French on oval nails: ideas and design options
For several seasons in a row, French manicure has been considered one of the best design techniques. In this case, the shape of the nails is of particular importance, which can resemble stilettos, tend to square or almond-shaped. Since one of the fashionable forms of nail plates today is an oval, it is worthwhile to familiarize yourself in detail with fashion trends regarding the design of a jacket, which will ennoble the female image better than others.
Nuances of shape and color
Oval nails are conventionally classified as universal, on which absolutely any design can be performed. Moreover, today they can have different lengths, be natural or extended.
Fashion believes that oval nails of moderate length look better. It is enough to make a beautiful jacket, and even decorate accent nails on top of it.
Oval nails are less prone to chipping and flaking. The jacket looks perfect on them, given the smooth line of the oval.
It completely fills the free edge, which allows you to vary the width of the so-called smile. At the same time, the ideal jacket today is based on naturalness and the negative space technique.
This technique is designed to accentuate the health of the nail plates. In addition to striving for minimalism and naturalness, it is important that some part of the nail is not stained, but only emphasized with transparent varnish. If the soul asks for color and bright contrasts, you can make a colored jacket, experimenting with a color scheme.
For example, on an oval shape, pastel and rich colors of the palette look great.
Combinations of flesh or nude color with:
- blue;
- lavender;
- pink;
- mint;
- turquoise;
- coral;
- sandy;
- Marsalov;
- black;
- purple;
- fuchsia;
- emerald;
- blue.
When adding sharp and bright colors to the design, you need to pay attention to the fact that they can change the perception of a jacket in a particular female image. Therefore, dark contrasts need to be used in a metered fashion, while light and delicate tones of the color palette can be used not only for a traditional big smile, but also for fantasy designs.
Trendy decor
Today there are many possibilities for decorating a jacket. Moreover, for the oval shape, as a rule, there are no clear restrictions. You can decorate your design over a transparent base:
- discreet pattern;
- rhinestones and crystals;
- volumetric molded gel;
- Japanese kamifubuki;
- pearl dust;
- real tiny feathers;
- ready-made stamped patterns;
- manicure foil;
- special acrylic powder;
- golden or silver glitter.
Observing at the same time moderation and the desire of fashion for minimalism, you can achieve a chic effect.
For example, all nails can be done traditionally, and then two or three of them can be decorated:
- a monochromatic coating to match the smile and accentuate the cuticle area with a bow of several rhinestones;
- lace pattern on a nude background, applied with stamping or a thin brush;
- a knitted pattern in the color of a smile, created with the help of modeling gel;
- accents in the form of spherical or geometric holes;
- a pattern of butterflies decorated with several single rhinestones;
- contrasting contour, combining, for example, white with black.
Seasonality of manicure
The vagaries of changeable fashion are such that today the best manicure is the one that indicates that the design belongs to a particular season. At the same time, it does not matter in what technique the manicure is performed, therefore, a jacket for oval nails has to adapt to the trend design directions. However, this is only to his benefit, because this technique allows you to diversify the technique and decorate it in different ways, changing the mood of one seemingly option.
Seasonality can manifest itself not only in the choice of patterns or stickers for accent nails - it can be expressed through color contrasts.
For example, for summer it can be warm sunny and bright saturated colors (yellow, pink green, mint). For winter, the temperature of the shades is already changing: they become cool (blue, light blue, gray-purple). Autumn is associated with a rich harvest, so designs in gold and reddish tones are held in high esteem. For spring, colors of early greenery are relevant.
Best design
Drawing on a jacket is remarkable in that it allows you to reveal the beauty of every season and even a month. For example, floral and plant themes are good for summer. These are delicate daisies, dandelions, lilies, roses, irises, buds on the branches of an apple tree.
Insects look beautiful on oval nails, which can be made with accents of a summer jacket, placed on a plain contrasting background.
With the arrival of autumn, pastel shades of smiles change with warm and bright colors. A smile can be styled as autumn leaves with a fox accent. It is also a great opportunity to use the broken glass technique to accentuate a manicure, thus depicting frozen puddles. This is the possibility of using volumetric decor as ripe berries.
You can also use drip decor, demonstrating autumn rain on a jacket.
For a winter jacket on oval-shaped nails, you can choose patterns of snowflakes, various prints for knitted textures. You can also powder your smile with white powder to simulate snow. An excellent option for decorating accent nails can be flock powder, which gives an unusual type of texture to the finished coating.
In addition to her, you can decorate the jacket with stylish decor with a Christmas theme, from gift socks to candy canes with red and white stripes.
An imitation of a gradient made by means of kamifubuki or dot painting with dots with different nozzles will also look beautiful on a jacket.
So you can play with the geometric design, bring freshness and originality into it. At the same time, due to the different shape of the auxiliary strips, the shape of the smile itself can be varied. For example, besides round, it can be straight, wavy, diagonally straight, and even lightning-like.
Successful ideas
Despite the mass of varieties of varnish materials, saturated matte and glossy pigments are most suitable for French. Moreover, each varnish can differ in pigmentation, which affects the number of layers applied for the base.
Matte options are notable in that today they can mimic different fabrics. This allows you to bring premium quality to your manicure, and high status to your image.
For example, you can make a jacket with an imitation of felt, decorating an accent nail with this texture. For other seasons, you can choose models of varnish under satin, suede or velvet.
Powders with the finest fraction can be used to smile or create an extraordinary pattern. For example, you can draw small roses on a transparent or nude french base and sprinkle them with acrylic powder.
After drying, they will gain strength and adhere securely to the accent nail.
The jacket looks beautiful on oval nails with lace patterns. Such a design is worthy of decorating the image of a bride. At the same time, for greater chic, you can supplement the texture of some nails with pearl dust (partially or over the entire area of the nail plate).
In order not to oversaturate the design with an abundance of pearl effect, you can reduce the time for rubbing in the powder.
An excellent option for a jacket can be a veil technique. Decorating a translucent background, typical of the nylon stocking technique, will allow you to create an almost airy design that many will envy.
Even the usual vertical stripe with a matte gradient in the center of the accent nail plate will look completely different if an air veil is painted on the sides of the nail.
At the same time, the rest of the nails can be done in a similar technique with a traditional smile, but without decor at all.
A fancy-type French manicure can be done in a fruit theme. This option is considered one of the trendy nail designs today. However, in order for the manicure to look beautiful, and not colorful, it is better to make a smile in the form of fruit on two to four nails (no more). The rest can be simply dyed with whatever color you choose for the fruit. Choosing a juicy fruit theme, it is worth excluding rhinestones from the design: drawings of this type do not need them.
For information on how to paint a French gel polish, see the next video.