When the design of manicure is preferred to the dark tones of the color palette, the issue of decoration must be approached thoroughly. This is due to the fact that too light and eye-catching contrasts can create a visual imbalance, simplifying the nobility and status of a manicure. How to achieve harmony in the design and decoration of dark manicure, read on.
Nuances of color solutions
Dark shades of a color palette differ in perception from light analogs. If the latter fill the image with lightness and lightness, and also suit almost all articles of clothing in the wardrobe, dark tones oblige certain images and style. They especially need the expressiveness of the design, because even the slightest search of the decor will affect not only the appearance of the nails, but also the onion as a whole.
These tones are not suitable for all age categories of women. As a rule, they are chosen either for evening additions of the image, or as a way to attract attention. It is difficult to call them suitable for very young girls. Of course, it looks beautiful on the models and covers of fashion magazines, but in everyday life is perceived differently.
These are mature, juicy and sensual colors that are difficult to fit into teenagers onions., even if their outfits are related colors. This palette includes black and blue, purple, chocolate, maroon, maroon, emerald black, dark gray color palette. At the same time, each color can differ in temperature, rendering it warm or cold. To save the tone from the visual effect of gravity, you have to beat the design with different techniques, complementing the appropriate contrasts and decor.
Performance techniques
Consider the possibilities of visually refining a dark manicure, due to which it can be made more appropriate in the images of women of different age groups. It is important to understand that this will be a kind of brighteners or emollient paints, due to which the dark color will be perceived softer and more tender.
If we consider a classic manicure, then it needs more than others accents that distract attention from a dark background. To make a dark base more expressive, you can use, for example, a rub. It will allow you to take a fresh look at the depth and beauty of the color used, forcing it to play in different modulations. No less interesting will look the coating with a metallic effect, if you decorate them with accent nails of dark manicure.
A softer design looks like a gradient technique, made with a smooth stretch from dark to light. This design is suitable for all, without exception, modern women. It looks especially harmonious if it is made in the related shades of the color palette. Designs of snow-covered type, which use acrylic powder, are filled with femininity and harmony.
In addition to the usual dressing, this powder allows you to create different decorative elements. It is often used for classic manicure, performing on the surface of the accent nail plates lace patterns and imitation of frost patterns, snowflakes. And if on top of this pattern is also silver, then the grim basis of manicure will look very different, getting the missing lightness.
One of the best techniques designed for dark tones is the “veil” or “nylon” design. No light coating can convey the beauty and airiness of a translucent design with a delicate pattern, as do black, purple, dark blue and velvet-burgundy tones of the color palette. And this design is suitable for both mature women and young girls.
Nuances of decoration
Decorating a dark manicure is a creative task, allowing you to show a sense of taste and style. If someone says that it is impossible to think of anything better than rhinestones and stones for dark pigmented coatings, then this is a profound error. There are plenty of possibilities for decorating accent nails to make dark tones more expressive and elegant.
However, it should be noted that the rhinestones and crystals can contribute to the decoration of dark manicure. Only now, if they are not dosed, they can even make an expensive and effective design cheap and vulgar. Any composition consisting of a scattering of stones and rhinestones, covering almost half of the nail, has long been considered a sign of bad taste.
If you want to decorate your nails with rhinestones, they are better to perform a small arc near the cuticle area or to mask the joint of two contrasting tones. In addition, you can use them as single accents. An alternative to rhinestones are kamifubuki, with which you can give a different emotional color to a dark manicure.
One of the best methods of decorating is hand painting. On a dark background, it looks especially expressive, adding shades of tenderness and grace to the design. This is what changes the perception of design and allows you to decorate the nails of young women. The best drawings on a dark background are laces, as well as flowers, made a shade a few shades lighter than the original background color.
By the way, the middle of the lace flowers are ideal places for fixing small rhinestones. The main thing is that there are not many of them (two tiny spangles will be quite enough for one accent nail). In addition to floral motifs, you can decorate a dark manicure with an ornament in a geometric style. In this case, you can choose different shapes, perform their french, lunar design.
Beautifully look pattern on a dark background, made of silver lines with white contrast. Light contrast can also be added to silver in a tone related to the main pigment. For example, chocolate manicure can be decorated with beige stripes or peas, straight and hollow triangles. Marsala color can be decorated with light powdery contrast and silver.
Manicure with the use of foil adhesive tape is considered no less expressive. This decor allows you to perform traditional french, decorate the accent nail plate with transverse or vertical stripes, create complex geometric patterns. Even one strip on a dark background is enough to make the design look more impressive and expressive.
Alternative to drawings
Dark manicure can get a different look if you decorate it with a stamping. This type of decoration is made of metal plates with an engraved pattern of various subjects. As a rule, the stamping is distinguished by the accuracy and clarity of the lines of the pattern, often it consists of the smallest details assembled into a single composition. Unlike the picture, this decor is flat and thinner. On the nails, it looks soft and beautiful.
Remarkable is the fact that stamping can significantly reduce the time for drawing a pattern. It is applied using a contrasting lacquer and roller, which is rolled on the accent nail. As in the case of hand drawings, stamping also provides for the decoration of the pattern. To do this, you can use the smallest kamifubuki, rhinestones, or simply dots, painted with gold, silver.
Dark-colored stickers have to be carefully selected.so that against the background of the main varnish they look harmonious and appropriate.Beautiful options in related colors that adorn the accents of design. Such decoration manicure today is one of the best. Recently, roll-type sliders have appeared that have a transparent substrate. They fit perfectly on the pigmented layer and make it possible to add lightness to the design of hand nails.
Tricks of the masters
There are techniques that allow you to pull out even the most concise manicure. It is also important to know the mistakes that make when applying nail dark color. For example, any design stands out against a dark background. But if there is a lot of decor, even a stylish solution with a noble texture of the coating will turn into a variegation without expressiveness and taste.
You can not decorate a dark coating with all the colors of the palette at the same time. It is important to dispense a number of contrasts, as well as avoid unacceptable color combinations (for example, combinations with acidic and toxic tones, literally cutting over the eyes).
If you want to create a special and status design, you can experiment with the contrast of matte and glossy textures. For example, the middle and ringless nails can be painted with a matte pigment, and the rest - with gloss. On two accents with a matted finish, you can depict stripes: for example, on average, several vertical ones on the side. On the ring finger is to draw a strip crosswise and decorate the place of their connection with a rhinestone or crystal in the form of a small rectangle (imitating a buckle).
When performing a manicure design, try to take into account one rule: the design of accents on one hand should not be completely the same. This is not only ugly, but also deprives the decor of the status, because everything unique is unique. Yes, the subject of drawings or other decor can be similar, but not copying each other.
You can create on the basis of the classic design just one accent on each hand, following two nails, for example, in the technique of the gradient diagonally. By adding a white color to the stretching of tones, you can get an elegant and stylish design. At the same time, no other decorations are needed: the white color will bring premium notes to the design better than a complex print.
Even a pattern of contrasting peas in a lunar design, set by the dots on the nails of the ringless fingers, will “pull” the dark base, giving it a delicacy. If you want a knitted texture, you can use a modeling gel or flock powder. Whatever the decor would be chosen as the basis for decorating nails, please note: what is not so noticeable on a light background will be noticeable on a dark one. Before fixing the decorative element, attach it to the dark background of your manicure. Sometimes it helps to avoid design mistakes.
Choosing a darker contrast to the dark color of the varnish, do not forget to soften such a combination with a light shade. It should not be much, but two dark colors can make the design more visually difficult. Sometimes even three rhinestones or kamifubuk circles can change the perception of dark duets for the better. Tones should be selected for each other so that they do not compete with each other, and therefore it is worth shading one with the other with texture, combining, for example, gloss and matte, shimmer and matte, powder and gloss.
How to make a dark manicure with your own hands, see the next video.
