How to paint on nails?

Professional designs on the nails adorn the female set and often give it a special status. The novice master sooner or later has to deal with such decoration. The purpose of this article will be to familiarize the reader with the basic nuances of drawing, which can become the basis for learning.

Before you start drawing on nails, you need to know some points of manicure. Drawings today are not accidental - they are selected based on the seasonality of the manicure or some significant event. For example, it could be a snowman or deer for a New Year's set, a kawaii cat with heart-shaped eyes for Valentine's Day, or a floral design for March 8.

Another nuance is the correctness of the execution. She means strict dosage of drawings. Besides the fact that the images should not adorn all fingernails, they cannot be repeated. They take a single topic as a basis. In the design, one nail will be decorated with the main picture, and the rest of the accents will become its link with the manicure technique taken as the basis for the design.

For example, when they paint a manicure with an owl (a fashionable design today), no more than three out of ten nails are allocated for the design. Nail plates without a pattern are made in one color, so that the design becomes more expressive against the general background. The owl is painted on only one nail plate. The drawings on the nails-bindings can depict the feathers of the bird, made with the paints with which the bird itself was painted.The angle of the feathers can be different, as well as the size.

Identity can be difficult to achieve if the design is in the form of monograms or lace curls. Here they also make sure that the image is not complicated by the manicure technique. For example, it is difficult to fit a pattern, a gradient, and a "smile" of a jacket on one nail plate. In this case, the drawing is correlated with the size of the nail plate, choosing one thing (either a gradient or a jacket).

Here, an excellent option for playing around can be called the technique of performing a fantasy "smile". For example, you can highlight an accent nail not with a traditional one, but with a lace "smile", drawing the finest laces, and emphasizing the edges with a contour. The rest of the nails can be done using the ombre, classic or French design technique, whether traditional or an inverted jacket. Today it is very fashionable to highlight the “smile” zone with drawings, emphasize the design with contour strokes, and combine it with tear-off foil. For example, instead of the traditional "smile", you can depict chanterelles, cats, snowmen, flower elements, leaves, stars.

Difficulties in drawing can be associated with different sizes of the nail plates. In this case, training cards with various patterns will be an excellent solution for a beginner master. By tracing one picture after another with a brush, the master will develop the skills of drawing small elements.

Maps are sheets with images that are somewhat similar to school curriculum. Each row consists of several conventional marigolds with the same picture. At first, it is completely traced, it remains only to circle it. As we approach the end of the row, the master has to perform more and more elements on his own.

These training cards are very convenient, they increase the skills of the master, because when making a drawing on the nails there should be no flaws. Each line will be drawn once, without painting, and therefore maps can be called a tool for achieving confidence in drawing.

For each design, a set is used in the work, which will include a dehydrator, primer, base, pigments, top.

A dehydrator is needed to degrease the nail plate, the primer will be a kind of primer or binder that provides high adhesion of the coating to the nail. The base will be responsible for the durability of the coating, pigments are used to create a colored base, the top will seal the entire design.

Directly for drawing, you may need dots (special sticks with attachments in the form of metal balls) of different sizes, manicure brushes with different lengths and thicknesses.

For example, a fan-shaped one creates the basis for an ombre design, Gzhel is drawn in a flat square, Chinese painting is beveled. This brush is used to paint in the single stroke technique. For artistic painting, liner brushes are used, consisting of 7-20 hairs.

In addition, one of the painting techniques (wet design) involves the use of regular bottle brushes that apply gel polish. Household drawing tools can be wooden toothpicks, ordinary hand needles. The options are not the most convenient, which proves the quality of the finished pattern.

As for the pigments for painting, their choice depends on the preferences of the artist.You can paint on nails with water-based acrylic paints (options in the form of kits for artists, not school paints), special hybrid gels that are dried in a UV or LED lamp. In addition, you can use the gel polishes themselves for drawing. So that the quality of the drawing does not suffer, the pigmentation of the paints must be sufficient: it is difficult to paint with transparent material.

In addition, it must be taken into account that when it is diluted with a top, it will become not only thinner, but also more transparent. In addition to pigments, you will have to take care of the presence of a palette. If you don't have one, you can make one out of a piece of food foil. If you plan to use acrylic paints for painting on your nails, you need to prepare a small container with plain water. Such paints freeze after drying, and if the composition is not washed off the brush in time, it will have to be thrown away.

To work with helium dyes, you need to prepare a liquid for removing gel polish. In the process of work, it can be used to clean a brush or dots. In addition, you should purchase lint-free manicure wipes in advance. For volumetric techniques, a modeling gel of different shades is used. You will also need a special liquid, which is used in conjunction with the modeling gel.

Interesting tools that you can use in your work are special drawing pens. They can have at the ends not only a writing rod, but also stamps with a simple pattern. Such tools are convenient to work with due to their economy, however, for professional design it is still worth purchasing brushes and dots.

It is worth immediately identifying the basic drawing techniques. You can draw hearts, lines, dots with dots. The type of element will depend on the size of the ball at the end of the tool.

To make the design look professional, you need to use dots with different ball sizes. You can lay out whole compositions from points, using a set with balls of different diameters. Lines are drawn with thin instruments. As far as the brushes are concerned, the important points here are their length and thickness. The liner draws thin and straight lines. Use shorter brushes to paint.

Learning how to make drawings correctly and aesthetically attractive, like professionals of nail service, is within the power of every woman who has patience, accuracy and perseverance. Painting techniques vary. For example, several techniques are relevant today: Chinese painting, mehendi, wet design and watercolor painting. As for the latter, artistic watercolors are used for it and painted on a wet, rough base.

For the wet option, use special bases (white or transparent) with a blooming effect. Such drawings look like a masterpiece, and they are obtained from the usual painted stars and stripes. Put commas, following in a circle, instantly turn into a rose with a smooth transition of halftones. The lines are immediately transformed into irises and lilies.

In Chinese painting, two contrasting paints are applied on both sides of the beveled brush. With one stroke, flower buds and open petals, as well as leaves, are formed. This drawing looks gentle and effective, as well as professional. By this principle, you can draw different flowers, including a lily, tulip, orchid.

Smooth lines are drawn with a brush with long hairs. Convex patterns are created with short-bristled brushes, as well as analogues of 20-30 hairs to create a light relief (for example, when you need to draw a gilded crown or monogram on an accent nail). With thin brushes (00), they draw especially thin lines and small elements of the picture.

Drawing is a creative activity, and therefore it knows no boundaries. However, the images must be appropriate for a particular set.

In summer, these can be flowers:

• lilies;
• roses;
• dandelions;
• chamomile;
• poppies;
• irises.

All kinds of insects are also a good idea:

• May beetles;
• butterflies;
• dragonflies;
• spiders.

Different fruits look great in summer design, for example:

• Strawberry;
• slices of kiwi, apple, watermelon, lemon.

Autumn manicure can be decorated with colorful leaves, raindrops, pictures of berries, mushrooms. For the fall Halloween set, you can draw a scorpion, sinister pumpkins, skulls, cobwebs, and similar paraphernalia.

In winter, you can make a volumetric design for a knitted texture, draw New Year's toys, fir branches with snow, deer, snowmen.

In the spring, you can resort to the floral theme.

You can also draw geometric images on the nails. Today, elongated triangles, lines with points located on them and hollow geometric shapes, as well as animals drawn in a geometric style, are especially fashionable. Ethnic patterns created by dots and lines are fashionable.

Lace, monograms and voluminous flowers are incredibly popular. Shells, bird feathers, eyes, crowns, lips, cats and hearts are relevant.

To make the drawing convex, you need to make an underpainting. For example, for a golden crown, you will first have to apply a black outline of the drawing and only after that you can apply gold paint over it.

For these purposes, the material must first be applied with a drop to the nail and then wielded with a brush, modeling the shape.

If you plan to make a flower, you will have to collect the gel for each petal, spreading it in the right place and stretching it a little with a brush. You can take color gel. If you want to draw a rose over the entire nail, you need to perform a kind of spiral, picking up the gel and making it petal by petal. When drawing a butterfly, the gained mass is stretched with a brush. Such a manicure can be decorated with small crystals and broths.

To make a straight line, you need to pick up a liner (a brush with long hairs). It is necessary to carry it quickly and confidently along the nail plate. If a curved line is needed, it should also be single, quickly executed, without painting. Liners are very easy to use, the collected paint falls on the nail evenly and evenly.

Any drawing has its own nuances of execution. For example, after each stage of drawing, you need to dry the design in a special lamp so that the paints do not smudge into an incomprehensible color spot.

Let's take a look at the basics of creating multiple images.

Curls of various types can decorate even the most laconic manicure. At the same time, in order for them to look beautiful and professional, you will have to learn how to use brushes with long hair. For thin lace use the 7 Hair brushes. Paint is drawn onto the brush, put it in the right place and draw a curved line. In this case, at the beginning, a beautiful narrow droplet will be obtained, and the line will end very thinly, which will make it possible to compose various bouquets and weaves from curls.

By this principle, you can create curls and a spiral type. In addition, they can really be combined into a single pattern extending over the entire area of ​​the nail plate. After drying, the curls can be silvered by covering them with a silvery varnish. If you want to add volume to the drawn lace, you can sprinkle it with acrylic sugar right after drawing and dry it in a lamp. The design will turn out to be very beautiful and unusual.

Fruits can be painted in different ways. At the same time, they look especially beautiful when cut. If you need to draw, for example, kiwi, first make the background green.Then they take a brush with medium hair, dip it in white paint and draw the center of the fruit in a semicircle. After that, white paint is diluted with the top and veins are drawn, drawing lines from the edge of the nail to the core.

Next, black paint is bred with a top and veins are drawn with it between the white ones. Then they take white pigment and, without spreading the top, paint on the veins brighter. After that, black grains are placed with dots, white highlights are placed in them. They take a base and put drops with the help of dots. Then the design is sealed.

Flowers made using the flowering technique look gorgeous. You can make them in just a couple of minutes. After staining the nail, a special base is applied to it with a flowering (spreading) effect. Immediately after that, with a thin brush of medium length, draw a snowflake with six rays. In this case, each is taken out of the middle. For painting, varnishes with a spreading effect or gels are used.

The drawing will spread, the lines will turn into petals in just half a minute. Once the desired spreading result is achieved, the design is sent to the lamp. Then more lines are drawn between the petals, this time drawing them towards the middle. They wait again for them to spread and turn into petals, and immediately dry in a lamp. After that, it will only remain in some places to draw the contours of the petals with white paint.

You will learn how to draw flowers on nails in the following video.