Every woman wants to look great fromfrom the top of the head to the tips of the nails. Well-groomed and beautiful hands attract attention; to achieve a well-groomed appearance, special attention should be paid not only to the condition of the skin of the hands, but also to the nails. Nail design, or Nail art, as it is often called today, helps to express your individuality, emphasize your mood or bring to life any of your fantasies. The inhabitants of Ancient Egypt were the first in history to apply drawings to their nails. Then, by the drawing on the nails, it was possible to determine what class a particular woman belonged to. Over time, the tradition of decorating their nails was adopted from the Egyptians by the inhabitants of India, and then by the representatives of the fair sex living in the Slavic countries. Often, nail design was not at all decorative, but rather ritualistic in nature.
Methods of decorating nails
Today you can confidently go wild with nail designexperiment. Some craftswomen come up with their own ways of decorating their nails, while others prefer to use the services of professionals. Nail art uses glitter and rhinestones, lace and foil, paints (nails can only be painted with water-acrylic paints), varnishes, special gels and acrylic. You can decorate not only natural nails, but also extended nails. Nail piercing is becoming more and more popular every day. Extended nails are most often pierced, however, if natural nails are extremely strong, you can pierce them too. It is recommended to pierce the nail of the ring finger or little finger of the left hand if you are right-handed, or the right hand if you are left-handed. This way you will not constantly touch the piercing, and it will not interfere with your work. Nail design today also includes stickers applied to nails, French extensions (when the tip of the nail is highlighted in white), and colored French (when the tip of the nail is highlighted in a variety of rainbow colors).
Painting of nails
Nail painting is considered one of the most popular todaypopular and incredibly fashionable trends in nail design. It is nice that today nail painting has become accessible to any modern woman. Almost any design can be depicted on nails. Patterns can be of different textures - when painting nails, as a rule, professionals use not only brushes of different thicknesses, but also sticks and needles. Nail painting is done using: water-acrylic paints, glitter, varnishes, colored powder. You can bring your own design sketches to the salon (in order to find something interesting on the Internet, just enter the phrase "nail design in pictures" in the search line of the system, and it will give you a huge number of photos), or use the work of the master - maybe you will be interested in the design he proposed.
Types of nail design
Today there are many types of nail design, each of which has its own characteristics, unique application technique. The most popular types of nail design are:
- Art nails painting;
- three-dimensional design of nails;
- aquarium design of nails.
Let's look at each type in a little more detail, examining its characteristic features.
Art nails painting
The most popular technology for applying a patternon nails is their artistic painting. A professional master applies designs using water-acrylic paints. Useful to know! Water-acrylic paints and nail design, photos of which you will find in huge quantities not only on our resource, but also on the Internet as a whole, are inextricably linked with each other. These paints are incredibly easy to use: they do not flow, have a very bright and pleasant saturated color. By mixing different shades of water-acrylic paints, you can get new interesting colors. In addition, these paints have virtually no negative impact on the human body, they dry quickly and are very easy to use. When artistically painting nails, professional tools are used (airbrush, gel pens), and the technique of applying even the simplest at first glance drawing requires special skills. Advantages of artistic nail painting:
- Nails are incredibly smooth;
- Under the layer of transparent lacquer, if a woman wishes, even petals of real flowers can be placed;
- Handles look very attractive and beautiful, even if the drawing is applied to transparent nails;
- You can achieve on the nails the effect of a smooth transition of one color to another.
3D design
Nails with volumetric design look veryspectacular. However, volumetric nail design is recommended for holidays or parties. It is very inconvenient to work or do any housework with volumetric nails. You can not only damage your nails, but also scratch people, leave snags on your clothes. When applying volumetric design to nails, specialists use a special gel or acrylic powder. Figures are molded from them, and decorative elements are attached to these materials. Advantages of volumetric nail design:
- The voluminous design of the nails can be convex, virtually indistinguishable from the design executed in
- accordance with the technology of artistic nails painting;
- the image on your nails can be three-dimensional.
Aquarian design
Aquarium design is done exclusively on extended nails. Advantages of aquarium design:
- The surface of the nail remains very smooth, while thickening;
- the effect of "aquarium glass" is created;
- this kind of design is very durable.
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