In the leaders of the best options for modern nail art, the slider design is firmly held. It is easy to perform for women at home on their own, as well as for professional masters in nail salons. Let's take a closer look at the features and varieties of this decorative material, all its advantages and disadvantages. Let's talk about the methods of applying nail stickers, measures to prevent common mistakes.
What is a nail design with a slider?
Someone calls stickers for nails sliders, someone - stickers. These words are synonyms. This device helps to make a very original design on the nails. The variety of overhead films is simply amazing. So, you already guess that a manicure with sliders is an art of marigolds with adhesive decorative films that have different patterns. They can be decorated in various styles: classical, ornate, sophisticated, in the form of Chinese painting.
Sliders are special colorful stickers located on a paper backing. On some of them there is a protective film that covers the plate from mechanical damage and contamination. Stickers are sold ready-made sets with a specific theme and color scheme. Usually in sets there are 10-12 pictures. The sizes of the sliders are adjusted to the size of each nail. But they can still be cut. Films are transferred to the nails manually. Nail design with sliders is very easy to implement.
Advantages and disadvantages
Sliders for short nails and long plates have many advantages. The idea of decorating nails with stickers can be compared to decoupage. Here are the benefits of nail design with a slider:
- They differ in different texture, which enriches the design of nails with unusual effects.
- A different technique for applying sliders allows you to create the illusion of hand painting on plates. Stickers on nails are often confused with a pattern made with a thin brush.
- Pretty easy to use. Each woman can cope with such a design at home.
- Professional craftsmen highly appreciate the sliders for versatile ornaments on their surface.
- The range of film material is very large.
- Images on the sliders are very clear, resistant to ultraviolet rays.
- No matter how many films are on the nails, they do not change the image intensity.
- They allow you to quickly make out the nails.
- They are quite inexpensive.
- Do not cause any harm to the skin and nails, do not cause allergies.
- If you follow all the nuances of technology, then hold on the plates for a long time and firmly.
How to use nail sliders for nail polish, many fans of modern nail art know. They also highlight some of the disadvantages of these colorful films:
- Sometimes imperfectly lie on the surface of the plates. We have to remove small folds.
- Films are very thin, sometimes torn.
- The obstruction for them is the convex shape of the nails.
- Sometimes not quite high-quality sets are found.
- Each slider needs to be customized to fit the shape and size of the plates.
Varieties of Sliders
In its form, two lines of stickers on the nails are distinguished: on the entire plate and only on a specific area. These pictures can be of different thicknesses, complexity of work. Thicker films can create folds, thin sliders do not form such defects. The background of the stickers can be pigmented and transparent. A transparent version is applied to the main background of the coating, which is similar to hand painting. A color picture is better to stick on a white base, the shades are better manifested. For dense films, the base can not be painted in a light tone. Partial elements on the nails are made on transparent bases.
Popular images
Nail stickers are like a photo design. Films can be with repeating and diverse elements. The design is simple and intricate. Most often they use nail design with flower sliders. Lace patterns are very fashionable. Botanical prints with twigs and leaflets are also at their peak. Silver and golden sliders are considered fashionable. Young girls choose images of cute faces from Disney cartoons, the theme of Halloween, pastry. Quite often, self-adhesive films are decorated with rhinestones, glitter.
Very often, sliders create a seasonal design. For spring, pictures of tulips, magnolia, snowdrops, flowering branches are used. For the summer period, choose sea and fruit themes. In the autumn, stick stickers with colorful leaves, raindrops. In winter, prefer snowflakes, Christmas trees, snowmen. For any time of the year, geometry and the space theme remain popular. A pretty popular nail design with slider slogans.
A pretty fashionable option is the aquarium design. For its execution, the pictures are transferred to a transparent basis. It turns out voluminous and stylish nail art. You can use any stickers for aquarium decoration, except for dense, not translucent ones.
Design with water-based sliders
The most common water stickers. These are films with a thin layer of glue that lag behind the paper as soon as they are dipped in water. They are easy to remove from the base with a light glide. Water stickers are used by novice masters, as well as experienced connoisseurs of nail art. Such cunning devices come in four forms:
- Sliders designed for the entire surface of the nails of the corresponding shape. Only the length is corrected, sometimes the width.
- Thick films. They can be applied to a transparent base. The most common type is considered to be French manicure.
- Transparent stickers with patterns designed for a white or light base.
- In the form of applications. Cut out using nail scissors.
Why do many nail art lovers prefer water stickers? They fit well not only on the surface of the nails, but also on the gel and acrylic. With sliders, the manicure lasts a very long time. This design is not afraid of contact with water.
Self-adhesive sliders
The very first stickers appeared that did not fall into the water, but had an adhesive base. It is enough just to tear the fragment from the paper base and press it to the nail plate. Even a teenager will cope with such a task. Many were faced with sticky stickers in the design of the premises. So nail stickers have the same instructions. On sale there is a large assortment of holiday and everyday options.
Radically change the selected nail art will help even the simplest bow or heart. The monophonic varnish after that will no longer look so boring, the application will become the highlight of the design. Self-adhesive nail stickers are used even by the youngest women of fashion.
With 3-D effect
There are sliders with a convex texture that helps to create very realistic pictures. For their manufacture, an optical illusion is used, forcing our eyes to perceive patterns in one way or another. Stickers with a 3-D effect are characterized by a smooth coating without step transitions. For this, special graphics are used. An optical illusion makes the droplet voluminous, and the flower blooms.
Application on dry varnish
Many beginner nail art lovers are interested in how to apply sliders to nails. Let's start with the simplest and easiest way to decorate marigolds. The easiest way is to attach the sliders to dried gel polish. Design of nails with stickers is done on a white varnish, gradient or other color of the plates. To begin with, apply the base, then the main coating, everything is dried in a lamp. To carry out the design of nails with sliders, the following devices will be needed: base, top, UV lamp, buff, nail file, dehydrator, acid-free primer. You will also need a certain number of stickers. We offer you the procedure for sticking sliders to dried varnish:
- Give the nails the same shape, get rid of the overgrown cuticle and ingrown on the sides of the skin.
- Use a soft grinder (buff) to remove the gloss from the surface of the nail plates.
- Treat your nails with a dehydrator or an acid-free primer.
- Apply clear or white varnish to the nails, dry for 2 minutes in a UV lamp.
- Apply a second coat of varnish and dry.
- Take a set of sliders, adjust with a nail scissors each sticker under the shape of a nail.
- Moisten a paper towel with water, put a slider on it. Wait 30 seconds, then with a small pad of your thumb or forefinger, gently slide the film from the paper base.
- Using tweezers, transfer the film to dried varnish. Stickers have a thin layer of glue, so they are very tight to the surface of the nails.
- Spread the design with a brush or tweezers, lightly dry in the lamp.
- File the excess edges of the film with a file. If wrinkles form, then straighten them with a primer.
- Cover the slider with the top, dry in the lamp.
- Remove excess stickiness from the nails.
How to use sliders for varnish not dried in a lamp?
At home, they usually use sliders for short nails. They can be glued to ordinary varnish, just do not wait until it dries completely. Stickers reliably hold if they are attached to not-dried gel polish. To do this, follow the entire procedure described in the previous section of the article to paragraph 5. As soon as you apply a second coat of varnish, do not dry it. First, gently apply the application to it, only then send it to the lamp. After drying, be sure to fix the result with a transparent top.
Causes of peeling
On a regular varnish, the stickers are well preserved for a week. On gel polish, they can last up to a month. Here are some reasons for their quick peeling:
- poorly sealed the slider on the end of the nail with the top;
- badly smoothed the picture, did not remove the air folds;
- not enough dried stickers;
- not the whole picture was applied top.
It is important to note that specialists do not lower the sliders into the water, but simply lay them on a damp cloth. Excess moisture can also cause peeling.