Translucent manicure options
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Modern nail art allows for the most varied designs, but translucent manicure is especially popular with fashionistas. It is ideal for any shape and length of nails, in an original way emphasizes natural beauty, adds romance and femininity to the image.
The translucent coating goes well with any outfit, make-up, it can be chosen for both everyday life and special occasions.
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Choosing shades of nail polish
Now fashion is dominated by naturalness and simplicity. This season, stylists recommend that ladies choose a translucent manicure. For a strict look, it is best to give preference to gentle tones and use a minimum of decor. For the fair sex, who are used to shining, translucent gels of any color with drawings, rhinestones and glitter are suitable.
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It is allowed to choose both matte and glossy varnishes. The combination of a matte surface with transparent glossy drops of the top looks interesting. Since translucent gel polish is available in various shades, you can choose any palette for a manicure, taking into account fashion trends and personal preferences.
For a translucent design, it is recommended to select colors close to the natural shade of the nail plates:
- pink;
- beige;
- translucent white;
- peach.
All of the above shades look very neat and serve as a good backdrop for any decor.
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Design options
Negative space is hugely popular this year.Transparent nails decorated in the style of minimalism and decorated with floral patterns are especially relevant. Fashion trends allow for a combination of several types of nail art, which allows you to achieve the effect of sophistication and chic. On a transparent background, you can draw leaves, flowers, geometric shapes, hearts, or add sparkle with rhinestones, colored stones.
An unusual solution will also be a combination of a translucent surface with a moon, marble manicure and a jacket. Ensembles look beautiful, in which there are transparent inserts, complemented by large glitter, shimmering sparkles. The decor can be done with various stickers or using the stamping technique. For an evening look, nails are decorated with modeling elements, dry inflorescences or beads.
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With sequins
This nail art always remains in fashion. Thanks to the huge selection of sizes and shades of glitter, you can create beautiful designs on a translucent background. Most often, colored confetti is used as a decor, they are used to lay out the free edges of the plate. To visually lengthen your nails, it is recommended to choose a shine in cream, gold or silver shades. The gradient on a translucent base looks interesting, it makes the manicure more expressive. For representatives of long nails, you can arrange the plates with fine shiny dust. To give the design a zest, one large pattern is laid out from the glitter. In this case, the color scheme is chosen in accordance with the image.
A shiny black butterfly on a transparent base will perfectly fit into a business look. For an evening outfit, it is recommended to paint the butterfly wings with a multi-colored gel, so the composition will acquire expressiveness.
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With foil
The decor with colored foil has an unusual texture. For translucent manicure, sheet, tear-off and non-tear-off foil is well suited. With the help of sheet foil, you can create beautiful leaf effects, tear-off reproduces mosaics, and non-tear-off, as a rule, is used by novice craftsmen when decorating simple patterns. It is simply applied to a transparent base and secured with a top.
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French
French manicure always remains relevant, regardless of the season and image. White-pink design and haze are in vogue now. For a smoky jacket, choose light beige shades that can turn into khaki. The lilac color, included in pink, looks beautiful. A transparent jacket with an imitation of a veil looks good.
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Wedding translucent manicure ideas
Transparent nail art deserves special attention when decorating the image of a newlywed. In such a manicure, the accent on the ring finger looks great. Most often, the nails are painted in a snow-white color, and the ring finger on the left hand is decorated with delicate lace on a transparent background. Drawings in the form of leaves with flowers, rhinestones, stamping, glitter look beautiful.
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With rocks
Many people prefer to do a translucent manicure, in which the main decoration elements are not drawings, but patterns lined with stones. The reverse and classic jacket looks gorgeous, in which colored pebbles are placed instead of the classic pink or white smile. From stones of different sizes, you can lay out original compositions both on all and accent nails.
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With rhinestones
A translucent design decorated with rhinestones will help to emphasize the beauty of the snow-white look. When decorating this manicure, it is important to pay attention to the additional accessories of the ensemble. Rhinestones can be perfectly combined with pictures and stickers. An interesting option, a design with a floral theme, where the center of the flowers is decorated with shiny elements. In addition, hearts or patterns in any shape can be laid out with rhinestones.
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Evening manicure
An expressive, chic manicure is suitable for publication.Since evening manicure involves the use of a more contrasting palette and rich decor, you can experiment when decorating your design. You can decorate a transparent background with colored inserts, beads, sequins or pearls.
For such an image, both bright and dark shades are well suited, it all depends on personal preference.
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With lace
An unusual design in a transparent manicure is a unique pattern with lace, it belongs to the "Veil" style. To add sophistication to the marigolds, it is best to apply the pattern on several plates. Openwork looks great in black, blue, emerald, burgundy.
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With stripes
Transparent marigolds in combination with multi-colored stripes look beautiful. The creation technique is simple, even novice masters can handle it. The plate is covered with a colorless base, a special tape is glued, forming patterns. Behind its lines, the plates are painted in the selected color, then the tape is carefully removed, the resulting composition is fixed with a top.
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With ornaments
For an evening manicure, a design in which interesting ornaments are applied to a translucent base is perfect. They can be different, both abstraction, geometry and floristry are in fashion. Such decor not only looks attractive, but also allows you to visually hide the shape defects of the plates.
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With stickers
In the case when there is no time to create a manicure, the simplest option will be a design using stickers. Their topics can be different. Adhesive elements are applied to a transparent base, fixed and covered with a protective layer. Additionally, the manicure can be decorated with rhinestones or pebbles.
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Advice
To get a spectacular translucent manicure, experts recommend performing the design with a special gel polish with a light shade. It is best to select a tone that is as close as possible to the natural color of the plates. Light beige and pale pink are considered good choices. It is advisable to cover complex compositions with several layers of the top, this will provide them with reliable protection and long-term wear.
Before starting to create such a manicure, the nail plates must be coated with a primer, and then a transparent base must be applied. After that, the marigolds are thoroughly dried and only then they begin to design. The patterns should be drawn with a special brush, with it, the contours of the composition are first outlined, and after they have dried, they are decorated with pigment, forming volumetric figures. Particular attention should be paid to the edging of the plates, it must be neat.
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In the event that such a manicure is performed for the first time, it is advisable to give preference to black patterns, they are easier to apply and look very noble and elegant on a transparent background. In addition, black can be perfectly combined with white, this design is suitable for any look and style.
Red shades will also allow you to add a special chic to nail art; they are considered a good choice for a bold evening outfit.
For how easy it is to create a translucent pantyhose-style nail design, see the next video.