Manicure with the image of juicy fruits and delicious berries is ideal for decorating nails in the summer. However, no one can restrict you if you want to make such a design in the fall and even in the winter. Fruit and berry platter on the nails, of course, will give the image of any girl brightness. The great advantage of fruit design can be called the ease of accessibility of its embodiment with their own hands.
Features
The main distinctive feature of the manicure with fruit and berries is the use of a combination of bright colors. Such a design will not go unnoticed by others, besides, looking at your nails, you instantly feel a charge of energy and a sea of positive.
This type of manicure will be your highlight. And you can choose any fruit for the image, since their range, which will look good on the nails, is quite wide.
Another feature of food design is what the base tone should be discreet and monotonous, so that the fruits and berries are visible on it. It happens that both the base and the fruits depicted on it have saturated colors. However, this design looks somewhat defiant. In order not to turn an exotic design into bad taste, it is necessary to observe the measure.
To nails in fruit design did not look vulgar, it is enough to paint one or two fingers. The femininity of the owner of the fruit and berry nail design will give a design using berries or fruits of one type (maximum - two).
Decor with fruit overwhelm very unusual, bright, bold. He will not allow to remain unnoticed, so this design option will not work for work in an office with a strict dress code.
Color spectrum
If you are planning to create a berry design with strawberries, cherries, raspberries, blackberries on your nails, then choose the colors characteristic of this fruit in real life. If you plan to issue nails using the French manicure technique, you can use several options.
- The tip of the marigold is decorated with a traditional white stripe, and the remaining area of the nail plate is made of berry or fruit painting.
- The tip of the nail can be decorated in a bright fruit and berry theme, and the rest of the nail surface is covered with colorless varnish.
If in the design of marigolds you use sliders, they can be applied on a transparent or colored coating. Moreover, the color of the base tone can either coincide with the color solution of the stickers or be in contrast with it.
The trend of the season is a combination of several bright colors in fruit manicure. Nail design with juicy fruits and berries involves the choice of monochromatic items of clothing or those that are similar in tone.
On the nails, you can combine both fruits and berries at the same time, the main thing is that they should be made in the same color scheme.
For example:
- red apple and cherry;
- green apple and grapes and others.
To create a bold and bold image, it is recommended to combine contrasting fruits and berries. Harmoniously in fruit manicure two shades of one tone will look. One will be used as a background, and the second - for drawing a fruit or berry.
Design Ideas
The most catchy and eye-catching design for nails in fruit design will be strawberries. She will add coquetry and seductiveness to her owner (especially if it is an image of strawberries with cream).At the peak of popularity in nail art, burgundy and juicy green shades. Proceeding from this, the design of nails of ripe cherries on a dark or white coating will look important.
Decorating marigolds with a berry theme looks attractive and relevant at any time of the year. The same applies to kiwi. Thanks to rich colors, nails with this fruit look very catchy. Relevant design with watermelon, apple, lemon, lime and orange slices, with bananas.
You can decorate marigolds and fruit platter. This is especially true for those who can not opt for one or another fruit. Perhaps the presence of a fruit mix on all fingers, and you can “devote” each fruit to each fruit. This design will look great. All kinds of fruit and berry combinations look original due to their juicy contrasting shades.
At the peak of popularity is now the design with fimo. This technique involves the creation of bulk fruit designs. Fimo is a small stick that resembles a regular pencil. Its basis is polymer clay. In length, it can reach fifteen centimeters. To create a three-dimensional fruit pattern, nail art masters cut it into thinnest slices, which are then fixed on the nails. An interesting feature of fimo is that they not only imitate the color of a particular fruit, but are made in an identical form with it. For example, in the form of watermelon, kiwi, banana, apples, strawberries and others. If for some reason you do not want to create a manicure with a 3D effect, then the sticks can be cut very thinly, with almost flat plates, fixed on nails and sawed a little.
Another fashion trend of the season - glitter fruit designpoured over basecoat. They are perfectly combined with bright fruit design and add juiciness to manicure. Fruit manicure with rhinestones will look very creative.
A black and white stripe, monochromatic coating of an ideal white color or ivory shade will be suitable as a background for the fruit. Against such a background, a sliced orange will look very unusual. But it is possible to portray the whole fruit. All sorts of berries look advantageous on a white lacquer: strawberries, black currants, blackberries, cherries, raspberries. Strawberries with bananas drawn on a white background will look like a sweet dessert with ice cream.
All fruits can be depicted in whole or in section, one per nail or in large quantities.
Lemon print looks very interesting. It can be whole lemon leaves with bright-green leaves or slices of this fruit. Lemon looks original on a soft green and light pink decorative varnish. You can draw lemons hanging on a branch or even a whole lemon tree.
Pineapple nail designs are in great demand. It is usually assumed the image of one whole fetus on the area of the entire nail plate. Since the pineapple has a light brown color, the lacquer of bright colors can be used as a base for it: terracotta, emerald, yellow, purple. Smoky shades, such as gray, can also be a great backdrop for a fruit like pineapple. But then the contours of the pineapple are outlined in bright color. Alternatively, many bright miniature pineapples can be painted on a smoky-dusty base.
The design of the nails in small watermelon slices, placed in a free order over the entire area of the nail, will look stylish. To give the raisins to the "watermelon" nail design, it is recommended to draw a whole fruit on one finger and pieces on the other finger.
In the fashion of purple, and, respectively, and pictures of all fruits and berries in this shade: plum, blueberry, blueberry.
More restrained design of fruit nails can be created by drawing pink-orange peaches on a pinkish or snow-white basis.This design looks very interesting, but not catchy.
Original look bright fruit, painted over black decorative varnish. It is important to choose the fruits and berries of precisely bright colors so that they do not merge with the dark base. You can create a tropical mix of papaya, pitahaya and passion fruit on your nails. These fruits themselves are quite extravagant.
Classic fruit nail decoration - the image of apples in whole or in section. At the same time, you can combine fruits of different shades.
How to do?
It is quite simple to make a manicure with fruit on your own; the main thing is to carry it out slowly, step by step, in accordance with the instructions.
You need to start with the preparation of nail plates. They are given a suitable shape, level and polish the surface, correct the cuticle. Before coating the nails degrease. Fruit design will look beautiful on the nails of any length, but the nail art master recommends giving preference to medium length nails.
Then apply a colorless or translucent base. It is required to put several layers. You can start drawing fruits (lemon, kiwi, passion fruit, watermelon and others). Each drawing is created in several stages.
First, the hole is painted with colored lacquer, and then - neat lines are drawn with a thin brush. Then the hole is decorated “under the crust” according to the type of fruit: on citrus and watermelon — white varnish; on Pitaihay — pinkish. Then you need to hold another strip, identical to the color of the skin of the depicted fruit.
White lacquer to draw the contours of the slices of citrus. If a kiwi is depicted, then with the help of white and black gel polish its heart is formed, corresponding to the fruit in real life. To do this, from the moon to the tip of the marigold spend a few stripes. Black gel polish is used to depict points. They can be made with a thin brush, toothpick or dots. In the same way, small black dots are placed in the core of the pitahaya, in the watermelon they should be made slightly larger. Realistic fruit will add water droplets.
After creating the pattern, the entire surface of the nail is covered with a top. It will help the figure to remain in perfect condition for a long time. If you doubt your abilities, in the process of creating a fruit manicure, you can not paint the nails, but stick the appliques with fruits or berries.
Beautiful examples
A fruit manicure with apples of two shades on a nude basis looks interesting, but restrained, so you can even wear it to work in the office. The nail does not depict a whole apple, but only its half with a tail and a leaf. Since the fruit adorns the tip of the nail, according to the technique of execution, this design resembles a French manicure.
The design of the marigolds is monotonous, soft yellow lacquer and the decor of the ring fingers half-peeled banana on a white background looks very warm and gentle. Thanks to the clear black lines that draw the fruit, it looks very realistic.
Such a manicure is suitable even for an evening out. The main background is light yellow, and on it is laid out with golden foil pineapple, the tail of which is filled with small rhinestones. In order that the fruit does not merge with the base tone and slightly lifted above it, the outline of the fruit is drawn in white gel polish.
One of the trends of the season is watermelon manicure. It can be made in the current technique of moon manicure.
For this, the hole is covered with green varnish of two colors with the characteristic color of the watermelon peel. The main part of the nail plate is covered with the color of red flesh with black bones. Gold glitter applied over the pattern gives the effect of "sugar" and festivity.
Nail design with juicy fruit is presented in the video below.