Purple manicure: color specifics and fashion ideas

The lilac color has a lot of shades in its spectrum: from the spring light lilac to the deep purple hue of the southern night. Why not use all these beautiful tones in your nails? We will try to reveal in our article a few secrets about nail design with lilac varnish.

The origin of lilac (aka lilac, violet, violet, etc.) is due to the fusion of two primary colors - red and blue. Experimenting with proportion, adding a little more red or blue, you can achieve a purple color of varying degrees of coldness. A cool lilac (violet) indicates a predominance of blue, while a warm plum indicates a predominance of reds.

Lilac manicure is preferred by restrained natures, but those who know their own worth. Delicate lilac tones are suitable for romantic girls, and royal shades of plum are suitable for status ladies. However, this does not mean that you need to adhere to stable stereotypes. Lilac color is the true color of femininity, it has been relevant in clothes and accessories for several seasons, and the nail industry also follows fashion trends. Completely purple manicure or its purple accents are so diverse that every representative of the beautiful half of humanity should try them on to her image.

Before "dressing" your nails in lilac tones of varnish, you need to familiarize yourself with the general principles of purple manicure.

• The colder the tone of the chosen purple varnish, the paler the skin should be. The lilac color is more intended for the cold season and for girls of the cold type of beauty.
• The lilac palette will be appropriate on long and short nails, however, you need to take into account the intensity of the selected tone. For dark, rich tones of varnish, short, short nails are more suitable.On long nails, dark varnish sometimes looks too extravagant.
• To prevent the saturated shade from staining the nail plate, you must first apply a base base of a transparent color.
• The shape of the nails with such a manicure should be perfect, the purple manicure will accentuate any flaw in the shape.

The times when women applied one tone of varnish to all nails are long gone. It is in vogue now to use several compatible colors. Lilac color in a manicure can and should be combined with both calm pastel tones and with such bright and rich colors as purple itself. Among the classic and always relevant combinations, one can note the tandem of lilac with pink, beige, black, white varnish. In summer, combinations of yellow and lilac (dark or light), a green shade of mint with violet will look bright and bold.

Unusual, festive and precious will be a manicure, in which amethyst and turquoise tones, purple and emerald, plum with gold or silver coexist. A very fashionable recently design of a gradient manicure (with a smooth transition from one tone to another) can be created by combining lilac with light pink, raspberry, purple. But if you don't want to experiment with different colors, you can choose a certain tone of purple, and use its matte, metallic, powdered or glossy version on one hand as a highlight.

Various ideas and options for manicure in lilac design excite the heads of nail stylists, whose imaginations have no limit. Let's take a closer look at the classic options and the latest novelties of the season.

• Intricate painting. To create a mixed manicure of white and purple varnish, you will need to cover your nails with white varnish, then, by dipping a brush of purple varnish into the remover liquid, draw a curved line that resembles a branch of a tree. The white and purple varnish will be mixed. To top it off, you can add a few specks in white. You can also take a blue tint and experiment with drawing lines.

• Create unusual purple orchids two tones of lilac varnish will help - darker and lighter. On nails covered with a beige, white or pastel pink base, apply a large light purple drop from the edge or center. It should be applied with dots, but if it is not there, a cotton swab or a round tip of a pin will do. Then, from the center of a large drop, apply dark lilac drops of a smaller diameter in the shape of a flower.

• With the help of dots - a nail tool that helps to create drops of different diameters, ornate lines, petals and flowers, you can come up with a lot of options for purple manicure. In this technique, it is customary to apply the base color to the entire surface of the nails, and then decorate the droplets and lines with varnish of a different tone. So, droplets of golden or silver varnish will look great on the plum shade. In this case, the shape of the drops can vary from large to smaller or change their location: only on the edge of the nail or on the hole, in the form of a triangle. At home, dots can be replaced with an ordinary ballpoint pen, pencil, hair invisible.

• For lovers of clear lines in a manicure, you will need tape to embody the geometric pattern on the nails. Adhesive tape can be glued to nails in different ways: to divide the nail in half diagonally, across, in the form of triangular edges and even a square in the center. For maximum effect, you can use two or three contrasting shades. It can be lilac and white with mint green or yellow, turquoise and eggplant, black and violet, etc.

• Rub for manicure. An unusual mirror effect is created by the so-called manicure rub, which can also be created in purple designs.It is not difficult to buy rub in modern beauty stores, and you can apply this wonderful powder yourself at home. The main thing is to choose a base, in our case it is violet or purple gel polish, as well as rubbing in the desired grinding and a final top coat (matte or glossy if desired).

• French in lilac style suitable for every day or for the office. The edges of the nails can be shaped like a square "smile" or an oval one. Stick a stencil or tape of the desired shape on the nail painted with the main coating (amethyst, light beige, pink), and after drying, paint over the edge according to the stencil (black, blue or white or dark purple varnish). The "inverted jacket" will also look original, when a "smile" at the base of the nail is painted with a contrasting color using a stencil.

• Create a gradient manicure with smooth transitions at home, you can do it yourself, using a regular sponge. Stripes (overlapping each other) of two or three tones of varnish are applied on it in parallel, combined with each other. From the sponge, the pattern is imprinted on the nails, while in order to avoid imprints on the skin, you need to glue the skin around the fingers with adhesive tape.

• Stamping manicure will help to create any desired pattern or pattern on one or more nails. On painted nails with a base coat of dark or light purple tones, you need to print a special manicure stamp with a pattern or pattern. A varnish of a contrasting tone from the base varnish is applied to the stamp, gold or silver patterns on a lilac background will look great.

• Edging or outlined manicure. Its essence is the coloring of the nail along the perimeter in a tone contrasting to the main one. To make such a manicure in a lilac design, you should paint your nails with the main varnish in a purple tone, wait until it dries completely, then make a contrasting accent with a thin brush in the shape of the nail. Any colors are chosen, the main thing is their competent selection. If you wish, you can make a full edging and brush over the entire nail, repeating its shape, but you can leave the edging only on three sides along the perimeter of the cuticle. For the upcoming holiday, jewelry in the form of rhinestones will be useful in such a manicure. Remember that manicure should be decorated with rhinestones in moderation, just one or two nails.

You will learn how to make a edging manicure in the next video.