Lunar manicure: design details and methods of coating

Moon manicure is considered one of the best nail design techniques among modern women. Today, he is especially fond of fashionistas for being overgrown with various variations of design and allows you to bring notes of refinement and aristocracy into the bow. However, each season brings with it something new and special that makes the design fresh and original. What are the surprises of fashion, what is now relevant and how to get into the center of attention regardless of style and status, will tell the material of this article.

Lunar manicure someone considers a kind of jacket. They call him Diorov, because he owes his popularity to the great Christian Dior, who found him incredibly tender and feminine, returning him to the image of models. Externally, the nail, made in the technique with the holes, has a clearly marked moon. If at the French, in addition to the background, part of the regrown nail is emphasized, then at the moon manicure the main background and the hole at the base of the nail are contrasted.

The hole can be semicircular, triangular, symmetrical, asymmetrical, and also fantasy. In each case, its shape will depend on the shape of the nail plates, the length of the nails, the nuances of the design and its subject matter.

For example, today a hole can be not only a contrast to the main background. Often, moon manicure is performed in the technique of negative space. This means that part of the nail is covered only with transparent varnish. The well made in this embodiment creates the effect of a regrown nail. This gives the appearance of the extension of the nail plate. In addition, the hole can be not only single, but double. It looks beautiful with a thin secondary handle.

Today, regardless of fashionable corrections, there are no special restrictions on the shape of nails. However, experts believe that the perfect moon manicure looks on the nails with a narrow nail plate. At the same time, they note that the best length is considered to be medium or moderate. In addition, the popular natural natural or even short length. She will be fashionable some more next seasons.

In order for the moon manicure to look beautiful, it is important to choose the shape of the edge based on the characteristics of your nail plates.

Almond nails are back in fashion. The asymmetry is today considered ugly, and the diagonal cuts of the edge will visually distort the manicure with the holes.

Trying to return to the fashion stilettos with their characteristic long and sharp edges. However, today they do not fit into fashion trends, which emphasizes naturalness and femininity.

Modern moon manicure is notable for the versatility of design. Today there are plenty of opportunities for decorating nails, ranging from the choice of coverage and ending with precious decor.

Sometimes a bet is made on the high cost of texture, in other cases, luxury is created by means of sparkling crystals.The choice of the best design depends on the preferences of the client and the sense of taste of the master.

Sometimes when she sees a beautiful design on the Internet, a woman wants to recreate it, and therefore she goes to the master with a ready-made solution. However, fashion is quite capricious, and what was fashionable yesterday, today may seem tasteless.

For example, now in trend:

• allocate the cuticle area with rhinestones of different sizes, while using mostly small elements;
• decorate the hole with a nail foil of a different type, selecting the desired shape and width;
• create the illusion of a grown nail by working in the negative space technique;

• use the original effect of layering the moon pattern on the background base;
• work with two, and more rarely with three different techniques, making the moon manicure combined;
• decorate marigolds in the “Sweet Bloom”, “Powder”, “Veil”, “Broken Glass”, “Wet Design” techniques;

• build up the nails with two different materials in color, refusing the patch plates;
• use for work the seasonal theme of design, indicating that it belongs to a particular season or even a month;
• perform manicure accents on the ring fingers, accentuating them with a contrasting color, pattern, specific technique, powders, unusual texture.

Today it is considered indecent to decorate all the nails with the same pattern, or vice versa, to perform a different pattern on all ten nails of the hands. This approach to design is outdated, moreover, with all the desire, he can not claim to be expressive. Given the fact that the nails will be decorated with holes and so, to add accents and their design should be approached thoroughly. Sometimes the design of the holes is already self-sufficient and does not need variegated rivalry.

However, there are some nuances here: if a drawing is taken as a basis, it will look better on a plate painted completely in one color. Depending on what the shape and size of the hole will be, the design may also have the subtle smiles in the color of the pigment of the holes inherent in classic french.

Manicure can also be semi-lunar, oval, reverse french. Today it’s super cool to create a design triangle hole. Narrow holes located from the base to the upper edge of the nail plate seem particularly stylish.

There are unspoken rules that guide the experts in the field of nail art. Since the moon manicure, in contrast to the classics, already has a pattern, it should be decorated correctly. The abundance of decor or its inappropriate location can add to the design weight and diversity, which is especially bad for a gentle and elegant manicure with holes. To create a beautiful design, you need to know a few tricks by experienced craftsmen.

For example:

• the wells on all fingers should be the same;
• You can focus on nails with holes rather than complicate your nails with a different design;
• to use for the design you need no more than three or four shades of the color palette;

• when choosing a volume accent, all other nails should not have a pattern at all, while laconic staining of the holes with white or light color is allowed;
• when choosing a geometric design, its symmetry on the nails of two hands is extremely important;
• accents on a monophonic background will look beautiful if the holes are made in a contrasting color on a solid or powdery basis;

• stylishly look holes with a classic, with each hand may be two;
• If the design is performed with two holes on one hand, it is better to make them with no ring or middle finger.

To soften the contrast of shades, one of the accents can be made in a bright color, the other - in a light softening. At the same time, the print area on one nail may be larger than on the other. The game of contrasts and pattern will allow them to look more harmonious. If you want to use a stucco pattern in design, it is undesirable to divert more than one nail under it. Sometimes instead of stucco will look better contrast texture or its unusual effect.

Moon manicure can be bright and creative. However, creativity should be achieved through a professional approach to design.

Using the same stained glass technique with coloring small elements with multi-colored pigments will be more like a child's coloring than something stylish. The same pattern, created with the help of stemping, but without coloring, will look on the accents of the moon manicure better, if not simplify it with different pigments.

Creating a beautiful design, you need to take into account the shape of the hole. If it is a triangle, you need maximum simplicity - it can be placed on a round or oval shape. For a round hole there are nice patterns for lace, mehendi, sexy themes. Glamor can also be created on top of a solid base. For example, wells can be made with small rhinestones or even simpler - with points of a contrasting pigment, using dots with different nozzles.

To date, color decisions will depend on the specific purpose of the manicure, as well as the very image of a woman. Also important will be the clothing and accessories in her wardrobe. The best choice of colors can be shades related to certain things.

The most harmonious solutions include combinations of shades of pastel group. As a rule, they complement the image more gently, can fit into most of the images of women of different age groups and, more importantly, are suitable for different styles of clothing. They are perfectly combined with tones of a neutral group, which allows you to add elegance, lightness or notes of luxury to the bow.

At the same time, due to the variety of coatings and clothing styles, you can complement your bow with manicure in muted and noble colors, as well as neon and LED variants.

Luminous types of coatings - one of the trends of the new season, which will surely please the representatives of youth subcultures. In general, the most harmonious and stylish options can be distinguished from the rich list of color variations.

For example, combinations of the following will become stylish combinations of colors for a modern lunar manicure:

• red wine and white;
• yellow and bleached beige;
• green and black;
• pink, black and gold;
• peach and blue;
• blue and silver;
• blue and black;
• purple and silver;
• marble and gold;
• powdery and white;
• marsal and pink;
• fuchsia, purple and silver;
• burgundy and peach;
• white and yellow-orange;
• blue and pink;
• pink and turquoise;
• white and purple;
• white and lilac;
• powder and black;
• emerald and gold.

In addition, the light tone of lemon is in fashion today. Even laconic semicircular holes of such a tone on a solid basis, together with a black pattern on accents, will look very tender. Popular and combination of neutral tones of the palette. In this case, the holes are more often white, made on a black background. They will look beautiful if you perform a background manicure for imitation of a gradient, using translucent black lacquer and sealing it to the upper edges of the nail plates.

Apply the moon pattern on the nails in different ways. For example, with confident movements of the master it could be a hand drawing. This is how accent nails are drawn up, draw laces on them, draw lines, make contour strokes, vertical stripes, which are further decorated with rhinestones or kamifubuki. For the wells in this case also use a thin brush. By the way, it is precisely to her that they paint on the unpainted areas of the nail plate at the base of the nail, giving it greater accuracy.

An excellent tool in the design of the lunar manicure are disposable stencils. Today they are distinguished by a variety of patterns and shapes. They can even make fantasy prints on accents of moon design. In addition to stencils, you can resort to the use of nail strips of different widths and shapes.

An alternative to strips is foil tape. It is also inexpensive, convenient in that it can be used both as an auxiliary template and as a permanent decor. Foil tape today is different in width, can have a different texture of the front side. He looks in the design of the manicure with the holes beautifully and elegantly.

When you need a fantasy hole, resort to the use of stickers and stamping. Stamping involves stamping. This is a set with ready-made metal plates having engraved drawings.

A lacquer is applied to the plate, distributed with a scraper, removing excess. Then the pattern from the plate is removed on the roller, and from the roller - on the nail. The inconvenience of stemping is the fact that it is difficult for them to make identical holes, even with a lace pattern.

Transfer stickers are convenient because they can be adjusted until the base (top) applied for fixing is dried. Such sliders can have angular and rounded grooves, due to which even on a solid-colored nail you can create a lunar design. And if you stick a sticker with a notch under the hole on the nail with a moonula, which contrasts with the main background, it will enhance the contrast of colors.

Decorating a moon manicure, be it a lunar or semi-lunar version, is a creative and fascinating process. Not only will a master not offer his client new embellishments that will emphasize the uniqueness of the design without negating his status. For example, today it is fashionable to use powders with different effects in design. Some of them give manicure accents a volume or unusual texture.

It can be as options with sparkles, and flock powder, which allows you to give the nail texture of felt. This decor looks unusual, but it is specific, has a large fraction of particles, and therefore is rarely used except for winter design. Summer as a manicure with the holes can be decorated with so-called acrylic sugar or sand.

A very interesting type of material is rubbing. Today, this powder has a lot of varieties. The same powder at the same time creates a completely different effect on pigments of different colors. For example, one rubbing in black color can make it mirror-like, the other - chrome-plated, the third - holographic, the fourth one will add color with modulations that resemble the shell of a May-bug. White pigment can be made matte, pearl, rainbow, holographic.

Powders are used for seasonal design. For example, for winter and New Year, flock powder is good, rubbing with the effect of holography.Beautiful and delicate manicure for the summer can be done with pearl dust. Summer design can be made with the effect of mother of pearl, rubbing in this plan is better than a shimmer varnish. It is also convenient because you can paint over it, glue a different decor.

In the salon, the master performs a hardware manicure. This is what stops many women who want to learn how to do design at home. However, today there is nothing impossible, and therefore you can buy the device in a specialized store or use the usual manicure set of manual type. If there is no apparatus with attachments at home, it is worth preparing a basic set:

• pusher for pushing and lifting the cuticle, trimming pterygia;
• nail scissors;
• tool for removing excess paint with rubber tips;
• nail file for shaping;
• soft grinder or buff;
• drying lamp.

If instead of drawing you plan to use stickers, it is worth preparing a container with water to remove the paper backing of the sticker. If it is necessary to select the wells with dots, prepare the dots. In addition, the work will need:

• oil for softening the cuticle;
• manicure wipes;
• degreaser;
• primer;
• amplifier;
• pigmented varnishes (for background, hole and pattern);
• base material;
• the finish.

The decor is prepared on the basis of design features. It can be kamifubuki, rhinestones, crystals, rubbing, stickers, foil in the form of tape or tape, film for broken glass technique. In addition, you may need a gel-type glitter for gold or silver.

Design with holes create in different ways. Making it at home is easy if you follow the instructions explaining step by step the main stages of work. Always the preliminary stage of manicure is the removal of the cuticle and pterygia. In order to less traumatize the skin and it is easier to remove all the excess, fingers are immersed in warm water for about 10 minutes. After they are wiped, they take a pusher and remove the pterigium. Raise the cuticle and cut it with nail scissors.

To the process proceeded without skin injury, use oil to soften the cuticle. After the nails give the desired shape, it is necessary to remove the gloss from the nail plates. To do this, use a special soft grinder.

Next, you need to remove the remnants of sawdust, for which you can use a degreaser. It also removes oil residues that can cause poor adhesion of the nail with subsequent varnish products. At this stage, the preparatory part ends and begins the stage of decorative manicure. Prepare varnishes, top, base, lamp, decor, patterns and brushes.

First, you can apply an amplifier to the nails. In addition, it will increase the tenacity of the material with the nail, it will make the nails thicker, which is especially important for thinned nails that are prone to brittleness. Apply the material to a thin layer, after the nails are dried in the lamp.

The base material is applied to the dried coating and dried again in a lamp. The base is applied with a thin layer, otherwise it will not hold well, and it will be able to stick over the cuticle and side rollers. After the base, the nail is covered with pigment and dried in the lamp. If necessary, the pigment can cover the nails twice: a manicure will look better when the pigment is not transparent.

Next, take the templates for the wells. For example, it may be variants of a semicircular shape. They are glued with a sticky side to the base of the nails, without pressing into the pigment, but trying to ensure that the template does not have voids in the edge.After that, take a contrasting lacquer and cover it with the upper part of the nail, without touching the one that is covered with a template.

After the nails are covered with varnish, immediately remove the templates. Only after that the nails are dried in the lamp. If you do not remove the stencil and first dry the gel polish, then remove it without spoiling the manicure, it will not work. After drying the pigment, take the top and seal all previous layers with it. Top coat dried. So the option without decor is carried out, it is the main equipment.

If the manicure is performed without templates, the technology remains unchanged, only instead of stencils they use a brush, which is also used to designate the hole itself. If you need triangular patterns, but there is only manicure tape, it is they who make the triangles at the base of the nails. Rhinestones are glued to a layer of undried top, like kamifubuki. However, if kamifubuki can be covered with a layer of top, then the rhinestones from this lose the beauty of their luster. The secondary layer of the top should not cover them.

When you need to decorate the nails, after the second pigment proceed to decorating. For example, if stickers are used for accents, a top is applied, a transparent protective film is removed from the sticker. Then it is lowered for two or three seconds into the water, the paper backing is removed and fixed on an undried basis, straightening from wrinkles and choosing the right place. Next, the design is dried, sealed with another layer of top and re-sent to the lamp.

The following video shows 3 simple methods of moon manicure.