What a woman does not want to shine and conquer her beauty on New Year's Eve! Many ladies prepare for the celebration in advance, choosing outfits, shoes, coming up with a hairstyle and nail art.
New Year’s gel polish manicure most often involves the use of winter themes. Indeed, then even a simple look at the nails will improve the mood and support the theme of the holiday.
New Year’s decoration of nails has no limits for fantasy, because everything related to this wonderful event is in use. Hand-painted look beautiful and elegant on this day and this night.
Tools for creating
What materials will be needed for manicure:
- brushes for painting ;
- varnish of different colors (with or without sparkles) or acrylic paint;
- the basis;
- glitters;
- top cover;
- sequins and rhinestones for decoration.
If there is no set of special brushes for nail painting, do not despair. The main thing is the presence of two devices: a thin brush (needed for the background), a needle equipped with a ball at the end (necessary for drawing points and drawing patterns).
Application technology
How to make a manicure New Year’s gel polish? The application technology is usually as follows:
- First, the nails should be shaped, if necessary, they should be filed;
- apply the base coat or base in one layer, then dry;
- apply a base color, depending on the chosen topic;
- using sparkles and decorations, make the design of the selected nail or all;
- treat with fixative;
- dry.
The use of varnish for painting complicates the process for non-professionals, since it has the property of quickly thickening, as well as spreading. Therefore, in order that the painting of nails does not turn into torment, it may be worthwhile to apply acrylic paints on top of the color base, which in case of failure can be quickly and easily washed off with water.
Fairy lights
Let's look at the ideas of New Year's manicure with gel polish. Let's start with the image of a garland. Drawing on the nails of a garland of Christmas lights, you can use sparkles.
A garland with multi-colored bulbs on a green background looks beautiful. New Year’s gel manicure is unthinkable without shine. And in the drawing of garlands, you can use it as much as possible without a shadow of doubt.
Snowflakes
To make New Year's manicure with gel polish look truly elegant, it is worth decorating nails with snowflakes. This is a favorite drawing by many, which is also very simple to depict. Background may be:
- plain;
- French;
- gradient.
What can be snowflakes? They can be drawn with a thin brush, glued ready-made, voluminous.
Snowflakes in the style of Norwegian patterns look funny. White drawings on a red background or red on white will look beautiful.
If you use ready-made glitter snowflakes, then it will be very easy to make a manicure. On a color base, you just need to attach them and fix them with varnish or fixative.
If you want snowflakes to sparkle and sparkle, you need to cover them with silver or gold dust. That's all, the New Year’s gel polish manicure is ready.
Snowmen, Santa Claus
Of course, what a nail art on New Year's Eve without the main characters of this holiday! Everyone wants a little childish joyful perception of the celebration. Therefore, funny drawings will cheer you up.
How to draw Santa Claus with acrylic paints:
- Make the base color.
- They mix white and red colors to get pink for grandfather's face. A circle is drawn on the nail. Then it is painted over in pink.
- Then, eyebrows, mustaches and a beard are painted with white paint. This is best done in small strokes.
- After blue or blue dots are put - the eyes, the mouth can be represented with a thin brush.
- The cap on grandfather’s head is red or blue. To do this, draw a triangle, painted over the selected color.
- On top of the cap in white is a circle - a pompom. You can go white around the edge of the cap - you get a border.
- If you want shine - you can add sparkles.
It should be noted that each stage is done only after the previous drawing has completely dried.
Christmas trees
When doing New Year's manicure with gel polish on short nails, do not forget about the main holiday decoration - Christmas trees. Drawing them is not so difficult. Triangles are applied to the base color - it can be silver, white, pearl, golden -. Two or three are reduced in height - like a real Christmas tree. Bright dots can be applied to it with dots - like garlands or toys.
Fireworks
It is worth exploring the New Year manicure in advance (photo). Gel polish for short nails is not so difficult, the main thing is to choose the right theme and color. Salutes look great on short nails. The basis is better to take a dark varnish - black, burgundy, blue. On it, bright bursts of fireworks look contrast and elegant. It is certainly worth using sparkles, they will add festivity to the whole composition.
Champagne
You can also depict champagne on the nails.
To draw it, you can draw a glass with light paint on one nail, and splashes of sparkling wine on the rest with light points.
Gifts
How to make a manicure gel polish New Year's fun? On holiday, gifts can be not only under the Christmas tree, but also on the handles. To do this, on a nail, it is better on one so that it does not turn out tasteless, a box or a bow is drawn, decorated with sparkles. That's all, the gift is ready!
To depict crackers or serpentine on the nails, a certain skill or art of the master is required.
Interesting idea
However, it is not necessary to draw something specific and recognizable. It may well be abstract motifs, such as honeycombs or curls, triangles or stains. The pattern can be located both on each nail, and on one.
The design of the New Year's manicure with gel polish implies the active use of additional tools, including various nail art decor, colored sand, feathers, stripe ribbons, glitters, ready-made slider stickers or photo design. Such pictures are easily attached to the nails without harming him, and then they are also easily removed. If you want to fix the picture for sure, then you can use glue for nails. Using ready-made forms, it is very easy to make unusual New Year's beauty on your own nails!
Holographic figures look amazing in the light of New Year's illumination. They shimmer and create volume. It is not difficult to use them:
- first, the nails are covered in the base color;
- the decor is laid on the dry varnish (to do this as accurately as possible, you can use a toothpick);
- when the varnish dries, you can draw small details;
- it is necessary to fix the drawing either with a special tool or with transparent varnish.
Lace on the nails
Another opportunity to amaze others with an incredibly spectacular nail design is to make your nails lace. And for this it is not necessary to be able to draw well, you can apply various specialized tools, such as stencils. Such a template is laid on the nail, on top is a foam pad, smeared with paint. Then the stencil is carefully removed - the drawing is ready. And you can put on the glue a special lace for nails and fix it with varnish. Well, the easiest way is to use what is at hand, for example a piece of a plastic tablecloth with a lace border. A pattern is cut out from it to fit the size of the nail and is glued with nail art glue.
Conclusion
Nail design does not like excesses. If the picture is bright and filled with decorative elements, then do not apply it to all nails. It will be enough to decorate one or two, and the rest can simply be covered with colored varnish or made a subtle drawing on them.
This article describes how to make a New Year manicure, photo. Gel polish will help create beautiful nail art, it is only important to think through the drawing and do everything carefully and accurately. Then on New Year's Eve you can feel yourself the most beautiful in the world.