Silver manicure: decor features and fashion trends

Shine always gives charm and mystery, so silver manicure is popular with women of any age. This trendy nail art goes well with outfits that have a shimmering effect, and looks beautiful with both dresses and trousers. Today, such a design is easy to create at home using silver varnish, foil or glitter.

Silver manicure is considered one of the new products in the modern nail industry. Girls most often choose it for the festive decoration of marigolds, while silver trim is widely used in everyday looks.

This design combines several stylistic directions. It can be performed using various techniques of applying patterns and lines of silver color. Marigolds also look original, in which the plates are covered with a uniform color and fine shiny pollen.

For some of the fair sex, this nail art is associated with nobility and chic, while others consider it too defiant and impudent. Despite this, silver manicure is becoming more and more popular every season, as it is ideal for both short and long nails. You can also get an interesting composition on plates of any shape.

A good choice is a silver design for celebrating a birthday, wedding, New Year's Eve, or for a romantic dinner with your loved one in a restaurant. For everyday life, nail art is recommended to be decorated differently, choosing modest silver patterns or sequins. In this case, you can enhance the effect of bright shine on the nails with accessories such as bracelets and rings. To make "elegant" nail art happy for a long time, it is best to do a manicure with gel polish.

Silver color belongs to the cold palette, so it is unobtrusively and stylishly combined with any style and shade of clothing. Many designers consider silver to be the main component of a modern girl's bow. In addition, this shade is in perfect harmony with all colors of the gamut. Its combination with individual colors is especially ideal.

• With black. Silver-black nail art can be used both for formal evening dress and for everyday decoration.
• With gray. This combination gives elegance and is often chosen to create a classic jacket.
• With blue. In this case, the metallic color softens the contrasting tone.
• With white. Combining these two shades, you can get an airy and unusually delicate manicure. The white and silver option is most often chosen for brides.

In addition, silver can be applied to a lilac or mint background, making it the centerpiece of the composition. Solid purple marigolds decorated with chaotic lines or sequined patterns also look good. You can also paint the plates with metallic varnish and supplement them with a silver rub. The only thing that designers do not recommend using a gold coating in such a manicure, since these two types of metal do not harmonize well with each other and look ridiculous on the nails together.

Silver nail designs are usually used for two-tone and monotonous manicure. For example, a jacket decorated in monochrome shades on the main part of the plate and a smile favorably emphasized by a matte silver texture would be an ideal solution. The combination of French manicure on short and medium nail plates with sparkles also looks beautiful.

As for the decor, it is undesirable to decorate this manicure with rhinestones, as they can be lost against a bright background. It is best to replace them with an image in the form of geometric shapes, or create a beautiful pattern lined with rhinestones on a red or white cover.

• Sequins. They are applied to the nails with an adhesive applicator. For this, a colored varnish or base is first applied to the surface of the plate. Small decorative particles quickly stick to the base, and they are fixed with a top. Dusters made of sparkles look beautiful in a fashionable manicure, they are placed in such a way that the number of sparkles gradually increases from the base of the nail to its end. Each of the above materials provides a stunning effect and is characterized by unique features.

• Mirror rub. It is an aluminum powder that is rubbed into the coating with a finger or a sponge. Such decor, as a rule, is made on a colored base made with simple varnish or gel varnish. To get a sticky layer, you need to apply a special top to your nails. The design result depends on the harmony of colors.So, the silver pigment will look different on a white, bright red or black background.

• Mica. It has a dry and layered structure that looks like a natural material. She is considered the ideal raw material for creating silver manicure. To arrange such a decor, it is necessary to prepare the nail plates well, cover them with a base and dry them in a UV lamp. Then the nails are sequentially painted with colored gel polish in several layers, each of which is dried separately. The elements of mica are placed on the sticky surface with the help of an orange stick and gently pressed, making sure that they do not go beyond the boundaries of the nail. After the original pattern is ready, the plate is wrapped in a film and placed to dry in a lamp for 30 seconds, at the end the film is removed and the nail is additionally covered with a finishing agent.

• Broths. They are small round silver balls. To create a design, it is better to choose the smallest elements, this will help make the manicure more delicate and stylish. They are placed either on a sticky layer of varnish, or make a base from gel varnish. Then the patterns are fixed with a fixative, gently pressed to the surface of the nail and dried in a UV lamp. At the end of the broth, it is necessary to fix again and carry out polymerization.

• Foil. It is widely used in silver nail art, as it looks impressive and easy to apply. This material is fixed to the nail plate with special glue. In this case, before the start of the process, the surface of the nail must be covered with a base. To prolong the effect of such a manicure, cover the foil with a top, but the shine effect may be slightly lost.

• With the effect of broken glass. The originality and originality of the everyday image can be given by compositions in the form of fragments, they are perfectly combined with silver shades. Such a manicure outwardly resembles an image of a broken mirror. In this case, the fragments look unusual both on a light and on a dark background.
• Prism. Silver nails decorated with small shiny elements will impress any girl. In this case, the holographic pattern is obtained with the help of a special pigment, which ideally fits on any substrate. This nail art is best used for an evening look.

• Manicure with inserts. In this and future seasons, a non-monotone design is considered relevant, so silver inserts can be an excellent decoration. They decorate not only smile lines, holes, but also lay out various symbols and geometric shapes.

• Thermal film. Its use is pretty straightforward. First of all, the nail plate must be well cleaned and degreased, then the film is heated under a lamp for about 2 minutes and applied to the nails. The material should be evenly distributed over the entire surface, therefore, if there are uneven places, they need to be straightened, and the excess should be cut off with scissors.
• Stripes. Today on sale you can find various types of strips. For designs with a silver effect, the most often used are those that allow you to make geometric patterns with smooth edges. They are first glued, then removed. In addition, those strips that are glued and coated with a finishing agent are also well suited for decoration.

Recently, many girls prefer to do silver manicure on their own, since everyone can cope with the technique of applying such a decor. To create a beautiful design, it is enough to use a special varnish and decorate the nails with sequins, sparkles or beads.

Several new ideas will help you to distinguish yourself with unusual nail art this season.

• Serebryanka manicure. This is the most fashionable design in which the nail plates are coated with a monochromatic metallic varnish. At the same time, a silver tint can be both a base and a finish. Delicate patterns with sequins will also help to add chic to the look.
• Manicure with varnish. The best choice for a modern look is the metallic coating on the nails. Silver varnish can be used as a finish or as a base. Additional use of glitter material is also allowed.

• Decorated with silver stripes. This trend has been popular for many seasons in a row. Stylists suggest performing decor vertically, horizontally and diagonally. Both simple elements and complex ones in the form of geometric shapes can act as compositions. This option is ideal for a jacket in delicate and pastel colors, and also looks great in combination with juicy summer colors.
• Silver and gold design. Considering fashion trends, these two precious metals cannot be combined with each other, but in the style of nail art, such a decision is allowed. To emphasize the nobility of the shades, the masters recommend covering the hands in different colors, decorating the nails with drawings and patterns.

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