French manicure design options

French design is a classic manicure. Having appeared 40 years ago at the request of one of the directors in Hollywood, it still maintains a leading position in nail design. However, each nail season makes its own adjustments to the design of the jacket, and therefore those who need to be not only beautiful, but also modern should read the material of this article. We will dwell in detail on fashion trends and design options for French manicure that give out a modern woman.

French manicure today is divided into two main types: traditional and reverse types. In the classic version, the basis of the technique is a nude or flesh-pinkish background. A smile becomes a decoration of the design, imitating the contrasting color and width of the grown edge of the nail plate.

As for the reverse jacket, it is a mirror image of the usual French design. His smile is located at the base of the nail, in the cuticle area.This variety differs from the moon manicure in that the bow of the inverted jacket repeats the contour of the base of the nail bed. In a moon manicure, it is contrasted with a growing edge.

Today, French manicure should strive for naturalness and femininity. It is the desire of a fashion that is confident in the need to emphasize the feminine principle and maximum simplicity. Fashion trends tend to minimalism, which can be created by the dosage of decorative elements and the number of accents. As for the variegation and unnecessary complexity, the design of a jacket with its decoration of all ten nails is now considered boring and spoiling the whole aesthetics.

Fashion draws attention to the fact that the abundance of accents deprives the design of expressiveness. She clearly indicates that, ideally, two out of ten nails are enough for decoration. So the background will be noticeable, and the accents will attract the attention of others. If the fingers are strewn with decor, the eye will have nothing to cling to. If two accents are not enough, you can add two more to complete the design, but no more.

Places of emphasis have also been identified. Accentuation of the ring finger nail is considered ideal. If accents are needed for the design idea, they are performed on the adjacent nails of the hand (middle fingers). This design looks more aesthetically pleasing and balanced than a manicure with an accentuation of the nails of the thumbs or little fingers.

The print on one nail should dominate. The second accent should be its support or a modest addition, which is a connecting link connecting the design with the main background of the jacket. If, for example, a drawing is chosen as the basis, on one of the nails it can occupy the entire area of ​​the plate, on the other - only a small part of it. At the same time, support should be carried out in a single topic. You cannot combine incongruous.

It's time to pay attention to the texture. It is she who is often lost under the abundance of inlay, this is what can simplify the design, making it vulgar. In the new season, the placement of sparkling décor should be well thought out. To make the jacket look feminine and elegant, you need to place rhinestones or crystals, opals pointwise, carefully choosing places for them, taking into account the peculiarities of the print or design composition.

Taking into account a specific season of the year is a current fashion trend, which suggests paying attention to the choice of certain pictures and decor in connection with the season. For summer, these are certainly insects, all kinds of beetles, butterflies. In winter, you can recreate frosty patterns on French accents, draw snowflakes, powder the edge of a smile, thereby imitating snow. In the fall, you can turn to the theme of the harvest, decorate your nails with a design with ripe ears, colorful leaves, rain drops. In the spring it is worth taking a closer look at the idea of ​​the awakening of nature. These can be early birds, drawings of the sky, snowdrops, the first dandelions.

All forms of nail plates, without exception, are available to French. However, this season fashion has already decided its favorites. The championship went to the shape of a rounded or soft square. Today, such nails are super popular, they allow you to bring French design to life by combining it with any of the manicure techniques known today. In addition to square nails, almond-shaped marigolds with a rounded tip are popular. And also the oval shape is in fashion, which is recognized as universal, suitable for any design and length.

More recently, short or ultra-long nails were in fashion.Today, nail service professionals call the best average length, since it allows you not to limit the choice of color solutions, and is also convenient in everyday life. The ideal length of the plates is one whose free edge of the nail does not exceed 0.7 cm. This is enough to give the upper edge any shape.

We are accustomed to high-quality hygienic manicure and do not think about its varieties at all. Fashion, on the other hand, offers its fans a gradual transition to the unedged technique with cutting the cuticle. This method is good in that it minimizes trauma to the skin, reduces the risk of burrs. Such marigolds look well-groomed even two weeks after the date of the hygienic manicure. This method has already been highly appreciated by professionals.

Fashion believes it's time to give up false nails. They are inconvenient not only because in most cases they do not fit the shape of the arch to their nails, but also bounce off at the most inopportune moment. In addition, such marigolds look unnatural. However, if the question is about building up, then today it has gained great popularity. Such nails are in trend, the jacket on them turns out to be strong and durable.

Modern manicure design should be special. The times when women decorated marigolds with completely identical patterns have sunk into oblivion. Today, the drawing should not be exactly the same. Rotation, tilt, individual element may differ, but the drawing itself should not have clones. This is not only ugly, but also simplifies the design of the jacket.

Fashion invites those who resort to modeling nails to take a closer look at a voluminous jacket made using the technique of aquarium manicure. The wide smile that is characteristic of such a design has enough room to accommodate various and sometimes unusual decor. Along with glitter and sparkles, such nails are decorated with dried flowers, tiny shells and even sifted sand. From above they are sealed with several layers of modeling agent.

When performing a jacket, it is important to understand that nails with a smile should prevail in the design. Moreover, it can be very different (traditional arched, in the form of two triangles superimposed on one another, in the shape of a heart, a wave, a zigzag, a lightning). Sometimes in a manicure, a smile is completely laconic. However, this is necessary in order to highlight the accent with a stylish and expressive design.

It can also be a smile, but only of an unusual shape. For example, it can be made in the form of lace curls with a line edging the smile area. However, if the design provides for a combination of a jacket with any other technique, for the expressiveness of accents, it is better not to complicate the shape of the overgrown edge. The smile in this case should be as simple as possible.

Accents can be performed in the techniques of classic, moon manicure, ombre, broken glass, veil, powder. As for the classics, it will be the basis for any design. You can draw on a nail painted in one color, stickers, manicure film cut into pieces, foil, rhinestones or other sparkling decor can be glued to a plain background. In addition, a painted nail can be refined with a powder material, choosing from a large assortment of the desired option, taking into account your own preferences.

The trend is to combine a jacket with a gradient. In this case, the design can be performed in different ways. For example, a gradient can be used as a backdrop for a French manicure, creating a smile on top of a smooth stretch. And also a French manicure will look beautiful if the gradient is the basis of an accent nail.

Alternatively, the gradient can be styled as a separate shape by stretching inside it. It can be a triangle, square, circle, oval, polyhedron. Another fashionable solution would be a french ombre with stretching of shades from nail to nail. Such a design is performed with a monochromatic staining of nails in a related color scheme. The tones are chosen with a slight difference so that, in general, a smooth and beautiful stretch of shades of the same color is obtained. At the same time, smiling on the nails should not complicate the design.

Nail decoration is comparable to art. Its capabilities can only be limited by the skills of the master. Consider a few relevant ideas that fashion offers in the new season.

Such decoration is created by means of powder, broth or acrylic sand. Depending on the type of substance, the technology for working with it will differ. In one case, you can simply sprinkle with acrylic powder or broths (microbeads) the nail with a sticky top applied to it. If you want a more filigree design of a French accent, you can apply a pattern to the painted marigold and sprinkle the plate with powder. After drying and removing all excess, a beautiful pattern will remain on the nail.

You can decorate the jacket with fine-grained manicure powder - rubbing in. The material has a lot of varieties; it can be used to decorate both accents and all nails. At the same time, it can easily replace any pearlescent varnish, since it has a more weightless shimmer. Rubbing on the ring finger nail can be used for further decoration. It is on it that you can apply drawings with a top, and then sprinkle them with acrylic sand. The most fashionable powders of this type today are the options "mermaid", "northern lights", "May beetle".

You can decorate the nail of the ring finger with mica flakes, which are rubbed, like rubbing. In addition, these flakes can be used to simulate a French smile, whether traditional or the reverse of a French manicure. The shades of such material are variable, while the effect of the flakes can create completely different. For example, the less they are typed on the applicator and rubbed in, the more chaotic and original they look.

This design looks unusual and fresh. At the same time, nail service professionals also use the stickers, disguising them as art painting. Aqua stickers are an excellent replacement for hand drawing, they are easy to use and significantly reduce the time for completing a jacket design. Moreover, they can be very diverse, and therefore with their help you can not only cover the entire area of ​​the accent nail, but also depict a fantasy smile, which is very fashionable today.

When performing a design on the ring finger, you can use varnish of the same color, but with a different texture. For example, you can cover an accent nail with a matte gel polish, then take a thin manicure brush for painting, pick up a glossy varnish and make a simple lace drawing. This design will look very beautiful and expressive. You can gloss all the nails, except for the plate on the ring finger. It can be simply painted with varnish with an unusual texture (under suede, velor, satin or velvet).

On the nail of the ring finger, a bow made of small rhinestones or crystals will look beautiful. In this case, it can be located symmetrically or asymmetrically. Sometimes inlay is used in the form of a diagonal or it is filled with some design element of the accent nail plate. You can glue such a decor onto the same slider design if it can find a suitable place in the picture.Let's say it can be the body of a beetle, the elongated body of a dragonfly.

If art painting or alternative printing is conceived by design, one nail for the design will not be enough. It is necessary to designate one main emphasis, but here it will not be possible to do without support, which will connect the print with the main background of the jacket. In this case, two adjacent marigolds are left under the design and do not complicate them with a smile (you need an ordinary plain surface).

For example, on one accent, you can draw a large print, occupying almost the entire area of ​​the plate. It can be an owl, a cat's head, a leopard, a large butterfly. The second nail can convey the mood of the picture, supporting the theme of the print. In the case of an animalistic image, a leaf from an exotic tree can be a support. If the choice fell on a bird, you can depict a feather on the next nail.

Watercolor technique will become a chic embodiment of something extraordinary. They create such a design with artistic water-based watercolors, which are sold in tin tubes. The technique needs buffing (processing of a painted and top-covered nail with a soft grinder). Such images look easy and unique.

You can use a transfer foil to decorate adjacent nails by combining it with an aqua decal. At the same time, you can use tear-off foil with gold or silver to decorate accent nails. By the way, it is foil that is considered the best type of decor for a reverse jacket today. If you want to emphasize the background of the marigolds, decorated with a golden smile, you can decorate the upper part of the nail, giving the accent a gradient look.

Stamping will be an original technique for applying decor. In this case, it is possible to apply patterns from engraved plates not only in one, but also in two multi-colored layers. A stencil pattern can be an addition to stamping.

An interesting design option for two adjacent nails will be a compositional print. For example, it can be a butterfly with open wings, dandelion umbrellas flying in the wind, a snake, a night city with open ends of a bridge, or a sketch of a cityscape. This design looks very nice. If he is not overloaded with an abundance of elements, decor and does not shout about himself in catchy tones, he brings expressiveness and high status to the design of the manicure.

This season's French manicure can be very varied. For example, today you can play with the design of the smile itself. On the accent nail plate, it can be depicted, for example, in the form of a cat, fox, panda, flower petal, plant leaf. Sometimes it is presented in the form of cobwebs, shells, sea stars, juicy fruits created by means of fimo.

One of the extraordinary solutions can be called the implementation of a smile with dots (manicure tools with ball-shaped nozzles of different sizes). At the same time, a smile pattern can be monochromatic, contrasting, simple or complex, reminiscent of an ethnic ornament. Craftsmen use this design not only to decorate the traditional top edge of accent nails.

It is fashionable to paint ethnic patterns, working with dots and thin manicure brushes. This is how mehendi drawings are born, which today are considered one of the most popular for decorating manicure accents. The convenience of prints of this type is the fact that they are performed on top of a painted base, in this case there is no need to separately draw a contrasting smile.

You can create a French gradient using kamifubuki. Japanese multi-colored confetti is considered one of the mega-popular decor options today.At the same time, they are not used for all nails: only accents are decorated with them, and they are dosed, combining elements of different sizes for greater design harmony. Against the general background of the coating, it looks like champagne bubbles rising up. The colors of kamifubuki should be related to the chosen jacket base.

In the current season, it is especially important to decorate a jacket with a variety of shimmer varnishes. Often, both small pollen and large sequins are used in the design at the same time. You can tightly cover your French smile with glitter, forming this French millennium. You can stretch with a shimmer, draw a bow with a glitter in the form of an almost contour stroke, with the exception of the top. You can fill any shape with glitter, or create a spray effect by performing any drawing.

The Hollywood french needs thin stripes on the nail plates, in addition to the basic design. However, in general, there are no clear rules here anymore. Various color variations and contrasts are allowed, manicure in neutral tones is encouraged. A French twist needs multiple tones to create a smile. Today, in this version of French manicure, black and white contrasts are especially relevant.

Unlike a decorative art jacket or a design with fancy smiles, a fan jacket needs decorative elements such as sequins, beads, openwork lace, tiny feathers, and pieces of textiles. At the same time, you can decorate not only the base of the nail covered with varnish.

Today, fashion does not limit fashionistas in the choice of color solutions for decorating their nails. However, she draws our attention to the fact that the selected tones should be in harmony with each other. In addition, it is important that there are not too many of them in the design, since variegation can kill any chic design idea. It is best to prioritize using a soft color for the background. It can be nude, flesh tint, or any pastel color.

As for pastels, these shades are considered the best for French design this season. They are harmonious, discreet and go with most items of women's wardrobe or available accessories. In addition, each of them is perfectly combined with neutral colors of the palette (white, gray, black), which are at the peak of their popularity today. If you want the jacket to match the latest fashion, you can add a little silver to the design.

Mixes can be called harmonious combinations of shades of this season:

• pink and white;
• white and mint;
• black and nude;
• light pink and crimson neon;
• beige and white;
• purple and fuchsia;
• silver and eggplant;
• emerald and black.

Combinations of various shades with nude tones are very popular. Flesh tones with a slight addition of pink are harmoniously combined with black, pink, white, eggplant, wine, Marsala, emerald tones, turquoise, fuchsia. They make soft contrasts with yellow, orange, red, blue, which cannot be said about the contrast of the same colored paints with white. In this case, the white contrast against the background of a nude and a colored smile will look softer.

As for the shades for the evening set, these are certainly the darkest tones of the palette. If we talk about the most trendy options, you need to choose between wine, eggplant and emerald. It is these tones, in the opinion of fashion, are today the favorites of the color palette. Moreover, they all look great on a translucent background in the veil technique.

We suggest referring to examples of the current design of a jacket, which, better than any words, will indicate the design features, taking into account new trends.

• A fresh take on French design with a secondary bow.

• Option using a matte texture of gel polish and inlaid accent nails.

• Overlaying an acrylic pattern on a gradient background, a vivid combination of nude and wine.

• Delicate jacket with a stucco accent, beads and broths.

• Spectacular and laconic solution with accentuation of the ring finger nail.

• Option for winter with the use of blue and gold glitter.

• French with a pattern in the mehendi technique and inlaid accents with sparkling crystals.

• Harmonious union of nude background and eggplant shimmer varnish. Openwork lace accents.

• A volumetric design with a volumetric print and a raised smile.

• A chic evening jacket of a purple hue with a highlight of the cuticle area of ​​accent nails.

• A pink jacket with golden rhinestones and a wide smile contour.

• French made using the technique of broken glass.

• French design created with gold-colored tear-off foil.

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