Striped Manicure

Well-groomed hands are the calling card of a woman. Beautifully designed nails make the image complete and neat. Without a properly executed manicure, no girl will be able to feel one hundred percent confident. A popular trend in recent years has become a manicure with stripes. Taking advantage of the demand and respect for the beautiful half of humanity, such a design is not going to give up their positions. Over time, new ideas of such design appear, more and more materials are used that can make it the final touch to any image.

Striped nail designs have been particularly popular in the past few years. And stylists say that such a design will be in fashion for a long time. The beauty of such a manicure is that it is easy enough to do at home, and any girl can cope with it. This requires a small amount of scrap materials, as well as relatively little experience and accuracy. You can turn your own nails into a work of art without referring to a specialist. You will be able to use a large number of accessories, complement the striped ornament with a diverse decor, create quite complex and elegant combinations.

This design method can be considered universal. It can be used in various life situations. - depending on the choice of colors, materials and additions. Elegant stripes are perfect for creating a casual look. Such a manicure can be strict due to geometric shapes.

White and black colors will fit any suit and fit into the most strict dress code. If you skillfully combine pastel and nude colors, you can transform laconic geometry into a delicate combination of lines, suitable for a romantic date. Bright neon colors, bold combinations, modern design elements will be very useful in preparing for the party.

The most popular trends in striped design are the following manicure options:

• French manicure considered a classic of nail art. A classic, as you know, never go out of style. For the classic jacket used one strip, separating the free edge of the nail. More "fresh" is a moon manicure. In it, along with the tip, the nail hole also stands out in a different color.

The most commonly used combination is a delicate pink shade for the base coat and white for the highlight.

• Via ordinary duct tape can be made modern summer manicure. To do this, you can use several varnishes neon colors. The strips should be separated with tape (the same effect will happen with scotch), then you should paint the nail in different colors. You can thus select only the ring or middle and ring fingers. This design will look fresh and attractive.

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• Registration with metal stripes is a universal solution suitable for everyday wear.With a more intense combination with other details, you can become a worthy companion for a party or a holiday. Make this option by using conventional foil and glue. Nails can be arranged in this way with self-adhesive strips of a certain type.

• Black and white design maybe anything. Lines can be located along the nail, it allows you to visually lengthen the fingers. You can make horizontal stripes or converging at different angles and forming geometric patterns. The thickness of the lines, the distance between them - it all depends on your imagination.
• Strips in manicure can be placed and the grid. Diagonal lines of contrasting colors are arranged at a right angle to each other. With the help of strips of decorative film (gold or other interesting texture) you can focus on one of the fingers, advantageously diversifying the usual glossy varnish.
• Nail art with transparent stripes is one of the most popular options this year. This design can be combined with bright or delicate shades of lacquers.

• Combination gradient and stripes can be a great addition to the image. These two fashion trends are perfectly "friendly" with each other, forming a wonderful nail art.
• To diversify striped design can be glitter, sparkles, self-adhesive lines and pictures, rhinestones and other decorations. This will create a unique combination and stand out from the crowd.
• The combination of matte and glossy textures in the lines will make the manicure interesting and nontrivial. You can use the same shade with a different finish. An excellent solution would be the choice of the French style and the combination of two textures in it.

To perform the lines on the nails, you can use various accessories. With the help of tools you can easily make strips of different types at home. Using adhesive tape or conventional tape can be used to divide the surface into several parts, using the material as a stencil. With the use of foil can be obtained stripes and patterns of metal texture. Thin rulers can be performed by applying a thin brush for drawing. They will be neat after a few workouts, but it will be possible to draw them in any direction and style without the tedious use of stencils.

It's nice that to create your own unique design, you can simultaneously use ribbons for nail art, foil and drawings. Combining various techniques and shades, you can choose the perfect image for each case.

The choice of colors can only depend on your imagination. But there are combinations that best suit one season or another, emphasizing favorably the changes taking place in nature and the mood of a person. In the spring it is best to use a gentle range of pastel shades. When combining colors, it is better to use similar thermal types - for example, delicate pink with scattered blue, yellow, green. Bright blue - with contrasting red. Cold turquoise can be perfectly combined with white color or steel.

Using adhesive strips, you must adhere to the following procedure:

• The base coat is applied as a first coat after the nail treatment. It must dry completely before proceeding to the next step.
• The second layer of the base will make the texture more dense, and the coating - resistant.
• Following the intended design, it is necessary to glue the strips. You can do everything vertically, diagonally or horizontally.
• A lacquer layer is applied to the strip of another shade chosen for a picture.Then it must be carefully peeled off, not waiting for the coating to dry.
• When all layers are completely dry, a top fixing agent is applied over them.

Sometimes it is impossible to get a French manicure kit, foil or thin self-adhesive tapes. This situation is easily remedied with varnishes of various colors and a fine brush. After a certain amount of training, you can learn how to create any design with these accessories. The beauty of this method is that it does not need any additional consumables. This makes it universal and applicable in all conditions.

When using foil, the sequence of actions will be somewhat different:

• The base is applied in the same way as in the case of conventional strips. First, give the layer to dry completely, then fix the result with another layer.
• In those places where metal lines will go, glue is applied with a thin brush.
• Immediately, a sheet of metal foil of the desired color is applied to the glue base, after a few seconds it is removed. Thanks to this metal particles will remain on the adhesive strips.
• A colorless top finish will complete such a design, it will not allow metal elements to fade.

Self-manicure with a fashionable striped print is quite simple. For a start, it is worthwhile to consider step by step how to create a trendy version in a delicate color scheme using a metal tape. This simple version will require the presence of varnishes in two colors (for example, pale pink and sky blue), as well as metal tape for the nail art. For decoration you can use rhinestones or varnish with sparkles.

To make the resulting design resistant to external influences and extend its service life, be sure to prepare a top fixing agent. The procedure is as follows:

1. The nails of all fingers (except the thumb) must first be covered in pink. Thumb scroll blue. Allow the first layer to dry completely.
2. Unnamed or middle fingers can be left unchanged by focusing on them. All others will be processed in a similar way. Plain adhesive tape, transparent or masking tape stick on the upper half of the nail. You can slightly shift it from the exact middle towards the top or bottom. The remaining open part needs to be painted over with blue varnish. On the thumbs need to use the opposite color.
3. On the border between the colors you need to glue the foil tape. The tips that go beyond the edge of the nail, you need to carefully cut, trying not to dislodge the tape.
4. Perpendicular to the first line (or forming a cross), two more stripes can be applied.
5. You can complete a manicure using a shiny lacquer in some of the resulting sectors or triangles. In addition, rhinestones can be glued in the middle of the composition - the amount depends on their size. It is convenient to glue such elements using ordinary clear varnish.
6. Do not forget to put a transparent topcoat on top of the whole design in order to fix all the elements in their places and make the beauty more durable.

Manicure with wide stripes is easy enough to do with your own hands - using special strips for design. You can replace this accessory with tapes cut from tape. For this design, you can use two, three or even four colors. You can combine a variety of glossy or matte varnishes, colors, bright or bed gamma. For selection, you can use gold, silver, bronze or steel metal textures. Color combinations can be any, they will depend on your preferences and the place in which the nail design will be shown to others.

To create such a design, again, you need to cover the nail with a base color. Using tape or tape should be separated part of the nail, and the remaining cover other selected shade. You need to remove the tape until it is completely dry. But this should be done carefully, trying not to damage the edges and do not grease the product from the surface. You can repeat this procedure as many times as you want to leave wide lanes in the composition.

During summer trips to the sea it will be very important to look beautiful striped nail art using marine colors: blue, blue, white and scarlet. You can focus on one of the fingers, leaving for him the elements of red. Pictures with anchors, fish or attractive sea creatures will look appropriate.

It is possible to combine strips in the design of nails with dots. The combination of such various prints will look very original. A unique nail design can be created if one of the fingers is striped and the feminine print is placed on the other - polka dots. The remaining nails can be left covered with a base color. If you are preparing an image for a holiday or a party, you can cover them with brilliant varnish, create an interesting texture, use a gradient or a cat's eye effect.

Horizontal and vertical stripes - not the only option. You can think of any use of a straight line. It can form a fashionable mesh. Perhaps it will be strict squares, located exactly and clearly. A grid of thin black lines can look like a gentle light veil hiding the face of a beautiful lady. The use of blue and red stripes can create the texture of a warm and cozy rug, which is very pleasant to hide in the cold season, sitting with your favorite book and a cup of hot drink.

The strips may not go through the whole finger, but form a complex pattern. They can form squares, rhombuses and triangles that divide the surface into several parts. Each of the formed sections can be painted over with a certain selected color, to get a mosaic effect.

From short lengths a lady can create an ornament that looks like a wave or ethnic pattern. It can resemble an old painting on clothes or dishes, imitate the texture of a knitted sweater.

You have already seen that with the help of fantasy you can come up with a lot of options for striped nail art. The stripes in it can be of various widths - from dividing a nail into two parts to the thinnest rulers. The use of pastel colors, bright (and even neon) lacquers, the use of metal or matte textures has proven excellent.

So, you can select the following interesting options:

• Simple option Reverse french with the separation of two pastel shades with a metal line will always be relevant and fashionable. The use of soft pink or beige for the hole and sky blue as the base tone is a win-win combination suitable for almost any girl.
• Black coating looks pretty strict. Diverse it can print with colored thin lines. In this treatment, black lacquer looks very elegant, but it is very fresh and young. You can use shades of pink, orange, green or yellow, perfectly contrasting with the cold dark base.
• White coating with vertical or horizontal yellow stripes is perfect for young and cheerful personages. Parallel vertical stripes will make the fingers longer, and the horizontal ones will look very original.To give such a neil-art even more positive the ring finger can be distinguished with the help of yellow peas.
• Transparent lines options are very gentle. For example, drawing with semicircular colorless stripes, which are located across the finger on a white background, is unobtrusive and pleasant.
• Gentle colors go great with each other. The tones of violet, dusty rose and delicate yellow look beautiful in spring. And the separation of bands of such colors with the help of golden foil tape adds a special charm.
• Gold ribbon It looks great with a horizontal white base or bleached shades of different colors.

• Matte manicure is one of the most sought after this year. And its combination with gloss is especially popular. Diagonal gradient lacquered stripes on a matte black background look very original. Such a manicure can afford a bright and independent girl.
• Matte black jacket with lacquered nail tips is a modern interpretation of the ever-favorite classics. Separating these textures with a metal tape adds brilliance and elegance.
• In summer time most people go on trips to the sea. In these situations, a nautical-style manicure would be very appropriate. To create it you can use blue, blue, white and red. Blue stripes can be placed on all fingers, a few to emphasize the red lines. A great ending would be using marine prints. Black anchor will look concise, simple, but attractive. For romantic natures, you can add a starfish or shell pattern. It is permissible to use rhinestones or bouillons in the form of pearls.
• Nude colors always relevant in everyday use. They look unobtrusive, suitable for any clothing and for any dress code. No one person can call such a design vulgar and defiant. For it you can use strips of different thickness. It looks good combination of beige with the color of dusty roses and cappuccino.
• For a party You can make a manicure using bright neon colors. Orange nails will not go unnoticed. In order to impart coquettism to the image, nail stylists propose to split them into thin black ribbons horizontally - into four parts. Two of the pieces must be left empty, and the rest filled with small black peas.
• Stripe pattern, reminiscent of a warm sweater, will bring comfort to everyday life. Such a print is good in winter, because even at work and on the road it will remind you of a house.
• Ethnic striped patterns will definitely look very original. They can combine contrasting colors and various prints.

Beautiful manicure with ribbons, see the following video.