Blue manicure is one of the fashionable and modern trends in the design of nails as part of the female image. Consider what are the fashion trends of the season, what distinguishes the design execution techniques, what is the modern ideal form of nails, which is appropriate for different seasons.
Popular shades
This season, the blue color is represented by a mass of subtle shades. Incredibly popular are the gentle light tones of blue, including sky blue, gray blue, lilac blue, arctic blue, bleached denim and pale blue tones. Gentle colors are great for different women's bows, personifying the lightness and sophistication of the image. They look quite noble, even if it is a concise classic nail design.
In addition to light and pale blue shades, rich pigments are in demand.
For example, bright blue and even turquoise-blue tones are popular., cornflower and azure color. In this case, the shade of blue can have different temperatures. It may have inclusions of pinkish, gray, blue or greenish tones. Due to this, the color solutions of the design in blue tones are complemented by variants of blue-blue, turquoise, gray-smoky and other subtones.
Performance techniques
Modern manicure has a lot of varieties of design techniques. Consider the main differences of blue manicure in the most current trends of the new season.
Classical
Under this technique imply the usual monochromatic coating. Nails varnish over the entire area of the nail plate. Looks classic design in different ways, which depends on the use of top coatings that differ in texture and effect. For this design, use matte, glossy coatings, varieties with glitter, the effect of the mirror surface, the options "chameleon" and "cat's eye", as well as varnish products with a translucent texture.
Matt
In fact, the beauty of this manicure lies in the matte texture of the surface. Today it can be done using different design techniques. For example, a similar effect can be achieved using a matte effect coating initially. Someone keeps nails under fire for a few seconds to achieve the desired effect, managing to do it until the varnish is dry. There are also finishing coatings with a special velvety effect that matte any pigmented gel varnishes. They are applied at the very end of the manicure, and then, according to general technology, dried under a UV lamp.
In the veil technique
Blue veil manicure is one of the trends of this season. Achieve the effect of nylon pantyhose as follows: the pigment is diluted with a clear varnish and paint the nail plate. Then they are decorated at their discretion and covered with a layer of the final product. This design looks incredibly stylish. At the same time, it may involve the use of not only blue, but also the inclusion of black in the minimum amount.
The main thing is to achieve translucency of the texture.
With negative space
This technique is the season's know-how.At its core, this nail design, in which part of the nail remains unpainted. For technology using a transparent gel polish, perform the desired design, and only after it the nail plate is completely covered with a layer of topcoat. For example, a design can be a specific pattern with an unpainted hole at the base of the nail. Or it can be a pattern on the nail plate, covered with a transparent gel polish.
With acrylic powder
This innovation allows for an interesting surface texture. It seems rough and voluminous, performed using flock powder, which can be purchased at a specialty store. The range of such products is quite wide, which allows you to create a design not only in a single blue color. If desired, the pattern on the accent nails of the hands can be contrasted. With the help of acrylic powder, you can create the effect of a knitted pattern - fashionable design this season.
Shape selection
This season offers women to determine their priorities, choosing the best form for their nails. However, no matter how beautiful the shape may seem sharp, such a manicure looks aggressive. Not always, it allows you to harmoniously complete the gentle female image, given the tenderness of the blue color. Stylists pay attention to the fact that nails of different lengths and shapes are unacceptable: all nail plates should be visually the same.
The best form is the classic elongated with a moderately rounded edge. Ideal natural elongated nail plates: they allow you to perform any design, if necessary, fitting on its surface not only a part, but the whole picture. The nails may be elongated, but too large a length is irrelevant today.
The edges may be slightly sharp, but by no means triangular, this period of fashion trends is a thing of the past.
Combination with other colors
Agree, not always monophonic manicure looks elegant and solemn. Yes, the classics are good for everyday bows, but very quickly it starts to seem boring. In order to somehow accent nails, one has to use contrasts, and with blue one has to be very careful, because he is able to radically change the aesthetic perception, depending on what shade is added to it. Today, fashionable and harmonious combinations of blue can be called combinations with:
- gold;
- silver;
- coral;
- peach;
- purple;
- bleached blue;
- pearl gray;
- white;
- black
- beige;
- brown;
- terracotta;
- nude;
- steel;
- bright cornflower blue;
- coffee;
- green;
- pink;
- orange;
- cream;
- sunny;
- lilac;
- creamy.
The pink-blue, purple-blue design looks beautiful, but contrasts should be chosen thoroughly, giving preference to soft and muted tones of the color palette. Nothing flashy and vulgar, no acid and poisonous contrasts. The selected tone will depend on the temperature of the blue tint, its intensity and the degree of pigmentation. Light textures are complemented by light tones of contrasting varnishes.
For example, in no case can you decorate blue with a poisonous green pattern: the color of the green lacquer should be muted and pleasant. If the colors are in harmony with each other, the same green-blue manicure will look fresh and beautiful. Combinations with blood-red, neon tones, as well as mixes of different shades of blue temperature are unacceptable. This approach to the design of a manicure deprives him of tenderness and femininity.
Design
Methods of decorating nails today known a lot. Usually, every master contributes something of his own, which often gives an impetus to the development of new fashion trends. However, in general, the basis of the methodology remains the same. Let's look at what has changed today at the most basic manicure design techniques.
French
Beautiful design, referred to as French, which is the basis for decorating nails, today is somewhat updated. If earlier the design of the nail plate implied the presence of the so-called arc-shaped smile, today it tends to asymmetry and geometry. French can be angular or having diagonal lines, sometimes rounded, but more often straight.
Of course, the usual form is not canceled: it can decorate the fingers, as before, while becoming a thinner line.
Reverse jacket
Reverse French manicure is an inverted French jacket design that encircles a portion of the nail plate at the base. Today, the selection of the cuticle zone is one of the main trends of the season, so the entire season will decorate the fingers of modern fashionistas. You can do this design in different ways: someone needs a contrasting lacquer to highlight the cuticle area, while others prefer to use bouillons or regular rhinestones.
Lunar
Under this design refers to the emphasis on the bottom hole of the nail plates. Following the current trends, they can be distinguished by the reception of negative space (easier - without painting it at all). Often for such nail design use gel polish of two shades. For example, white or silver contrasts are often added to the blue base. The holes are distinguished not only by color: depending on the design, they are decorated with crystals and rhinestones, they are designated by a pattern or simply by a number of peas in a contrasting tone.
Ombre
Such design means a gradient design. It is performed using several shades of gel polish, creating a smooth transition from the basic blue tone to the other. The effect of this design is always original and special. In appearance, they are somewhat reminiscent of coatings-chameleons, which are able to radically change the original color during cooling or warming. Often, such a basis is decorated for a specific time of year. For example, it allows you to decorate your nails under the sea or create a snowing effect.
With an image
Drawing on a blue background needs careful consideration of the subject. It is important not to disturb color perception. Stylishly look on this basis drawings made in the same color in the sketch technique. In the absence of drawing skills, you can decorate the surface of the nails with strips or regular peas (dots). In vegetable fashion themes. Actual dandelions, ethnic ornaments, branches of plants, leaves, feathers.
Geometry is in fashion: triangles are super popular, vertical straight lines with dots, rectangular motifs, and also drawings in the form of stylization from straight lines.
Dressing
The decoration of the blue base is a separate topic, which covers a number of stylistic techniques that allow you to create stylish and unique, and sometimes even masterpiece designs from the seemingly ordinary cover. Consider, as is customary today to decorate your nails, so that the manicure is not only elegant, but also expressive.
With rhinestones
Rhinestones have not yet lost their popularity, as bulk crystals. However, their abundance makes the design vulgarity. You do not need to demonstrate the abundance of decor, because in order to show the uniqueness, just a few sparkling rhinestones are enough to arrange them, for example, in the cuticle area. In this case, the design may be asymmetric. If the accent nail already has a pattern, take a closer look, where you can fix one sparkling rhinestone on it. It can be the middle of a flower, a bud of a branch, a decor on a feather. The smaller the sparkle, the more relevant and harmonious it is.
With broths
This substance is nothing more than microscopic beads. They are decorated with the surface of the nail plates, giving them the volume and relying on the unusual texture. Broths are applied to the layer of top coating before it is dried under a special lamp.After the decor is decorated, it is brought under a UV lamp and dried for the required time (the duration depends on the type of product used and the type of lamp itself). They are also used as decoration elements, creating wavy lines from them, branches of plants and even flower petals.
Sequined
Choosing sparkles as a basis for decoration, you need to understand: without its dosage, this decor can disrupt the harmony of the design of nails in blue tones. The abundance of gloss today is irrelevant, and besides, the nail plates completely covered with it can cause a loss of expressiveness of accent nails. However, drawing the same gold or silver would be quite appropriate. It is better to add rhinestones elegance manicure and help to place accents on the nails. In addition, the sparkles are voluminous, unlike rhinestones and crystals.
Take into account such a nuance: in no case do not decorate manicure with rhinestones and silvering (gilding) at the same time.
With foil
This solution will appeal to modern fashionable women. This season, manufacturers have released for them several varieties of foil material for decorating nail plates. Of course, the texture itself is creative, so you need to carefully select it for a blue manicure. This decoration looks original, not only on long nails: it is suitable for nail plates of any length. In addition, it is appropriate for the extended nails. Not only foil sliders are used for decoration: this season, more than ever, translation options are needed, reaped foil and thermal film.
With powder
The advantage of this decor can be called strengthening and hardening nails. In itself, the substance is a polymer powder, which is harmless to the nail plates and allows you to create a porous coating. With the help of various methods of application you can decorate the surface of nails with a creative pattern. Acrylic powder is used, performing a service jacket, and also building. It can be transparent or white, camouflage and color. It is a means of imparting volume to a pattern, and for decoration you can use contrasting tones of powder. However, you need to use powder dosed, because when there is a lot of such decor, it simplifies manicure.
With rubbing
Rubs allows you to create a unique mirror effect. And if it has a special texture, you can make a design with overflow of different tones. Mirror shine on the nails is especially appropriate this season, such pigmentation of the nail plates today is one of the main trends. The coating creates the effect of specular dust, and it can be not only specular, but also chrome, pearl, glass, and also holographic.
The convenience of this design is the ability to combine the available pigments, their application to different shades of blue lacquer in order to obtain new effects and tones. Pigments can be:
- chameleons (for example, cockchafer);
- options-unicorns (mirrored rainbows);
- imitation of the northern lights (the so-called aurora);
- holographic (prisms).
Unique options-flakes resembling a mermaid scales.
Rubbing is also noteworthy because it allows decoration, including various designs and patterns.
Kamifubuki
This Japanese decor today is known to almost every fashionistas. He did not lose his popularity and even significantly expanded the form. If earlier they were mostly circles of different sizes, today in the line of kamifubuki you can find all sorts of hearts, triangles, squares, asterisks, rhombuses and even hexagons. However, as for the blue color of the manicure base, here you need to choose related shades and elements of different sizes.
This is how a manicure will not look easy, but with ease of execution it will become stylish. To decorate nails using kamifubuki, you need to dosed.This decor can be used when creating drawings. It can replace rhinestones, give your nails at least an elegant look.
Creating a manicure for different seasons
It is worth noting that the design of a manicure today must take into account seasonality. In other words, universal solutions today are not as relevant as the design for a particular time of year. This allows the design to convey the mood of a particular season or even a month. In addition, rarely which fashionista will deny herself the pleasure to decorate the nails of the fingers, given the current season of the year.
An interesting fact is that with the change of seasons the tones of blue will change. For example, a summer manicure needs gentle heavenly shades and white contrast. However, if the summer shades of blue are warmer, the winter is characterized by cold. The same blue gel polish, but with a mixture of blue with a pattern of snowflakes will look different on the nails.
Of course, drawing is one of the best methods of emphasizing the seasonality of manicure. If in the summer, say, you want simplicity and bright colors, this is the case when combining blue with delicate pastel shades of a color palette would be appropriate. Thus, it is possible to decorate the accent nail plates with floral and plant motifs. Made in soft contrasting colors, they will convey a summer mood and harmoniously complete the feminine look. Drawings of falling leaves are good for autumn; volumetric spikes created by acrylic powder.
In the fall, you can add to the design of manicure volume drops created by a transparent gel polish. With the advent of cold weather, you can think about the so-called knitted decor. The same acrylic powder here will look not only relevant, but stylish and deliberate. The knitted fabric created with its help will demonstrate the effect of the heat of the texture.
In winter, all sorts of snowflakes are good, drawn dots, use of transfer stickers.
Geometry in general is relevant for any season. However, if the design will be summer colors (for example, the color of fresh greens, pink, lilac, burgundy, orange), this design will be to the warm seasons. If you want to decorate the winter manicure with a geometric pattern, you should choose cold contrasts.
It is important to think through the use of glitter and sparkling decor. By itself, it is quite beautiful, but requires a certain occasion. Not only a fashionista wants to walk for almost a month with nails hung with massive crystals and rhinestones. And the point here is not even that it may be the famous Swarovski: whatever one may say, this manicure is festive, it is contraindicated for everyday life.
However, this does not mean that you can not use what glitters: and foil, and rubbing can be used to decorate nails. But in this case, the design must take into account the circumstances. If you are doing a manicure for the New Year holidays - this is one thing. When design is needed for work, decorative elements are dispensed to the maximum. Sometimes foil is taken solely to emphasize the manicure, which means that it will decorate only 3-4 fingers and, possibly, partially.
Fashion ideas
We bring to your attention the most interesting solutions of manicure in blue tones, demonstrating a sense of taste and style. This gallery will help you decide on the type of design that you can think through on the basis of photo data.
- Design with negative space. Laconic design french in warm blue.
- No less stylish design in blue notes with nude contrast. Beautiful moon manicure with negative space.
- The classic design option in blue and blue colors looks elegant due to the accent in the form of a picture. The design used several small rhinestones.
- A truly summer solution with kamifubuki and acrylic powder.
- The gradient in blue tones, bringing dreams of a vacation at sea, will appeal to any girl.
- This technique in warm blue becomes expressive due to the sticker with the effect of the reptile skin.
- Unusual solution in the contrast of blue and pink. Use black gel polish for accent nails.
- Light and airy solution with a decorative sticker on the accent finger.
Dosing golden rhinestones.
- A creative pattern in a geometric style brings into the design of a manicure something special, unique and stylish.
- In this example, the contrast of blue and pink is used, as well as the decoration of two accent fingers, making up one pattern.
- An example of a combination in the design of acrylic powder and rhinestone. Gorgeous idea for a winter manicure.
- Laced themes will not leave indifferent any woman. Skillful combination of blue and powdery tones, competent placement of accents.
- This example will appeal to connoisseurs of all unusual. Pretty stylish and gentle solution with drawing negative space.
- Ombre effect with a smooth stretching from blue to pink. Original execution of contrast lines.
- Design using foil on the accent nail. The combination of pale blue and cream in a classic manicure.
- Inverted jacket with silver accents of the cuticle area looks incredibly stylish and effective.
What else to consider?
Whatever the manicure you choose, pay attention to the quality of the preparation of nail plates. Often, it depends on this aesthetic final result, not to mention the durability of the coating. In order not to injure the skin when removing pterygia and cuticle, use a special oil to soften, rubbing it into the skin around the nail plate. Before applying the lacquer products, do not forget to remove the gloss from the nail, otherwise the varnish will not stick on it for long.
Dry manicure
This technique today is becoming very popular among fashionistas. The method, which has the names of European, Japanese or spa, is a variant of unedged manicure. He does not need to soak his fingers in the preliminary preparation of nails for coloring and design. The cuticle in this case is not cut, and pushed.
This technique is considered more benign for nails and skin. With the constant implementation of this particular technique decreases the likelihood of burrs. In addition, with European manicure, the skin of the fingers is not injured. Therefore, they are always healthy, which is not always possible to say about the usual technique.
Do not forget about the relevance of manicure design, because it is not done too often. Consider the fact that you will wear it for at least two or three weeks. For everyday bows, try to choose simple, but stylish solutions without volumetric decoration elements.
Do not forget that a manicure should complement the bow, but not compete with clothing or accessories.
To learn how to make a blue moon manicure yourself, see the next video.