White gel polish: design options and recommendations for use

Hybrid nail coatings are easy to use and durable. They are unique, fresh and pleasing to the eye, allowing for the most varied designs. Among the huge list of color solutions, white gel polish is especially popular in the new season. Let's take a closer look at its features and techniques through which you can make even the most laconic manicure unique with it.

White gel polish is conventionally referred to as the universal colors of the palette. It goes well with many contrasting shades, looks good on nails of different shapes. However, this color is quite picky about the length of the nails. It looks more aesthetically pleasing on marigolds of medium length. It visually shortens and flattens short plates, which is important to consider when the length is insufficient.

This color is able to emphasize the features of the nail plate. This is bad for those cases where the side walls of the nail bed are not parallel. Strengthening the imperfection of the natural shape of the side walls of the trapezoidal or barrel-like type, the white color of the gel polish makes both fingers and hands ugly.

The white color of the gel polish is beautiful, but it can rarely do without color or neutral contrast. The fact is that by itself it does not carry an emotional tint. On the one hand, this is good, because white suits most items of women's wardrobe and many accessories.However, on the other hand, it is the contrasts that help him acquire the desired mood and high status.

White gel polish is picky about a woman's age. If it looks good on the nails of young fashionistas and luxurious women, then older ladies can use such a varnish only as an accent (background for the design). This is explained by the accentuation of the skin, which, alas, becomes wrinkled and flabby with age. And the white color of the coating will especially draw attention to it.

White is a full reflection of light rays. It is for this reason that many overly diluted tones are considered white. Thus, you can designate many different tones of white, for example, there is a tone in the color palette:

• pure white (no color impurities);
• soft porcelain (barely gray, glossy);
• frosty (almost blue-white, translucent ice);
• snowy (slightly lighter than frosty);
• ivory (white with a yellowish undertone);
• milky (matte with a barely noticeable admixture of beige);
• pearl white (pearl white with a grayish tone);
• sea ​​foam (mixed with beige and cream);
• flour (soft matte);
• coconut (white matte, slightly transparent);
• opal (white matte);
• lunar (slightly lighter than milky).

Different shades of white gel polish look completely different on the nails of women of different types. For example, for a winter color type, a pure white color and a shade with a barely noticeable bluish undertone are good. The summer type needs a soft color. Options with the inclusion of a gray tone are also suitable. Harsh whites won't look pretty here. In general, it is worth relying on the rule: the shade of white should be in harmony with the white of the eyes. It is he who will be the best for a particular woman.

For girls with the spring type, it is better to choose white options with a yellowish undertone, as well as an ivory shade. "Autumn" needs white with the addition of cream or beige. This color type needs the darkest shades of white.

White gel polish is unlimited in design and manicure technique. It can be used for techniques such as classic, traditional or reverse french, moon design, gradient, veil, broken glass, powder. In each of them, he can look chic, bringing notes of elegance and high status to the set. However, in this case, you will have to take into account the type of coverage, because often it is this nuance that spoils even the best design idea.

For example, when choosing a classic manicure with a solid color of nails, it is important to rely not so much on the decor as on the texture of the coating. For example, a white color, decorated with a light mother-of-pearl veil, will look more aesthetically pleasing than a poisonous matte version, which is strikingly striking. Here you can also pay attention to the matte varieties of gel polish with a textile effect. Without shouting about yourself, such options will significantly raise the status of even the most laconic manicure.

At the same time, drawings can already be created on any background in a pure white tone, so that they seem clearer. White gel polish for a gradient can be different: here a combination of shades with different "temperatures" and degrees of transparency is welcomed.

In addition, the white color combines well with colored pigments, allowing you to perform beautiful stretching both vertically and horizontally, and inside any shape on an accent nail of a manicure (pedicure). It can be used as a base for further application of acrylic powder, thereby creating an original volumetric texture of the nail. For the veil technique, a translucent texture is chosen, "broken glass" needs a glossy varnish.

The choice of this or that contrast for white gel polish can be limited by its "temperature" and the degree of transparency. It is easier to combine soft white with a tiny touch of gray, this tone is more versatile. Regardless of the tone of white, it goes well with nude. At the same time, the nude tone can be either light or dark, warm, cold, glossy, matte.

As a neutral color, it looks good with black or gray tones. In addition, it can be decorated with silver and gold, as well as bronze. At the same time, the version of the pattern made in gold (bronze or silver) on a specially created black substrate made of gel polish or special gel paint will be especially beautiful.

Contrasts of white have become fashionable combinations of white this season:

• with pink and gold;
• blue and silver;
• blue and marble;
• black and green;
• mint and turquoise;
• blue and pink;
• red and orange;
• gray and silver;
• lilac and purple;
• eggplant and nude;
• emerald and black.

Red-white, wine-red contrast and combination with burgundy are considered today one of the trendy mixes using white gel polish. The same can be said for the use of white in designs with silver and gray-white contrast.

Depending on the type of white gel polish itself, it is used in different drawing techniques. For example, in the standard version, it becomes the background for a design using the watercolor painting technique, in which the coating is buffed to obtain the necessary roughness. When you need a background for drawing with gel or colored gel varnishes, the coating is not sealed with a top.

If you need drawings using the flowering technique, use a special white gel polish with a special structure. It differs from conventional analogs, since it contains a substance that accelerates the spread of varnish in all directions. This is what makes it possible in a matter of seconds to create various flowers and patterns on a white background using similar pigments with a blooming effect. Their palette is not large today, but such a design looks extraordinary.

As for the actual manicure drawings that can be created using white gel polish, their themes are diverse. In addition, it depends on whether the gel polish itself is considered the background or paint in this case. If it is used as a paint, all kinds of lace and openwork, nets, mehendi, dot patterns are painted with it. It is also a great color for floral themes, various monograms. White lacquer is used to outline the created drawings.

If varnish is the background on accent nails of a manicure, you can paint on it anything your heart desires, from simple polka dots to complex artistic painting with penumbra. However, it is important to take into account the seasonality of the design, which is one of the leading trends in nail fashion this season.

If it's autumn outside, you should start from a specific month, dressing up your nails with a print with colorful leaves, bare trees, frozen puddles, the first snow powder. Winter designs can even accentuate a specific mood, such as anticipating the Christmas holidays. These are deer, gifts, Christmas decorations, garlands, snowflakes, knitted patterns.For spring designs, refer to the theme of early flowers and early birds.

Geometric and Scandinavian ornaments are mega-actual on a white background. In addition, boho manicure is in vogue, which can beautify accent nails with a white backing. It is fashionable to decorate nails with elongated triangles, diagonal lines, and french with dots.

You can decorate a manicure using white gel polish with various decorative techniques. For example, you can use for this the currently popular kamifubuki, depicting with their help a gradient or even a "smile" of French manicure. If you want something different, you can pay attention:

• for stamping;
• slider design;
• 3D stickers or fimo;
• rhinestones and crystals;
• yuki sequins and flakes;
• transfer and tear-off foil;
• acrylic powder or rub.

There can be many ideas for using decor. For example, a plain white background can be covered with rubbing, draw a drawing on it and sprinkle it with acrylic sand. This design looks very unusual and impressive.

If you like stones, you can inlay accent nails of manicure with them, combining stones with rhinestones or broths.

White gel polish is applied to prepared nails. First, a hygienic manicure is performed, getting rid of the cuticle and excess skin growing into the nail from the sides. It is removed with a pusher and scissors or a milling cutter. After shaping the edge and leveling the length, the nail must be buffed, passing along its surface with a soft polisher to delicately remove the gloss.

Further, dust is removed from the nail, degreased and applied with a primer, followed by a layer of base coat. Moreover, each applied material is necessarily dried in a special lamp for hardening and solidification of the applied substance. After the base for painting is prepared, the nails are painted with gel polish. Considering that it does not dry without a lamp, you can take your time and carefully paint over the nail plate.

To prevent the varnish from flowing over the side ridges and cuticles, it is applied in a thin layer. In half a minute from the moment of application, it will evenly spread over the entire area of ​​the nail, and therefore will not strip. It is undesirable to send the nail to drying immediately after staining. Since the layer will be slightly sticky after staining, do not touch it with your hands. In order for the line of coloring at the base of the nail to be even, it should be painted on with a thin manicure brush.

Considering that one layer, as a rule, is not enough to stain the nail, the staining and drying operation is repeated. At the same time, one must not forget to walk along the end of the nail plate, sealing it with the thinnest possible layer so that it does not break off from the base during wear.

After the second layer has dried, you need to design and then seal all layers with a finishing agent (top). It is applied in a thin layer, evenly spreading over the nail, overlapping the pigment and design, not forgetting about the end of the nail plate. Thereafter, the coating is dried in a lamp. After 30 seconds after drying, it remains to remove the residual stickiness using a nail polish remover without acetone.

You need to apply the coating correctly, remembering to use both the base and the top. According to the reviews of the masters, it is important to carefully select the texture of both the background and the "companion". For example, the color pigment "cat's eye", through which space design is created today, goes well with white.White gel polish looks beautiful on a translucent background using the “veil” technique. In addition, you can create a play of texture using both matte and glossy gel polish in the design.

Finally, we bring to your attention a few examples of the successful use of white gel polish in manicure design.

A laconic solution with accentuation of the cuticle area with gold foil.

Design in neutral colors with asymmetrical accent nail inlay.

Luxurious wedding manicure with openwork lace.

A bright solution in combination with red and white.

French designs using silver fill the manicure with elegance.

The option with rhinestones will not leave indifferent any fan of sparkling stones.

The floral design on a white background looks light and airy.

Geometry is at the forefront of other design types this season.

A chic combination of delicate shades in a winter manicure.

An original and bright solution for summer with rich contrasts.

Delicate design with a floral theme will adorn the image of a romantic nature.

The stylish geometric design will appeal to fans of minimalistic solutions.

For an overview of white gel varnishes, see the next video.