Do you want to make a nail painting and be in a trend? Apply a floral or tracery pattern on one or a maximum of two fingers. I like a gentle manicure - choose the basis in pastels, white shades and beige, and a rich dark palette will suit the amateurs of bright design in blue, purple, black and red tones.
Painting nails 2018
In the new season, a manicure nails painting is considered a hit, in which it is executed in the spirit of minimalism with an emphasis on mix patterns, combining ethno and futurism. Classic and modified Greek and Latin American ornaments returned to fashion, on the ascent of Slavic motifs and art nails painting in the Chinese style, all kinds of monograms and bitmaps, cosmic and geometric abstract subjects.
For women who prefer original solutions for every day, stylists offer a manicure with elements of plants and flowers in gentle colors: blue, pink, cream, not bright yellow and milky white. The laconic design in gray tones with fragments of vegetative and dotted ornaments looks tempting, and golden monograms with a rhythmic frame on a saturated background are a chic version for going out into the light.
Art nails painting
To create patterns, masters use high-tech paints for nail painting, gel and acrylic, ideally suited for creating drawings, as well as for aquarium design. They are simple, with sparkles, pearly and glowing (fluorescent). If you decide to do a manicure yourself, and know how to draw, it is better to choose quick-drying acrylic paints of deep deep colors that can be applied to conventional varnishes. The most optimal at home is considered to be pearly, they fit perfectly and do not crack.
In salons, mostly nails are covered with gel-varnish, shellac or acrylic, and colorful pictures are painted on top of it. When creating simple compositions, specialists use a variety of modern stencils and stamping, but to make the manicure look ideal, complex story and tracery patterns are drawn manually. To create a catchy manicure in the disco style, the nails are painted with fluorescent colors that make your hands noticeable everywhere, especially in bright sunlight and under neon lamps of the club dance floor.
Hand painted on nails
In order to create a beautiful nail painting with acrylic paints, it is better to use a transparent base coating. After all, on any artificial basis, the paint is kept better than on natural nails. What colors, patterns and decor in the trend?
- Pastel, in favor of blue, pink, pearl, beige and cream. Harmonious are the white-blue and yellow-brown combinations. Excellent combination of coffee with milk with all shades of beige and brown, a gray palette in different connections and gradient transitions.
- Three-color and two-color combinations of red, white and black will never go out of fashion. On takeoff, saturated blue, green, violet, marsala and bordeaux, with pictures in bright colors, with "gold" and "silver."
- Hand-painting of nails with small and large floral and animalistic drawings is uncommon, hits of the season: poppies and roses, tulips and chrysanthemums, wildflowers and sunflowers, butterflies and predators. Popular: abstraction and cosmic themes, neoclassical ethno motifs, lace and openwork monograms, a combination of several patterns and directions in one manicure.
- To give the patterns of exquisite shine and charm in the nail art, various rhinestones and pebbles, sparkles, sand and powder, metal figures, sequins and confetti are used, serving as additional accents, as well as a brilliant, sometimes colorful base of compositions.
Stencils for painting nails
Not inferior to the quality of hand-painted and nail painting gel varnishes with the help of modern appliances. On the stencil manicure takes much less time than manually drawing, although because of the use of gel paint to make it at home is problematic, if you do not have a special lamp. Stencils are special patterned blanks, they are of two types: glued and stamped. The first are fixed on the nail, they are applied gel-varnish or paint and then removed, and the stamp - this is a stamping reusable impression.
There are special airbrush stickers to create gradients and transitions. Painting with a stencil of nails will look not only neat, but also stylish, if you use a rich base, shine and "gold" with "silver", along with various complex preparations:
- monograms of various shapes ;
- patterned and openwork plates;
- elements of abstraction and geometric figures;
- fragments of floral, folk and animalistic ornaments;
- inscriptions and stylistic signs (musical and other).
Nails design - painting
In order to create an individual design of nails, art painting is done manually, regardless of the type of paints. In the classical version, it is applied to the entire surface of the nail on all the fingers, but in today's nail art, a minimalist emphasis is placed. The most popular drawings, executed both on a rich glossy and matte, and transparent basis: painting with nail colors and openwork ornaments, a storyline of a multifaceted painting of nails in the spirit of futurism and retro, combining different drawings kept within the same theme.
New directions in the painting: gradient transitions, use for creating a powder image, metal prints and shiny sand, applying point drops with an airbrush, sealing the lace gel, which creates visibility of the volumetric graphics and relief pattern. For additional effect, the masters use laconic interspersions of rhinestones or edging them with the main lines of the general pattern with an emphasis on one or two fingers.
Manicure with Chinese Painting
How does modern nail design look like Chinese painting? His card is a hand drawing of flat brushes on a smooth uniform basis of exotic flowers in combination with mysterious curls and elements of the oriental pattern. Experienced masters use an innovative approach and bring their own unique raisins: apply an ornament to the gel-lacquer "Cat's Eye" or a smooth gradient, make relief lines, add shine and mother-of-pearl, allocate the center of the flower with rhinestones or focus on the moon, nail.
Zhostovo painting on nails
Another stylish floral nail design - Zhostovo painting, repeating elements of folk painting "Zhostovo" in manicure. Its distinctive feature is the creation of three-dimensional colors with acrylic on any surface. Additional patterns and ornaments are welcomed with "gold", but the main attention is paid to colors, both large in single execution, and several on one nail. The amount depends on the length and width of the nail plate, and the most popular ones are peonies, asters, chamomiles and chrysanthemums.
Painting of nails - monograms
A watercolor painting on nails in the form of intricate curls and fuzzy lines is unmistakable and attractive. Luxurious manicure in a dark-gold performance is ideal for festive occasions, and laconic monograms on a gentle basis - a practical choice for every day. Interesting options with the use of matte lacquer, and modern ideas: painting with azhum on the nails on a French and "Hollywood" smile.
Nails Gzhel painting
Chic paintings on the nails, in the original made in white and blue in the popular Russian style - the visiting card of the manicure in the technique of "Gzhel". The pattern is applied to the white tonality with thin brushes or with the use of dots, the use of stencil blanks is allowed. Original story festive compositions are diluted with "gold", "silver" and shiny edging, in the fashion not only floral, lace and floral ornaments, but birds, sun, moon and stars. Such a manicure will be an excellent addition to elegantly-everyday ensembles and wedding dresses.
Painting "Khokhloma" on the nails
Who decided that the original Russian beautiful painting on the nails is not relevant? At the peak of popularity, a distinctive and complex vegetative ornament, named after the locality in which it originated. "Khokhloma" is a hand-painted and painstaking technique of painting nails, if you take the classics of the genre, then in red and black with "gold" performance, where the basis is black. Modern ideas allow you to use greens in various shades of red and mix it with "gold", or add to the dominant three-color scale.
New-Year Painting of Nails
Festive winter acrylic painting on the nails is striking in its diversity. In the trend:
- complex plot drawings;
- aquarium design with the application of whole New Year's compositions under the gel with the use of glitter and rhinestones;
- fragments of a decorated Christmas tree, Christmas trees and toys, fairy-tale characters, Santa Claus and Snow Maiden;
- stylish painting on nails, frosty patterns and snowflakes;
- original abstract frosty motifs.
Painting on nails - snowflakes
This season, the favorites went and painting nails snowflakes, both stencil and hand-made. Original stamping patterns on a dark background: burgundy, marsala, blue, ruby, bottle and black. Brides with tenderness the winter painting of nails on a light pink, milky white and pearl base, especially snowflakes with the addition of glitter: sand, powder and small sparkles, or a drawing on iridescent varnishes. Modern manicure - the emphasis on a few fingers, chic look frosty patterns in the white and blue palette.