Multi-colored manicure: tips on combining shades and nail design

Multi-colored manicure attracts girls and women because of its diversity and versatility. This design is combined with any wardrobe items and accessories. Young girls can combine bright, flashy colors. An elegant image can be created using a combination of calm, pastel colors or shades of a single spectrum. It is important to understand the rules of color combinations - then the ideal design will be easy to create at home.

Multi-colored manicure allows you to use many tones on one nail. Choose 2-4 colors and combine them based on the selected design.

Main advantages:

• the design is universal and can include both soothing colors and bright;
• suitable for everyday life and holidays;
• can be combined with a different decor: from rhinestones to sequins;
• You can make such a design yourself - it is enough to have the necessary materials;
• Multi-colored manicure is suitable for women and girls of any age and with any preferences.

In order to make a manicure in different colors at home, you can use a dots or an orange stick to draw colored dots. For the lines suitable brushes of different thicknesses. It is more convenient to use a tool with synthetic fiber - then the strip will be neater. You can simply stick some areas of the nail with adhesive tape, and apply varnish on the free part with an ordinary brush from a bottle.

Despite the large list of positive points, a multi-colored manicure can cause such difficulties:

• the acquisition of a large number of colored varnishes is a rather expensive business;
• some types of design require additional materials and skills to work with them;
• from the first time such a manicure may not work - colors on the nail plate may mix;
• manicure takes a lot of time because each color needs to be dried separately.

Multi-colored nails will look interesting and harmonious only if you can properly combine varnishes. There are special principles of color combinations that will help you choose materials for design.

• Monochromatic combination. The design uses shades of the same color from less saturated to more saturated or vice versa. Most often used calm, pastel colors. This combination will help create a daily multi-colored manicure.

• Complimentary combination. This method involves the use of contrasting colors. Use the color wheel to choose shades and pay attention to colors that are opposite each other. Bright color manicure attracts young girls.

• Triadic combination. You should use colors that are at the same distance from each other on the color wheel. Usually in nail design shades are applied, which are located in 1 or 2 sections. Such a manicure combines harmony and light contrast.

• Achromatic combination. In this design, black, white, gray is always present. Colors are perfectly combined with each other and they can be complemented by other shades. This three-color manicure is quite simple and looks calm.

Multicolored manicure should be harmoniously combined with your appearance. Simple recommendations will help to avoid ridiculous situations.

• In the trend of non-standard colors in makeup. You can combine shades on the nails with shades on the face. In manicure, you can combine all the necessary colors: from black mascara to red lipstick.
• Get fun accessories with colorful stripes. This may be a handbag, shoes, hat. Make a colorful manicure with stripes of the same color.
• If your wardrobe is full of colors, then take these colors for nail design. For a harmonious image it is worth refusing stones and other decorative elements.
• If you do not like clothes in a colorful design, then choose one primary color that will be present in the wardrobe and in manicure.
• Make multi-colored nails not only on your arms, but also on your legs. This image is great for summer.

The types of multi-colored manicure are so varied that the range of ideas can be lost.

• The easiest way is to use wet equipment. Apply a base color (usually white) to your nails and, without waiting for it to dry, put colored dots. They will spread, and you will get an interesting and unique design.
• Multi-colored manicure in pastel colors is suitable for everyday life. Such design is appropriate for study and work. You can stick large-sized rhinestones on the cuticle and conditionally divide the nail plate into three strips. Paint each part in different colors. The design is quite simple and elegant.

• You can make a multi-colored French manicure. Just draw a wide line not in the usual white color, but in several bright shades. Stripes can be made both vertical and horizontal. You can use a silver decorative ribbon as an additional decor for a colorful manicure in soothing colors.
• To create a color manicure, use not only varnishes, but also decorative elements. To create a festive New Year's manicure, you can take colored stones and make an imitation garland. You can make a moon manicure with your favorite color and decorate it with colorful rhinestones. So you will create a bright accent and an interesting unique combination. At the same time, the main nail covering can also be made multi-colored.

• You can use multi-colored sparkles and pigments on one nail. When using pigment, you should cover the nail with white lacquer and add material to different areas. It is appropriate to use sand to create an ombre (gradient) design. This technique involves the use of many colors that smoothly transform into each other. With the help of colored decor you can embody bold ideas.
• Bright accents on the nails can be arranged without decor - it is enough to use contrasting colors. You can use several pink tones and complement them with orange. This design will look juicy and bright, suitable for spring-summer.

• Original looks rainbow manicure. Take a thin thread and varnishes of all the required colors (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, blue, purple), apply the tone in thin lines. As a tone, you can use white or light blue, the color of the summer sky. You can use the technique of drops. Then you get a rainbow effect when it rains.
• Multi-colored manicure with holes is very popular. The hole can be arranged with a triangle and traced with colored lines. Actual use of pastel shades. Another option is a colored nail with a classic transparent hole. The nail itself can be decorated with multi-colored dots using dots.

• Using dots in color manicure looks stylish.This design is easy to perform at home. Colored dots can make ethnic ornament on a black background. You can choose a national drawing. Think over the design in advance to place the points in the right places.
• Gradient dots make it harder, but the appearance of this design is admirable. Need to take or make the right amount of intermediate shades. Dot so that the color goes from bright to delicate. Properly selected picture will emphasize the shape of the nails and visually hide the flaws.

• Another interesting trend is the color stripes on the nail. You can combine thin and thick lines. Use contrasting colors and match them on each nail in the same order. You can change the location of the lines (horizontal, vertical, diagonal) and their size.
• Geometric designs in a multi-colored palette are quite diverse. You can draw squares, circles or triangles. Color stars on nails are very popular. Such a manicure can be performed in bright or soothing colors and even in the gradient technique.
• A more complex option - drawing color image on the nail. More often used images of fruit, cartoon characters, emblems and the like. First, draw a picture on paper and think about its location on the nail. Paint immediately with colored lacquers or first draw a black outline, and then paint.

Beautiful colored nails can be done at home or with a specialist. For inspiration look at interesting design options.

• Divide the nail into segments with chaotic black lines and color each zone in different colors. This design can decorate one or more nails. Choose contrasting shades - so the manicure looks more interesting.
• Color nail puzzles - an interesting idea for a young girl. Contrast rich colors or delicate shades can be used. Paint the contour in black and fill in the rest with varnishes. You can decorate all the nails with large details or draw small details on several nails.

• Manicure with cartoon characters looks bright and interesting. The familiar Little Mermaid with her friend Flaunder will cheer up even on the rainiest day. A more simple and discreet option - Winnie the Pooh. This design will take less time and will be admired by others.

• Fans of superheroes and comics can draw emblems or paint nails under a certain hero. The choice of design depends on your drawing skills. Such a manicure will inform others about your passion. So you can look for like-minded people.

• Color manicure can be issued for a specific holiday. New Year's design is very popular. The combination of colored lines and sequins looks elegant and impressive. It is very easy to make such a manicure even at home.
• Design for Halloween can be quite interesting. To create a pattern using white, black and yellow. Web, pumpkin and black cat are symbols of the holiday. The design itself looks pretty elegant.
• French manicure can be decorated with a beautiful color line and complemented with colored squares of different sizes. This design combines the versatility and brightness of a multi-colored manicure.

How to make a multi-colored manicure with your own hands, see the following video.