Chocolate manicure: the secret of design and ideas of the season
Chocolate color manicure is considered a noble and refined. This season it is in the top ten colors of the color palette, providing for the implementation of different techniques. How to make it not only beautiful, but also modern, read on.
Features of species
Chocolate tone belongs to the brown scale, while the coating of the color of chocolate itself may be different, which is determined by the type of varnish used for manicure. For example, the design can be made gel varnish:
- matte;
- glossy;
- temperature;
- magnetic;
- jelly;
- shimmer;
- Craquelure;
- mirror.
Each type of coating has its own characteristics, which determines its relevance in a particular design. The favorites of the season are lacquer products with a matte texture, thanks to which you can make velvet, velvety, velor or even satin manicure. Such coatings are noble and give a high status to the female image. Often, they themselves become the highlight of the "bow", and with a moderate emphasis on design, they get a luxurious look.
The focus of the gel varnishes with a metallic effect, which allow you to bring in the design of the nails of the hands brightness, not annoying catchiness. The cat's eye and craquelure varieties have also returned to fashion. Today, these coatings are more attractive texture, due to what you can not only improve the manicure, but to demonstrate the depth and versatility of chocolate color.
Shimmer, pearl coatings allow to add elegance to the design without the effect of vulgarity. Glossy counterparts are remarkable in that they can be used absolutely for any design technique, including matte. It is easy to make such coatings dull using a finishing tone with matting effect.
Fashion trends
Today, fashion is favorable to the fair sex. It does not limit women of different age groups and social status, offering them to choose the best form of nails and texture of the coating. As for the shape of the nail plates, today it can be short, straightened, rounded or oval. In addition, almond-shaped nails of moderate length are back in fashion.
False nails are hopelessly outdated, today they are considered a sign of bad taste. In addition, often false nails fall away from natural at the most inopportune moment. Building up, on the contrary, is popular and allows you to create any shape on a natural basis. In this case, you can not only lengthen the nails, but also straighten them so that they do not fall down.
As for the decoration of nails, today the fashion clearly indicates that any design belongs to minimalism and lightness. No massive jewelry and volume stucco is not needed - the nails should be airy.
The chocolate color and the abundance of decor look tasteless together - there should be a sense of proportion in everything.
In the designs of the new season, the theme of geometry is traced; such designs are considered the most trending in the new season. And if earlier it was expressed in the form of geometric shapes, today in the design you can see a variety of hollow shapes with layering one on another, as well as straight lines with dots, prisms, polygons, colored rectangles,components sometimes abstract pattern on accent nails manicure.
In priority, several color combinations, through which you can make a manicure elegant, without detracting from its nobility and status. For example, you can combine chocolate color with:
- beige;
- bleached coffee;
- powdery;
- gold;
- white;
- pink;
- Marsala color;
- light gray;
- sandy;
- creamy.
Performance techniques
Classic
This design implies the complete coloring of the nails in one color of varnish. If you use a coating with a matte velvety texture, this design will look stylish, fashionable and expensive. For a classic manicure, try to choose a coating with a dense texture, completely overlapping the nail plate.
French
French manicure in chocolate tones is often accented with gold, which with a thin smile band looks quite beautiful and organic. Inverted french today resembles the contour of the nail along the contour, because it often reaches almost to the top of the nail plate. The modern jacket is asymmetric, therefore, in addition to the classic smile, it can be diagonal.
Lunar
Manicure with holes, made in chocolate tones, looks expressive. If at the same time it is performed in the technique of negative space with non-painting of part of the nail, then it also visually lengthens the nail. This is especially true for short nails. Today it is fashionable to make holes on accent nails, leaving the rest of the nails without too much decoration.
Gradient
The best modern gradient is matte in related colors. You can use several shades of brown, stretching from chocolate to light beige. To design was modern and status, you need to make the transition shades invisible and natural. In addition, it is desirable to use a matte gel polish with a velvety surface texture.
Acrylic Powder
The use of acrylic powder allows you to give the surface accent nails a special effect. Such coverage looks stylish and volume, although you shouldn’t decorate them with all the fingers: the accent looks beautiful and expressive when it is not enough. Creating a similar design is simple: powder is applied to the top layer, after which the nails are dried under a special lamp.
Broken glass
This technique is especially popular today, although with regard to chocolate color you need to know how to use it. Considering that the film looks differently on a dark and light background, it is better to decorate not the main chocolate color, but accent nails of light contrast. So the design will correspond to fashion trends, but will not shout about its novelty with a sharp shine under broken glass.
Veil
Chocolate color is an excellent tone for the veil technique. You can create the effect of capron stockings by mixing a few drops of pigmented varnish with a transparent one. Nails are covered with a new product, after which they create drawings using chocolate-colored acrylic paint, and then the nails are covered with a layer of top. Today, this design is considered one of the best and most elegant.
Decorating ideas
Decoration chocolate manicure - a separate issue that deserves special attention. The fact is that chocolate cannot be called light. To visually make it airier and more attractive, you need to carefully select the elements of decor. Today they include:
- all sorts of hand drawings and painting;
- ready stamps or stamping;
- confetti kamifubuki;
- various fixation methods and volume stickers;
- stucco and surround decoration;
- gold plating and rub;
- rhinestones and other sparkling decor.
One of the best methods of decorating chocolate manicure is drawing. However, it is relevant only if done professionally. Small contrast laces on a dark brown background look incredibly delicate and beautiful. This design is considered the best today.
If drawing is a daunting task, but I want to place beautiful accents, you should look at the stemping. Today, it is in demand more than ever and allows, with a minimum amount of time, to bring in beauty in the design of nails, a special mood. In addition, due to the thin lines of the pattern, the design acquires lightness and airiness.
Stickers that you want to decorate a chocolate manicure, harder to pick. The fact is that today design tends to be seasonal. The subjects of the pictures should be related to a certain time of the year. The dark background color makes it difficult, because it is difficult to attribute it to winter or summer, as well as to combine it with rich or, on the contrary, cold colors of the color palette.
However, there is a solution: the drawings can be made in one color to match the chocolate or its contrast. It can be floral motifs, geometry, silhouettes of animals, faces, cats, birds, plants, leaves, ears and snowflakes. Stickers can be supplemented with single rhinestones.
The secret of a successful design is to choose an image and its color harmoniously with the basic shade of chocolate.
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