Inlay nails with stones and rhinestones

Women have always liked how to create a luxurious atmosphere around them, and to decorate themselves in every way. The fashion for a flashy luxury these days has not been able to circumvent the trends in manicure - decorating nails with bright crystals and sparkling rhinestones can be called a real fad.

Most often, rhinestones made of glass or plastic are used as pebbles for a memorable nail design. Rhinestones look like valuable valuable stones due to the effect of transfusion on their faces of electric or natural light. One side of the rhinestones has a certain number of edges, and the other is flat for easy gluing. Properly designed manicure with such elements will look expensive and elegant.

Varieties of stones that are used by modern masters of nail art:

• rhinestones (imitation stones);
• natural precious gems;
• Swarovski rhinestones - the best imitation of jewelry.

Making rhinestones with well-groomed nails is far from being the option that suits girls, who often subject their nails to serious effects. But to use this kind of shining decor for the holiday is quite acceptable. Today, in special stores, you can choose any pebbles or crystals that mimic the luxurious brilliance of diamonds.

With the help of rhinestones, masters make every possible decor, image, and pattern. Stones are completely different in appearance, size, color. And often, the type of attachment to the nail and the number of jewelry that you can choose when creating this shining magnificence will directly depend on the shapes and sizes of the rhinestones.

The most popular types of inlays with such decorations.

• Lines or viewed contour. This is the most simplified, but very beautiful type of manicure design. Rhinestones laid out a line along the nail in one row or repeat the line of the moon.

• Lines or contour with gaps. If you lay straziki not one strip, but at certain intervals, you can get the original effect. In addition, with this decor you can cover the entire nail area with the least amount of rhinestones.

• Coating in the form of a grid. Several lines are laid out in order to get a grid-like covering. To hide the errors in the coating, you can use the smallest rhinestones in the gaps. This type of coating is just for beginners - it is simple and fast.

• Coating in the form of honeycombs. One of the most common types of coatings. Each successive row of crystals should move up to half the size of a strazik and firmly press against the nearest crystal, forming the shape of the cell. There are no gaps between the decorations.

• Coating in various sizes. This coating uses rhinestones of different parameters, which are placed randomly on the nail, and sometimes with a certain regularity. The positive side of this coating is the ability to use any form you like.

• Covering the minimum number of rhinestones. 1-2 strazika in the field of holes is quite enough for a monochrome design, and for a more complex type of decoration. This option is suitable for nails of any length, and high-quality imitation of a real diamond will make your image more catchy.

• Making rhinestones on the edge of the nails. This design will emphasize the almond-shaped or pikoobraznye nail shape, and the "ballerina" will give an elegant extravagance.

• Twisted stripes and diagonal decoration with crystals. This is a fairly new type of decor in nail design, here rhinestones can be glued not only at the edges of the nail. Especially brave women combine this design with Chinese painting and voluminous decoration.

• Floral print and pebbles. Strasics can represent pollen of inflorescences or dew drops on leaflets, providing a 3D effect to the decor. This is a low-key type of modern design, which nevertheless attracts widespread attention.

• Bows from monochrome rhinestones. They are suitable for French and for one-color design: nails with this decor have a romantic charm, but only if it is in moderation.

Nowadays, rhinestones are made in a huge assortment so that any girl can easily create a decent design for her nails. For example, you can take crystals from Swarovski - these are rhinestones that create bright diamond play and expensive diamond shine. You can always get very small straziki to create a shining, expensive scattering on your marigolds, select different patterns and all sorts of lines with their help, decorate original curls and strict ornament.

But using large rhinestones, do not overdo it, otherwise your nails will look rough or even gone. Products of medium parameters can be applied on 1-2 pieces on one nail, and large stones - as the only element of the entire decor.

Rhinestones can also be distinguished by the shape: there are round crystals, in the shape of a square, a triangle, a rhombus. In one type of design, crystals of the same type and similar colors can be used. That is, if you need to create an original pattern with round translucent strazikami, you should not combine black crystals in the form of a square with them.

According to the material, rhinestones can be produced from glass (expensive versions) or from polymeric materials (lighter, cheaper), which will allow creating a practical manicure. Proper inlaid crystals of various types of marigold will allow you to create the most stylish and creative design.

Today the most popular rhinestones of three well-known manufacturers - This is the Austrian company Swarovski, the Czech company Preciosa and the Egyptian manufacturer Asfour. They all produce rhinestones of crystal, but their products are different colors and quality of cut. The best rhinestones with a rich palette of colors are Swarovski. The second place in this ranking is Preciosa.

The main difference between Swarovski rhinestones from competitors' products is their rounded shape with a certain number of faces. They produce such crystals only from the best glass or crystal, which is why they are so expensive.

Thanks to the original technology with which stones are processed, they will shine, as if a real diamond glitter, and other manufacturers of crystals are not able to repeat this effect, because each face will create a noticeable glare effect. There are rhinestones and in the form of a cone, so you can insert them into the extended nails, in which a through hole is made for this.

The price of Swarovski crystals is quite high, because the jewelry is made from high-quality raw materials, they are processed using a special patented technology, which gives these products a special shine, luxurious play with sparkles when the light beam falls on the products.

To create a chic manicure with rhinestones, you will need:

• special adhesive composition or thermostrases - pebbles that already have an adhesive base;
• the base to cover and your chosen varnish;
• tassel and ordinary wooden stick, small tweezers, which will allow you to gently lay out your favorite pattern;
• the finish that will make firmly just created manicure.

For starters, it is best to contact the nail salon, where an experienced master will tell you how to fasten straziki or crystal correctly. You can view photos or videos from the master classes, after which you will learn how to decorate the decor you like.

Crystals can be fixed on the nails with special glue. It will be possible to purchase those crystals, on the reverse side of which there is already a good adhesive composition. If you do not have the necessary means for fixing the stones, then you can choose a normal transparent lacquer, a good basis for lacquer or a special fixer that will hold the strasis or stones on the nail plate as much as possible.

To fix the rhinestones on the nails from acrylic or gel, you need to choose a special adhesive composition or gel polish, on the dry layer of which the crystal will be attached. Also, it can be mounted on a dry finish. When the varnish is dry, you can again put on the pebbles or rhinestones fixer.

Some rhinestones have the shape of a cone, for a sharp tip of such products a hole is made in the accumulated nail - you need to insert a crystal into it.

If you want to stick rhinestones to your nails, then you should definitely try such high-quality rhinestone glue gel like Bluesky, Dotting gel, which was designed specifically for this kind of decor. This glue gel is convenient to apply to the nails with a dots or a small brush. He instantly fix very textured decors with strass of any size, while providing manicure not only beauty, but also amazing durability. The gel is distinguished by density and plasticity:

• it will surely “hold” a drop and not crawl along the surface of the nail;
• will give excellent traction with any surface of the nail;
• well will keep all sorts of stones;
• dries under the lamp, but drying out under the rays of the sun, can quickly thicken;
• will not change the color of the coating;
• economical and perfectly suitable for use both at home and in the cabin.

1. First you need to do a basic manicure or design of your nails.
2. Next, a through hole is made in the edge of the nail (as for piercing). The hole is carefully adjusted - it is shaped according to the parameters of the crystal.
3. A gel is placed inside the hole and a pebble is immediately inserted. Then the nail must be placed under the lamp to dry the gel. The edges of the stone during these manipulations should remain clean and not clouded, gel drops should not remain on them.
4. The nail is covered with a transparent base and gently dried. The nail surface of the nail in the area of ​​the stone is leveled.
5. The manicure is completed by applying a finishing varnish.

The principle of inlaying small pebbles is the same. But here you do not need to make a hole to insert a stone, it is fixed on the nail with a special glue and covered with a transparent coating on top.

Nail design with artificial stones is perfect for holidays and evening prom. They can be used either one by one or they create catchy pictures with their help.

To learn how to inlay rhinestone nail, see the next video.