Moon manicure: subtleties of design and methods of coating

Moon manicure is considered one of the best nail art techniques among modern women. Today, it is especially loved by fashionistas for the fact that it has acquired a variety of design variations and allows you to add notes of sophistication and aristocracy to the bow. However, each season brings with it something new and special, which makes the design fresh and original. What are the surprises of fashion, what is relevant now and how to be in the spotlight, regardless of style and status, the material of this article will tell.

Lunar manicure someone considers a kind of jacket. He is called Dior, because he owes his popularity to the great Christian Dior, who considered him incredibly gentle and feminine, returning him to the image of models. Externally, the nail, made using the technique with holes, has a clearly marked lunula. If in a jacket, in addition to the background, a part of the grown nail is accentuated, then in the moon manicure the main background and the hole at the base of the nail contrast.

The well can be semicircular, triangular, symmetrical, asymmetrical, and also fantasy. In each case, its shape will depend on the shape of the nail plates, the length of the nails, the nuances of the design and its subject matter.

For example, today a hole may not only contrast with the main background. Often, moon manicure is performed using the negative space technique. This means that part of the nail is covered with only clear varnish.A hole made in this version creates the effect of a regrown nail. This gives the appearance of lengthening the nail plate. In addition, the hole can be not only single, but also double. It looks beautiful with a thin secondary bow.

Today, regardless of fashionable adjustments, there are no special prohibitions on the shape of nails. However, experts are confident that an ideal moon manicure looks on nails with a narrow nail plate. At the same time, they note that the best length is considered to be medium or moderate. Also popular natural natural or even short length. She will be fashionable for the next few seasons.

To make a moon manicure look beautiful, it is important to choose the shape of the edge based on the characteristics of your nail plates.

Almond nails are back in fashion. Asymmetry today is considered ugly, and the diagonal cuts of the edge will visually skew the manicure with holes.

Stilettos with their characteristic long length and sharp edges are trying to return to fashion. However, today they do not fit into fashion trends that emphasize naturalness and femininity.

Modern moon manicure is notable for its versatility of design. Today, there are many possibilities for decorating nails, ranging from the choice of finishes to precious decorations.

Sometimes the stake is made on the high cost of the texture, in other cases, luxury is created through sparkling crystals. The choice of the best design depends on the client's preferences and the master's sense of taste.

Sometimes, having seen a beautiful design option on the Internet, a woman wants to recreate it, and therefore she goes to the master with a ready-made solution. However, fashion is quite capricious, and what was fashionable yesterday may seem gaudy today.

For example, now the trend is:

• highlight the cuticle area with rhinestones of different sizes, while using mainly small elements;
• decorate the hole with different types of manicure foil, choosing the desired shape and width;
• create the illusion of a regrown nail, working in the negative space technique;

• use the original effect of layering the moon pattern on the background;
• work with two, and less often three different techniques, making the moon manicure combined;
• decorate marigolds using the techniques "sweet bloom", "powder", "veil", "broken glass", "wet design";

• build up nails with two materials of different color, refusing to use false plates;
• use a seasonal design theme for work, indicating that it belongs to a certain season or even a month;
• to carry out accents of manicure on the ring fingers, accentuating them with a contrasting color, pattern, specific technique, powders, unusual texture.

Today, it is considered indecent to decorate all nails with the same pattern, or vice versa, perform a different pattern on all ten fingernails. This approach to design is outdated, besides, with all the desire, it cannot pretend to be expressive. Considering the fact that the nails will be decorated with holes anyway, you need to approach the addition of accents and their design thoroughly. Sometimes the very design of the holes is already self-sufficient and does not need a motley rivalry.

However, there are some nuances here: if a drawing is taken as a basis, it will look better on a plate painted completely in one color.Depending on what the shape and size of the hole will be, the design may also have subtle smiles in the color of the hole pigment inherent in a classic jacket.

A manicure can be crescent, oval, reverse jacket. It is super fashionable today to design holes with a triangle. Narrow holes located from the base to the upper edge of the nail plate seem to be especially stylish.

There are unspoken rules that guide nail art experts. Since the moon manicure, unlike the classics, already has a drawing, it should be decorated correctly. The abundance of decor or its inappropriate location can add heaviness and variegation to the design, which is especially bad for a delicate and elegant manicure with holes. To create a beautiful design, you need to know a few techniques of experienced craftsmen.

For example:

• the holes on all fingers must be the same;
• it is possible to accentuate nails with holes, than complicate nails with a different design;
• you need to use no more than three to four shades of the color palette for design;

• when choosing a volumetric accent, all other nails should not have a pattern at all, while laconic coloring of the holes in white or light color is allowed;
• when choosing a geometric design, its symmetry on the nails of two hands is extremely important;
• accents on a plain background will look beautiful if the holes are made in a contrasting color on a solid or powdery basis;

• holes with classics look stylish, while on each hand there can be two of them;
• if the design is done with two holes on one hand, it is better to make them not on the ring and middle fingers.

To soften the contrast of shades, one of the accents can be made in a bright color, the other in a light softening one. In this case, on one nail, the print area may be larger than on the other. The play of contrasts and patterns will allow them to look more harmonious. If you want to use a stucco pattern in the design, it is undesirable to take more than one nail under it. Sometimes, instead of stucco molding, a contrasting texture or its unusual effect will look better.

Moon manicure can be vibrant and creative. However, creativity must be achieved through a professional approach to design.

The use of stained glass technique with coloring small elements with multi-colored pigments will look more like a child's coloring, rather than something stylish. The same drawing, created using stamping, but without coloring, will look better on accents of a moon manicure, if not simplified with different pigments.

When creating a beautiful design, you need to take into account the shape of the hole. If it's a triangle, you need maximum simplicity - it can be positioned on a round or oval shape. For a round hole, lace patterns, mehendi, kawaii themes are good. Glamor can also be created over a monochromatic base. For example, the holes can be made with small crystals or, even easier, with dots of contrasting pigment, using dots with different attachments.

Today, color schemes will depend on the specific purpose of the manicure, as well as the woman's image itself. The clothes and accessories available in her wardrobe will also be an important factor. The best color choices may be shades that are related to certain things.

The most harmonious solutions include combinations of shades of the pastel group. As a rule, they complement the image more gently, can fit into most images of women of different age groups and, more importantly, are suitable for different styles of clothing.They are perfectly combined with the tones of the neutral group, which allows you to add elegance, lightness or notes of luxury to the bow.

At the same time, due to the variety of coatings and clothing styles, you can complement your bow with a manicure in muted and noble colors, as well as neon and LED versions.

Glowing types of coatings are one of the trends of the new season, which will definitely appeal to representatives of youth subcultures. In general, from the rich list of color variations, the most harmonious and stylish options can be distinguished.

For example, stylish color combinations for a modern moon manicure will be combinations:

• red wine and white;
• yellow and bleached beige;
• green and black;
• pink, black and gold;
• peach and blue;
• blue and silver;
• blue and black;
• purple and silver;
• marble and gold;
• powdery and white;
• marsal and pink;
• fuchsia, purple and silver;
• burgundy and peach;
• white and yellow-orange;
• blue and pink;
• pink and turquoise;
• white and purple;
• white and lilac;
• powder and black;
• emerald and gold.

In addition, a light lemon tone is in vogue today. Even laconic semicircular holes of this tone on a flesh-based basis, coupled with a black pattern on accents, will look very gentle. A combination of neutral palette tones is also popular. In this case, the holes are often white, made on a black background. They will look beautiful if you perform a background manicure to simulate a gradient, using a translucent black varnish and sealing it to the upper edges of the nail plates.

Apply a moon pattern to the nails in different ways. For example, with confident movements of the master, this can be hand drawing. This is how accent nails are decorated, lace is drawn on them, lines are drawn, contour strokes, vertical stripes are made, which are further decorated with rhinestones or kamifubuki. For the holes in this case, a thin brush is also used. By the way, it is she who is painted on the unpainted areas of the nail plate at the base of the nail, giving it great accuracy.

Disposable stencils are a great help in the design of moon manicure. Today they differ in a variety of patterns and shapes. They can even make fancy prints with accents of moon design. In addition to stencils, you can resort to using manicure strips of different widths and shapes.

Foil tape is an alternative to strips. It is also inexpensive, convenient in that it can be used both as an auxiliary template and as a permanent decor. Foil tape today differs in width, it can have a different texture of the front side. It looks beautiful and elegant in the design of a manicure with holes.

When a fantasy hole is needed, they resort to using stickers and stamping. Stamping means stamping. This is a set with ready-made metal plates with engraved designs.

Varnish is applied to the plate, spread with a scraper, removing excess. Then the pattern is removed from the plate onto the roller, and from the roller - onto the nail. The disadvantage of stamping is the fact that it is difficult for them to make identical holes, even with a lace pattern.

Transfer stickers are convenient in that they can be adjusted until the base (top) applied for fixing is dry. Such sliders can have angular and rounded grooves, due to which you can create a moon design even on a solid nail.And if you glue a sticker with a recess under a hole on a nail with a moon, contrasting with the main background, this will enhance the contrast of colors.

Decorating a lunar manicure, be it a lunar or crescent version, is a creative and exciting process. Few craftsmen will not offer their client new embellishment options that will emphasize the uniqueness of the design without undermining its status. For example, today it is fashionable to use powders with different effects in design. Some of them add volume or unusual texture to manicure accents.

It can be either glitter options or flock powder, which allows you to give the nail a felt texture. This decor looks unusual, but it is specific, it has a coarse fraction of particles, and therefore, except for winter design, it is rarely used. Summer manicure with holes can be decorated with so-called acrylic sugar or sand.

Rubbing is a very interesting type of material. Today, this powder has many varieties. At the same time, the same powder creates a completely different effect on pigments of different colors. For example, one rubbing can make black color mirrored, the other chrome-plated, the third holographic, the fourth will give a color with overflows, reminiscent of the shell of a May beetle. White pigment can be made matte, pearl, iridescent, holographic.

Powders are used for seasonal designs. For example, for winter and New Year's, flock powder, rub in with a holographic effect are good. A beautiful and delicate summer manicure can be done with pearl dust. Summer design can be done with a mother-of-pearl effect, rubbing in this regard is better than shimmer varnish. It is also convenient in that you can draw on top of it, glue other decor.

In the salon, the master performs hardware manicure. This is what stops many women who want to learn how to design at home. However, today nothing is impossible, and therefore you can buy the device in a specialized store or use a conventional manual-type manicure set. If there is no device with attachments at home, it is worth preparing a basic set:

• a pusher for pushing back and lifting the cuticle, trimming the pterygium;
• nail scissors;
• a tool for removing excess varnish with rubber tips;
• file for shaping;
• soft grinder or buff;
• drying lamp.

If you plan to use stickers instead of a drawing, prepare a container of water to remove the backing paper from the sticker. If you need to highlight the holes with dots, prepare dots. In addition, the work will need:

• cuticle softening oil;
• napkins for manicure;
• degreaser;
• primer;
• amplifier;
• pigmented varnishes (for background, hole and pattern);
• base material;
• the finish.

The decor is prepared based on the design features. These can be kamifubuki, rhinestones, crystals, rub-in, stickers, foil in the form of tape or tape, film for the broken glass technique. In addition, you may need a gel-type glitter for gold or silver.

Hole designs are created in many different ways. Making it at home is easy if you follow the instructions that explain step by step the main stages of work. Always the preliminary stage of a manicure is the removal of the cuticle and pterygium. To less traumatize the skin and easier to remove all unnecessary, fingers are immersed in warm water for about 10 minutes.After they are wiped off, a pusher is taken and the pterygium is removed. Raise the cuticle and cut it off with nail scissors.

In order for the process to proceed without injuring the skin, oil is used to soften the cuticle. After the nails are given the desired shape, it is necessary to remove the gloss from the nail plates. To do this, use a special soft grinder.

Next, you need to remove the remnants of sawdust, for which you can use a degreaser. They also remove oil residues, which can cause poor adhesion of the nail with subsequent varnish products. At this stage, the preparatory part ends and the stage of decorative manicure begins. Prepare varnishes, top, base, lamp, decor, patterns and brushes.

First, you can apply an enhancer to your nails. In addition to increasing the tenacity of the material with the nail, it will make the nails thicker, which is especially important for thinned marigolds that are prone to brittleness. You need to apply the material in a thin layer, after the nails are dried in a lamp.

The base material is applied to the dried coating and dried again in the lamp. The base is applied in a thin layer, otherwise it will not hold well, and it will be able to flow over the cuticle and side ridges. After the base, the nail is coated with pigment and dried in a lamp. If necessary, you can coat your nails with pigment twice: the manicure will look better when the pigment is not transparent.

Next, take templates for the holes. For example, these can be variants of a semicircular shape. They are glued with the sticky side to the base of the nails, not pressing into the pigment, but trying to ensure that the template does not have voids at the edge. After that, they take a contrasting varnish and cover the upper part of the nail with it, without touching the one that is covered with a template.

After the nails are varnished, the templates are immediately removed. Only then are the nails dried in a lamp. If you do not remove the stencil and first dry the gel polish, then remove it without spoiling the manicure, it will not work. After drying the pigment, take the top and seal all the previous layers with it. The top coat is dried. This is the option without decor, this is the main technique.

If a manicure is performed without templates, the technology remains unchanged, only instead of stencils, a brush is used, which is used to designate the hole itself. If you need triangular templates, but there is only manicure tape, it is they who make triangles at the base of the nails. Rhinestones are glued to a layer of undried top, like kamifubuki. However, if kamifubuki can be covered with a top layer, then the rhinestones from this lose the beauty of their overflow of shine. The secondary layer of the top should not cover them.

When you need to decorate your nails, after the second pigment, they start decorating. For example, if stickers are used for accents, a top is applied, a transparent protective film is removed from the sticker. Then it is dipped in water for two to three seconds, the paper backing is removed and fixed on an undried base, straightening it from wrinkles and choosing the right place. Then the design is dried, sealed with another layer of top and sent back to the lamp.

The following video shows 3 easy moon manicure methods.