Easy manicure for beginners. Drawing ideas: gentle, simple, children's, autumn, summer, spring

If you have free time and desire, everyone can do a light manicure with their own hands at home. One of the advantages of a do-it-yourself manicure is its lower cost compared to a salon one.

DIY manicure tools and accessories

In order to do a manicure at home, you will need the following tools and materials:

1. Brush for cleaning nails.
2. Container (bowl) for the bath.
3. Nail scissors.
4. Special cuticle scissors or nippers.
5. Remover is a cuticle remover.
6. Liquid for nail polish remover.
7. Cuticle oil or cream.
8. Orange cuticle sticks.
9. File for natural nails.
10. Hydrogen peroxide or any other disinfectant in case of a cut.

To perform decorative manicure, you will need the following materials:

1. Base varnish, the task of which is to prevent staining of the nail plate and prolong the period of manicure.
2. Colored varnishes.
3. Rhinestones, bouillons, artificial pearls, flock, glitter, nail stickers.
4. Brush, sewing needle, nail glue, PVA glue or film face mask, French manicure stencils.
5. Protective (finishing) varnish that prevents chips on the manicure coating.

Stages of performing a basic manicure without coating

The main stages of a basic manicure:

1. Antibacterial treatment. Wash hands with soap and water using a nail brush.
2. Softening the cuticle. Prepare a nail bath with the addition of sea salt, oil or any other product intended for hand care. Immerse your fingers in warm water for at least 5 minutes.
3. Depending on the type of manicure chosen, push back the cuticle with an orange stick and remove it with nippers, or simply move the cuticle towards the nail rollers.
4. Wipe your hands dry and shape your nails with a file.

At the end of the procedure, if you do not plan to cover the nails with varnish, you need to apply nourishing oil to the nails and RUB it into the side rollers.

Trim manicure

Trim manicure gets its name from the cuticle removal method. After softening in a nail bath, the cuticle is gently pushed back with an orange stick, and then carefully trimmed with nippers or scissors designed to remove the cuticle.

Video demonstrating the procedure for carrying out a trim manicure:

You need to trim it strictly in a circle, without jerking, so that the cuticle is a whole ribbon. In this way, further burrs can be avoided. It is very important to use a sharp tool when performing a trim manicure.

If cuts occur, immediately treat the wound with a disinfectant.

Unedged manicure

Unedged (European) manicure means refusing to remove the cuticle. This type of manicure is especially recommended for people with thin skin to avoid cuts.

Unedged manicure is performed as follows:

1. Soften the skin with a nail bath.
2. Wipe your hands dry and apply Remuver (cuticle softener) to the cuticle. Withstand the time indicated in the instructions for Remuver.
3. Remove the softened cuticle with an orange stick.
4. Wash off the remnants of Remuver from your hands.
5. If you are not planning to apply nail polish, apply a nourishing oil.

DIY French manicure

French manicure ("French"), one of the most elegant and popular types of manicure, can be easily done by hand.

Necessary materials:

1. The main varnish that will be applied to the entire nail. This is any pastel varnish.
2. Opaque white varnish.
3. Protective covering.
4. Stencil strips or brush.

Stages of performing a French manicure:

1. Apply pastel-colored varnish to the nails and wait until it dries completely.
2. Drawing the rounded tip of the nail (smile) with white varnish. In the absence of skills, it is better to use a stencil. The strips are glued to the nails so that the tip of the nail is free. Then the tip of the nail is carefully painted over with white varnish.
3. Wait until dry, remove the stencils and apply a protective coating.

With a certain skill, a white "smile" can be painted with a brush.

Colored manicure

There are many types of colored manicure:

1. Hand nails are covered with varnishes of different colors, that is, each nail has its own color. Colors can also alternate.
2. "French" manicure made not in pastel colors, but in bright colors.
3. Combination of several contrasting colors on the nail plate. For example, in the “Colorblock” or “Ombre” style.
4. Patterns, bright landscapes or abstractions are applied on plain bright varnishes.

The presence of a large assortment of nail polishes allows you to choose the color of the manicure for any clothes or mood.

DIY nail art

The main methods of nail art painting include:

1. Drawing with dots. The tool comes in different sizes and is intended both for grabbing broths and small crystals for their subsequent placement on nails, and for drawing various circles (peas).
2. Drawing with stencils and masking tape. The stencil is applied to the nail and the drawing is filled with varnish. And the masking tape is cut into thin strips, glued to the nail, creating a pattern, and again filled with varnish.
3. Drawing with a brush.
4. Drawing with a sewing needle.

Decorating nails with a needle

To create a pattern on your nails using a regular sewing needle, you need at least two varnishes of different colors.

Stages of manicure:

1. Apply the base color and wait until the varnish is completely dry.
2. Then apply a drop of varnish of a different color to the center of the nail (if desired, to any area of ​​the nail) and, using a needle, stretch the drop in different directions, getting different patterns. If there are several colors for painting, then, after waiting for the first drawing to dry, apply a drop of another varnish and continue painting.

After waiting for the varnish to dry completely, apply the fixing agent.

Decorating nails with stickers and rhinestones

A light manicure at home can be created using stickers and rhinestones.

There are two ways to work with rhinestones:

1. Cover your nails with varnish. And, without waiting for the varnish to dry completely, place the desired pattern of rhinestones on the nails. After the varnish has dried, you need to carefully cover the nails with a fixing agent.
2. Another method involves the use of special glue. The nails are covered with the base color. After the varnish has completely dried, rhinestones are fixed on the nail plates with glue. After drying, the nails are covered with a fixing agent.

Stages of decorating manicure with stickers:

1. Apply the base color of the varnish.Wait until it is completely dry.
2. Attach the sticker to the nail plate. Stickers are adhesive-based and transfer stickers.
3. After the sticker is completely dry, apply a layer of protective varnish.

Tassel patterns

One of the ways to decorate the nail plate is art painting with a brush. To do this, you need a brush, which can be purchased from the manicure supplies department. The drawing can be applied with acrylic paints or any nail polishwhich is in stock.

You can practice on paper in advance. For the execution of the simplest pattern, you will need two contrasting varnishes.

Stages of painting with a brush:

1. Apply base color and wait until dry.
2. Having dipped the brush into a varnish of a different color, shake off the excess and start painting. After finishing the drawing, wait until the varnish is completely dry.
3. Cover the nails with a protective transparent layer.

Simple drawing ideas: flowers, monograms, hearts, lines, geometric shapes.

Designs for gentle manicure

The advantage of a gentle manicure is that it will always look appropriate and elegant.

Types of gentle manicure:

1. "French" in classic pale pink tones.
2. "Nud" that suits all skin types.
3. Manicure in pastel shades: pale blue, dusty pink, caramel.
4. Using gold and silver sequins, imitation pearls and rhinestones.
5. Soft gradient (Ombre).
6. Feng Shui style manicure with emphasis on the ring fingers.
7. Flowers, plants, birds, lace, hand-drawn or in the form of stickers.
8. Matte manicure.

Light manicure at home - "Flip-side", in which the varnish is coated not only on the outer nail plate, but also on the growing edge of the nail from the inside. Colors can be the same or different.

Autumn manicure ideas

The main types and themes of autumn manicure are:

1. "Golden" manicure. Manicure done in golden shades using golden glitter.
2. Monochrome nail coatings with autumn varnishes: brown, burgundy, fiery red, orange, yellow.
3. "Velvet manicure" using flock.
4. "Matte manicure".
5. Nature theme: drawings of leaves, vines, sunset.
6. Ombre. A gradient with brown, ash tones looks especially attractive in autumn.
7. Black and white drawings.
8. Bright abstractions in the form of geometric patterns, stripes.

Winter manicure

The main types and themes of winter manicure are:

• Snowflakes, openwork patterns.
• Christmas tree, Santa Claus, gifts, deer, penguins, a symbol of the coming New Year.
• Winter landscapes.
• Knitted pattern.
• Creation of imitation of patterns of woolen things.
• Manicure with all kinds of sparkles, rhinestones.

Among varnishes, the following colors are relevant:

• cold blue;
• deep white;
• burgundy.

Spring cover

Spring manicure should sparkle with special colors.

Types of spring manicure:

1. Various bright color combinations such as white and blue, gray and turquoise.
2. Using a lot of sparkles, crystals, broths.
3. "Pea" (point) manicure. With the help of dots, points of a contrasting color are created on the main background of the varnish.
4. Natural motives. Drawings in the form of flowers, plants, feathers look especially delicate. Drawings can be either hand-drawn or in the form of stickers.
5. Colorblock. Geometric division of nails into zones that are painted in different colors.
6. Water-based manicure, with which you can create stripes, and a gradient, and an abstract pattern.
7. "French" and "Nud" style.
8. Manicure with the 3D effect. Various polymer figures (butterflies, fruits) are glued to the nails.

Summer manicure ideas

Summer manicure should be the brightest.

The most popular summer varnish colors:

• turquoise;
• pink;
• lilac;
• pistachio;
• citric;
• powdery (for adherents of manicure in discreet shades).

Types of summer manicure design:

Also, do not give up their positions even in summer, the following types of manicure: "Ombre", "French", style "Nud" and "Negative space".

Manicure for girls

A light manicure will give girls the opportunity to feel like adults and are easy to do at home. It's also a great way to stop your child from biting their nails. It is important to let the child choose the colors of the varnishes and patterns.

So for children's manicure they use:

• bright shades of varnishes - pink, green, blue, yellow;
• stickers with children's drawings: cartoon characters, fairy tales;
• broths, rhinestones (usually to create eyes for fairy-tale characters).

Stages of children's manicure:

1. Wash your hands and your baby.
2. Use scissors or nippers to trim off excess nail edges.
3. Shape the nails with a file.
4. Move the cuticle with a wooden spatula, since it is impossible for a child to cut it off.
5. Degrease your nails with a nail polish remover and proceed to the artistic part of the manicure.

Matte finish

One of the trendy effects on nails is a matte finish.

There are two options for obtaining a matte finish:

1. The main color of the varnish is applied to the nails, and after drying, a transparent matte coating is applied.
2. A colored varnish with a matte finish is applied.

Ombre at home

"Ombre" (gradient) has been at the peak of manicure fashion for several years. Depending on the selected shades of varnish, a manicure can turn out to be both gentle and daring.

To create a manicure in the "Ombre" style, you will need the following materials:

1. White or any other varnish in a dense pastel shade.
2. Colorless nail polish for nail polish.
3. At least two varnishes in other shades.
4. Sponge (sponge).
5. Water in a container.
6. Nail polish remover.
7. PVA varnish or any face mask that can be removed with a film.

Stages of creating a manicure:

1. Degrease nails with nail polish remover.
2. Apply white or any other nail polish of your choice. Wait for the varnish to dry. This will be the foundation.
3. Apply PVA glue or face mask on the rollers of the fingers, wait until dry. This will protect the skin from manicure errors.
4. Soak a sponge in water, squeeze out. Then on the sponge draw lines with each color of the varnish, except for the main one, from light to darker.
5. Using patting movements, transfer the pattern from the sponge to the nail plate. After the nails have dried, several more similar layers can be applied until the desired brightness, intensity is achieved.
6. Remove the PVA glue film or face mask from the rollers of the fingers.

at the end, apply a fixing varnish to the nails.

Fashionable manicure trends that are easy to implement at home

A light manicure at home is not only a bright coating, but also just neat short-cut nails covered with transparent varnish.

The ageless "French" is in fashion, which has many variations:

• The main shade of a manicure can be not only pastel color, but also absolutely any, even "flashy" color.
• The growing edge of the nail (a thin strip) is covered not only with the traditional white color, but also with any “mood color”.
• The border of the growing edge of the nail with the nail itself is drawn not only with an arc, but also with a triangle, and a square, and even obliquely.
• A thin strip is drawn not near the growing edge, but closer to the base of the nail. This type of "French" was named "Lunar manicure".

The following options for nail design also remain in the trend:

1. Gradient ("Ombre") - smooth transition from one color to another. To create such a manicure, at least two varnishes of different colors must be available. Combinations are at the height of fashion: yellow and green, turquoise and white, red and pink.
2. Stamping. With the help of a silicone pad, the selected pattern is transferred from the template to the nail plate in a matter of seconds. The templates are metal discs (round, rectangular) with various designs engraved on them. These can be: patterns, inscriptions, outlines of animals, plants, lace.
3. "Negative space" (translated from English - "negative space"). The design is a geometric pattern with blank, unpainted parts of the nail.
4. Sand varnish. This varnish is also called sugar, thanks to it, a rough-bumpy surface is created on the nails.
5. Thermovarnish. This varnish changes color depending on body temperature and the environment. So, for example, the initial color of the varnish is purple, but if you put your fingertips under cold water, the varnish will gradually turn pink, creating a gradient effect. Color combinations can be absolutely any.
6. Matte finish on nails. This varnish can be the final stage of any manicure.
7. Various designs on nails are in fashion: painting, geometric shapes, in particular, corners, drawing a "frame" along the contour of the nail, drawings in the style of "Mehendi".
8. It is not the first year that Feng Shui nail coating has been fashionable, which consists in highlighting the ring finger with a design or color.
9. "Cat's Eye". The nail is covered with a special varnish, then a magnet with the selected pattern is brought up and a shiny iridescent strip appears on the nail, very reminiscent of a narrow cat's eye pupil.

Shiny manicure with a metallic effect and a "broken glass" effect that can be easily created at home with reflective stickers is also in fashion. A variety of ideas and designs allows you to regularly change the image of your nails with your own hands, without resorting to the help of professionals.

Author: Medvedeva Ekaterina

Article design:E. Chaikina

Useful video on simple manicure for beginners

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