Today it is difficult to find a woman who would not like the calm color manicure. The uniqueness of such tones lies in the fact that, for all their tenderness, they can make the design special without shouting about it. However, these shades have their own characteristics, the knowledge of which will allow using calm colors for different bows.
Features
The calm colors of the color palette include natural, nude and pastel colors. The shades themselves can have different temperatures, as well as the degree of saturation. This allows you to successfully fit them into a particular style, taking into account the related tones of things in the wardrobe. As a rule, most of the soothing shades go well with dark contrasts and neutral colors, which include white, gray and black.
However, when it comes to choosing the shape and length of the nails, it may turn out that the same color looks completely different on the nails of different shapes. Pastel and body tones with all their nobility visually expand the nail plate and can create the effect of shortening it. Therefore, they are better suited for medium length nails. At the same time calm tones look no less harmonious on long nails.
The best color combinations
This year, fashion considers it undesirable to use more than three shades in design. At the same time calm colors will be the best background for further decoration or change of texture. Do not go out of fashion combinations here and white. Today it is considered a very stylish solution, as well as replacing the nude one with a fleshly or even pinkish-lilac.
Often, black is added to the design to emphasize a calm background. Even the laconic pattern made by him alone looks more stylish than the stained-glass pattern teeming with variegated colors. It is fashionable to combine related tones, highlighting an accent with some kind of contrast.
Everything else should not distract attention from him, and therefore the design of the remaining nails looks better in the classical technique or one of the varieties of the French.
The best color combinations in pastel, calm range can be called a combination:
- gray pistachio and peach pink;
- powdery, smoky gray and white;
- bluish and flesh;
- peach and white;
- marble and pearl blue;
- gray-blue with white and pink;
- bleached mint with white and silver.
In addition, the manicure looks beautiful, made in a combination of coffee with white and flesh shades. It is fashionable to combine lilac varnish with pink and blue with dairy. In this case, accents can be placed in both white and silver lacquer. Black print changes the mood of the design, it makes it elegant or even solemn.
Used equipment
A manicure in soothing colors can be performed on the basis of different techniques. For example, one of them is a classic. You can paint 8 out of 10 nails in one color, and for accents to choose a contrasting shade of varnish. If you do not want to use only one color in manicure, you can take two or even three, but they must be combined with each other. Look good in a classic manicure tones of a related group.
You can take as a basis the French manicure, and the accents to perform in a classic manner. For example, lace motifs will look beautiful in this design over the entire area of accent nails.No less interesting are the accents of the monogram, this print theme is ideal for light and gentle tones of a calm group. In addition, french is an excellent base for geometric designs.
A smart solution, which today declares itself as the pinnacle of design art in nail art, is to perform a moon manicure with holes in the style of geometry. Narrow triangular lunulae, extending from the base of the accent nails to the upper edge, visually lengthen not only the nails themselves, but also ennoble the fingers. Manicure looks beautiful with holes in soothing colors, when it is made using the technique of negative space or creates the effect of layering a geometric figure on the regrown nail.
Especially gently will look design in the gradient technique. Such a manicure today is considered one of the best, while it can not only be vertical. In the fashion of the transverse and even diagonal stretching of colors. The effect of the ombre can be created with the help of temperature varnish, although there is a more gentle option: the veil technique. The transition in it begins from a translucent base and ends with a dense pigment.
Design Ideas
Today, the variability of manicure in soothing colors allows you to decorate your image with the most gentle and extraordinary solutions. For example, it is fashionable to indicate in design that it belongs to a particular season or even a month. For summer, this can be expressed in floral or vegetable themes, in winter you can rely on the cold tones of the palette. Even a concise spike on the ring finger will indicate the autumn design. In the spring, icicles can be painted on the french's accent nail.
You can play on the texture of soft pastels, using different powders, each of which is able to change the texture of varnish in its own way. For example, acrylic sand can make the accent shiny or voluminous. Such powders are used to create volumetric patterns. For example, they can create the texture of a knitted sweater, paint snow, powder or even pollen, and add volume to the center of a flower.
Especially good for soothing and light tones are the so-called rubs. This acrylic powder is capable of matting light dried gel polish. Depending on the variety, it can also make ordinary pigment pearl, metallic, textile, velvety. On bright colors, it looks amazing, while rubbing it can be an intermediate element, because it is often painted on it, working with stencils, stamping and acrylic sand.
Incredibly beautiful design of accent nails is obtained when they are isolated with a special nail film. This design is called “broken glass”. Due to the light color, it looks very beautiful and really resembles shattered glass. You can decorate accents and special foil tape using special glue for it.
Nuances of decor
Ideas design manicure in soothing colors can be a lot. So that such a manicure does not lose its tenderness and refinement, it is worth considering the nuances of its decoration:
- it is not allowed to use more bright pigment in nail design;
- the volume created by multiple layers of stamping patterns in different colors is undesirable;
- looks ugly drawings in different subjects on the neighboring nails;
- it is necessary to relate the purpose of a manicure with the inner world of a woman, this is the basis of the harmonious addition of the image;
- rhinestones on accent nails are fixed dotted and metered, maximum, they can decorate three nails out of ten;
- print cloning is excluded, it is important to consider its direction on two hands;
- the less gloss, the better, more important is the bet on the nobleness of the lacquer texture, rather than shimmer and glitter fill the plate;
- hand-painted should be beautiful, inept and uneven lines spoil the look of a manicure.
It is important to take into account the perception of color and pattern.
For example, black color makes the design luxurious, but he can remove the lightness that is inherent in light and calm tones. Silver looks great along with light and delicate tones, but it looks better in the form of a contour stroke than in the form of a full fill of the nail. Multicolored flowers can bring in the design of folklore notes, one flower and without coloring will look perfect on a calm background.
How to perform a manicure in bright colors, see the following video.
