How to make a stylish manicure with flamingos?

Summer design of modern manicure is often surprising themes of decoration. Sometimes, in addition to traditional solutions, not only colorful insects appear on the nails, but also exotic birds. One of the most popular options today for the design of accent nails is the design with flamingos.

How to make it yourself, so that the whole manicure looked professional, read on.

A manicure with flamingos can not be attributed to the universal design of nails, because it is not suitable for everyday images. In addition, he is limited in his choice of style. For example, it will not be appropriate in bows, implying a strict dress code, as well as not suitable for women of Bohemia and scandalous fashionistas.

Due to the fact that in most cases the bird is performed in pink color, contrasts should be carefully selected to ensure that the basic design idea does not lose its expressiveness. Therefore, various prints must be dispensed in order not to overload the manicure as a whole and not to deprive it of high status.

The fact is that on short nails an exotic bird will be lost. In addition, you will have to reduce its size, and with a decrease in size, drawing will be simplified, which will affect the result.

In order for a flamingo to really adorn the design, at least medium length nails are needed. Of course, if its shape is elongated from nature, this can also be enough for decorating accent nail plates. As for the cut, it can be different, for example, completely straight, straight with rounded sides, slightly rounded, semicircular. The only thing that is not suitable for design with flamingos is the shape of the nail in the form of a trapezoid, in which the sharp edge is partially cut. This form needs more geometric themes, part of the pattern can be lost due to it.

To design with flamingo blend harmoniously into the bow of a woman, you can choose related colors of gel polish from clothes or resort to shades of pastel group. The following combinations look beautiful:

• pink and blue;
• white, coral and green;
• mint, pink and white;
• turquoise and mint with white;
• pink with white and lilac;
• peach with white and yellow;
• mint with pink and silver;
• emerald green and pink;
• lilac with purple and black;
• blue with silver, pink and white.

“Planting” flamingo on the manicure accent nails can be done in different ways.

For example, in the classic version this is hand drawing with drawing of microscopic elements. These prints are drawn with a very thin brush, picking up a tiny amount of paint on it. Someone uses instead of special coloring materials acrylic paints, but they are partially smeared when applied to them top, and especially with a matting effect. Gel paints add a volume to the pattern when applied, so they are taken to a minimum to achieve a flat image.

If you don’t draw on your nails, you can resort to alternative methods that allow you to dress your nails in a shorter time and without resorting to the use of paints. It is worth considering the most interesting techniques.

• Stemping - this is nothing more than stamping a pattern from a translated metal plate. If desired, the engraved pattern can be painted like a stained glass technique, which will allow you to get a color image of a flamingo with a contrast outline of the outline. Stamping is good because the lines of such a pattern after its application from the roller to the nail itself are smooth and precise. The whole procedure takes very little time, which pleases fans of such nail design.
• Stickers they are remarkable in that they can decorate accent nails more professionally as compared to painting. In this case, a thin film of the slider also strengthens the nail, which is grinded when working with hybrid varnish products. In this case, the buyer can choose the design not only in the form of a photo, but also in watercolor technique, which can mimic the effect of hand-drawing. And after sealing the sticker, the manicure will look super professional, as if it was done by the master of the nail salon.

To destroy the myth of the impossibility of self-design using hand-painted techniques, it’s worth noting how each of us can draw a flamingo if there are no stickers or a stamping at home. It is better to draw realistic, and for this purpose it is necessary to enlarge the image.

To the pigments are not smeared in the process of drawing, you can use gel polishes, available in the home set for manicure.

For the work will need the following elements:

• base;
• top;
• light nude varnish;
• two pink lacquers with varying degrees of saturation;
• white pigment;
• peach gel polish;
• black lacquer

You need to stock dots with different nozzles, a thin brush and needle. In addition, you may need a brush to mix different varnishes and a piece of foil, from which you have to make a temporary palette. It is necessary to rely on the photo of the lesson, which clearly shows what and what should be done to get a realistic design.

The technology in this case will consist of the following steps:

1. the nail is treated with a primer, then a thin layer of base material is applied to enhance adhesion to the gel varnish and dried in a lamp;
2. a slightly sticky base is covered with a layer of light-colored lacquer and dried;
3. another layer of light pigment is applied and dried to cover the nail plate;
4. a drop of pink varnish is added to the palette, picked on a dots or a brush and draws a silhouette of a future bird that looks like a deuce;
5. adding a brighter pink lacquer to the palette, draws a silhouette, giving it volume;
6. outline the location of the eye;
7. in some places you can combine bright and bright shades at your discretion, after giving the bird a volume of nail dry in the lamp;
8. take white lacquer and create the basis of the beak and eyes, after which the nail is dried again;
9. taking a light peach color, draw up a beak so that the tone does not outweigh the accent in one direction, the shade is used to paint the head and neck of the flamingo;
10. black lacquer encircling part of the beak, bird's head from the bottom and part of the neck from the side
11. shade black lower part of the beak, perform drying;
12. pick up some white lacquer and put glare in the eye, paint on the beak and feathering;
13. after regular drying, the nail is covered with a layer of topcoat
14. until the finish is dry, rhinestones are placed on the surface of the nail in the right places;
15. the design is dried and once again covered with a finish, then dried again and removed residual stickiness.

In order to manicure with a pink flamingo was not only beautiful, but also consistent with the latest fashion trends, when performing it, it is possible to resort to various methods, which today are considered trend ones:

• make accent nails glossy and all others matte;
• highlight the bird breast rhinestones;
• use acrylic powder to decorate the bird's drawing;
• decorate other nails by the method of broken glass;
• apply the veil technique for the adjacent nail plates;
• use a pearly rub, changing the texture of the monochromatic coating of the adjacent nail accent;
• use nail foil partially, creating a shine effect on the plumage;
• add volume to the bird using a transparent modeling gel or initially creating a design with volume using colored gel-inks.

In addition, you can not decorate all the nails with birds: one is enough, which will attract attention. Birds looking from all nails will create the feeling of a bird farm, which is completely unacceptable for the image of the city woman.

If, in addition to flamingos, you want something else, let it be stripes in the color of one of the contrasts or feathers. In order not to destroy a beautiful idea, you can not increase the number of accent nails more than three on one hand. In total, they should not be more than four out of ten.

The following examples of beautiful nail designs with exotic bird accents are worth considering:

• elegant design for the summer, drawing an accent and broken glass technique;
• gentle gradient in a trendy combination of blue and pink tones;

• registration with rubbing, change of perception of design due to partial rubbing of the powder;
• A good example of doing a little flamingo on nails of moderate length;

• pink-white design with black contrast, rhinestones;
• chic coral-pink gradient on oval nails with a drawing of the head of a flamingo;

• gentle solution with one expressive accent;
• beautiful and juicy manicure with flamingos, decorated with rhinestones.

A video tutorial on creating flamingos on the nails is waiting for you in the video below.