How beautiful to stick on your nails stickers on a water base?

Slider design today is considered one of the best ways to decorate accent nails. This technique is an alternative to hand-painted, it is easy to use and allows you to professionally decorate your nails in minutes, saving time for drawing. However, not everyone knows how to properly use water stickers, how to glue them beautifully, so that the design looks like it was done by a professional manicurist.

Water stickers are different from other varieties of similar decor by the structure and method of transfer to the nail plate. Each element has several layers:

• on top is a protective film;
• under the protective layer is a working film with a printed pattern;
• The picture is held on a paper backing.

It is necessary to take into account the fact that this type of stickers must be moistened correctly. You can not completely soak the picture, on its front side there should be no water. From this will depend on the strength of the coupling with the sealing layer. For this reason, experienced craftsmen do not put water stickers in a container with water. They use napkins, moistening them with water and placing the slider cut out in the shape of a nail with a paper backing on a wet napkin.

The pictures themselves are sold, as a rule, in the form of ready-made sets in one theme and color scheme. These are 10 sliders on 10 nails, moreover, the pictures are paired. Some sets are made in a round shape, others are rectangular images. Both those and others in the course of work should be cut, as they rarely are ideally suited for a specific nail plate.

They do this either with nail scissors or with tweezers, cutting off the excess slider on the sides and in the cuticle area. However, the image immediately try to cut the shape of the nail only at the bottom (at the base of the plate). The top edge is trimmed after the material is dried in a special lamp together with a retaining layer. For removal of excess use a file with a small abrasive. Cut off the excess material under the slope so as not to cut the sticker on the end.

Few people think about the fact that water stickers are all different. This is reflected in the accuracy of working with them and can both simplify and complicate the workflow. The differences are explained by the features of production. In some products, working films are thin and often break when adjusting, in others they are, on the contrary, dense, and therefore do not fit well on a rounded nail.

Among the wide variety there are elastic thin films. Due to this, they can even stretch slightly, if required by the adjustment. However, it is the thickness that often determines the type of decor: thin stickers imply the mandatory implementation of the white substrate. Dense do not need it, often they already have their own background.

Transparent versions of the sliders have a smaller thickness of the working film. Therefore, to distribute them on the surface of the nail plate is easier. However, they can be very diverse.Accuracy of gluing may also depend on the volume of the sticker. Today, all categories of sliders are divided into partial or fully closing the nail plate pictures. It is easier to work with the first, but subject to certain rules, the second can be glued very carefully.

According to the type of the picture, the pictures can be colored, monochrome, golden, silvery, holographic. At the same time, neither the color nor the type of the pattern is reflected in the quality of fixation. It all depends on the work of the master and the full observance of all steps of the slider mounting technology on the prepared base. If necessary, you can make timely adjustments, remove the folds, trim the picture.

In order to stick the slider on the nail, enough tweezers, which is useful for transferring the sticker from the paper backing, and a flat brush. For trimming excess material, manicure scissors or tweezers will be needed, a file is useful to remove extra length. It is advisable to pick up the brush with elastic pile, it will remove air pockets better than other devices, which can be formed if you mess around with the edges for a long time.

As for the materials, they are chosen based on the features of the technology. If you first perform a medical manicure, you need a device with different nozzles or a basic set with scissors, pusher and tweezers. Glue the sliders on unprepared nails should not be: they will look ugly, focusing on the neglect of hands. To keep the coating well, the glossy plates are necessarily removed from the nail plates using the buff.

For the design, you will need a base and finish coating, a non-acidic primer will be useful. That they will have to use if in the process of distribution of the sticker will fold. For images on a transparent basis, pigmented gel polish is prepared. For a dense film one base will be enough.

In addition, if the nails are thinned, you will need to prepare a strengthener. This substance is sold in bottles, like all varnish products. Its layer will allow to increase the thickness of the nails, which will affect the wear of the slider. As a rule, the strengthener has a good tenacity, it will strengthen the grip of the nail with all subsequent layers.

Beautifully stick water stickers on the nails is easy, but the work itself will require accuracy. You should also consider the nuances at each stage of technology. There are 4 options for fixing the water slider. In fact, the technique will be one, but only the type of substance applied under the slider itself will change. The base for the slider can be a transparent base, undried top, special white base and ultrabond.

Consider the basic technology.

• The base coat is applied to the nails with a thin layer and placed in a lamp for complete drying.
• The base layer on top is covered with white pigmented lacquer and dried again.
• They remove the protection from the sticker and put it on a wet napkin, face up.
• On the nail cause the base with a thin layer, do not dry. The thinner the layer, the less likely it is for the material to flow past the side rollers and the cuticle.
• Tweezers remove the working film and transfer the picture to the nail over the sticky layer of the base.

• Take a brush and distribute the picture as accurately as possible. It is advisable to adjust its size at the base of the nail before applying the sticker, because when trimming it on a sticky basis, the base material will flow out of the nail plate.
• The base with the picture is dried in the lamp. Drying time should be slightly increased to allow the material to dry completely. Otherwise, the layer will peel off very quickly.
• After that, cut off the excess material from the growing edge, cover the picture with a layer of the base, and dry.
• On top of the base, a top is sealed, and it is also dried.
• If a top with a sticky layer was used in the work, 30 seconds after drying, the residual stickiness is removed.

If wrinkles are formed on the coating, they are removed with an acid-free primer. However, this work requires special care, since the composition can dissolve the image to the ground. In this case, the brush barely touches the folds in order to remove only defects of work. If a white base is used in the work, there is no need for an ordinary transparent material. Ultrabond is good for cases when you want to refresh a manicure after a weekly wear. It is characterized by a very thin layer thickness.

Some masters have their own approach to the design of nails with sliders. For example, the pictures they give the effect of hand-painted, painting on some of the contours of images with gel paints or glitter. To make the design more interesting, they completely cover one nail with a sticker, and cut another picture. After passing through it with acrylic paints, it looks very beautiful and really seems like a professional makeup. This is a great opportunity to show the seasonality of manicure, which today is one of the main fashion trends.

You can also apply on top of the picture, in addition to paints, glitter, glue rhinestones in the right places. For decorating the image, you can use camoufooks or bouillons. You can do different designs on this basis: the main thing is to translate an image with high quality. If desired, it can be given a volume using a transparent gel or top. Someone uses water images even for aquarium manicure, securely sealing them with several layers of modeling tools.

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Harmonious solution for every day for the image of the city woman. Design with dream catchers this year is especially popular. The subject of lace or monogram leaves no woman indifferent. Elegant solution in the spirit of geometry, simplicity and ease of design.

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Gentle design of marigolds for young fashionista. Stylish design that can brighten even the most concise women's outfit.

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