Despite the fact that the leading position in choosing colors for manicure is occupied by shades of pastel colors, bright blue is considered one of the trends of the current season. Such a manicure fascinates the eye, allows a woman to be the center of attention. However, in order to achieve the desired effect, you need to know the subtleties and developments of experienced masters in the field of the nail industry in relation to the coating of blue.
Color psychology
Blue color refers to the calm and balanced tones of the color palette. The original tone is considered cold, it is associated with restraint and poise. From a psychological point of view, it not only has its own value, but also is able to influence a person. For example, it is this color that is often used in politics, and therefore it is well suited for strict and everyday images. This is explained by the fact that the blue color is able to win the interlocutor, it is called noble, associated with such qualities as kindness, honesty and chastity.
Knowing the perception of color, it can be used in manicure for women of different age groups. However, for older ladies, this color can carry not so much positive as negative coloring. The older the age, the stronger the blue color will affect the woman. If for young girls, in addition to coolness and restraint, he does not bear negative, then aged women can worsen their mood, and sometimes even provoke depression.
Nail shape
The blue color is considered bright or dark in the color palette, which depends on the amount of black paint in it. Due to its brightness, it is demanding on the shape of the nails, and especially their length. For example, it will look great on short nails, even if their shape will be somewhat simplified. In this case, the edge can be played with various design techniques, thereby not only ennobling, but also lengthening the fingers themselves.
With moderate length, the color on the nails of the hands will look natural and beautiful. However, there already have to look at the shape of the edge of the nail. Correlating it with modern fashion trends, one can definitely name several variants of an ideal form. The blue color of the nail polish on the nails of moderate length, oval, straight, straight with rounded sides and almond-shaped, will look beautiful. No less beautiful will look in blue and square nails.
As for the sharp edge, even a calm blue color is not always harmonious for this. That is why long stilettos, which today are trying to regain their former glory, will look aggressive in blue. Given the fact that fashion is natural and natural, it is hardly possible to call such a form successful for blue. In general, the long and blue nails will be sufficiently highlighted against the background of a common bow. Therefore, in order for the design not to lose its high status, it is necessary to dose any decor.
Design features
Today there are plenty of possibilities for decorating manicure. However, before you begin to decorate the nails, it is important to take into account the nuances of blue. Due to his flashiness, you first have to find the right tone, which will not compete with the chosen design, but will remain a worthy basis for a manicure.In addition, often the problem becomes an abundance of blue, so a woman after a few days can cool off to design and wish for something else.
Since today it is common to use durable types of coatings for manicure, removing one thing and replacing it immediately is quite problematic, considering the considerable cost of manicure. And it is harmful, because every time in the process of removing the material the natural nail plate is damaged. Frequent carrying out of such procedures is fraught with thinning, damage and slow growth of nails. It is impossible not to take into account the fact that the design will have to think through every little thing that he did not make a woman greedy for all the brilliant magpie.
It is necessary to have an idea about design errors, due to which a woman can instantly turn from a noble lady into a person who does not differ in taste. For example, spoil the look of blue manicure:
- all ten nails, decorated with the same pattern;
- coatings with poor pigmentation, not overlapping color or with stripes of uneven application;
- pigments that are not compatible with each other or competing with each other;
- accents, which are more than four on two hands;
- different length or shape of the nails, as well as the asymmetry of the regrown edge, which seems appropriate to someone;
- ill-conceived drawings for a particular style;
- inept drawing, unevenness of lines and contours;
- decorating nails in different subjects;
- ignoring the seasonality of design and using too harsh blue tones.
Few people take into account the fact that darker blue shades look more harmonious in a woman's bow. Some masters, adoring work with rhinestones, consider it appropriate to shed accent nails with such shine. As a result, instead of high status, the blue manicure becomes flashy and even disco. However, if at the party it still looks tolerable, for a daily image such a design will not work in any way.
Choose a shade
The blue color is many-sided: it includes light and dark hues of the main color. According to the Panton palette, the group of blue includes 180 tones. For a manicure, you can use tones that are better suited to the things in the wardrobe or even accessories. For example, fashionable tones of blue are:
- cornflower blue;
- dusty blue;
- jeans
- blue-violet;
- blue steel;
- blue persian;
- blue-black;
- gentle aquamarine;
- blue green;
- azure blue;
- dark azure;
- blue night
You need to choose the color based on the design purpose. If this is an option for everyday bows, it is better to choose a low-key, poorly saturated color. When you need to be the center of attention, you can afford a bright solution.
Coating types
Nail products, represented by trademarks of modern high-tech industries, are replete with diversity. Today it satisfies even the most demanding preferences. Now you can make a manicure not only for a day: now there are coatings that stick on nails without chipping and correction up to five weeks (or even more). Every woman can buy such products, varnishes and gels of this type are quite affordable, as well as a special drying lamp, due to which the used hybrid varnish hardens.
The best options for gel polishes today are matte and glossy. They are more likely to reveal the beauty of blue, and are also an excellent base for decorating or any well-known manicure technique. Having a dense pigmentation, they are economical, since one layer of such materials often completely covers the natural nail. Shimmer variants cannot be called dense: such varnishes need several layers of application. However, they can give different shades of blue base.
One of the extraordinary varnish options are temperature varieties that darken in the cold and brighten in the heat.Of course, many people like the color change, but the gradient effect is noticeable only on long nails. Short ones will be either completely light or dark. Crackling varnishes or coatings with a cracking effect are also in fashion. They look impressive, but do not provide for other decoration, which automatically makes them capricious in design.
A color scheme
In order for a blue manicure to look harmonious in a female image, it is necessary to take into account its exactingness to the choice of contrasts. For example, it goes well with all neutral colors, which include white, black, gray tones. In addition, depending on the temperature of the blue color, it will look beautiful with silver or gold. It looks perfect blue with metallic, and especially with chrome gray.
It is also harmonious in combination with such colors:
- green;
- muted orange;
- turquoise;
- powdery;
- bodily;
- milk;
- turquoise;
- blue;
- bleached peach;
- light pink;
- cold lilac.
The mint-blue manicure looks beautiful, as well as solutions using shades of a bluish-green group. You can combine blue with beige or sand. However, in any case, the contrast should soften the main color, but not compete with it.
Popular technology
The blue color on the nails of the hands looks beautiful in any of the existing manicure techniques. Each of them has its own characteristics and with the right approach to the design contributes to increasing the status of the entire image.
Classic
A classic manicure is nothing more than a plain design or simply colored nails. Today, this design is the basis of combinable with any of the well-known manicure techniques. Painted nails can be a background for further decoration, but they can not be decorated with any decor, if that is not required by the design. Especially beautiful in this technique look matte coating with the effect of textiles.
French manicure
Traditional style french is done by using two contrasts. In the traditional version, the main background should be solid, and the regrown part of the nail should be white. With regard to blue today, fashion trends offer two solutions: in the first case there may be a blue smile, in the second - the foundation. The shape of a smile can not only adapt to the features of the upper edge, but also have a fancy design. For example, in addition to a geometric shape, it can be a flower petal, snow, lace.
Reverse jacket
Inverted jacket differs from the classic analogue in that his smile is located at the very base of the nail plates. Like the usual French manicure, today it can be not only symmetrical or contour. In addition, he may strive for asymmetry. One of the most relevant solutions for him is to perform with high lateral sides, whittled down at the top of the nail. This design ennobles not only the nails, but also makes the fingers more beautiful.
Lunar
A manicure with holes differs from an inverted french uniform by the shape of the hole itself. Today, it can be very different: semi-circular, triangular, in the shape of a month, diagonal. In this case, the hole can be not only colored, but also made in the negative space technique. The design looks beautiful when it has a contour stroke or a secondary arch. As a rule, the moon manicure is perfectly combined with a French or a classic. With a minimum of decor, he is able to decorate any female bow.
Gradient
This technique involves performing a smooth transition from the base of the nail plate to the end of its regrown edge. This design looks very beautiful, using for it either related colors of blue, or several contrasting colors for it. You can create an ombre effect in different ways. Most often, a smooth transition from one color to another is done with a sponge.In the second case, a special sponge of small size is used, which is applied and shaded with a contrasting lacquer or gel on a uniform, not yet dried in a special lamp, base.
Broken glass
This technique is used mainly for accent nails, since all the nails decorated with it can lose expressiveness. One or two accents out of ten will look super beautiful. The essence of the technique is to stick on a wet top finely chopped nail film with a different effect. Depending on the darkness and saturation of the blue color, the film on the accent nails will look different. The effect of broken glass is achieved by different sizes of cut film particles.
Veil
Despite the fact that the veil manicure technique appeared quite recently, today she managed to acquire various variations. In its traditional form, it is performed on a translucent base using acrylic paint to create various patterns, imitating the effect of nylon tights with their help. Today, it may not have pictures, but its mandatory attribute is the contour stroke of the nail plate. At the same time, a low-key geometric design is often performed on a translucent background.
Powder
This technique is based on the classic manicure. However, it needs the use of special acrylic powders, which today have a lot of variations. They differ in particle size, can be matte or shiny, for which the latter is often called sugar. Powder is used today both for the complete design of the nail, and for accenting the pattern made on the accent nail. The smaller the fraction of particles, the more beautiful and clearer the design looks.
Rub in
This technique differs from acrylic powders in that it needs to be rubbed. In addition, it can change the effect of the main pigment. When applied to blue, it can not only slightly make its texture matte, but also present it as a pearl one, which allows using it instead of pearl varnishes. In addition, after using the rub on top of it on the accent nails, you can create drawings, including even voluminous ones. One of the most fashionable variants of such material today are the materials “mermaid”, “unicorn”, “holography” and “beetle”.
Flowering effect
Today, this trend is gaining popularity. It is new and with a minimum of time allows you to decorate the accent nails of blue manicure with unusual patterns. Use for this technique special gel lacquers with the effect of spreading or flowering. Today, there are still few of them, and therefore masters often work with a base that can be transparent or white. The pigments themselves are used in a minimal amount (usually less drops are used per drawing). Flowering lacquers have several bright colors, among which you can choose white, black, green, blue and pink for the blue base.
Current season fashion
Attention fashion trends today drawn to the female beginning. And because everything in the design of blue manicure should be filled with femininity. Since the color itself is demanding not only the choice of the right shade, but also to any decorative element, It is important to carefully consider nail decoration and relate it to the best offers of the season.
- For example, blue is an excellent base for cosmic decorations. Galactic prints, star nebulae, the Milky Way, constellations - these are only approximate themes of accent nails that can bring a mystery and some unexploredness into a female image.
- The focus of the coating is magnetic type. The so-called cat's eye, which today is distinguished by greater depth and unusualness of pigment overflow, allows the manicure to become a chic end to the female bow.
- The fine design tool are fine-fraction powder.The blue base is an excellent working background for them, which can be given a different effect and decorate the background. In the trend of pearl dust and the texture of colored flakes.
- Rhinestones and crystals today tend to decrease. In order to more harmoniously “plant” them in the right places of the design, it is preferable to combine them either with broths, or with gold or silver dots of glitter, applied using dots.
- Spot patterns are considered a stylish element of decor. With their help, you can accent lunar manicure or french, they can be elements of a geometric design.
- In the trend drawing on the wet, which allows you to create the desired pattern right on the nail. To do this, use either special varnishes, or gels or colored hybrid varnishes, putting dots and connecting them with different movements of manicure brushes.
Best design
There are several trends by which you can easily recognize modern manicure in blue. For example, fashionable:
- mark the cuticle area on one nail of the hand;
- draw a reverse french thin, almost contour, stroke;
- use in the design of the geometric theme of the pattern;
- use no more than three or four contrasting shades to decorate nails;
- to focus on the seasonality of the manicure, deliberately demonstrating its belonging not only to a particular season, but even to a specific month;
- combine rhinestones with gold or silver, thereby fitting them into the design more organically;
- take for the design soft and muted tones of blue, which do not compete with the available clothing or with a particular style;
- use acrylic sand or flock powder, including metallic effect, for decorating accent nails;
- use both matte and glossy coatings of the same color in the design, which can be beaten using a matting effect top;
- use in manicure the negative space technique, in which part of the nail remains unpainted;
- use stamping, stencils and stickers for decoration;
- draw in the style of mehendi, decorating such nails with a dotted arrangement of tiny rhinestones.
Decor secrets
To design nails in blue color looked status, it is important to take into account several recommendations of experts in the field of nail art. They pay attention to the fact that without dispensing decorative elements it is impossible to make a beautiful decoration. Fashion tends to lightness and naturalness. Therefore, all too voluminous to her today is alien.
It is better to paint with gel or varnish on the nails of the hands, rather than returning to the piercer of the nail plates or aggressive length. No matter how sharp the stilettos are to the woman, today it is ugly, and even more so in blue. In addition, it is not necessary to decorate such nails with a scattering of rhinestones and complicate manicure foil. It is important to understand that the best decor is the one that is comfortable in everyday life and will not cling to anything. The accent on the ring finger looks beautiful. At the same time, it is better to show its seasonality, using prints or stickers on summer, winter, autumn or spring themes at one time.
As for the best ideas of decor accents, then, in addition to triangles and vertical stripes, these may be other elements of geometry, floral motifs and variations with ethnic patterns on a blue background. Ideal manicure decor are decals or nail manicure with lace. You can do stamping ornaments, as well as stencil patterns on accents of hands. The best themes of the season are pictures on hands depicting dream catchers, foxes, leaves, raindrops, autumn city sketches.
How to perform a matte blue manicure, see the following video.