Nail Design at home: small masterpieces

Nail Design at home: small masterpieces
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Tips for nail design at home

Collect your own set of all necessary to create beautiful nail design. If you want to try your hand in the nail-art Nail art: the art of painting nails Only nail polish will not be enough. You will need special tools, paint and, of course, lots of accessories: rhinestones, sequins, pieces of foil and fabric and so on. The following are five things without which you can not do without.

Always start with a basecoat and topcoat finish

Before you paint your masterpiece, put on nail base coat layer. There are many varieties - firming, regenerating, hypoallergenic, and so on. The base coat protects the nail from stains that can leave lacquers and paints, as well as scratches and cracks. Luck is firmly on the base coat, and therefore, your design will remain for a long time. Finally, basecoat smoothes the nail surface, making it easier to create nail art.

Upon completion of nail art should be covered with a special top coating that protects against the environment. Many manufacturers produce paired base and top coat, whose characteristics complement each other. If you happen to have one or the other, they can replace the high-quality quick-drying clearcoat.

You can not do without high-quality lacquers

Conventional coatings are necessary for nail art - they serve as a backdrop for art. Colors can be useful to all, the more you have them in stock, the better. The best colors for the background - white and black, as well as emerald green. Pearl paint is often used to add shine also useful varnish with sparkles.

But most importantly - a regular clearcoat. It is widely used for various fixation elements such as crystals or beads. It can be used as the base or top layer, as well as a protective layer between the two layers of paint in complex patterns.

Acrylic paint and the importance of the harmony of colors

Paints for nail art is not so thick as lacquers. They are applied with thin brushes, and other special tools. Acrylic water-based paints are best suited for nail design - even when they are wet, they are easily removed with water. After drying, they are resistant to water.

A harmonious selection of colors - one of the most important qualities of nail art.

Everyone has seen examples of unsuccessful nail design such lurid orange flowers on a blue and pink background. To make sure your nail art did not contain incongruous colors, learn how to use the color wheel - a special table that helps to select the color harmony.

Tools - how to choose and use

It is easy to buy a set for nail art, but, as in the case of tools for manicure, better to buy separate tools or a set of professional stores. Surprisingly, the most useful and multifunctional tool for beginners to regular floss. With it you can mix the wet paint on the nail, paint swirls and dots, toothpick is very convenient to carry and stick to the nail small elements.

To learn to use the tools, you can see the educational video. Another option - to enroll specialist nail-art cabin and take a close look at work in the process of asking questions, if necessary. In any case, you should first practice, drawing on paper or on false nails, before embarking on the design of nails.

Accessories - a huge selection

There are thousands of varieties of accessories for nail art. The most common - rhinestones, tiny beads (bulonki), pieces of foil, silver and gold pens, sequins, lace Lace in the modern wardrobe and thread, feathers and other lovely little things. Most of them are so small that you can not take their hands - they are taken and fixed on the nail using toothpicks or special tools.

To fix the decorations on the nails used clearcoat, which sticks them. Accessories pressed against the wet varnish, then cover the top with another layer of clearcoat or topcoat, which firmly fixes them on the nails. For especially large items may require two or three layers of varnish or coating.

Maria Bykov

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