Gentle pedicure always emphasizes the natural beauty of the girl, her accuracy and grooming. Such nail design will always distinguish a sophisticated person from the crowd, distinguished by good taste.
Features
In the summer, the girl's legs are always in sight, so care for the feet and nails should be carried out more regularly and efficiently. The great advantage of a gentle pedicure is that it is made in pastel colors and is not striking, thanks to which it can be in harmony with any outfit. However, the lack of a bright nail cover shifts attention to the quality of foot care. But on the feet can be numerous problems: dry skin, natoptysh, pollution of individual zones, corns.
To eliminate many of the drawbacks, before creating a beautiful pedicure in pink, it is necessary to carry out a comprehensive care for the skin of the feet.
How to make yourself?
Those who have found the strength to do a pedicure with their own hands, will have to purchase the appropriate tools.
- File It should not be too rough, with sandpaper effect. Such files lead to the exfoliation of the nail and its unhealthy appearance. It is better to stock up with a glass file.
- Polishing tool. A file is a tool with two working surfaces. One is rather rough to the touch, the second is softer. Thanks to this tool, the surface of the nail plate becomes perfectly smooth.
- Baths (for steaming the skin of the foot).
- Foot cream (nourishing or moisturizing).
- Pumice (with fine-grained structure). It is intended for removal of the coarsened sites of feet (callosities, napoptyshy).
- File of wood. The tool is designed for cuticle. It is better not to cut the last one, but periodically move it away with a file. If the cuticle is quite hard, in addition, you can apply the means for its softening on an oil basis.
- Finger guards.
- Lacquer coating.
- Topcoat.
When creating a gentle pedicure in the first place attention is drawn to the smooth and beautiful skin of the feet, ankles, well-groomed fingers and nails.
Foot Care Stages
The preparatory stage includes several points.
Steaming
This procedure will make skin cleansing more efficient, clean all the hardened places, calluses and natoptysh. Baths of a different type of action are used for steaming:
- for the prevention of fungal diseases - soda mixed with water and essential oil of tea tree;
- relaxing - water is mixed with tincture of marigold or chamomile;
- toning - mint oil and sea salt are added to the water.
All baths should be no longer than a third of an hour. Water should not be hot, feet should be nice.
Peeling
It is carried out using pumice. In places where it is inconvenient to use pumice - in the interdigital space, you can use a scrub.
Moisturizing
After the feet are cleaned and dried well with a towel, they must be moistened with a cream or other alternative means (for example, olive oil). It is good to rub products into skin of legs and to allow to be absorbed.
Nail treatment
Before starting work, you need to insert extenders between your fingers. The file should move in the direction of the growth of the nails. Any deviation from this rule can lead to unpleasant consequences: nail ingrowth, suppuration, inconvenience when wearing closed shoes.
Polishing
To give the nail plate smoothness, first use the rougher side of the file, then the reverse. The length of the nail should not go beyond the tip of your finger, otherwise it will look rough and even vulgar.
Coating
Before you apply a new nail polish, the surface should be degreased. To do this, go liquid without acetone. This procedure allows you to evenly apply subsequent coating and improve its adhesion to the surface of the nail. When the surface of the nail is completely dry, you can proceed to the application of varnish.
Apply a decorative coating from the base of the nail to the edge. This rule is paramount for owners of wide nails. This method of application will visually lengthen the nail.
Decorative design with appliqués and rhinestones is made over varnish. In order to preserve a beautiful pedicure as long as possible, varnish is covered with a finishing fixer. It allows the coating to dry faster and be more resistant to all sorts of damage.
Color spectrum
Gentle pedicure, especially if it is created in the summer, represents the original colors and patterns. At the peak of popularity is the idea of combining naturalness and glamor. The basis of the decorative design of a gentle pedicure lay pastel colors (light pink, peach, creme brulee), which are closest to the skin color. As an accent, you can use shades of orange, celadon, rich pink. If these colors seem too provocative to you, you can replace them with less bright counterparts, or make a tinting coating (from light to dark).
For a gentle pedicure, you can also use colored varnishes, the main thing is that their color should not be too bright: lemon, sky blue, soft purple. Any bright shade can be matted with a special coating that removes gloss, making the base tone dumb lighter.
Drawings and applications
The most suitable for gentle pedicure are wildflowers (chamomile), wavy lines, peas, butterflies. Rhinestones are very popular, which add lightness and soft shine to the whole image. It is important not to overdo it with the number of decorative elements.
Fashion solutions
It is most popular to make decorative design of one thumb because of its area, which allows the master to embody various creative fantasies, and a one-colored covering of others. The design of the thumb is stylishly looking with a basic lacquer of a neutral shade with a bright accent, and the rest of the nails with a tone from this color accent. For example, the base of the thumb nail cover is a snow-white lacquer, on which pink buds bloom beautifully. The rest of the toenails are covered in a similar pink color.
The same rule applies to decorative elements - rhinestone. They decorate one toenail in the growth zone.
The most gentle and feminine version of a pedicure - french. It will harmoniously look with any outfit, so it never goes out of fashion. Perhaps the implementation of a classic, European or modern. The first option involves covering the edge of the nail with a thin white stripe of lacquer, and the rest of the nail - with natural varnish (pink, transparent or light beige).
A European jacket differs from the previous one only in the presence of a pattern. Modern french covers the decor of the base border and the white corner. For this can be used beads, thermo stickers, rhinestones.
Original examples
Popular is the so-called moon pedicure. To create it, the nail in the growth zone is coated with white lacquer, and the rest of the nail is decorated with a different shade. In the pedicure can be used drawing, reminiscent of flowers from the bride's bouquet. Then the wedding look will be more complete.
To keep the coating for a long time, you need to apply 3 layers. Each subsequent can be applied only after complete drying of the previous one.When choosing a shade it is necessary to remember that each subsequent layer makes the overall color of the coating darker.
A touch of mischief in gentle pedicure will add the use of nail art. Emphasis should be placed on the big and medium (or ring) finger. As decorations fit volumetric figures of stars, metal applications, rhinestones. Unusually looks pedicure in the style of "a la fresco".
Decorating nails with multicolored geometric figures intricately interwoven with each other causes associations with stained glass technique and the method of painting Venetian glass. This nail design will not go unnoticed.
A pedicure with a two-tone lacquer on the thumb and ring finger looks very cute and original. Elegance to the coating is added with black and gold bows, as if "tying up" the nail.
How to make a perfect French pedicure gel polish, see the following video.
