel and dried in a lamp. Make sure that the top covers all corners of the nail. A detailed video on how to do this will help you understand the details.
Punch hole stickers
More and more special artistic techniques penetrate into nail design. So the water manicure with holes refers to such a borrowed technique. If alcohol gets on the surface of wet paint (or varnish), it disperses the surrounding color. It turns out a hole through which the background is visible. So you can make an imitation of cheese, starry sky, salute, blot.
This method is successfully used in manicure. To create splashes, an alcohol-containing composition (cleanser, lotion, glass cleaner) is taken from the spray bottle. Don't spray too much, once is often enough. Check how the atomizer shutter is located, whether it is in the position when the trickle comes out. Spray mode needed.
When the film hardens, it is cut out and pasted on the nail. The background peeps through the holes. You can apply neon varnish on your nails, and thenmake a black film, through the holes of which small neon splashes will shine.
Instructions
Detailed description of how to do water manicure gives the following video:
Procedure:
Step 1. Make a hygienic manicure by peeling the surface of the nails.
Step 2: Apply white polish to your nails.
Step 3. Prepare a bowl of water, ten orange sticks, a dots tool (for creating a pattern), a towel or napkins, which will clean the tool, a trash box.
Step 4. Cover the fingers of one hand with a protective agent, leaving only the nails open.
Step 5. Apply varnishes to the surface of the water using the drop-in-drop method.
Step 6. Create a drawing with a sharp tool.
Step 7. Dip the nail into the water without removing it, collect the colorful film with an orange stick.
Step 8. Remove the nail.
Steps 9 - 16. Repeat with all fingers on hand.
Step 17. Apply top coat.
Steps 18 - 28. Repeat with fingers on other hand.
Imitation of water manicure using gel polish technique
All manicure schools have a lacquer technique “on wet lacquer”. Schemes of the most successful designs have been created. The principle is the same as in water manicure, the only difference is that the stains are made with a sharp needle right on the nail. Not all drawings are possible with this material, but some simple drawings are possible.
For such an imitation, a background coating is first performed, then several gel polishes are applied drop by drop. Dots can collect at one point all the lines that start from the opposite corner. Simple zigzags will also create an interesting pattern. The corners are filled with a brush. The drawing is polymerized twice: the stains are fixed and the work is dried with a brush.
Conclusion
This technique is easy to work with after some practice. You can start with one nail on each hand, even on only one. Over time, fantasy develops, and I want to try all the new motives. And most importantly - it's a unique design that no one else can find. And no artist can repeat his creation. So new discoveries are waiting for you!
