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Nail Art 2014: Video for Beginners
A trendy nail polish can be complemented with a simple but beautiful pattern to make your hands look even more graceful. Trend of 2014 – You can decorate all your nails or decorate just a couple of plates on each hand. Experienced artists can paint entire landscapes or portraits on nails, but for beginners it is better to try lighter subjects – abstract patterns, small motifs or stylized flowers.
Drawings on nails: choose a color
Choosing cosmetics and decoration tools
To paint on nails, you need a small arsenal of a novice nail art master. Buy or scour your stocks of varnishes that provide a dense finish – they come in handy for backgrounds and designs. A good base coat is required, as well as a top coat. It can not only protect the drawing, but also create various special effects. For example, a matte top will give any nail polish an original “velvety” or “frosty” look.
The mirror finish will provide a long-lasting gloss, and the top with the smallest glitters or holographic particles will add a festive manicure.
Complex drawings can be done with acrylic paints. They are easy to apply and, if necessary, can be washed off with plain water. There is an alternative option – varnish-paints, which give a shiny dense coating. Such products are packaged in small bottles and equipped with a convenient thin brush suitable for design.
Get a palette for mixing shades, as well as some brushes. To draw petals, you need a flat brush with an oblique cut, thin lines are drawn with a narrow round brush, and wider ones are convenient to draw long and flat. You will also need a synthetic fan brush – dry glitter is applied with it.
Shiny stickers, rhinestones, dried flowers, small beads-broths, glitter of different sizes will help to complement the drawings. You don’t have to buy all this variety – choose several options that go well with each other
Drawing on nails in a marine style
Try a simple but effective stripe pattern. The key to success is accuracy. So that the manicure does not look sloppy, prepare stencils in advance – strips cut from paper tape.
You will need:
- lacquer paints in blue and white or varnish-enamels of the same tones
- protective base
- glossy finish with drying effect
- paper tape
- anchor stickers
Apply a protective base to your nails and pat dry. Then paint your nails with thick white varnish or varnish paint and dry as well. Attach two narrow paper strips to your nails, placing them across the plates and leaving gaps between the stencils.
On the middle fingers, you can change the pattern by gluing the strips along the nail so that the gap is in the center
Paint over the gaps with blue varnish. Peel off the stencils carefully – even stripes will remain on the nails. Attach stickers in the form of small red or gold anchors to the dry varnish. You don’t need to decorate every nail – two or three stickers are enough.
A similar pattern can be painted with acrylic paints using a medium flat brush.
Cover your nails with a thick layer of glossy top with a drying effect – it will give the manicure a shine and securely fix the decals.
How to draw patterns on nails: lines and waves
For special occasions, a beautiful manicure combining several matching shades is suitable. Draw simple wavy lines – each nail will have a unique pattern that can be complemented with sparkles.
You will need:
- protective base
- acrylic paints in black and golden beige
- golden beads
- glitter top coat
- plastic palette
- wide flat brush
- fine hair-tipped brush
Cover your nails with a protective base. Drop black paint onto the palette and paint over half of the nail diagonally with it. Use a flat brush and draw a line at random. Add beige and gold paint to the palette and apply it to the free part of the nail. Then dip a thin hair brush into it and draw on top of the black paint several free arched lines coming from one point.
Draw a couple of lines on a beige background using black paint
Dry the paint and cover the nail with a shiny top. At the junction of the lines, attach several golden beads, arranging them in the form of a bunch or stretching them in a line. Cover everything with another layer of top and proceed with the design of the next nail.
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