Purple manicure: specific colors and fashion ideas

Lilac color has a lot of shades in its spectrum: from light spring lilac to deep purple hues of the southern night. Why not use all these beautiful tones in manicure? We will try to reveal in our article a few secrets about nail design with lacquer varnish.

The origin of lilac (aka lilac, purple, violet, etc.) is due to the fusion of two primary colors - red and blue. Experimenting with the proportion, adding a little more red or blue, you can achieve a lilac color of varying degrees of coldness. The cold tone of purple (violet) means the predominance of blue, and warm plum - the advantage of red tones.

Purple manicure prefer natures restrained, but knowing their own worth. Gentle lilac tones are suitable for romantic girls, and royal shades of plum for status ladies. However, this does not mean that you need to adhere to stable stereotypes. Lilac color is the true color of femininity, it is relevant in clothes and accessories for several seasons, and the nail industry also follows fashion trends. Completely purple manicure or its purple accents are so diverse that each representative of the beautiful half of humanity should try them on to her image.

Before “putting on” your little legs in the purple tones of lacquer, You should be familiar with the general principles of purple manicure.

• The colder the tone of the violet varnish chosen, the paler the skin should be. Purple color is more intended for the cold season and for girls of the cold type of beauty.
• Lilac palette will be appropriate for long and short nails, however, you need to take into account the intensity of the selected tone. For dark, saturated tones of a varnish short, small length nails more approach. On long nails dark varnish sometimes looks too extravagant.
• So that the saturated shade does not stain the nail plate, you first need to apply a basic base of a transparent color.
• The form of nails with such a manicure should be perfect; a purple manicure will accentuate any flaw in the form.

The times when women applied one tone of varnish on all nails are a thing of the past. In the fashion now use several compatible colors. Purple color in manicure can and should be combined both with calm pastel tones, and with such bright and saturated ones, as well as violet itself. Among the classic and always current combinations can be noted tandem purple with pink, beige, black, white lacquer. A combination of yellow and lilac (dark or light), green and mint shades with violet will look bright and bold in summer.

The manicure, in which amethyst and turquoise tones, purple and emerald, plum with gold or silver, will be unusual, festive and precious. A very trendy design of a gradient manicure (with a smooth transition from one tone to another) can be created by combining lilac with light pink, crimson, and purple. But if you do not want to experiment with different colors, you can choose a certain tone of purple, and use its matte, metallic, powdered or glossy version on one hand as a highlight.

A variety of ideas and manicure options in purple design excite the heads of nail stylists whose fantasies have no limits. Look at the classic options and the latest innovations of the season.

• Intricate painting. To create a mixed manicure of white and lilac lacquer, you will need to cover your nails with white lacquer, then, dipping a brush of lilac lacquer into the removal liquid, draw a curved line resembling a sprig of a tree. There will be a mix of white and purple varnish. To top it off, you can add a few dots in white. You can also take a blue tint and experiment with drawing lines.

• Create unusual purple orchids two tones of lilac varnish will help - darker and lighter. On nails covered with a beige, white or pastel-pink base, with a edge or in the center it is necessary to apply a large light lilac drop. Apply it should dotsom, but if it is not, fit a cotton swab or a round tip of the needle-pins. Then from the center of a large drop we put dark-purple drops of smaller diameter in the form of a flower.

• With dots - a nail tool that helps to create drops of different diameters, ornate lines, petals and flowers, you can come up with a lot of purple manicure options. In this technique, it is customary to apply a base color to the entire surface of the nails, and then decorate droplets and lines with varnish of a different tone. So, on a plum shade coating, droplets of golden or silver varnish will look great. In this case, the shape of the drops can be varied from large to smaller or change their location: only on the edge of the nail or on the hole, in the form of a triangle. At home, the dots can be replaced by an ordinary ballpoint pen, pencil, and invisible hair.

• Clear line lovers in manicure you will need an adhesive tape to translate the geometric pattern on the nails. Adhesive tape can stick on the nails in different versions: to divide the nail in half diagonally, across, in the form of triangular edges and even a square in the center. For maximum effect, you can use two or three contrasting shades. It can be lilac and white with mint-green or yellow, turquoise and eggplant, black and violet, etc.

• Rub for manicure. An unusual mirror effect creates the so-called rub for a manicure, which can be created in purple design. It will not be difficult to buy a rub in the modern beauty stores, and you can apply this wonderful powder yourself at home. The main thing is to choose the base, in our case it is purple or purple gel polish, as well as to rub in the desired grinding and the final cover-top (opaque or glossy if desired).

• French in lilac style suitable for every day or for the office. The edges of the nails can be decorated with a square "smile" or oval. Stick a stencil of the desired shape with a scotch tape onto the painted-up (amethyst, light beige, pink) nail, and after drying, paint over the edge of the stencil (black, blue or white or dark purple lacquer). The “inverted service jacket” will also look original when a “smile” at the base of the nail is painted with a contrasting color using a stencil.

• Create a gradient manicure with smooth transitions at home, you can do it yourself, using a regular sponge. On it in parallel put strips (overlapping each other) of two or three tones of lacquer, combined with each other. With a sponge, the picture is imprinted on the nails, while in order to avoid skin prints, you need to glue the skin around your fingers with adhesive tape.

• Stamping Manicure will help create any desired pattern or pattern on one or more nails. For painted nails with a base coating of dark or light purple tones, you need to print a special manicure stamp with a pattern or pattern.A lacquer in a contrasting tone from the base lacquer is applied to the stamp; gold or silver patterns on a lilac background will look great.

• Edging or circled manicure. Its essence is in coloring the nail around the perimeter in tone, contrasting with the main one. To make such a manicure in lilac design, you should paint your nails with the main lacquer of purple tone, wait for complete drying, then make a contrast accent with a thin brush in the shape of the nail. Colors choose any, the main thing, their competent selection. If desired, you can make a full fringing and brush over the entire nail, repeating its shape, but you can leave the fringing only on three sides around the perimeter of the cuticle. For the upcoming holiday, ornaments in the form of rhinestones will be useful in such a manicure. Remember that manicure should be decorated with rhinestones in moderation, only one or two nails.

How to make a manicure with edging, you will learn in the next video.