We are all accustomed to the different shades of pink, which dominates the design along with the classic colors - black, gray, white. However, in recent seasons, a tendency to shift toward purple hues has become apparent. Pink is still held at the expense of either its pastel tenderness, or due to cyclamen showiness. But if the brightness of purple is much more difficult to achieve, then a gentle, romantic manicure can be done without a pink color. Just turn to the lavender shade.
Who is suitable?
Violet color in the past was firmly associated with monarchs, nobility, power. At the same time its light shades, rather, cause a feeling of tenderness and vulnerability, but at the same time, the hardness of character. Still, purple, even with a high content of white remains itself - mystical and domineering.
If we consider lavender in the context of the color type systemit turns out that he is one of those successful and rare cases where the shade is suitable for almost everyone. Even “warm autumn” perceives lavender well, especially if it is slightly darkened and paired up with a rich dark color (for example, purple, dark gray-blue or marsh).
In the minus lavender comes except a bright winter - in her case it is better to take a white or more bright lilac shade.
Lavender - a great solution for a romantic style, dates, walks, everyday manicure. Such a light shade will perfectly fit into an office style, especially if you also wear a tonal blouse and use a matting varnish coat. But for the holiday manicure lavender will be the way - here you can already turn around in the choice of design with its use.
Flower design
The name lavender shade is obliged to such a plant as lavender. Her flowers, collected in high narrow bunches, are distinguished by their coloring in soft lilac tones and pleasant aroma. This smell inspired perfumers at one time, and now much of the perfume from different companies contains lavender. And thanks to the perfume bottles of lavender, which were designed in the appropriate color, shade and became widespread both within the perfume industry and beyond.
Until spring is still far away, but the flower ornament in manicure is always relevant. And the first thing that comes to mind in this case is the flowers of lavender. They are also easy to draw by hand. You can also draw a whole brush or a bouquet in a schematic version. White lacquer will help to depict the bright middle of the flowers, and green - the leaves of the plant.
The latter can be taken almost any color - dark or light, it all depends on your preferences.
In order not to paint on the nails, and make a manicure quickly and accurately, you can pre-purchase special stickers or tips. Due to the popularity of floral prints, you will not have problems finding lavender stickers.
If lavender does not attract you aesthetically, you can use images of other colors. Violets, bells, cherry blossoms or a tireless classic - roses, all this can be reproduced on the nails without much difficulty.
Ombre
One of the most popular manicure techniques this year is Ombre. Take lavender, white and pale pink lacquer, as well as a small sponge or cosmetic sponge. Apply on the sponge lacquers tightly adjacent to each other in strips so that the resulting pattern corresponds to the size of the nail plate.It is best to even take the size with a margin - so that when applied to the nails there are no gaps. Varnish is extremely simple - you need to attach the sponge to the nails.
All excess lacquer that fall on the skin when performing a manicure can be removed with a cotton swab dipped in a nail polish remover.
You can also purchase a special pencil for this purpose - it is much more convenient and safer than cotton buds, as it leaves no sticky hairs, and there is no risk of accidentally spoiling the manicure on other nails.
Coating options
There are no restrictions in the choice of design - the main thing is to correctly combine colors and textures. It is interesting to look patterns of dark purple lacquer on a lavender background. It can be baroque curls and shells, geometric lines and shapes, and the like.
An interesting and stylish look is a painted cage a la fabric for a shirt. To do this, you will need not only lavender lacquer, but also purple and white. With this combination you can also make simple stripes, horizontal or vertical, or a multi-colored polka-dot pattern. It is a well-known, even rows of small circles on a plain background. They can be made in one color or alternate several.
You can also use foil - in the form of plates, geometric shapes or stripes. Purple foil on a lavender background will look especially impressive. Both shades will show themselves in full force, harmonizing well with each other.
Another trend of the year - lavender bear. These are not the famous Me to You, but very similar in design plush toys that TianDe sells. Their peculiarity is that they are filled with real lavender, which publishes a pleasant scent. These bears have become so popular that they have already moved to the design of other areas, including cosmetic. But Me to You has been popular among romantic girls for many years, so such gray bears on a lavender background are also a good option.
They can not only draw, but also to mold on the nail plate. For this there are special polymeric materials - gel or solid acrylic. They are very strong after solidification, so you can not be afraid for durability. At the same time a variety of colors and the ability to paint the work with any acrylic paints allows you to do everything that comes to mind.
It can be not only bears, but also flowers - volume leaves of lavender or roses on the surface of nails will look gorgeous.
Combination with other shades
Whatever type of manicure you choose, you should always remember that some colors are well combined with each other, and some - not very. Wrong selection of the palette is fraught with the fact that one color will “eat” another, or they will look too bright and vulgar.
Lavender is best combined with white and other pastel shades - yellow, pink, blue, green. Among the suitable colors:
- Violet;
- dark green, marsh, olive;
- salmon;
- cherry;
- dark blue with a gray subtone;
- color wet asphalt.
But with the gray is to be careful. If you leave the duet of lavender and gray undiluted, you get a visually monotonous gray mass - and this is not the most pleasant thing for the human eye. It is best to dilute them with some bright colors. For example, green. This can also be attributed to the gray-purple and mint - a combination with them also must be diluted.
You should not rely on the white color - it, too, is likely to be eaten by the neighboring flowers. For dilution you definitely need something bright, unless, of course, you initially plan to do a discreet manicure. Otherwise, on the contrary, you can use these colors.
It will be interesting to look and lavender pattern on a black background - it will look very impressive and elegant. Especially if you take a glossy black and matte lavender.
Learn more about how to beautifully decorate lavender manicure, you will learn from the following video.
