Choosing a decent nail design is quite difficult. Especially considering the needs of modern ladies. However, a marine manicure can appeal to even very demanding and demanding persons. Many professional craftsmen recommend such summer designs to those who go on vacation to the sea or are just getting ready to have a good rest. Marine-style manicure is really refreshing and gives originality and showiness to the image.
When in demand?
Most often, a marine manicure is performed in the summer or during a vacation abroad in winter or autumn. It is noteworthy that each girl decides for herself what exactly she wants to see on the tips of her nails: palm trees, the sea, anchors or abstract lines that form a single marine composition. There are a lot of options, but there are also especially loved by ladies all over the world.
The sea worries once…
Very often, girls choose a marine-style manicure, where water is the main pattern. A kind of marine symbol. And to make such a design yourself is quite simple. Of the tools and materials you will need:
- blue and blue nail polish;
- base and top;
- thin brush fornail art (column 00 or striper);
- nail polish remover.
Pre-nails need to be prepared. First, you should give them a beautiful and suitable shape: oval, square, almond or semicircle. Secondly, it is necessary to remove the old coating and cuticle. It is recommended not to cut the latter with scissors or tongs, but to dissolve it with a special agent. It's much safer. Especially at home.
When the nails are prepared, they are applied with a foundation. Blue varnish acts as the main base color, which covers all nail plates. With the help of a thin brush and blue varnish, thin curved lines are drawn horizontally or vertically. They imitate the rough sea. The finished design is covered with a top. It turns out a stylish and fashionable manicure. The marine theme can be presented in a more complex version. However, it is worth preparing for the fact that the first time the conceived composition may not work out.
Stickers
There is a huge variety of materials for nail art, especially stickers. At the same time, you can choose whatever your heart desires, starting from individual star-shells and ending with a whole composition on a marine theme. For example, thermal stickers are in great demand, which, under the influence of warm water, tightly fit the nails, creating a durable, but elastic design. It is a pleasure to use them.
It is noteworthy that thermal stickers are usually ready-madecomposition: beach, palm trees, sea. Or any other picture, depending on the choice of the girl. This nautical-style manicure is done at home on your own in just a few seconds.
How to use thermal stickers
To make a marine manicure smooth and neat, and at the same time do not have to paint anything by hand, you will need a minimum set of tools:
- stickers;
- tweezers;
- scissors;
- warm water;
- grinding buff;
- cotton pads.
First, the nails are cleaned of the old coating. Then they are sanded with a buff so that the surface is even and smooth. The nails are immersed in a warm bath for a few seconds, then pulled out. Thermal stickers are applied to the surface, tightly covered with cotton pads, which were previously soaked in hot water. After 2-3 minutes they are removed. Using tweezers, remove the top transparent layer from the stickers. Scissors cut off the excess. To make the design last longer, it is covered with a top.
In addition, you can first diversify the manicure. The marine theme welcomes additions such as small rhinestones, sparkles, sequins. The main thing is that the stickers are really on the right topic: water, beaches, palm trees, ships, marine life, the underwater world. The latter, by the way, is in particular demand among those who go south on vacation. Such a manicure emphasizes the mood of the owner to really have a good time.
Lacquer painting
To doindependently marine manicure, there is nothing complicated. For example, you can paint your nails with varnish in the desired style. Most often depict waves or anchors. In order to draw them you will need:
- several colored polishes (such as white, blue and red);
- thin brush;
- nail polish remover;
- toothpick or dots.
Naturally, the nails are first prepared: they are cut down, the cuticle is removed, the surface is polished if necessary. Later they are covered with colored varnishes. For example, a pair of nails - in blue, one or two - in red, the rest - in white. When the varnish dries, wave patterns are drawn with a thin brush. Most often, they distinguish the French zone, if the nails are long, or the entire surface - if the length is very small. With the help of dots, dots are put down, which are then connected into an anchor drawing. Usually they are allocated only one nail on the hand, so as not to overload the composition with elements. With the help of nail polish remover, excess polish is removed, and the finished design is fixed with a top.
How to compose?
So that the marine manicure does not look clumsy and ugly, you need to choose the right pattern. So, for example, horizontal stripes make the nails wide and short, so they should be as thin and neat as possible. An overabundance of decor elements will make the manicure heavy and vulgar. Therefore, the masters strongly recommend adhering to one main rule in the marine theme - do no harm.
First, a color composition is selected, andthen the patterns. Only one nail is allocated for a large and rich pattern. For example, an anchor is drawn on the ring finger, and stripes and other small additional elements are drawn on all the rest. But there are exceptions. For example, the classic "sea wave" manicure. Here, flowing water is depicted in stripes on all nails, and a large pattern is placed on top: an anchor or a starfish is drawn on the waves, of course, in a different color from the main one. This gives the design originality and impact.