South Korea is deservedly called the world's main trendsetter in all matters related to beauty and personal care. Korean manicure masters gave the world a lot of amazing ideas, and manufacturers never tire of delighting lovers of beautiful pens with new interesting materials for design.
Korea is home to such wonderful trends as stamping, aquarium technology, space design, sinju, gel web, liquid stones, rubbing, foil and casting, and this is not a complete list. One gets the feeling that they invent another novelty there, release it into the big world and immediately rush to create something new.
Western artists continue to decorate their nails with imprints with intricate ornaments, but in Seoul everyone is tired of this for a long time. They offer to abandon trivial decisions and go beyond the ordinary. What is Korean manicure today? The answer to this question is equally complex andnot easy, like Asia itself.
Small length and natural shape
Neat fingers with short cut nails, decorated with only a couple of strokes, look cute and naive. Nude and pastel shades, naive pictures on literally 1-2 nails, a natural shape without a hint of trying to tighten the arch - this is one of the most fashionable trends in Seoul. Dried flowers, skeletonized leaves, colored threads are widely used for design.
This Korean manicure for short nails is perfect. The choice in his favor can be made by girls who cannot grow their nails, and they do not like extensions. As well as fashionistas who are forced to wear short manicures in connection with their professional activities.
Free hands drawings
Can't draw? Excellent! So, you should definitely do a Korean manicure. For work, you can use not only a stationery liner (which many nail masters have long chosen), but also markers, felt-tip pens, gel pastes. Non-standard use of tools and material is one of the features of a purely Korean approach to nail art.
Boldly decorate your nails with funny faces, cartoon trees and houses, little animals. If you get a result that looks like a child's drawing, then you hit the bull's-eye.
Some Korean-style manicure designs seem weird. Nails can be covered with varnishes of different colors, and from the decorations there are only dots, small squares, dashes. very koreandeliberately sloppy portraits in a minimalist style look when, for example, only the profile line and eyebrows are drawn. A very popular drawing is the image of the eye.
The very name of the free hands technique literally translates as “by hand”. But let's tell you a secret: it's even easier. There are plenty of sliders and stickers with primitive drawings on sale.
Colours
Koreans today are simply obsessed with light colors. But there are simply no limits. If you can’t choose from 3-5 polishes which one to apply on your nails, take all 5. For the Korean style, this is acceptable. But it is important to observe the main condition - the colors must be in perfect harmony with each other.
Minimalism
A pair of small squares or circles is enough to set the accents. Korean masters simply adore minimalism. A manicure can be completely monochromatic (usually in light colors) or made in 2-3 close shades. Colored paints are also acceptable, but are used more often for accents rather than backgrounds.
From extreme to extreme: experimenting with textures
Along with laconic and modest minimalism, there is also its opposite - the deliberately decorative and artsy style of Korean manicure. Who said that rhinestones should be smaller than nails? Korean masters disagree!
Not only rhinestones are used. Using unexpected solutions, as we already know −favorite tactic of the Koreans. They even use buttons, rivets, spikes, LEDs, chips, feathers, real fur, ribbons, shells…
It all looks strange, impractical to wear, but such arguments are not enough for Korean creatives. They don't seem to be stopping.
Outstanding design
But the most interesting thing is that they are ready to go even beyond the nail plates. A new trend is gaining popularity in Asia - stones, crystals, pearls, sequins and beads on the cuticle, side rollers and back of the hands.
Yes, for everyday wear, this idea is impractical. But, for example, for a photo shoot, this solution can be the most advantageous.
Manicure jewelry
The author of the idea is the master and fashion blogger Park Eunkyung. She invents, produces and widely uses unusual rings in her works. They wear such jewelry directly next to the nail, their curly elements act as part of the design.
The world has already seen that the trends coming from Asia linger on the fashion Olympus for a long time. Probably, the same fate is destined for Korean manicure. Photos of unusual designs that seem strange today are still viewed with interest by fashionistas from different countries. And the most daring ones are already implementing the creative ideas of Korean masters with might and main.
