French Manicure Design Options

French design is a classic manicure. Appearing 40 years ago at the request of one of the directors of Hollywood, he still maintains a leading position in the design of nails. However, each nail season makes its own adjustments to the design of the jacket, and therefore those who are important to be not only beautiful but also modern, should read the material of this article. We dwell on the fashion trends and design options of the French manicure, which give the modern woman.

French manicure today is divided into two main types: traditional and reverse types. In the classical version, the basis of the technique is a nude or body-pink background. A smile that imitates the contrasting color and width of the growth edge of the nail plate becomes the decoration of the design.

As for the reverse french, it is a mirror reflection of the usual French design. His smile is located at the base of the nail, in the area of ​​the cuticle. This species differs from the moon manicure in that the handle of the inverted French follows the contour of the base of the nail bed. At the moon manicure, it is opposed to the growing edge.

Today, French manicure should strive for naturalness and femininity. This is the desire of fashion, which is confident in the need to emphasize the feminine and maximum simplicity. Fashion trends tend to minimalism, which can be created by dosing decor elements and the number of accents. As for the variegation and unnecessary complexity, the design of the jacket with its decoration of all ten nails is now considered boring and spoils the whole aesthetics.

Fashion draws attention to the fact that the abundance of accents deprives the design expressiveness. She clearly indicates that, ideally, two out of ten nails are enough. So the background will be noticeable, and accents will attract the attention of others. If the fingers are covered with decor, the eye will not cling to anything. If two accents are not enough, you can add two more to complete the design, but no more.

Determined and places accents. The ideal option is the accentuation of the nail ring finger. If for design ideas need more accents, they are performed on the adjacent nails of the hand (middle fingers). This design looks more aesthetically pleasing and balanced than a manicure with accent nails of the thumbs or little fingers.

Should dominate print on one nail. The second emphasis should be his support or a modest addition, which is a link connecting the design with the main background of the French.If, for example, a drawing is chosen as the basis, on one of the nails it can occupy the entire area of ​​the plate, on the other - only a small part of it. At the same time, support should be performed in a single theme. You can not combine incompatible.

It's time to pay attention to the texture. It is she who is often lost under the abundance of inlay, it is this that can simplify the design, making it vulgar. In the new season, the arrangement of sparkling decor should be well thought out. To make the french look feminine and elegant, to place rhinestones or crystals, opals must be pointed, carefully choosing the places for them, taking into account the features of the print or design composition.

Taking into account the specific time of the year - the current fashion trend, which offers to pay attention to the choice of certain images and decor in connection with the season. For the summer, they are certainly insects, all kinds of beetles, butterflies. In winter, you can recreate frost patterns on french accents, draw snowflakes, powder a smile edge, imitating snow. In autumn, you can turn to the subject of the harvest, decorate your nails with a design with ripe ears, colorful leaves, raindrops. In the spring you should look at the idea of ​​awakening nature. These may be early birds, sky drawings, snowdrops, first dandelions.

French available to all, without exception, the form of nail plates. However, this season, fashion has already decided its favorites. The championship got the shape of a rounded or soft square. Today, such nails are super popular, they allow you to realize French design by combining it with any of the currently known manicure techniques. In addition to square nails, almond-shaped marigolds with a rounded tip are popular. And also in the fashion oval shape, which is recognized as universal, suitable for any design and length.

More recently, short or ultra-long nails were in fashion. Today, nail service professionals call the best average length, as it allows not to limit the choice of colors, as well as convenient in everyday life. The ideal length of the plates is one whose free edge of the nail does not exceed 0.7 cm. This is enough to give the upper edge any shape.

We are accustomed to high-quality hygienic manicure and do not think at all about its varieties. Fashion also offers its fans a gradual transition to the uncut method of sealing the cuticle. This method is good because it minimizes skin trauma and reduces the risk of burrs. Such marigolds look well-groomed even after two weeks from the moment of hygienic manicure. This method has already received high praise from professionals.

Fashion believes that it is time to abandon the false nails. They are inconvenient not only because in most cases they do not fit the shape of the arch to their nails, but also bounce off at the most inappropriate moment. Moreover, such nails look unnatural. However, if the question is about building up, then today it has become very popular. These nails are in trend, french on them is strong and durable.

The design of a modern manicure should be special. The times when women decorated their nails with completely identical drawings have sunk into oblivion. Today, the drawing should not be repeated exactly. Rotation, tilt, a separate element may differ, but the figure itself should not have clones. This is not only ugly, but also simplifies the design of the jacket.

Fashion offers those who resort to modeling nails, look at the volume jacket, made in the technique of aquarium manicure. In a wide smile, which is peculiar to such a design, there is enough space to accommodate a different and sometimes unusual decor. Along with glitter and sparkles, such nails are decorated with dried flowers, tiny shells and even sifted sand. From above, they are sealed with several layers of simulator.

When performing french it is important to understand that nails with a smile should prevail in design. However, it can be very different (traditional arc-shaped, in the form of two triangles superimposed on one another, in the shape of a heart, a wave, a zigzag, a zipper). Sometimes a manicure smile and a laconic. However, this is necessary in order to highlight the accent with a stylish and expressive design.

It may also be a smile, but only of unusual shape. For example, it can be made in the form of lace curls with a line that surrounds the smile area. However, if the design provides for the combination of a jacket with any other technique, for the expressiveness of accents it is better not to complicate the shape of the regrown edge. A smile in this case should be as simple as possible.

Accents can be done in the techniques of classic, moon manicure, ombre, broken glass, veil, powder. As for the classics, it will be the basis for any design. You can paint on a single-colored nail, on a plain background you can glue stickers, nail film, cut into pieces, foil, rhinestones or other sparkling decor. In addition, the painted nail can be enriched with powder material, choosing from a large assortment the desired option, taking into account your own preferences.

In trend combining french with gradient. In this design can be done in different ways. For example, a gradient can be used as a background for a French manicure, fulfilling a smile over a smooth stretch. French manicure will also look beautiful if the gradient is the basis of the accent nail.

In addition, the gradient can be formed as an independent figure by running a stretch inside it. It can be a triangle, square, circle, oval, polyhedron. Another fashionable solution will be a French ombre with a stretch of shades from nail to nail. Such a design is performed by monotonous coloring of the nails in a related color range. The tones are chosen with a slight difference in order to create a smooth and beautiful stretch of shades of the same color. Smiles on the nails at the same time should not complicate the design.

Nail decoration is comparable to art. Its capabilities may be limited only by master skills. Consider a few current ideas that fashion offers in the new season.

Such decoration is created by using powder, bouillons or acrylic sand. Depending on the type of substance, the technology of working with it will differ. In one case, it will be possible to simply sprinkle the nail with a sticky top on it with acrylic powder or broths (microbis). If you want a more delicate decoration accent french, you can put on a painted nail any pattern and sprinkle with a plate of powder. After drying and removing all the excess on the nail will remain a beautiful pattern.

It is possible to decorate a french manicure with fine fraction powder - rub. The material has a lot of varieties, they can be decorated with accents and all nails. At the same time, he will easily replace any pearlescent lacquer, since it has a more lightweight shimmer. Rubbing on the nail of the ring finger can be used for further decoration. It is on it that you can put pictures on top, and then sprinkle them with acrylic sand.The most fashionable powders of this type today are the options “mermaid”, “northern lights”, “may beetle”.

You can decorate the nail of the ring finger with mica flakes, which are rubbed like a rub. In addition, these flakes can be used to simulate a french smile, whether it is a traditional or reverse version of the French manicure. Shades of such material are variable, while the effect of flakes can create completely different. For example, the less they gain on the applicator and rubbed, the more chaotic and original they look.

This design looks unusual and fresh. At the same time, the nail service professionals also use stickers, masking them as art paintings. Aqua stickers are an excellent substitute for hand-drawing, they are easy to use and significantly reduce the time for the design of the service jacket. However, they can be the most diverse, and therefore with their help you can not only close the entire area of ​​the accent nail, but also depict a fantasy smile, which is very fashionable today.

When performing design on the ring finger, you can use the lacquer of the same color but different texture. Say, you can cover the accent nail with a matte gel polish, then take a thin manicure brush for painting, type a glossy varnish and perform a simple lace pattern. This design will look very beautiful and expressive. You can gloss all the nails, except the plate on the ring finger. You can simply paint it with an unusual texture (suede, velor, satin or velvet).

On the nail of the ring finger will look beautiful shackle of small rhinestones or crystals. In this case, it can be located symmetrically or asymmetrically. Sometimes the inlay is used in the form of a diagonal or it fills any design element of the accent nail plate. You can glue this decor on the same slider design, if you can find a suitable place in the picture. Let's say it could be a bug’s body, an elongated body of a dragonfly.

If the design is designed art painting or alternative printing, one nail design will not be enough. It is necessary to designate one main accent, but here you will not be able to do without the support that will link the print to the main background of the service jacket. In this case, two adjacent nails are left under the design and do not complicate them with a smile (you need a plain monochrome surface).

For example, you can draw a large print on one accent, taking up almost the entire area of ​​the plate. It can be an owl, a cat's head, a leopard, a large butterfly. The second nail can convey the mood of the picture, supporting the theme of the print. In the case of an animal image, a leaf of an exotic tree can become a support. If the choice fell on a bird, a feather can be painted on a neighboring nail.

A chic version of the embodiment of something extraordinary will be watercolor technique. Such design is created by art water-based watercolors, which are sold in tin tubes. The technique needs buffing (treatment of a painted and covered with a top of the nail with a soft grinder). Such images look easy and unique.

A transfer foil can be used to decorate neighboring nails, combining it with an aqua sticker. In this case, use for decorating accent nails can be detachable foil with gold or silver. By the way, it is foil that today is considered the best type of decor for a reverse french. If you want to highlight the emphasis on the background of nails, decorated with a golden smile, you can decorate the upper part of the nail, giving the accent a gradient look.

The original method of applying the decor will be stamping. At the same time it is possible to apply drawings from the engraved plates not only in one, but also two multi-colored layers. A stencil pattern can be an addition to stamping.

An interesting design option for two adjacent nails will be a composite print. For example, it could be a butterfly with wings open, dandelion umbrellas flying in the wind, a snake, a night city with the bridges erected or a sketch of the cityscape. This design looks very beautiful. If he is not overloaded with an abundance of elements, decor and does not scream about himself with flashy tones, he introduces expressiveness and high status into the design of the manicure.

French manicure this season can be very diverse. For example, today you can beat the design of the smile itself. On the accent nail plate, it can be depicted, for example, in the form of a cat, a fox, a panda, a flower petal, a leaf of a plant. Sometimes it is presented in the form of cobwebs, shells, starfishes, juicy fruits created by means of fimo.

One of the extraordinary solutions can be called making a smile with dots (manicure tools with spherical nozzles of different sizes). At the same time, the pattern of a smile can be monophonic, contrasting, simple or complex, resembling an ethnic ornament. Masters use this design not only to decorate the traditional upper edge of accent nails.

It is fashionable to paint ethnic patterns, working with dots and thin manicure brushes. This is how mehendi drawings are born, which today are considered one of the most popular manicure for decorating accents. Convenience prints of this type is the fact that they are performed on top of the painted base, in this case there is no need to separately draw a contrast smile.

You can create a french gradient using kamifoobuks. Japanese multicolored confetti today are considered one of the most popular options for decor. At the same time, they are not used for all nails: they only decorate accents, and this is dosed out, combining elements of different sizes for greater harmony of design. Against the general background of the coating, it looks like bubbles of champagne rising upwards. The colors of camoufouks should be related to the chosen base of french.

In the current season, the decoration of the service jacket with various shimmer varnishes is especially important. Often, the design uses both small pollen and large sparkles at the same time. You can tightly cover a French glitter smile, thus forming a French millennium. You can stretch with a shimmer, draw with a glitter handle in the form of a practically contour stroke, with the exception of the top. Glitter can fill any shape or create a sputtering effect by performing any drawing.

Hollywood jacket needs the presence of thin strips on the nail plate, in addition to the basic design. However, in general, there are no clear rules here. Various color variations and contrasts are allowed, the manicure is encouraged to be performed in neutral tones. French twist needs to use several tones to draw a smile. Today, black and white contrasts are especially relevant in this version of the French manicure.

Unlike decorative art french or design with fancy smiles, fan french needs such decorative elements as sequins, beads, lace, tiny feathers, pieces of textiles. At the same time, you can decorate not only the nail base, covered with varnish.

Today, fashion does not limit fashionistas in choosing colors for decorating their nails. However, she draws our attention to the fact that the chosen tones should be harmoniously combined with each other.In addition, it is important that the design does not have too much of them, because the diversity of colors can kill any elegant design idea. It is better that the priority option is to use a soft color for the background. It can be nude, flesh-colored or any color pastel gamut.

As for the pastels, in the current season these colors are considered the best for French design. They are harmonious, discreet and combined with most items of women's wardrobe or the available accessories. In addition, each of them is perfectly combined with neutral colors of the palette (white, gray, black), which today are at the peak of popularity. If you want to french match the latest fashion, you can add a little silver to the design.

Harmonious combinations of shades of this season can be called mixes:

• pink and white;
• white and mint;
• black and nuda;
• light pink and crimson neon;
• beige and white;
• purple and fuchsia;
• silver and eggplant;
• emerald and black.

Combinations of various shades with nude tones are very popular. Body tones with a slight addition of pink color are harmoniously combined with black, pink, white, eggplant, wine, marsal, emerald tones, turquoise, fuchsia. They make soft contrasts with yellow, orange, red, blue, which cannot be said about the contrast of the same color paints with white. At the same time, white contrast against the background of a nude and colorful smile will look more soft.

As for the shades for the evening set, then, of course, the dark colors of the palette. If we talk about the most trendy options, you need to choose between wine, eggplant and emerald. It is these tones, according to fashion, today are the favorites of the color palette. At the same time, they all look great on a translucent background in the veil technique.

We suggest to refer to examples of current design of the service jacket, which, better than any words, indicate the peculiarities of design taking into account new trends.

• A fresh look at French design using a recycled handle.

• Option using matte texture gel polish and inlay accent nails.

• The imposition of an acrylic pattern on a gradient background, a bright combination of nude and wine color.

• Gentle jacket with stucco accent, beads and bouillon.

• Spectacular and concise solution with the accent of the nail of the ring finger.

• Option for winter with the use of blue and gold glitter.

• French with mehendi technique and inlaid holes of accents with sparkling crystals.

• A harmonious union of nude background and eggplant shimmer varnish. Lace lace accents.

• Volumetric design option with a three-dimensional print and embossed smile.

• Chic evening jacket purple hue with a selection of accent nail cuticle.

• Pink jacket with golden rhinestones and contour stroke wide smile.

• French, made in the technique of broken glass.

• French design created by gold-colored tear-off foil.

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