All about manicure on short nails

Manicure is an important part of a girl's look. Hands are always in sight, and beautiful nails will not go unnoticed. And long nail plates are not always relevant. Short nails always look harmonious, they are comfortable with them under any circumstances, there are no problems with them. And you can make them any - gentle, bright, stylish, graceful. It is useful for every woman to know everything about manicure on short nails.

Hands need special care, because their beauty and youth depend on it. No matter how exquisite and expensive jewelry shines on your hands, all efforts will be in vain if there is no neat, even the simplest, manicure. Some people think that if nails grow poorly, exfoliate and break or there is no way to grow nails, then they do not need to be looked after. This is a misconception. You can apply varnish on small nails in the same way, choosing the appropriate color, style, decoration.

The advantages of small nails are that many types of manicure will look harmonious. And if you don't have enough time, you can do without a master and do a manicure yourself. For these purposes, ordinary varnish is also suitable, the variety of which is present on any showcases of cosmetics stores.

For everyday use, short nails will look advantageous with light and calm tones, without any frills. But evening manicure can be of deeper shades. The only condition is that the varnish must be applied flawlessly. If on light small errors are not striking, then on dark you will not get away from this. So, if there are no skills at all, it is better to contact a manicure master.

There are many technicians, and every year there are more and more of them. Fashion dictates its own, some techniques are replaced by others. Therefore, there are no boundaries when choosing a manicure. You can choose what your fantasy prompts or a real professional in your field.

A win-win option always and everywhere is a jacket. Moreover, its creation is possible at home with ordinary varnish using special strips for the convenience of even application. These kits are sold in many stores. Traditionally, this type of manicure uses transparent and white varnish. But there are various variations that will help your nails look well-groomed and bright at the same time. Therefore, together with a transparent background, a variety of colors are perfectly used: black, blue, red, pink, yellow, green. It all depends on what kind of image he is choosing. Covering with shellac will allow the manicure to last longer. The coating can be supplemented with decorative elements, which will decorate a strict manicure.

An interesting technique that allows you to combine several colors in different versions. The gradient can be either vertical or horizontal. The transition from one color to another can be subtle or more pronounced. Depending on which color palette is selected. But when performing this technique, certain skills are required. More often this option is used when the gradient is present only on one or two nails, and the rest are covered with one of the colors present on these nails or, conversely, with a completely different shade.

This look is considered more businesslike and austere, but at the same time it is always stylish. Everyone is able, even at home, to create simple drawings from lines - parallel or intersecting. Decorate nails with shiny strips or lined with pebbles, rhinestones. It can also be stickers. To apply straight lines and patterns with other shades of varnishes, you can use special templates.

Lunar manicure provides no less ideas for implementation. It can also be very gentle and unobtrusive, as well as catchy and bright. For example, the holes can be pink and the nail white. Often the holes are covered with a clear varnish, and the chosen color is given to the nail. In addition, wells coated with silver or gold, as well as lined with sequins, look good. As with the use of other techniques, in this case, it is also possible to decorate the holes not on all nails, but on the selected two or three, others can be decorated using just one color or a certain combination. With any chosen technique, you first need to think over the whole image, colors, decorations, technique.

Increasingly, you can find nails with a variety of patterns. Manicurists are improving their artistic skills more and more and can make drawings of any complexity. Yes, and such nails look unusually beautiful, because for each occasion, mood, season, celebration, you can choose a suitable pattern or pattern. It can be contrasting, made of several combinations of shades. Someone likes intricate plexus in the form of abstract compositions, while others are quite fond of butterflies and flowers. But such nails will definitely emphasize the individuality of their owner.

The modern type of drawing allows you to do such a manicure even at home, provided that you have all the necessary tools, gel polish, a drying lamp and the templates themselves on which the drawings will be applied. First, the prepared and processed nails are covered with the first layer of varnish, dried, then the second layer follows. Everything is as usual. But then you need to select the desired pattern, the colors that will be used, and apply them.

It is necessary to apply paint to the plate carefully and make sure that it fits well into all the grooves of the template pattern, otherwise it will turn out to be fuzzy or dim on the nails. After practicing a few times, you can fully learn how to do a wonderful manicure for yourself and your girlfriends, even without any artistic skills.

You can work wonders with this kind of nail design. But here the hand of the master is already needed. With the help of an airbrush, you can apply any clear bright patterns or, conversely, create nails when one color transition is required to another. It is possible to depict volumetric drawings that will surprise you with their originality. You can create dew drops on your nails, imitation of lace, crocodile or snake skin. This is a new trend, but it has already gained popularity, as it expands the horizons of nail design.

Fashion, as you know, is changeable, and sometimes avid women of fashion have to adapt to new trends, even if some options do not suit them at all. In manicure, everything is much simpler and more interesting. The entire color spectrum and any experimentation are encouraged. The main thing is that the manicure is combined with the rest of the look and looks harmonious.

There are preferred colors, they can be found most often in the creation of a manicure. These include lemon, light green, mint, blue, turquoise. In everyday manicure, soft pink, beige, gray are widely used. As for evening and festive manicure, then, of course, richer and more vibrant shades remain favorites here. And for these cases, raspberry, coral, red, orange, hot pink are suitable.

The finishing touch of a manicure, which will give it a kind of charm, can be a decoration. The main thing is to choose it so that it matches both the color and the pattern. Then the manicure will be really chic and creative.

A drawing on one, two or three nails always looks advantageous, giving the design a certain zest. But it is not always possible to make a beautiful drawing with high quality. Here you cannot do without certain skills. But in such cases, stickers will come to the rescue, of which there are a great many. You just need to glue them carefully, following the instructions.

There are water-based, glue-based stickers and those that are glued with a special glue, which should come with them. Water-based decals need to be wetted to separate from the base. The most convenient for beginners to use - glue-based. It is enough to separate them and carefully glue them on the nail, then secure them with a transparent coating. Those that need to be applied with glue require a more careful approach, the first time it may not work out perfectly.

A variety of stickers allows you to choose a pattern for a particular holiday, season, mood, any color, style and design. There are stickers both on the entire nail plate and on a part of it. If your nails are short, it is better to choose smaller stickers, and, of course, you should not glue them on all nails, you need to choose those that are worth emphasizing.

Pebbles will add shine and chic to nails, decorate them on a festive evening, the judicious use of decorative elements will be a wonderful stylish decoration in everyday design. The holes of the nails are decorated with rhinestones; one whole nail can also be covered with stones. It is also relevant to lay out some figurine on one or two nails, for example, a heart or a butterfly.

The stones can be of the same color or different. It is worth noting that the work of sticking stones, and especially patterns from them, is painstaking, requires perseverance and patience. Most likely, for the first time, it will not be easy to stick complex compositions on your own. Therefore, it is better to start with something simple. First, add one or two pebbles to the composition.

Foil also provides no less opportunity for nail decoration. It is sold in departments and shops where you can buy everything for nails: all kinds of varnishes, paints, stickers, tools, rhinestones and other manicure accessories. The foil can be plain and with embossing, patterns. It should be borne in mind that the use of foil will make the nails sparkling, bright. Geometric figures, strips are glued from foil, they decorate the holes, tips or completely the nail. Foil requires special glue and a transparent finish that will secure the result and allow the manicure to stay intact for longer.

Each season is characterized by its own manicure, choice of shades, decorations. You can, of course, focus only on your preferences and mood, but if you take into account the seasons, you can make a fashionable and sophisticated nail design.

Spring is a time of delicate colors, revival, lightness in everything. Therefore, ideally, a manicure is airy and graceful. The best shades will be white, blue, light green, mint, pale pink, beige, light green. A two-tone manicure will look good if you combine, for example, blue and white, pink and beige, green and blue. It is good at this time to make a transparent application with various decorations - beads, pearls, rhinestones. Such a manicure will have a feeling of weightlessness, lightness and beauty.

Drawings and patterns should also inspire a spring mood. It can be butterflies, ladybugs, birds, all kinds of flowers and leaves. A design like this will surely create a spring mood. Those who like more saturated shades can choose bright green with yellow, blue with blue, deeper turquoise with mint.

Winter is the coldest time of the year. On the one hand, you can emphasize its cold beauty, and on the other, you can create a drop of warmth. A feature of winter is the onset of a favorite holiday by many, for which they prepare in advance, and, of course, think over an outfit, a hairstyle, and with it a manicure. In a festive manicure, shiny and sparkling inserts are most often present. Foil, rhinestones, and iridescent varnishes are suitable here.

New Year's drawings can also be appropriate if they are not limited to one evening. For example, walking with Santa Claus on your nails for two weeks is definitely not entirely appropriate, a spruce branch or snowflakes are quite appropriate throughout the winter, like a cheerful snowman. But in general, cold calm and sparkling shades - silver, gray, pearl, white, blue, blue - are suitable for winter manicure.

Autumn is the time of colors, farewell to summer. Nature itself suggests that all shades of red, yellow, orange will look very harmonious. All of them go well both with each other and with other correctly selected shades. As pictures, you can choose a wide variety of autumn leaves, berries, multi-colored umbrellas, raindrops.

The time of unbridled imagination and bold ideas is summer. And here a riot of colors is quite acceptable. In the summer everything is possible. A rainbow on your nails would be appropriate. You can choose any shades, combine them with each other, create interesting patterns, apply drawings. And if you have a vacation at sea ahead, all the more you can use a very large number of drawings. Among them are anchors, ships, dolphins, starfish, shells, seagulls, waves of the sea, the sun. And, of course, flowers, dragonfly butterflies, rainbows and everything that fantasy and summer mood prompts are the eternal summer theme.

If you want to grow long nails, but you can't, or they cause a lot of inconvenience, this is not a reason for frustration. You can make a lengthening manicure, then the nails will look spectacular and bright.

• It is a mistake to think that only light varnish looks good on short nails. In fact, visually, the nails will look longer if they are covered with dark varnish. The ideal option would be a cat-eye manicure.
• A jacket is also suitable, the thin white tips of the nails will also visually lengthen the nail plate. And not necessarily white, they can be coated with any contrasting bright varnish. And the thinner the top strip, the more impressive a manicure on short nails will look.
• Drawings should be applied only vertical, horizontal should be avoided. Vertical stripes and all figures and pictures that visually lengthen the nail plate will do. For example, a twig should be placed vertically; it is better to use an oval elongated flower rather than a round one. Using this principle, you can make sure that any short nails will look advantageous.

A neat and discreet manicure is suitable for every day, especially if you need to look strict at work. For these purposes, a jacket of a natural tone is suitable. The nails look flawless, but at the same time create a feeling of well-groomed and good taste.

For teenagers, you can also create a modest and uncomplicated manicure. The tones should be gentle, and funny designs can be placed on one or two nails. For example, a pale pink varnish will look very good, and a pink owl of a more saturated color on a white nail will become an interesting decoration. But this is a more festive option or suitable for a vacation. And for every day, it is better to apply a colorless varnish to your nails.

Youth manicure is, rather, multi-colored, bright, creating a feeling of celebration and the desire to be happy every day. The combination of bright pictures, different colors, inscriptions is understandable. After all, a manicure is also one of the ways to express your attitude.

Colored manicure will suit every woman. The main thing is that the shades are combined with each other and complement each other. For example, for a sunny summer day, a manicure would be a good option, where yellow, blue and pink are combined, and thin stripes complement. This design is suitable for both everyday life and holidays.

Strict and business manicure does not imply special excesses and riot of colors. Therefore, it can be made in one color, and it should be a discreet and bright color, but restrained. Decorations may also be present, but harmoniously combined with the overall look. Monochromatic nails covered with a beautiful varnish often look very good.

A special responsibility for the master is to choose a manicure for the bride. This is a special day, so the manicure should be the same. He is selected, of course, in accordance with the attire of the bride. But traditionally, almost everyone strives to ensure that the design is delicate and graceful. Some people choose monograms and white flowers as decorations, while others choose iridescent rhinestones. White in combination with silver looks spectacular. A few colored stones will be the finishing touch in this case.

For information on how to make a jacket on short nails, see the next video.