Animal Manicure

In the modern world it has become very fashionable to make an unusual design on the nails. This is due to the fact that many women have begun to carefully care for their nails and hands. Many of the fair sex are wondering what should be a fashionable and modern manicure, as well as where it is better to do it - at home or in the salon. Next, you will learn about the interesting types of manicure with animals that just will not let you get bored, about their various options, techniques of implementation and expert advice.

Most manicure with animal design is valued among young girls, although many aged ladies also do not mind portraying, for example, luxurious owls with rhinestones.

There are a lot of different variations of manicure on animals. So many, that very often just run up. Young ladies now and then choose colored cats or cute bears, older girls prefer tigers, butterflies or birds. Of course, these are only conditional distinctions.

Nails are decorated with animal prints using hand-painted with paints, gels or ordinary varnishes. To save time as much as possible, many use decorative sliders with pre-made animals.. What to prefer, depends only on you. If you are going to make such a design at home, then be patient.

To date, there are a large number of techniques for performing nail designs, and very often they are not used in their pure form, because they can be skillfully combined. Here are some common options:

• You can draw unusual animals or their faces with paints. To do this, you will need a set of special brushes that all the manicure masters have. If you still doubt your abilities or you only need such a manicure for a holiday, give preference to a professional. If you are for experiments, and the drawing will be difficult, then for a start, practice on paper.
• An excellent solution can be an imitation of animal skin. - for example, you can make zebra stripes or leopard spots on your nails. Such a design can be supplemented with brilliant drawing and decorate with small stones. Everything will look “expensive” and original.
• If you have a priority and a strong coating, then here it is best to choose gel polishes - Of course, if you have at least some experience with them. On the gel can be painted with acrylic paints or gel polishes themselves. But this technique is more suitable for nail-art masters.
• Very often on the nails depict cartoon animals - for example, the heroes of Disney cartoons. A great addition can be kitties Hello Kitty or Tom and Jerry. If you do not take into account Western cartoons, most often girls ask masters to depict cute bears with hearts, bunnies, rabbits, dogs and cats. This may be attractive faces of animals, and their silhouettes.

• If all the previous techniques somehow do not suit you, then Why not give preference to ready-made stickers with animals or sliders. This is the most convenient, innocuous and simplest decor, which is very easy to translate into reality right at home. If your sliders are of high quality, then this is a plus, because such patterns on the nails will look no worse than a real painting.
• Not bad and realistic looks nail-design in the technique of stamping - with the stencils of animals you need. It is performed quite easily, but most often you need special varnishes.
• Graphic animals or origami on the nails can also look very unusual. (and even somehow futuristic). It can be deer, pandas, wolves, giraffes - anyone.

If you apply for "animal" decor for nails in the salon, then you will carry out the standard hardware nail cleaning - or another that the beauty salon offers. If you perform a manicure at home, this does not mean that this stage can be skipped. So, before applying the varnish and pattern you need to perform the following steps:

• Wash hands thoroughly and use only clean, disinfected instruments and nail files. Yes, even at home, hygiene must be maintained in relation to nail clippers and nail blades.
• Treat and remove the cuticle in the usual way for you, remove all the burrs. Using nail files, give your nails the desired shape. To remove the cuticle most painlessly and safely, before this procedure, steam your hands in warm water - for example, with sea salt.

Cleaned and sawed nails should be treated with a degreaser. For this purpose, you can use the usual nail polish remover. Due to this, your further coverage will be more sustainable. Next, it is worthwhile to step by step consider the method of creating a manicure with a panda with the help of stickers. Of course, this is only a rough design, you can choose any animal yourself. Procedure:

• As a base coat, apply 1-2 coats of green lacquer. The number of layers depends on the quality of the varnish, and also on whether it will shine through or not. Sometimes one layer is enough.
• Let your nails dry.
• Stick the stickers on the nails - you can stop the choice, for example, on small pandas. Secure them with clear lacquer.

Next, consider a small workshop on how to decorate a classic white jacket with the help of birds or any other animals:

• Cover all the nails with clear varnish - the base. Let them dry.
• Using stencils glued below the free edge of the nail, paint it with white.
• You can paint birds with lacquers or choose pre-made stickers. After creating the pattern using the method of your choice, once again cover the nails with a clear lacquer - fixer.
• Moisten the cuticle with a special oil.

The picture does not necessarily have to be the same on all the nails. You can arrange, for example, only two fingers - middle and ring fingers. An unusual design can be an option when two fingers are drawn, and one is painted with a shining varnish.

At home and using ordinary varnishes, you can make a cute design with ladybugs. To do this:

• Cover the prepared nails with white lacquer, let them dry.
• With the help of red lacquer and a fine brush to make small circles on the nails. There may be two or three - or one at all.
• Then you need to paint the back of the ladybugs with black lacquer and a very thin brush. Points can be made using a special dots. Do not forget to make small paws and antennae.
• With the help of white lacquer and dots should make small dots - it will be the eyes. Black varnish to make pupils inside whites. So you get a very realistic insect.
• After completing the pattern on all nails do not forget to cover them with a fixative.

If you work with gel polishes, you can make one ladybird, and put the points on its wings with white sparkling rhinestones. The main thing is not to be afraid of experiments. Of course, such a gorgeous insect should not be done on each nail. If you use any pebbles and rhinestones for decoration, decorate the rest of your nails in the same color.

If it seems to you that the nails will be boring even with animals on them, do not be afraid to use the following materials:

• large and small rhinestones (they can be very nicely decorate the wings of butterflies);
• rubbing nails, which easily diversifies the overall design;
• shiny dust for decoration and velvet;
• a variety of pebbles;
• color foil;
• small bouillon;
• decorative strings;
• feathers with which you can create the most luxurious "bird" manicure;
• lace;
• ordinary stickers, translation options and sliders.

Of course, this is not the whole list. If you are not engaged in the design of nails professionally - you usually do not need all this. However, variety can be useful if you want to experiment with nails. So that more boldly translate your unusual ideas with animals into life.

How to make a manicure with animals, see the following video.