Manicure and pedicure: new designs and the secrets of perfect nail design

The concepts of "manicure" and "pedicure" are known to every woman. Beautiful nail design gives the female image completeness, and the woman herself - confidence in her own beauty. However, not every one of us has information about what is meant by these terms and from what stages modern nail design consists. But the knowledge of these nuances will allow you to be not only fashionable and perfect: it will help many to learn how to make their own nails, without resorting to the services of professional masters.

Considering the general concepts, we can distinguish several types of manicure and pedicure. They are medical, cosmetic, decorative and permanent. In addition, each type has its own characteristics. For example, the medical version is divided into two types: hygienic and medical. With regards to the cosmetic variety it is worth noting that it is divided into several methods:

• Trimmed. Technique with soaking nails and cutting the cuticle.
• Uncut European technique in which the cuticle is softened with a remuver and pushed back.
• American, practically repeating the classic manicure or pedicure with the only difference that the shape of the nails tends to almond-shaped.
• Brazilian. Methods with a lot of procedures, soaking, using a remuver, moving back and removing the cuticle.

• Japanese The method without the use of coarse metal tools, in which it is important to maximize the natural look of the nail plates.
• Spanish Option with layering contrasting varnishes and technique, similar to the European.
• Spa Complex procedures for improving the skin of the hands and nails.
• Building up Classic and lengthening of the nail using acrylate at the same time.

Hot technique differs from other varieties by adding warm (about 40-50 degrees) lotion to water. The rest is the same classical method. The use of warm lotion helps to soften the skin, such a manicure (pedicure) is especially indicated for dry and coarse skin. Male manicure differs from female one in that they use nippers because of their denser and coarse skin. For children use special tools that do not cause an allergic reaction. In addition, this technique does not include the cutting of nail plates.

In addition, there are techniques on the system Jessica and the hardware method, hot and male, as well as children. As for the hardware technology, it differs from other varieties in that most operations are performed using various nozzles of a special apparatus. This method is also remarkable by the fact that it is always performed on dry nails. The fact that today you can buy home-adapted appliances for sale is also good.

Permanent type involves the use of gel polish. This is a fairly durable and durable design, which is performed using hybrid varnishes that combine the properties of gel and varnish.These lacquer products need to be dried under a special lamp, after which they acquire high wear resistance and do not need correction for almost a month. However, the lifetime of the coating can be reduced if the execution technology has been violated during the execution.

Cover the nails is best gel polish. Anyway, today this product knows no competitors. Besides the fact that he keeps his nails perfectly, he also looks like he has just been made. As a rule, the coating does not lose the attractiveness of the original form for a long time (standardly from two weeks and for some clients up to two months). Durability depends not only on technology: the experience of the master means a lot, as well as his attitude to his work.

Professional manicure or pedicure is performed, as a rule, for a long time. However, sometimes it does not matter whether it is an express method or a full range of procedures with soaking and moisturizing the skin.

The choice of coating for a manicure or pedicure today can confound, because there are many varieties of different varnishes. In addition to the fact that the color palette is replete with a variety of various shades of hybrid products, the coatings themselves attract attention. For example, you can buy today the following options:

• matte;
• glossy;
• chameleon;
• temperature;
• jelly
• Craquelure;

• holographic;
• shimmer;
• with sparkles;
• with the effect of "cat's eye";
• mirror;
• yoghurt

In addition, there are various types of rubbing and acrylates, with which you can change your fingernails beyond recognition. As for fashion trends, today they have their favorites from the list of varnishes presented.

Other popular coatings include glossy gel varnishes. They are an excellent basis for any manicure, and they can easily be matted using a matte top. Other popular coatings include options for a metal surface or a mirror, as well as options with an aquarium effect. Jelly varieties are also a success, as well as translucent coatings.

With the advent of the new season, the trends in the shape of the nail plates of the arms and legs change. As for hand nails, today fashion recommends:

• do not make cuts sharp straight (in the corners they need to be rounded);
• avoid excessive length and sharp edges (butterfly nails are taboo);
• remove false nails from everyday life (it is better to build up your own ones, if their shape is far from ideal);
• avoid short length: priority elongated;
• choose from all types of forms (oval, straight and almond-shaped) that which is more suitable for its natural nails.

It is important to pay attention to the fact that all nails (be it a manicure or pedicure) should have the same length. Different lengths are not allowed, as well as different forms of saw cut. It is necessary to pay attention to each nail, otherwise the flaws will be noticeable on the final result.

Not paid attention to fashion and toenails. Today:

• false nails are absolutely contraindicated;
• under the ban, a large length (maximum nail should rise 2 mm above the finger);
• there should not be any bulk decorations that will cling to anything;
• unacceptable sharpness of the edge of the nail plate.

Decorative manicure and pedicure are also divided into several varieties. For example, they include design:

• classical;
• traditional and inverted jacket;
• lunar;
• gradient;
• powdery;
• veil;
• broken glass effect.

Along with the already established versions, the mod offers today and new designs.To date, there are several of the known techniques of execution. Let's consider their main nuances taking into account current trends.

Classic called monotonous nail design. In this case, the nail plate is painted over the entire area, using any coating with a different type of texture. The classic technique is an excellent base for further decoration of nails. Often for this design and use a coating with a noble texture, which do not need additional decoration. For example, it may be a gel polish with a velvety matte effect.

Someone mistakenly calls the French manicure a classic, although in reality the design differs from the classic one. In contrast, french has a stroke of the upper edge, called a smile. A smile can be different, for example, today, in addition to a thin strip, it is often framed asymmetrically in the form of a diagonal. In addition, it is made on a monochromatic basis, leaving an open triangle.

This technology is nothing more than a french reverse. This design differs in that the smile with it is not drawn up at the top, but at the very base of the nail plate. In this case, often an inverted smile is more like a thin stroke of the nail plate, rather than a bow with a thickened middle. This season, craftsmen often use gold and silver to underline the cuticle area.

This design is something like an inverted jacket. The difference is the shape of the arc. In lunar design, it resembles a semicircle, while in an inverted jacket it is nothing more than a strip. Today it is customary to engage in the design of the so-called negative space reception. Externally, this is an unpainted hole on the background of a monochrome coating. In addition, the popular design of the hole secondary shackle. The hole itself can be made in gold or silver, as well as a lacquer in contrast to the base color.

Under this technique refers to the design of nails with the effect of ombre. This design is created using several contrasting or related shades of gel polish. According to fashion trends, today, the ombra should have the smoothest possible stretch. For this effect, masters rub the transitions of tones with a brush, doing it directly on the nails themselves or using a special sponge.

This technique is performed using a special polymer powder or acrylic powder. The substance has a lot of shades and allows you to create a unique surface texture, which is often compared with semolina. Today it is one of the most popular techniques, however, more often it is used not for the main manicure, but for accent nails. Powder is applied to the top layer, and then dried. If desired, the powder does not create a solid coating, but drawings.

The technique, which allows creating a thin veil on the surface of the nails, has the second name “nylon panty hoses”. Today, this design is among the best and trendy. It is created by adding a few drops of pigment to a transparent gel polish. The resulting translucent lacquer is coated on the surface of the nails and then decorated with drawings made with acrylic paint. The finished design is fixed with a layer of top.

This design today takes the honorable first place in the top three favorites of the season. It is distinguished by ultra-ordinaryity, and create this design with a special film. She removes the protective coating, sometimes remove the sticky layer, cut, and then glued to the nail plate, forming pieces of the film close to each other. After the decor is fixed with two layers of top. On light and dark pigments such a design looks different, but always bright and impressive.

Many of the above techniques imply further decorating the surface of the nails of the hands and feet.Nail decoration today also has some features. Taking into account the fashion trends of the new season today it is accepted:

• reduce the number of used decor, because of this design loses its expressiveness;
• reduce the number of accents (design, in which the decor is on all fingers, looks ridiculous and tasteless);
• get rid of acid and toxic shades of coatings (used tone coatings should be soft and noble);
• strive for minimal use of volumetric decor;
• try to decorate the nails so that the drawings on the general background do not stand out from the color combination of the base and the contrast;
• if possible, create seasonal designs that will allow the design to harmoniously complete any female bow;
• select shades and design, taking into account the basic images;
• use modern decoration techniques that simplify work with drawings;
• to achieve ease of perception of design (overloaded with a complex pattern and an abundance of contrasts, a manicure or pedicure can destroy a woman’s bow).

Ideas of unique design can be very different. For example, today they use different methods of decorations. Among them are especially in demand:

• drawings with acrylic paints and special thin handles, allowing to obtain the thinnest professional lines and patterns;
• all sorts of flat stickers or 3D type, through which you can save time on drawing the small details of the picture;
• stamping or stamps with ready-made patterns that are applied to the surface of the nails by imprinting using a sponge;
• broths or microscopic beads, allowing to give the accent nails original surface texture;
• special foil, due to which even the most concise design can be made bright and spectacular;
• small rhinestones, through which you can add elegance and solemnity in the design of nails, giving them refinement and femininity;
• pieces of newspapers that allow you to create a design with letters or even hieroglyphs;
• all kinds of glitter and glitter, due to which you can vary the design of nails;
• rub or special powder, giving a unique multi-faceted look to even the simplest gel polish.

Seasonal manicure is in fashion: you can decorate the nails of the hands with a fashionable beach pattern depicting the sea coast. Designs with a summer floral theme look harmoniously. The fashionable patterns of the summer season are flowers and plants, as well as twigs, lace and feathers. For autumn designs, leaves and ears are nice.

To date, there are no hard restrictions, testifying in favor of the rejection of different designs and colors. However, in all there should be a sense of proportion. Let's say the same design on the arms and legs looks beautiful and aesthetically pleasing. No less harmonious is the combination of related colors of the color palette in the design of the nails of the hands and feet.

In general, fashion trends are sure that the color of manicure and pedicure may be different, but at the same time it must be combined. Today, stylists suggest not to wrestle with the best duet of color shades, but to take advantage of general harmonious contrasts. Moreover, it is important to consider not only the combination of manicure and pedicure colors: their combination with clothes of wardrobe matters.

Of course, a complete match of the color of the nails on the hands, legs, and even clothes will look boring. It is especially contraindicated to decorate the nails of the hands and feet with gold and even more so with neon. The best combination would be the use of two related shades of the same color. For example, it can be light and rich coral, pink and warm lilac, beige and light brown. Shades may differ by one or more tones, while this look will be quite nice and appropriate.

Complementary colors are possible. For example, it may be a combination of yellow and green, lime and purple. Allowed to combine two bright colors, one more saturated with muted contrast (red with coral, red and white, purple and black). The combination of light and dark tones (beige and wine, white and black, mallow and light pink) looks harmoniously.

In addition to harmonious combinations of neutral shades (for example, gray and white), it is appropriate to combine them with colored paints, as well as gold and silver. It is convenient to combine color when planning a multi-color design. In this case, you can paint the nails of the feet or hands in one of the colors of the accent. Summarizing, we can say that the mixes look beautiful:

• in related color;
• in one range;
• complementary;
• duos of dark with light;
• neutral colors;
• neutral with color;
• multicolored with one of the tones of the pattern;
• with a similar texture;
• with different temperatures of the main color.

Beautiful combinations of shades on the nails are combinations:

• coral and silvery;
• nude with white;
• white with pink;
• blue with white and silver;
• red with white;
• lilac with mint;
• pink with menthol;
• turquoise with white;
• purple with milk;
• mint with pink and lilac;

• blue with powdery;
• white with silver and black;
• yellow with blue;
• coral with blue;
• purple with pink;
• emerald green with orange;
• dark pink with sunny;
• dark blue with white and wine;
• purple with white;
• peach with blue;
• azure with green.

Today, in the color palette there are many noble tones, through which you can make a monochromatic coating without any pattern. The best shades of this season are wine, lilac, purple, mint, beige. Incredibly popular today is the pink color, which is represented in a variety of texture of the varieties produced.

The black color is surprisingly in demand, as well as its combination with color paints of the color palette. Blue and blue colors deserve special attention. This season they are represented by a variety of shades of temperature and saturation. Attention is drawn to maroon-purple color, as well as rubbed coatings.

A modern approach to the design of nails allows you to carry out the procedure yourself at home. In order to make a design at home that is not inferior to a professional one, it is worth preparing the necessary tools for nail processing. These are tweezers for removing the cuticle, nail scissors, as well as tools for lifting and removing the cuticle and pterygium.

We'll have to stock up and a special drying lamp, without which it is impossible to work with gel polish. It is different (UV and LED), different power and size. For a house, the average power variant is enough and the model under which you can place one arm or leg. Budget options for such equipment will be 300-500 rubles. At the same time, such lamps have a built-in timer, which eliminates the need to keep time for drying each applied layer.

For the design itself, it is worth preparing a dehydrator, base and top coatings, pigmented gel varnish and decorative elements. Do not do without an extra brush if you want to use stickers. If you plan to use rubbing or powder, this is also taken care of in advance. Nothing should distract when the procedure has already begun.

In fact, to make nail design at home is not so difficult, although this process will require careful preparation of nail plates and accuracy. This work is the basis of the basics: if you hurry and pull the skin, you can injure it.Consider the main nuances of the manicure (pedicure), which will allow you to understand the very essence of technology design.

Nails are soaked in warm water: it will be easier to work with the cuticle and remove pterygium (skin on the sides, growing into the nail plate). After 10-15 minutes, the fingers are removed from the water and wipe. A softening oil is applied to the skin in the cuticle area. This will simplify the work on the preparation of nails for decoration.

Next, use the tools to clean the side rollers, removing the pterygium. After that, lift the cuticle and cut it, for example, with nail scissors. In order not to cut off more than necessary, the skin is being dragged off: this will show the border of a possible cut, and also save fingers from a painful, injured look.

Form the edge of the nail, giving it the desired shape. At the same time, one should take into account the length and symmetry of each nail plate. If necessary, verify that the nails of the two arms (legs) are identical. They pay special attention to the edge: the design durability and the degree of durability of the coating will depend on its preparation.

If on the sides there are roughness of the skin, you can get rid of them, using a nail file for grinding nail plates. However, this should be done before the fingers soften. After the cuticle has been removed and the side rollers cleaned, it is necessary to remove the gloss from the nails themselves. This will allow the coating to keep longer on the nails.

Clean the gloss using a soft file with a small fraction. Do it gently, not much pressing the file into the nails. In no case can you remove the gloss with an ordinary nail file: this will not only cause roughness, which will prevent uniform spreading of varnishes, but also the nail plate will be thinned.

When the gloss is removed from all nails, you need to remove residual sawdust and oil residue. To do this, use a degreaser or dehydrator. They remove all this so that it does not cause the coating to lag behind the base. At this stage, the preparation of nails is considered finished, it's time to start painting and decorating.

More recently, the nails were painted with ordinary lacquers, and in most cases such coatings were already chipped by the end of the working day. Today, manicure (pedicure) is impossible without special tools that are applied to the nail plate like lacquers themselves. First, take the base or base coat and distribute it with a thin layer over the entire area of ​​the nail. The layer should be practically weightless, because the thickness can cause the composition to leak over the cuticle area and side bolsters.

In addition, it is important to note that all applied layers must be thin, otherwise the coating will quickly peel off the nail and will not last even a few days on it. After drying, the base of the nail is covered with two layers of pigment with drying under a special lamp of each of them. So that the pigmented gel polish does not polosil, after applying you need to give it at least half a minute, and only after that start drying. Time is needed so that the pigment spreads on the nail plate.

If you apply a thick layer of varnish, it will flow over the side rollers and cuticle at the base. For those who are not sure of their accuracy, after preliminary preparation of the nails, it is worth applying a special latex film on the skin around the nails. After application, it will harden and the varnish that falls by the nail will remain on it. You can remove it at the very end of the manicure (pedicure).

After you have painted the nail and dried it under the lamp, it will remain to decorate the accents. To do this, on the selected nails create pictures or stick to them stickers, rhinestones. They glue a similar decor almost always on a layer of undried top. If your design does not provide for decoration, after the pigment, the nails are covered with a layer of top and dried. Next you need to remove the residual stickiness. The work is over.

We bring to your attention Some successful and stylish examples of modern nail design.

• Stylish jacket in a powdery color with an accent in the lunar technique does not go out of fashion.
• A bright solution in the maritime theme will appeal to any fashionista.
• Combining monophonic classics and french. Use two different techniques for legs and arms.
• Effective design of manicure with a plant theme in blue and powdery contrast.
• Chic pedicure in a beach theme with sequins and gilding.
• Design in pink color with the use of stamping and small rhinestones.

• The use of varnishes of different textures, but related colors.
• Harmonious design of nails using kamifubuki and brilliant decor.
• The combination of contrasting tones, stylish and fresh solution for summer.
• Unusual design manicure / pedicure using ethnic ornament.
• Fresh solution in yellow tones. The combination of a jacket with a classic.

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