Ideas and ways to create a sequin manicure

It would seem that fanciful nail design options with a lot of shiny decorations fade into the background. However, this year, kamifubuki have exploded the fashion industry in nail art. These are small artificial sequins, but not what you are used to seeing in sewing stores, but their version without holes. These sequins can be glued to nails, assemble a pattern from them, and among the many colors and shapes there are always suitable options for your idea.

As you might guess from the name, such nail art tools appeared in Japan. From Japanese kamifubuki translates as "paper storm". The Japanese did not come up with them, but they were able to improve the materials and establish high-quality and varied production. Taking New Year's confetti as a prototype, they began to make kamifubuki from a thin and flexible polymer material - something between plastic and polyethylene. Now you can buy kamifubuki in any specialized store for manicurists. Increasingly, they are leaking onto the shelves of mainstream beauty stores as their popularity grows.

Kamifubuki sequins vary in size, shape and color. And also a distinctive feature can be a bulge and additional effects on the surface of the sequins. It is worth considering in more detail the known options.

• Flat circle. Now you can find packages of some manufacturers with such mugs of different sizes and colors. They can be glossy, mirrored, matte or holographic.

• Rhombus. You can make up various patterns from them, for example, a volumetric cube. It is easily made from three rhombuses placed next to each other. It is best to leave a small strip of background between them, and choose a varnish of a contrasting color for the background itself. This will highlight the edges of the cube, and its shape will be better visible. Since Japanese sequins are very small, several such cubes can be made on one nail at once, creating a pattern from them.

• Triangle. You can also make many different designs from it to your taste and imagination. For example, multi-colored triangles "scattered" on the nail plate in combination with a white background will look very playful. And if the rest of the nails on the hand are painted with varnishes of the same colors as these triangles, you get an integral and harmonious design without undue congestion.

• Patrisa Nail recently released maple leaf sequins - this is exactly what is suitable for an autumn manicure. They are available in three colors - green, yellow and red. They also have shapes like "heart", "star", "diamond", "leaves", "koi scales", "butterfly", "rectangle" in a wide variety of colors, with and without holography. The most unusual and questionable form is the "koi scales". Koi carps are a type of fish that is very popular in Japan. Their scales are similar to a honeycomb, so such sequins can be used for a "bee" design or lay out the scales on the nails.

The option with one-color circles of different diameters on the nails is an indisputable trend of the season. It looks impressive and is indispensable in design options on the theme of the sea or space. Shiny sequins look no less impressive on a matte plain background. If, at the same time, only a few kamifubuki are glued, then such a design can be used as an everyday one. It will not look too catchy and defiant, but at the same time it will emphasize your originality.

The first thing to do is to pour the sequins from the bag onto a flat surface or jar. It is extremely inconvenient to get them out of the bag directly in the process of work, but if you do not want to pour them every time and before starting, you can buy special small jars that are sold in cosmetics stores. After that, coat the nail with a base coat and a base coat. Before the varnish dries, transfer sequins to your nails. This can be done with the sharp end of an orange manicure stick or any similar object.

As a rule, plastic sequins adhere easily to such instruments. And convex kamifubuki options can be picked up with small tweezers. After the pattern is drawn up, take a pencil or something similarly narrow and unsharp, press the sequins into the varnish a little. So, they will stick better to the nails. Then apply a clear top coat, which will also prevent premature loss of decor. As a result, kamifubuki will look like they are under glass or just part of a pattern.

For how to apply kamifubuki, see the next video.