White color is very popular among many girls and women. He personifies purity and freshness, and therefore always occupies a leading position among other shades. In Europe, women prefer white at the top of the social ladder. This color is much more often used when creating clothes and various accessories. It fits almost everything, and is easily combined with other tones. To summarize, white is very practical. But is it practical for creating nail design? In this article we will find out which manicure designs can be created with the help of white lacquer.
Features of design
Most of the fair sex believes that white manicure is very romantic, and is absolutely suitable for any image. And if you add a few decorative elements to it, then the most ordinary-looking design can be turned into an elegant, fashionable and extremely beautiful manicure.
Often, nail service masters apply white lacquer as the basis for creating designs with different colors or French manicure, which is very popular at all times. Yes, at the moment you can create a French manicure, doing without white lacquer, but the beloved so-called classic jacket without white is impossible to accomplish.
Often girls have a monochromatic white manicure, but even more often you can find nail design with white lacquer, which is complemented with various colors, patterns, symbols, rhinestones, sparkles and many others.
When creating a nail design with white lacquer, you must consider all the nuances of its application.
- It should be understood that the white color is rather “heavy”, and it is better to purchase quality varnishes of such a tone from verified manufacturers, even if they are much more expensive. White varnish low grade nails will look very unsightly, leaving translucent spots, which will help get rid of that only multi-layered application. Because of this, the varnish will dry in two - three times longer, which is very inconvenient.
- Manicure with white lacquer should look perfect. The slightest scratch, rubbing or chipping on the nails will be noticeable, and it is better to update the manicure immediately.
- White color is the lightest tone, and therefore you need to understand that if the nail plate is not even, white lacquer will emphasize this, which will significantly reduce the tidiness and beauty of the manicure. To avoid this, nails should be sanded before applying lacquer, and for best results, apply a clear lacquer, the so-called base, for a more even application of lacquer.
- Manicure white color often prefer to do on the nails of medium length and any shape, oval or square. But if you want to make an interesting design with the addition of drawings and other elements, it is better to do a manicure on long nails.
Manicure techniques
Perfect application of white nail polish requires good technology. Here are some simple rules that will help to make a white manicure with high quality and beautiful.
- Be sure to shake the bottle in order to mix the pigment.
- The brush on the neck of the bottle must be wrung out from yourself.
- After the brush is pressed, there is a drop on it. This drop should be put on the area next to the cuticle, and then open the brush, pushing it closer to the cuticle, but in no case finding it.
- Pull the brush to the free edge.
- If you go with a brush from the previous stroke, it is better to hold it to the left, and if from the central one - to the right.Seal the butt, and repeat the same steps on the second layer.
The technique of applying soft and dense varnish is different. When applying a soft varnish, the brush should practically lie on the nail, and the varnish should be applied by movement “through the air”. This method helps to avoid ugly stripes from the brush. It is better to apply a dense varnish at a 45 degree angle to the nail. Also, when painting the nail, it is important to ensure that the varnish does not flow under the cuticle, otherwise the entire layer will have to be removed and applied again.
If you follow a number of these simple rules, you can avoid a lot of trouble when creating a design with white varnish. The technique of applying varnish is quite easy to remember, you only need patience and confidence in your abilities. At first, you need to be more careful, attentive to every little thing, let it take you more time first.
It is better to immediately pay attention to quality manicure than repaint nails over and over again.
Color combinations
It is worth noting that the most common combination of white varnish with black or red. These three colors are considered the most popular when creating beautiful designs. But there are many interesting variants of manicure and with other colors, for example, green and yellow, purple and lilac.
Nowadays, monochromatic coloring is very popular - a manicure in two tones of different colors. Due to this, the nails look very unusual and interesting. For example, earlier green lacquer was rarely used when creating manicure, especially in combination with white, but today the green color is quite relevant.
This tone wins, among others, with its stylistics, which is perfect for both summer and winter season. This color will appeal to all fashionable women who like to experiment with bright colors. And green lacquer is unique in that it has many pleasant shades, such as emerald, malachite, herbal, watermelon, menthol, marble, azure sea or bottle matte. The combination of such colors with white will be a beautiful design manicure.
No less popular is the combination of white with yellow. Yellow varnishes, like green, have an incredible amount of shades, from light lemon to poisonous orange. And in combination with white, yellow can be both auxiliary and leading color. The yellow shade looks good on both short and long nails, but still it can be found more often on longer nails, as girls like to come up with various manicure designs with this color, and they need a little more space.
And it is impossible not to draw attention to how harmoniously the combination of white with lilac and violet tones looks. These pleasant shades are considered cold, but if you make nail designs with a similar palette in the summer, no one will suspiciously consider the result, on the contrary, everyone will admire the unusually beautiful and romantic design. In purple and lilac color hundreds of different shades.
Currently, French manicure is considered to be very popular, using precisely lilac and white, rather than the classic pale pink. These colors look very tender and feminine.
The gradient of white with purple or lilac is one of the most popular manicure design options, besides making it does not make any difficulties, you will need only a sponge or a piece of an ordinary sponge for washing dishes.
Drawings and patterns
In manicure, of course, the main role is played by color. But if you need to make a really beautiful and unusual design, then you just can’t do with a monochromatic coating. When creating an interesting manicure, various decorative elements such as rhinestones, stickers, as well as drawings and patterns come to the rescue.
One of the most popular designs of white manicure is a manicure with gold splashes. On white lacquer golden patterns look extraordinarily beautiful and elegant.
Classic design is a white manicure with black patterns and drawings. Here you can give free rein to fantasies, ranging from simple black dots to various ornaments and hieroglyphs.
Rhinestones and pebbles on white look great. Currently there are a lot of them, in beauty salons you can find both transparent and multi-colored elements. Since the white color can be easily combined with any other color, for the design with rhinestones, you can choose any color you like, and at the same time the manicure will look harmonious.
There are many manicure designs, where the drawing is made of rhinestones and stones, while the entire nail, in particular, the ring finger, is covered with rhinestones. In the case of short nails, a single pebble or rhinestone is enough on one or on each nail.
Someone loves everything at once, and someone prefers minimalism. And this is not bad at all, because low-key drawings or hatching with the thinnest thread look very stylish. To create a minimalist design, a hair brush is suitable. This brush is the thinnest of the existing ones, and with the help of it you can draw a pattern or a drawing in any chosen color.
The choice in terms of drawings and patterns is really great, given that the design will be made on a white background, to which almost any color will do. It can be a color not only of additional varnish when dyeing nails, but also a shade of various drawings, stickers and rhinestones.
Beautiful examples
If we talk about the classics, then we can safely say that white in combination with black is a win-win option for both everyday and for exit manicure. These two most popular colors together form a stunning tandem that will suit any fashionistas. Do not think that white and black - boring colors. There are a huge number of options for white and black manicure, the design of which causes true delight. Here are some examples of great craftsmen’s ideas.
No less beautiful, and, moreover, refined, can be called a combination of white and red. A trio of white, red and black, with the addition of rhinestones or stones will make your nails flawless.
As mentioned earlier, almost any color will look perfect with white. There are incredibly many options for a beautiful combination of white and green. Many girls and women are inclined to believe that green is still more of a seasonal color, summer. But here are examples of a beautiful winter, New Year's manicure.
And here is the bright summer manicure, with stunning patterns, drawings and colorful rhinestones. A very popular among girls is the gradient and rubbing of green into white. Looks really great.
There are so many ideas for creating a stunning white manicure design for the rest of your life, even if you change the design every day. Nowadays there are several dozens of shades of white themselves, so what about the other colors that will complement the white design of your nails. And, of course, we must not forget about the various elements of decoration, which are also full of its diversity.
How to make a manicure in white, see the following video.
