The first thing you need for this creative work is patience. If you face self-painting of nails for the first time, then you can not avoid a lot of missteps, for example, leaking varnish or uneven forms, which as a result can push you to the decision to abandon this idea and leave the traditional monophonic manicure or "jacket". Serenity should be the main goal of a manicure designer who creates at home. If you are just starting to master the art of home manicure, do not try to implement complex drawings. If you do not have the hereditary talent of the artist, you are unlikely to achieve the desired result. It is better to start small - simple geometric shapes and lines. And if in the beginning you still want to create something unsurpassed, then you can use decorative details, which will help to decorate even a complex manicure technique.
For painting nails at home, you will need a set of specific materials. The first thing you need, of course, is the varnish. For the beginning 2-3 colors of a varnish will be enough. When you reach a certain skill, then on your shelf there will be dozens of shades of varnish. You can use both conventional varnishes and colored acrylic powder, water-acrylic paints and experimentally determine the most suitable company for you and the consistency of the material.
For drawing on the nails of the picture you will need brushes and sticks of different thickness. Brushes and sharp wooden sticks are used for painting and applying thick lines, needles or, best of all, wooden toothpicks, which do not scratch the nail and will not spoil the drawing, should be used to apply fine lines and dots. Also, to create a manicure, you can resort to using such details as rhinestones, threads, pebbles, sequins that will help make it even more beautiful.
Before you begin the process of painting, decide on the pattern and color scheme that will be used. It is recommended to use no more than three colors, which should act as a background. Otherwise, your manicure may be too variegated. The first technique of painting nails, which should be mastered by a beginner master, should be a bitmap. First you need to learn how to apply even lines, mix paint on the nail.
Before applying the background layer, you should make sure that the surface of the nail is flat, and nothing will prevent you from creating a picture. As a basis, it is necessary to apply a colorless varnish, and then the nail can be covered with a background color. After that, you can start drawing the picture. Mixing colors on the nail, you can create divergent rays or blurred shapes. To do this, you have to drop one color on the other and create a two-color vortex with the help of a thin rod. To simplify the work, you can use colored powder. After dipping a thin stick into it, the nail is dotted with a colored patch, tapping the nail with a stick, or an unusual pattern is created in a dotted image. When the pattern is completely dry, the nails need to be covered again with a fixing transparent varnish.
Drawings and colors should be chosen according to your taste and imagination. It is desirable that the picture itself or its base color matches your wardrobe - this will help create a solid image, and the manicure can play in a new way.
For many years in a row, the color French manicure does not come out of fashion, so the picture can be placed on the tip of the nail, highlighted in brightly colored varnish. Refined and stylish look point elements that are made in pastel colors, on the sides of the nail or at the cuticle itself. And if your skill of painting nails allows you to create complex drawings, you can decorate the manicure with psychedelic, marble drawings, all sorts of floral arrangements, or even the most incredible drawing that your imagination will create.