Creative manicure with ice cream: design and techniques

Summer is a small life. In this sunny, bright time, one wants to “catch” the brightness of nature, which is blooming and full of colors. Right now the most relevant will be a bright, rich manicure with a catchy pattern. Why not decorate your fingers with colorful balls of ice cream? Such a manicure will not only give the image playfulness, but also attract the attention of others. Beautifully executed designs with ice cream is a universal option for summer, which will soon go out of fashion.

Ice cream manicure swirled into fashion in spring 2015. During this period, they mainly painted one ice cream cone on the ring finger, while the rest of the nails were covered with a single bright polish. This idea not only did not forget the following summer, but also acquired several new versions. So, for example, designs with ice cream on a stick, melting ice cream and manicure-ice cream, in which the entire nail from the base to the tip under the favorite summer dessert, appeared.

Today, this design remains one of the most popular options for summer manicure. In the summer, it became fashionable to combine a manicure with ice cream with a moon and a classic French manicure. The combination of ice cream with images of other desserts is also very popular: muffins, donuts, cocktails with straws. For long nails, a variant with a multitude of small ice cream horns has become popular, which creates the impression of a printed print or wallpaper on the nails.

Recently, ice cream manicure has become popular among lovers of bright, acid lacquers. This manicure is suitable only for especially bold and bright girls, but not for every image of them.

There are a lot of manicure options with the image of ice cream, so sometimes it is not easy to make a choice. Choosing a design, it is very important not to cross the line between a bold and bright manicure and vulgar and tasteless. Making a choice in favor of a manicure with an image of ice cream, you must definitely take into account several important subtleties.

• The image of ice cream in the cone can both visually lengthen the nail, make it thinner and elongated, or expand it, giving it the look of a scapula. In order to lengthen the nail, the pattern should be placed along the growth of the nail: from its root to the edge. In such a situation, it is better to draw small elegant balls and a thin oblong horn. Large balls visually expand the nail and shorten it.

• In the performance of such a pattern, it is permissible to use rhinestones, sparkles and sequins, but it is worth minimizing their number so that the manicure does not look vulgar.
• Preferring lunar design or jacket with ice cream, it is necessary to stop the choice on the calm colors of lacquer - a bright jacket, also enhanced by a heavy image, will look tasteless.

• When combining several types of images in one manicure, for example, a duet of ice cream with a cake or ice cream with a donut, it is worth making them in the same color palette. In order to make a noticeable difference in the patterns, it is advisable to give preference to a uniform coating of the nails with a pattern on one finger on each hand.

• The image of ice cream looks great on the nails, painted using the ombra technique.This combination makes it more airy and light, but at the same time, bright in summer.

• The ice cream made by modeling will also be relevant. Such a manicure will be the most voluminous and realistic, and therefore extremely catchy.

Summer bright manicure with ice cream is considered to be informal, one that is suitable for traveling on vacation, hiking to the beach, walking on a yacht, visiting hot summer parties. It's hard to disagree with this, but it is quite possible to dispute. It’s all a matter of a fine line between “an elegant manicure with a touch of coquetry” and “a bright manicure off” - it all depends on the method of its execution, the number of bright accents and design. Properly selected manicure with ice cream can decorate any image and come to any situation.

• For an interview or meeting. If a girl gets a job or works in a responsible job - this is not a reason to push herself into the image of a gray mouse. It is perfectly acceptable to make a laconic elegant french and decorate one nail on each hand with a not too bright pattern of ice cream. It is important that the colors of this design are restrained. It is perfect for delicate pink or peach, pistachio, mint-colored ice cream balls and nail tips. The ideal option is a combination of the color of an office shirt or blouse with the color of nails.

• To go to the beach or to the pool. For relaxing on sunny beaches you can create the most unimaginable designs. It will be appropriate bright manicure sunny shades, decorated with drawings of ice cream, donuts, cakes and their combinations. It would be appropriate to look like a manicure with three-dimensional modeling or drawing of ice cream, covering the entire nail plate. In the conditions of the beach, a swimsuit, a manicure and a hat become part of the girls' clothes, so it is important to choose a beautiful design that will emphasize the originality of its owner.

• Summer evening party. Any marigold design will be appropriate here, but in such a situation it is worth paying attention to the bright and shiny marigold decorations. Rhinestones, stones, rubbing, acrylic powder - all this will reflect the light of night lights and flicker attractively in the dark. Also possible options with the use of fluorescent nail polishes, but do not forget about the sense of proportion.

There are many ways to create a manicure with an image of ice cream. Some of them can easily be made at home on their own, while others are almost impossible to apply without assistance.

The easiest way to apply the pattern on the nails, which can be implemented independently - This is a manicure with ready-made slides, stickers or metal appliqué. To perform such a design, it is only necessary to prepare a high-quality base, glue slides onto it and cover with a fixer. You can find the most unimaginable sets of slides with the image of desserts on the market of manicure accessories, as well as three-dimensional stickers for manicure.

Acrylic powder or velvet powder with ice cream on the nails will look more playful and volume. To perform such a design it is also necessary to prepare the background according to the general rules of applying gel varnish. On the finished background, you need to draw a waffle cone for ice cream: a thin stiff brush dipped in brown or beige varnish, a small triangle looms.

To give a specific “waffle” pattern to the horn, you need to draw “diamonds” across the entire surface of the future print. This must be done with varnish on several shades lighter or darker than the previous varnish, which was used to paint the horn.With white and black splashes you can achieve the most similar to the original texture. After creating the horn, you can start drawing ice cream balls. To do this, moisten a wide brush with a solvent, remove excess liquid from the neck of a jar with a solvent, dip one corner of the brush pile into acrylic and put the powder on the nail in a circular motion. Thus, you get a convex shiny ball.

To create a juicy manicure, you can use a stamp. For this you will need a stencil with a carved ice-cream pattern, a special stamp for a manicure and multi-colored varnishes. According to the principle of coloring, you need to color the stencil with varnishes, remove the excess varnish with a special spatula, remove the pattern from the stencil onto the stamp and transfer it to the nail. This method is perfect for creating a design with many identical ice cream.

How to make a summer manicure with ice cream, see the following video.