Blue gel polish: the best combinations and manicure ideas

Each season stylists recommend new color combinations and interesting solutions. Now one, then another color enters into fashion, becomes irrelevant. However, the blue palette always stands alone, timeless and fashionable. This noble color never looks old-fashioned or outdated.

The blue palette is incredibly diverse, it contains a huge number of shades: from pale blue to bluish black. This range includes such stunning shades as cornflower blue, aquamarine, sapphire, indigo and others. The palette is so rich that every fashionista can choose her own shade. Blue is a very indicative, "speaking" color, because it symbolizes the sea, sky, air, space and freedom. Lovers of blue are both noble and elegant, while light and freedom-loving. Blue is always among the most popular shades, it is ideal for anyone who is tired of brightness, but does not want to move to a faceless neutral scale. The blue color allows you to create sophisticated and status images, original and at the same time light and unobtrusive.

However, this range is quite capricious in terms of compatibility. You need to know exactly how to combine it correctly, otherwise, instead of an elegant and elegant composition, you can get ridiculous and vulgar. To do this, you need to remember the following basic rules for using blue:

• choose those tones, in combination with which the skin looks attractive and fresh; if your hands seem dirty, this is not your shade;
• pay attention to the length of your nails - the shorter they are, the less likely a dark shade will look good; give preference to light blue options;
• do not forget about hair color, otherwise the image will not look whole; light-skinned blondes are best suited for a deep, rich gamut of blue without impurities, dark-skinned brunettes are ideally suited for a matte finish, bright and catchy tones, redheads can practically not limit themselves in their choice, blue, of course, is their color;
• you should be wary of the indigo shade, because it goes very few people; if your skin has nothing to do with pure olive color, it is better not to risk it;
• be guided by the clothes that suit you - if a dark blue dress refreshes you, feel free to try such a coating;
• if you hesitate as to how appropriate a particular shade of blue is in a particular situation, choose a muted dark one, as it is the most versatile.

A solid blue coating is the most laconic, canonical version of a manicure, but color combinations will help to revive the design. It is a little easier to combine blue on nails than in clothes, but still here you need to know what the blue does and does not harmonize with. A great design solution in blue tones is to choose it as a base and decorate with light accents. Ornament, drawing, stones - in any case, such a move will add airiness to the design. It is worth paying attention to the following most successful combinations of blue:

• one of the most popular contrasting combinations of blue with a yellow-sandy palette; the ideal option is ombre, a gradient from rich blue to yellow or sand;

• fans of catchy and non-standard solutions can venture into a tandem of blue and deep, pink or ruby;

• if you are planning to create a thin and light manicure, then you should choose a gray-blue option; this duet will be especially gorgeous in combination with silver;

• when drawn to restraint and sophistication, it is better to pay attention to the light range of blue and combine it with black or white; the laconicism of such ensembles will be incredibly expressive;

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• a completely safe option - to combine the luxury of blue with gold; this option is great for evening manicure.

Having considered all sorts of combinations of shades of blue gel polish, you should choose the design idea that fits perfectly into the image. There are a lot of variations of fashionable manicure in dark blue, bright blue and light blue. This is a gradient, a classic jacket, moonlit, geometric, with the effect of broken glass, matte and glossy, minimalistic, satin, “newspaper print”. The decorative elements are also quite varied: rhinestones, patterns, metal, powder, glitter, modeling. First of all, it is better to always bet on naturalness and moderate saturation, since it is this mood that meets the fashion trends of the season. A flashy, controversial, controversial design is best left for the masquerade.

It is worth dwelling in more detail on stylish manicure design ideas.

• Shine. The simplest and at the same time effective design solution can be considered a combination of blue and gloss. Here you can highlight one nail with sparkles, rhinestones, any glitter, metal. If there is a celebration ahead, you can not be shy and let the luxurious blue background demonstrate the radiance of the compositions of stones, flowers and glitter.

• Metal. It is especially worth highlighting all the combinations of blue and metallic shades that are so relevant in the current season. Here you can list not only graceful metallic accents, but also mirror manicure.The latter is a real fashion trend, because it is he who gives an incomparable impression of well-groomed and pure brightness to nail art.

• Drawing. Here the possibilities of the master and the model are practically unlimited. It is enough to be guided by the above-described rules for combining colors to determine the composition. The choice of patterns and ornaments is incredibly large. It can be fashionable floral motifs, strict and laconic geometry, hieroglyphs, newspaper prints, formulas, inscriptions, animalistic drawings. Only a flight of fancy and the dress code of the event can limit this category of painting. An ideal choice for a sophisticated versatile manicure - white lace on a dark blue background. It is the main coating in this palette that will serve as a great backdrop for the image of Christmas moods and compositions.

• Gradient. The fashion for smooth transitions is not going to give way to the won positions. In a situation with a blue palette, ombre is not limited to all shades of blue. Smooth stretch marks from blue to sandy, white are magnificent. Hit of the season - the gradient from azure to white. Blue gradient, like the design in this palette in general, is a win-win winter design option. Snow, snowflakes, cold blue - all these are perfect tools for the embodiment of winter plots and motives.

• Geometry. Here peas, circles, ovals, polygons and the incredibly popular cell today come to the fore. The best choice for the implementation of contrasting combinations is precisely strict geometry. She is able to balance and contain any of the most daring color schemes.

• French and moon manicure. Classic and reverse French manicure has long gone beyond the white-nude combination. It is the bright shades that make the jacket expressive and modern today. The blue border can decorate both the tip of the nail, so you can choose the blue as the main background and highlight the holes. Variations of blue decor on a neutral white jacket are varied.

• Matte and glossy. The blue is ideal both in the embodiment of a lustrous gloss and a velvet matte base. Both textures harmoniously coexist in one image, they emphasize each other and eliminate the need to use additional decor.

• Minimalism. Austerity does not exclude the use of a blue palette in design. You can use both pastel shades and muted tones. You can complement such a manicure with unobtrusive accents: white dots, the thinnest silver stripe or a delicate ornament highlighted on the nail.

• Evening chic. In order to use blue in a formal design, a simple monochrome coating and a few highlighted nails are enough. However, it is the blue color that completely emphasizes the shine of rhinestones, glitter, and the magnificence of modeling. A black and blue, matte glossy, velvet or satin base will be the perfect option for a status noble design.

Beautiful nails in blue tones allow a combination of several techniques. For example, the nude base and blue border of French manicure will sparkle with completely different colors if one of the marigolds is covered with blue and emphasized with a white floral pattern.

It is very easy to turn an everyday manicure into an evening one by decorating a glossy blue finish with catchy and spectacular compositions of rhinestones. The main thing is to observe the measure.

Gloss and blue are the perfect duo. Accenting selective fingers with silver will help to diversify this design. This composition is very simple to perform, but does not look boring.

Luxurious blue can be incredibly harmonious in simple, minimal designs. A monochrome blue finish paired with a nude accent finger and a tiny unobtrusive pattern is exactly what you need for an elegant look.

The combination of different techniques in the blue range does not look bulky and overloaded if you think over the design well.Blue, black nail, black-blue gradient, silvery geometrically-abstract composition harmoniously intertwine, complement and emphasize each other

The laconic matte finish will luxuriously set off the glossy design of the nail border. Nothing superfluous, but incredibly stylish and stunning.

Top 3 designs with blue gel polish in the video below.