The newest trend for pattern style manicures is the sweater nail design. With the onset of cold weather, girls put on cozy and warm sweaters, jackets and vests. Many want to complement the image, make it more harmonious and stylish. A winter knitted manicure is perfect for this.
Features
Knitted manicure is the application of a three-dimensional pattern on the nails in the form of knitted patterns. It looks especially attractive on short nails. Not all women can, due to various circumstances, afford to grow their nails. And most modern manicure techniques are designed specifically for them.
For knitted nails, gentle pastel colors are usually taken, which will harmoniously complement the female look with lace and knitting.
Sweater nail design has the following features:
- It is better to make a sweater ornament on a plain background.
- The color scheme of the coating should be similar to the tone of the nail itself.
- To apply a knitted ornament, you can use not only gel polish, but also ordinary varnishes.
- To make the drawing look more impressive, it is covered on topvelvet sand or acrylic powder.
- Knitted nail cover can be supplemented with rhinestones, sequins, spikes.
Knitted shellac manicure
To simulate a sweater, it is better to take one color of gel polish. Such a voluminous manicure looks great in pale pink, blue, beige or white. Two or three colors can be used.
Applying technique:
- First prepare the surface of the nail, remove the shine and degrease the nail plate. After such manipulations, the surface of the nail will become even, the gel polish will lie well on it.
- A base layer of shellac is applied to the nail and dried under a lamp. Then you need to apply a second layer and also dry. The second layer needs to be dried more thoroughly, otherwise the ornament may “float”.
- The next step is choosing a pattern. The simplest and most stylish option is a pigtail.
- The knitted pattern is applied with a thin brush and then dried well.
- The nail is covered with a top coat of shellac. This will give the manicure a gloss. You can use a matte finish, it will give the pattern "naturalness". The effect will be as if the pattern was knitted from woolen threads. The nails will have a spectacular and elegant look if, when creating a knitted manicure, sprinkle ornaments with velvet sand.
Knitted manicure with simple varnish
Sweater nail design is very easy to do with ordinary varnish. To do this, you need to prepare two or three shades of varnish (preferably similar in color), velvet powder or glitter"snowball".
How to make a winter manicure with varnish:
- First you need to cover the nails with a base base, this will help make them more even.
- Then, different shades of varnishes are applied to the nails (you can apply them in two layers).
- The next step is to take a thin brush and, choosing the tone of the varnish in accordance with the background, draw patterns. To make a voluminous manicure, you need to choose dried varnishes for the drawing.
- Before the coating has dried, you can sprinkle it with velvet sand.
- Now the nail polish should dry completely, in the case of regular nail polish, you will need to wait longer.
The easiest way to create a knitted manicure with regular varnish is to apply a pattern with varnish of a different color.
Possible patterns
Of course, you can easily find many patterns for knitted manicure on the Internet. Creative individuals or girls who want to have a creative manicure can dream up and come up with their own unusual knitted patterns.
You can look at things from your winter wardrobe and simply duplicate your favorite ornaments on your nails. It can be pigtails (double or triple), checkers, diamonds, wavy or just vertical lines, strokes, dots, etc. The main thing is not to be afraid and turn on your imagination.
Knitted Manicure Tips
It may be a little difficult to create a sweater nail design on your own for the first time. But you should not despair, because in the future the technique will be improved, and the result will onlyimprove.
This will help a little tricks that you need to adopt:
- If all the nails are covered with a multi-colored base, then it is better to apply the pattern with a light varnish.
- You can make a gradient using multiple shades and then apply a pattern to it.
- For drawing a picture, sometimes they choose not only acrylic, but also acrylic powder. She looks very impressive.
These tips will help you create a knitted manicure yourself. The main thing is not to be afraid, turn on your imagination and not be afraid to experiment.
