Manicure with rhinestones for short nails

Inlaid nails with rhinestones is one of the trends of the new season. Today it is fashionable for nails to sparkle with iridescent stones. However, the design with rhinestones does not always look beautiful and expressive. The reason for this is often the insufficient length of the nails. The material of this article will tell you how to make high-quality nail design with sparkling stones on short nail plates.

What seems appropriate to us when decorating long nails is by no means always suitable for decorating short plates. First, in this case, you cannot use large elements. The large size of the sparkling decor can visually shorten the already short length. Secondly, it will create a visual heaviness in which it will seem that the main part of the nails had to be filed after breaking off.

If, at the same time, the side walls of the nail plates are parallel, and the bed itself is naturally elongated, then there are more opportunities for arrangement and composition. When the bed is short and does not reach the beautiful oval, asymmetrical compositions and lines have to be avoided. Also, in this case, you should think about the combination of rhinestones with another decor.

It is important to consider that rhinestones will attract attention to themselves. If there are a lot of them, they will create the effect of disco balls, merging into a single spot. Moreover, even if the base varnish has an unusual texture, it will be lost against the general background.

For harmony, they can be combined with glitter or broths. This can be done in different ways. For example, a rhinestone surrounded by broths, depicting with them the middle of a flower on an accent nail, will look more harmonious. In this case, you can use broths of different sizes, but rhinestones will be the main focus.

You should not attach large and voluminous rhinestones to the entire area of ​​the accent nail plate, as this is considered indecent today. Moreover, you should not do this with every nail of the manicure. In addition, it is undesirable to cover most of the nail with such a decor, even if it is a flower or a geometric figure.

Do not contrast sparkling decor with a catchy texture or design pattern.

This will keep the illusion of lightness and spaciousness, which is especially important for short nails. Even one element can look better and more expensive than a scattering of inlay. This can be done in different ways:

• gluing over the slider design;
• using as an element of artistic painting;
• accentuating certain areas of the decor;
• aligning the cuticle line;
• combining with acrylic sand.

• Sliders. As for the slider design, this option is one of the simplest. Here you need to choose a picture on which a place for rhinestones is being looked at in advance. After fixing and drying the picture, contour lines are painted on it and rhinestones are glued.
• Painting. In this regard, the principle of placement is practically the same. First, an image is drawn, then it is decorated with rhinestones and glitter. At the same time, it is allowed to use modeling gels, through which you can create stucco prints of a volumetric type.

• Replacing part of the picture. Such pictures initially involve the use of rhinestones in specific places. For example, you can draw a golden ear, and instead of grains, place sparkling stones in it. The difference from the previous options is that there is no need to draw elements that will be glued to the picture.
• Shape correction. This technique allows you to correct the imperfections of the nail bed. For him, they choose several rhinestones of different sizes and create with their help a neat arch at the base of the nail. If the nails are very small and narrow, it is better to use 1 rhinestone, and instead of others, put dots with silver using dots.
• With powder. Such use of rhinestones is suitable only in the case of an elongated natural shape of the nail plates. Here rhinestones are inserted not over the entire area of ​​the nail, but in places, using a special textured powder with glitter based on acrylic. For greater harmony, you can use rhinestones of different sizes.

A beautiful manicure is one that does not "scream", but attracts enthusiastic glances from others. This can be done in different ways. For example, you can accentuate the bow at the base of the nail bed with rhinestones. In this case, it is quite enough to choose a classic or a smooth gradient as the main technique.

Based on the gradient, you can decorate two nails out of ten with a vertical of small rhinestones, choosing a sparkling decor of a transparent or colored type.

For example, you can conditionally divide a plate with a vertical gradient into two parts, decorate one of them with a lace pattern and separate it vertically from small rhinestones.

You can also use rhinestones in the lunar technique if the natural shape of the nails is naturally elongated. They can emphasize the hole, selecting elements of different sizes in a single color.At the same time, you can also combine rhinestones with silver dots set by dots. Rhinestones in lace weaves and on monograms look no less harmonious. The combination with white contrast is also quite appropriate.

Decorative stones in design with artistic painting look beautiful. After drawing the drawing, which on short nails should be simple and light, the elements are placed pointwise on the drawing itself and on the adjacent nail. In this case, the adjacent plate should be decorated at the base with no more than 3-5 elements. This will be enough for an expressive design.

If the technique with artistic painting is chosen as the basis, you can use rhinestones to create volumetric centers. In this case, you can pick up a sparkling decor with an iridescent sheen. When there is enough area of ​​the accent plate, you can support the rhinestones with silver by drawing the bow in the cuticle area with silver glitter.

If a cobweb is chosen as a pattern, then by means of rhinestones you can depict dew drops on it. It will look more harmonious if you choose transparent elements for decoration. You can also create a shimmering effect with rhinestones by drawing fir branches, frosty patterns. Such decor looks beautiful when they decorate the center of snowflakes or imitate plant leaves when the print is very small. You can use colored rhinestones, depicting flower buds with their help.

If the nail bed is elongated, you can decorate it with rhinestones in combination with broths. At the same time, the cuticle area is accentuated, bringing up a vertical line up the center of the plate, which ends with broths. Considering that this design goes well with the acrylic dusting of the adjacent nail, you can use the technique of playing textures.

It must be remembered: the more decor and accents, the worse. If you have chosen a nail decoration option in which there will be more than a few sparkling elements on the plates, you need to reduce the number of accent nails. At the same time, sometimes one nail with several rhinestones may be enough in the design. As support, you can rely on a gold, silver gel, because it will look more harmonious. Silver or gold can be used to cover the nail adjacent to the accent.

It's ugly and boring. It will look better to decorate one nail plate, which can be decorated with vertical stripes and a transverse one, placing several rhinestones in it. Even if the rest of the nails do not have shine, such a manicure will look stylish and effective.

See the video below for manicure design ideas with rhinestones.