Any girl feels confident if she is well-groomed, with a hairdo on her head and leaves behind a trail of subtle scent of eau de toilette. Not the last role in creating a complete image is played by the condition of the hands and nails. This is the part of the body that everyone sees and can affect the overall impression of a person.
Girls differ not only in appearance, but also in tastes and preferences in styles. This implies a wide choice of design solutions for the design of nails, ranging from shape, thickness and ending with color solutions.
Distinctive points when decorating nails
In fact, nail design depends on many factors. The most significant are the following:
- fashion for the shape of the nail;
- fashion trends of the season regarding color schemes;
- popular patterns and accessories;
- girl's mood;
- place of work or the presence / absence of any specificactivities (working with products, chemicals, medical instruments, etc.);
- the condition of your own nails and their nature (evenness of the nail plate).
When choosing one or another type of nail design, ladies, as a rule, consult with the master. To change the nuances of the natural state of the nails (the shape of the plate, its evenness, length), if necessary, use materials such as gel or acrylic. This allows you to prepare the basis for the implementation of the intended design.
Coat Types for Ladies Who Like to Stay Stylish
What mood to give your manicure and how to decorate your nails: light design or bright ornament, short or long nails? This choice also determines the material to be used. Currently, the choice of varnishes is so wide that they can be divided into several types.
In cases where the use of special products (acrylic or gel) is not required, the masters offer customers a variety of nail coatings to choose from. According to the type of application, they are divided into several groups, while some of them belong to the main ones, and some to auxiliary means.
- Gel Coats: Combines the properties of regular nail polish and gel to extend wear by up to 3-4 weeks. When applied, a brush is used, the bonding process occurs due to the action of ultraviolet rays.
- Liquid lacquers: Classic lacquer applied with a brush. The average wearing time is 1 week.
- Hard: are densestickers that are applied with heat to the entire area of the nail plate.
- Fast-drying: Varnishes in a variety of colors (mostly clear or light) that take about 60 seconds to dry. Most often, they are used as a top coat over the main one, which allows you to increase the wearing time of the varnish as a whole.
- Fixing Varnishes: Colorless varnishes that are also used to extend the durability of the base color, however, the drying time is at least 5-7 minutes.
- Varnishes for creating a base: colorless coatings for leveling the nail plate. Applied before the main coat of color, it helps to maintain the color depth of the decorative varnish and prevents it from darkening and cracking.
Classic never goes out of style
No matter how familiar it may sound, however, in the field of the nail industry, short nails remain quite common, light design and decor elements organically complement the manicure. Of course, for lovers of bright colors there is always an alternative. However, in everyday life, most often it is the light nail design with gel polish that takes the forefront.
This design will allow girls to look stylish at any event: from everyday work to visiting a restaurant or a nightclub. To emphasize the design of nails, light colors are diversified with additional elements, accessories or drawings. A positive role in the design of the original idea is played by light shades of various colors, various textures.the varnish itself or the manicure technique.
How to diversify nail design?
Short light nails will look advantageous if you use combinations with the following types of varnishes to choose from when making them:
- craquelure: lacquer that cracks (represented by two types: with large cracks and a fine grid of cracks);
- magnetic lacquer: contains small magnetic particles that, under the action of a magnet, can create a pattern in the form of a strip, wave, beam;
- matte polish: fast drying, no need for a fixer;
- holographic iridescent lacquer decorative lacquer;
- thermal lacquer: the lacquer changes its color when the air temperature changes (at a cool temperature it acquires darker shades, as the temperature rises, the shades become lighter);
- sand varnish: this is a type of matte varnish, after application of which its structure becomes fine-grained;
- shimmer: a varnish with small particles that shimmer and change their color under the influence of sunlight or lighting (capable of giving volume and hiding uneven surfaces of the nail plate);
- glitter nail polish: nail polish with shiny particles that can vary in size, thereby changing the appearance of the design;
- mirror lacquer (otherwise it is called metallic) has a shiny mirror surface;
- fluorescent varnish: contains substances that glow in the dark, it is idealsuitable for those who lead an active lifestyle at night;
- velor varnish: the composition of the varnish contains velor fibers, this gives the coating a special texture after drying;
- caviar varnish: the varnish contains small round granules resembling eggs or a scattering of beads;
- jelly polish: A translucent polish with reflective mirror elements that has a jelly-like appearance.
Techniques for creating an original manicure
Nail design: light colors, short nails, long nails, bright colors, innovative technologies in creating creative ideas - these are the ingredients for creating a complete stylish look. Among the popular classical methods of covering nails, there are novelties in the nail industry, which are successfully used by masters, combined and, as a result, give girls original and interesting images. These technologies include:
- 3D modeling (aquarium design);
- stamping manicure;
- art painting;
- using accessories (bows, flowers, stones, ribbons, newspapers, beads, beads, rhinestones, butterflies, sequins, etc.);
- photo design (using stickers);
- oil-manicure;
- crumpled design;
- marble design;
- broken glass effect;
- liquid stone design;
- using transparent glitter;
- ring design;
- manicure with acrylic powder.
Stylish shortnails
Short length and classic nail design in light colors always remain comfortable and versatile.
The photos in the article are examples of stylish short nails in light colors with and without decorative elements.
Main nail design trends
The following trends for light nails do not cease to be relevant, (design, photos are presented below) which are considered optimal at any time of the year:
- pastel colors (emphasize femininity and naturalness);
- natural free edge shape;
- transparent coating (it will look stylish only if you have a perfect hygienic manicure);
- classic "French" - covering the nail with the main color (pink, beige, powder) and highlighting the edge of the nail plate with white;
- french variations - varnishes of different colors are used to cover the main color (and not just the base ones for the "french"), and the edge of the nail can be decorated not only in white;
- moon manicure;
- frame, graphics;
- combination: highlighting one or more fingernails with a different color or designing it in a different style.
Light nails: design, photos, coating options
For an illustrative example of the fashion novelties of the season, you can see photos of the work of various masters and choose the most suitable option for yourself. It can be used as a basis for implementationyour own creative idea, adding or modifying individual elements, or you can take as an example and practice certain techniques.
For those who do not follow fashion
Each master collects only the most successful variants of work in his collection. Very often, to create a portfolio, nail art masters train for a long time in performing various techniques, hone their skills, experimenting with different colors and shapes of nails, replenish their collection with positive and negative experience, knowledge and new skills.
Those who do not follow the latest, but want to stay stylish, can always consult with experienced craftsmen on the design, selection of a color palette and the implementation of individual decorations on the nails. The manicure master will definitely offer to get acquainted with samples of work, talk about the pros or cons of some designs, because the nail industry does not stand still and general preferences change all the time, innovative nail design options appear. Do not be afraid that you will be lied to, because retaining regular customers, maintaining a high level of work performance are important components of the activities of representatives of the service industry.
