People treat shiny accessories differently. Oriental women usually choose a bright design, where there is a lot of brilliance and rich tones. Europeans love French manicure with light mother of pearl. It would not occur to them to lay out a smile with rhinestones.
Often, a manicure with sparkles at the tips of the nails is discarded due to rough execution. But if you choose the right materials, the same design will not look vulgar, but elegant. How to add diamond shine to a manicure, rather than samovar gold? The secret is as a sparkle.
Fashion trends
A manicure with sparkles at the tips of the nails does not go out of style. Companies producing designer varnish series include particles of diamond chips, small foil confetti, mother of pearl, metal or plastic dust. Japanese designers presented the world with kamifubuki - confetti of all kinds and sizes. Larger particles are commonly called glitter. Very small - with a shimmer.
Glitter varnishes or gel polishes are used by designers to create effects. Colorless coatings with various inclusions are popular. It can be an imitation of gold of different samples, silver, copper and metallic. This varnish is applied to an already created design. I must say, now almost no varnishes with one type of glitter are used. There are new interesting products. For example, glitter in combination with a shimmer creates a festive look. Large particles seem to lie on small ones, creating a volumetric effect. The surface is painted denser. Glitter particles can be not just round, but in the form of stars, squares, crescents.
Shimmer varnish is more calm, it can be used for everyday manicure. On it you can attach stones, large kamifubuki. It is good for drawing. A dry shimmer can be rubbed onto an unspoiled varnish or dispersion layer of shellac.
Various techniques
Now it’s important not just to hint at gold in the design, you need to imitate it. For this, various means have appeared. First of all, it is a metal rubbing. It is applied to black gel polish. The hue is not always visible in dry powder, so when buying it is good to have a sample of the finished coating before your eyes.
To create a shining surface, shimmer varnishes are used, which are then decorated with dry glitter. To do this, it is applied to a transparent top or put large confetti.
If you need to perform a manicure with sparkles at the tips, you can make a stretch of sparkles according to the finished design. It is done with a fan brush. It is lowered into a jar of shiny dust and held along the surface of the nail.
French manicure
The classic white-pink jacket turns into an evening design if the edge of the smile is decorated with sparkles and a stone is placed in the center. It is better to choose Swarovski crystals, they successfully imitate diamonds. Sequins fit ordinary silver. Colored ones on a white background may reflect light differently, and it will seem that part of the sparkles has crumbled.
A manicure with sparkles at the tips can look very bright if you put them on a dark substrate. To do this, carry out a smile in black, after which they apply shimmer lacquer or do a rub. The edge of a black smile is visible in the photo. To leave such a neat border, you should use the stencil more than once. First, pink shellac is applied , then the dispersion is removed and the stencils are glued. Cover the tips of the nails with black shellac. Remove the dispersion and lower the stencils by one millimeter. Cover with a brilliant varnish.
This design will become even more expressive if one nail is completely covered with gloss. To do this, when applying pink varnish, it is ignored. When stencils are installed to cover the smile with black gel polish, accent nails are also stained. After polymerization, dispersion is removed from all nails and stencils are installed, painted with shimmer varnish.
Pink gamma
Girls love pink sparkle manicure. He is cheerful, smart and gentle at the same time. But the choice of pink color can be difficult due to the many options presented in the lacquered finish. There are warm and cold shades, pastel and bright colors. Spangles for a pink background often choose gold or silver.
To sparkles imitate a noble metal, manufacturers pay special attention to the size of glitter particles. It is better to choose those varnishes or gel varnishes in which particles of different sizes are used. Some products contain silver or even pink in addition to gold particles. Let the contents of the bottle, visible through the glass, do not bother. Such a varnish will most fully convey the golden surface.
Blue gamma
Blue polish is often determined by the color of the dress. When the main tone is found, the question arises of the choice of design. On a blue background, they often make a gold jacket. It turns out solemnly and strictly. But you can offer another option: the use of stencils for airbrushing. These are transparent plastic plates with a carved pattern that adhere well to the gel-coated background. Instead of an airbrush, you can use a brush from a bottle, just try to act carefully and not lubricate the picture.
Glitter Manicure Ideas:
- The main background is made matte using a special top. Using a stencil, brilliant varnish is applied.
- The dispersion is removed from the main background, the stencils are installed and the top is applied. Perform a gradient pattern using a dry shimmer and sponge. Polymerized. Reapply the top already on the entire nail. Polymerized.
- A black pattern is applied to the main background using a stencil. Polymerized. On the dispersion layer make a rub. Polymerized. They cover the finished work with a glossy top and polymerize.
Red gamma
Red manicure with sparkles at the tips - perhaps the most festive design. The splendor of red is well complemented by gold glitter varnishes. They make a stretch on the finished background or apply dry glitter with a fan brush to the top and polymerize the result.
As in the case of French manicure with sparkles, this design is often complemented by an emphasis on the ring finger. The nail is completely covered with glitter.
Bright gamma
On a black background, all the manicure options with sparkles look very advantageous. There are multi-colored dry mixes in which warm or cold shades prevail. It is successful to simulate fire with a mixture of yellow and red elements, ice - from silver and blue.
The larger the size of the shiny particles, the more noticeable is the black background, peering between them. And the larger the sparkles, the brighter they burn on the nails. For the designer, the task is to choose such a combination of fine dust with medium and large particles, so that an even canvas is obtained.
Sometimes you need to hide the background so that it is not visible. Then resort to applying the substrate. To simulate non-ferrous metallic, the nails are coated with the appropriate color: for blue sequins - with blue gel, for red - red, for green - green, for gold - beige or ocher.
The photo shows a modern day and night design with kamifubuki. The diagonal line divides the nail into two halves - day and night. The area of the cuticle remains a neutral nude hue. The free edge area is covered with black gel. Large confetti - kamifubuki are placed on it. These foil particles hold well on a base gel or very thick top. After installing and distributing them with an orange stick, the result is polymerized. The resulting work is top-coated and polymerized again.
Neutral gamma
For light designs, the tips of the nails are coated in white, yellow or pastel. Appropriate sparkles are applied to it. But sometimes it is necessary to perform a neutral design, as is the case with additional jewelry - rings or bracelets. Such a case is not a reason to refuse sparkles. The task is reduced to the selection of glitter of a suitable shade.
Usually they perform manicure with sparkles on the tips of the nails with shellac, but it is also possible to use ordinary varnish. Moreover, almost every collection has neutral shades of shimmer and glitter varnishes.
Instructions for performing a manicure with sparkles at the tips
How to make a glitter coating to make it smooth and even? So that his particles do not scratch the skin and do not touch anything? It is possible, but not varnished. For smooth designs apply gel polish. On the palette mix the base or thick top with the selected glitter and kamifubuki. This composition will be applied to the tips of the nails.
The rest of the coating procedure does not differ from the standard:
- Perform a manicure, prepare the nails for applying a decorative coating, apply a base layer of gel polish, polymerize.
- Perform a nude color coating. Polymerized.
- They cover the free edge area with a substrate in the color of sparkles. Polymerized.
- Put the prepared mixture on the nail, level it with an orange stick so that the sparkles lie evenly and do not bulge. Otherwise, they will cling to clothes. Polymerized.
- Cover the work on top. Polymerized.
This method will provide the strongest gloss of nails.
Conclusion
Any girl with sparkles at the tips of the nails can do it. On a regular varnish, while it has not yet dried, sprinkle glitter from a jar. After drying, apply the top - and the manicure is ready. This is a bit “scratchy” design, but no less attractive. The main thing is to dry it well.
Indulge yourself with a bright shine. Which color do you like more?