It's nice to look at a beautiful and neat professional manicure. Nail art masters own many techniques for creating masterpieces with gel polish and various decorative ornaments. You can also diversify a manicure at home with a simple pattern on the nails with varnish. It can be unpretentious patterns, stains, bouquets. If you look at a few nail designs with simple drawings, you will understand that it is not so difficult to complete them. We offer you some tips and trainings on this topic. After viewing the photo and video, you will immediately understand how to draw a simple pattern on the nails.
Required Tools
Special kits for painting on claws are sold in specialized stores. But a simple manicure on the nails (for beginners it will not be difficult to do) can be done with improvised means. Here's what you can dobeautiful manicure with a pattern of your own:
- Needle, toothpick, orange stick, tape, foil.
- Professional nail art is applied with thin brushes, dots.
- Basic foundation needed.
- It will not do without varnishes, gel polishes, acrylic paints, glitter sprinkles.
- Acrylic and gel polishes require curing in a lamp.
- For a preliminary manicure, you will need a nail file and other accessories of a manicure set.
- Fixing agent will put the finishing touch.
Nail preparation
First, find a comfortable workspace at home where you can apply simple designs on your nails with nail polish. It should be well lit. Use a lamp with a light bulb that does not distort the light. Before you start doing simple nail art at home, prepare your nails. Disinfect your hands, treat the cuticle, give the plates the desired shape. Then apply a special transparent agent to the nails, which strengthens the future base layer. After drying this substance, apply the main varnish. For the first time, you can make a one-color version with a small design of the ring finger. Then you can master the gradient and French.
Manicure with simple drawings on the nails with a needle
So, the base is applied, start creating miniature elements. Simple drawings on nails for beginner craftswomen are easiest to do with sharp tools. Try using a needle. A sewing needle will help create simpledrawings on short nails, after which they will look spectacular. Here are the simplest two steps that will help you make an elementary pattern with a needle:
- Dip the needle into the polish of the desired color, and then make a few dots with it in any order (in a row, checkerboard, circle).
- Then draw a line through all these points with a needle. You will get an original petal or twig.
This effect is obtained due to the fact that the sharp end of the needle pulls the varnish that has not yet hardened. You can use a needle to make not just dots, but small strips through which you can draw a solid line. The needle will also help to create various bright images in the form of butterflies, flowers, feathers, hearts. Multi-colored varnishes with a needle can make a variety of abstractions.
Special fixture - dots
A simple drawing on nails at home can be done using a special manicure device - dots. It resembles a crochet hook, only with a small ball at the end. The device is simple but effective. Instead, you can safely use invisible, hairpins or a pin with beads at the end. With a ball on the end of these devices, you can apply various dots, commas or other squiggles to your nails. It is enough to dip a ball of invisibility, hairpins or purchased dots in paint or varnish and apply the intended ornament to the plate. With similar devices you can make original ornaments and drawings:
- images of cats, ladybugs, bears, dogs,piglets;
- floral elements;
- dot manicure;
- patterns for the New Year in the form of deer, snowflakes, gifts;
- seasonal images symbolizing the seasons;
- abstractions with color play.
Performing patterns with a brush
Even novice beginners can make simple drawings on nails at home with thin brushes. It is not necessary to have a professional tool, any brush with natural bristles can work for a start. Practice first on some smooth surface, and then start drawing curls or lines on the nail plate. On sale there is an alternative solution for brushes - a manicure pencil. They make it even easier to work. Consider a few tips in our article and start doing the simplest compositions.
Toothpick to help
A toothpick or an orange stick will also help when creating simple patterns on nails for beginners. The result from them is the same as from a needle, only they are softer, so they will not scratch the base coat. The sharp and thin tip of the toothpick allows you to make the most original curls and stains. To get started, you can make the original asterisk of irregular shape in different shades. A simple drawing will become more chic if you decorate it with rhinestones, broths, pebbles. It is very easy to attach them. It is not necessary to apply drawings on all fingers, it is enough to decorate one nail on the hand.
Usenail tape
Beginning manicure lovers should definitely make friends with adhesive tape. He is different. This is a sticky tape with which you can create something unusual. Sticky stencils are often sold in the form of strips, which are easy to create geometric patterns. It is enough to apply pieces of adhesive tape in the right order on the colored base, and paint over the rest with a different color. A plain geometric manicure also looks good, like the photo below. After the varnish dries, the stencils are removed from the adhesive tape. You can experiment with shapes, shades. You can get various geometric shapes, Christmas trees, stripes, color blocks, circles.
Purchased stickers, flash tattoo
New in nail art are trendy flash tattoos for nails. You won’t even need to draw anything, because these are special stickers in silver, gold and metallic colors. They are moisture resistant and are applied not only to the nails, but also to the body. They look like foil figures. With the help of them, you can lay out various geometric patterns not only on the nails, but also on the phalanges of the fingers.
Many novice manicure lovers use special art stickers as drawings on their nails. They are different: sticky self-adhesive and water-based. If you do not know how to draw, then they will perfectly diversify the usual monophonic manicure. You can paste some pattern or a whole picture. It is best to glue such stickers on a white or light base coat, then the pattern is clearly visible. Today, what types of these stickers are not on sale. You can choose a black and white option for a three-dimensional design. There are also simple stickers in the form of lips, cat footprints, clouds, hearts, fruits, and fish. Such stickers are especially popular in the summer, when you can pick up the brightest image in the form of an anchor, a dolphin, a butterfly, a ladybug, berries, flowers.
Spot manicure and floral motifs
An unusual manicure can be created using the simplest dots of different shades. To perform such a point manicure, you will need the above devices. Ballpoint pens and refills can even be used. From the dots you can lay out a colored rainbow or strawberry, decorate the wings of a butterfly, flower petals. Available in black and white or red and white dot manicure.
A fairly simple and popular design is the simple floral nail art. It is very easy to draw simple flowers. Cover the nail plates with base varnish. Next, to draw a flower, use a thin brush. Dip the brush into the varnish of the desired color and put a dot on the plate, draw two small lines down from it in different directions. Get the first petal. Similarly, make 5-6 more such petals. The size of the flower depends on your imagination and desire. After that, while the varnish has not yet hardened, draw thin veins in the middle of each petal, collecting varnish (acrylic paint) from the flower itself. In the center, put three dots that will resemble the core. On the remaining parts of the nail, you candraw another half a flower or a few petals to fill the entire space of the nail.
Even easier to draw solid roses, for example, white on a pink background. It is enough to apply a few bends with white varnish or paint, and you will get an original likeness of a rose.
