Features of black manicure for short nails
Black manicure for short nails is one of the hits of modern nail design. The color is quite noble, with a skillful approach to design, it allows you to effectively and statusally complement the female image for different styles and ages. But in order for a manicure to successfully fit into a particular bow, you need to know the features of perception, correlate the color with the shape of the nail plates and choose a modern decor.
Length and shape
The black is quite bright. He immediately accentuates not only the length of the nails, but also sharply denotes their shape. This may be the main drawback of poor design, which is associated with the wrong choice of specifically your nail shape. It depends on the side walls of the plate and the well. In order for the black color not to enhance the imperfections of the form, it will be necessary to play up the imperfections in the form, remove the visual heaviness and create the illusion of balance.
Even if it seems that you need to give preference to a fashionable form, on short nails this is not always possible. Ideally, you can not worry if the side walls of the nail plates are parallel to each other. In this case, the black color of the gel polish on the nails will look beautiful with both a straight and a pointed saw cut line.
As for the other two types of nail plates, here you will have to build on the generally accepted rules of nail service professionals. For example, if the side walls are barrel-shaped, you simply have to not paint over the sides, stepping back from them to maintain the visual balance of the shape.
If the nail plate is triangular, you will have to file the overgrown edge with a slight angle, and then choose a straight saw cut.Here, too, do not paint on the sides, which will allow you to align the triangular shape to a straight line.
Color solutions
Black refers to the neutral colors of the color palette. And he will accept the mood that the contrast will have. At the same time, it can be combined with absolutely any color of the palette from white and neon. However, regardless of your own preferences, you need to adhere to the rule of relevance. For example, if a set can become elegant with silver, with a neon lemon, a manicure is suitable only for the image of a young rebel.
Color contrast can be conveyed through pigmented gel polish, gel, acrylics, rhinestones, stones, glitter, slider designs, or even stamping. It should be borne in mind that black can lose its nobility if there are too many contrasts. It is preferable to rely on the nobility of the texture, rather than hanging and filling nails with a complex design.
Fashion trends
Striving for minimalism is in fashion. Despite the fact that black is not considered a natural color of nails, it can be used to perform a wide variety of modern solutions that emphasize the image of a woman who is confidently holding on to the peak of a fashionable wave. There are several trends to take advantage of this season, namely:
- highlighting the cuticle area with a bow made of small rhinestones;
- reducing the number of accent nails to three, or even two;
- simplification of decorating manicure, its strict dosage;
- point placement of accents in no more than a few places;
- contour outline of the nail plate with a thin contrasting line;
- play of matte and glossy textures in French design;
- inlaid accent nails with small crystals;
- use of peel-off foil accents in design;
- combining a glossy texture with acrylic sand;
- creating a pattern with powder;
- using a gradient technique with a smooth stretch from deep black to gray or white.
In addition, marble patterns and the cobweb effect are now fashionable, which are created with special varnish products.
In different techniques
Black manicure can be done taking as a basis not only the classic design with its characteristic full coloring of the nails in one color. Today, combined solutions are more popular, in which you can successfully beat the lack of length of short nail plates. For example, you can combine French manicure and classics, a veil and a jacket, a reverse jacket and the reception of negative space, in which part of the plate is covered only with transparent material.
Veil is a technique with applied translucent varnish and often contoured strokes., which allows you to create the effect of a nylon stocking. At the same time, against such a background, you can create various patterns in both black and other colors. A vertical strip of gradient created with acrylic powder looks mega-beautiful on such a basis.
In addition, you can paint in black on a semi-transparent black background, covering the resulting pattern with golden or silvery pollen. The black and gold or black and silver print will look gentle and status.
You can decorate the design of a black classic manicure with the technique of broken glass. Due to the overflow of a thin film, which is cut into small pieces and then glued onto a liquid top, the manicure will look very bright and impressive. In addition, you can combine a traditional and an inverted jacket, which also looks very interesting. A duet of classics and lunar design can turn out to be no less expressive in black.
Decor
The nail industry pleases its fans with a huge spectrum of all kinds of decor, with the help of which you can bring the desired mood and status into the manicure, and often emphasize the purpose of the women's bow. From the list of all kinds of decorative elements, the most relevant in the design of black manicure can be distinguished:
- kamifubuki;
- tear-off foil;
- stasis;
- glitter;
- painting;
- stamping;
- slider design;
- rubbing;
- acrylic Powder.
Despite the fact that there are many tools for nail decoration, you need to combine them correctly. For example, kamifubuki should not be combined with rhinestones in the same design, as this will simplify the type of manicure, making it cheap. At the same time, rubbing is an excellent base for further decorating nails. At the same time, for black, you can use pollen options with a different effect, ranging from fine-grained pearls to mica flakes of yuca.
Rubbing in can become the backdrop of accent nails. Thanks to the black varnish, it can acquire a different effect and degree of elegance. For example, it can be gold, silver, mirror, metal, fabric, or even leather. If you paint on such a background with black gel or stick acrylic powder on it, the design will acquire uniqueness. As for stamping, on a black background, it should be minimal. In this case, it is allowed to perform a stamped print using the gradient technique.
Design ideas
Seasonality has become one of the priority areas of nail fashion. Of course, it is not so easy to implement it, having black gel polish as a base. However, decorative elements can be used. For example, you can glue holographic snowflakes on accent nails, which will indicate the approach of New Year's holidays. If you want to point out the winter theme, you can depict the effect of snow powder in your design using silver acrylic sugar and create an unusual look with it.
For a summer manicure, you can take a plant or floral theme as a basis, depicting a print in one color on your nails. Let's say it can be a white flower on a black background, or, conversely, a black plant on a white accent nail base. Feathers and spikelets drawn with a thin brush look beautiful on accent nails. The second drawings can be used for autumn manicure, decorating them in places of the grains with gold glitter or rhinestones.
You can take geometric design as a basis. Today it is ultramodern, and black can be chosen here as a base and a drawing. For example, you can use the idea of geometric shapes, draw straight lines on accent nails with points of different sizes located on them. In addition, hollow geometric shapes and all kinds of triangles are in fashion.
Regarding the latter, it is worth noting: they allow you to visually lengthen short nail plates. To do this, the master usually draws an elongated triangle from the base of the nail plate to its upper edge. Another option that allows you to create the effect of length is a contour rectangle, which is drawn on the accent or even all the nails of the hands. This trick allows you to draw out the imperfection of a short nail plate, the lateral ridges of which are not parallel.
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