How beautiful the tropical landscape is at sunset - the sky shimmering with all colors, the bright sun on the horizon and dark palm trees. This picture can be repeated on the nails, and it's easy to do. First, a gradient manicure is done. Palm trees are drawn over this background. After the whole work is fixed with a top. You can perform this design in the lacquer technique, and with the help of a gel. The article will consider the option with gel polishes.
Where to start?
We always start with a hygienic manicure, then the coating lays down beautifully and durable. Then choose a color scheme. The ombre technique allows you to bring in a lot of shades, so that our background will be picturesque. Usually three colors are used: light, dark and intermediate. But for a summer manicure with palm trees, you can do more.
Color options for background creation:
- Red + pink + purple.
- Turquoise + purple + pink.
- Pink + orange + yellow.
- Blue + cyan + turquoise.
- Orange + pink + lilac.
- Bleached yellow + pink.
Some shades can be mixed on a palette of primary colors. This produces the following tones:
- Blue + white=blue.
- Blue + yellow=turquoise.
- Red + yellow=orange.
- Red + white + blue=pink.
- Pink + blue=lilac.
- Red + white + yellow=self.
What you need to cook:
- Several bottles of colored polish and one black.
- Sponge with fine pores. It will be varnished.
- Thin brush.
- Palette. A small piece of glass can replace it.
- Alcohol.
Making a backdrop for manicure with palm trees
First of all, the nails are painted in the main background color. This is the lightest of all on the palette. Then the dispersion layer is removed and a gradient is applied with a sponge.
For this, a color row is laid out in advance, which will be present in the ombre. Drops of gels are applied to the palette, the desired tones are mixed and gently applied to the sponge with a brush. It will look like a striped rug.
Then the sponge is gently pressed against the nail. This can be done more than once, the gel will not harden without a lamp. When the result is satisfactory, you can send your finger to the lamp to dry. Only after all the nails are prepared, we can do our manicure with palm trees. The photo shows the process in detail.
How to make an ombre?
Memo how to make a gradient. Sequence of actions.
- Manicure being done.
- The lightest tone from the gradient is applied.
- Several tones are applied to the palette in the sequence that will be present on the nail.
- Border blurs.
- Gel onsponge.
- Imprinted on the nail.
- Sponge moves a little higher and prints again.
- The sponge moves a little lower and is reprinted.
- The rollers are wiped with a brush dipped in alcohol.
- Gel polymerizes.
Now we need to add a cloud and seagulls. The cloud can be yellow-white or pink-yellow. The main thing is that it should not be bright and blend in with the background.
Draw a palm tree
With a thin brush, paint over the corner of the nail with dark beige. This is a piece of the coast. The palm tree cannot grow in the sea. You don’t need to go too much on the nail, just mark a corner of the land.
Draw a trunk, four branches with black gel and polymerize in a lamp. And so with each finger. After we draw leaves on the branches. Each stroke starts almost from the point where the trunk forks. If you draw everything at once, the gel will spread and it will be ugly. Thin lines should be cured immediately.
When the palm trees are ready, you can paint a highlight along the trunk with white gel and add a couple of highlights to the foliage. Curing and top coat.
French manicure
Palm tree on the nails can be painted on the jacket. In this case, the tone of the smile will serve as the sea. To do this, modeling or gel polish is first performed, and then only those nails where there will be no design are covered with a top coat. The rest are wiped with alcohol to remove the dispersion. A cloud, seagulls and an island are drawn on all nails and polymerized. Then palm trees are drawn or pasted.
The photo shows a manicure with palm trees, which is made on simulated nails. The pink smile mimics the sea very well. Glitter gives the impression of glare on the water. A yellow cloud and silhouettes of seagulls complete the picture. The smile could be done in blue, blue, red or purple. The main thing is not in white.
The lazy way
You can simplify this manicure. Palm trees can be glued. There are water stickers for sale. And do the background like this:
- At the cuticle, paint over the nail with blue gel and bring it to the middle of the nail.
- Place the brush almost vertically and press firmly to the free edge. This achieves the minimum layer of coverage.
- Brush with pale blue gel (you can first dilute it with white on the palette) put in the middle of the nail, move a little to the cuticle and, without taking the brush off the nail, bring it to the free edge. First on one side of the nail, then on the other. In the middle of the nail, the gels form a fuzzy border.
- Place your finger in the lamp to dry and repeat the process with the next one. So do all ten nails.
Now you need to remove the dispersion layer with alcohol and stick palm trees. When the stickers are dry, cover the artwork with top coat.
Try it and you will definitely succeed!
