Novelties of modern nail art do not cease to amaze with the variety of their color schemes. An unusual design of nails with foil is gaining increasing popularity, thanks to which it is possible to create a really interesting coating. For a home procedure, you only need a special manicure foil, our recommendations, as well as a bit of imagination to bring a note of piquancy to your image.

Tips for Using Nail Foil

An interesting coating with a metallic tint in gold or silver tones does not give up its position. Such a design of nails will be a great addition to a bright festive look. And a girl with such a manicure will attract the admiring glances of those around her. Despite the fact that the technology of foil coating has some difficulties, if desired, any girl is able to master all the basics of nail art at home. The step-by-step procedure will depend on which material is preferred. Specialists use transfer, sheet, embossed or reaped foil in their arsenal. There are also products in the form of strips, which are especially popular among masters of manicure.

To realize your design idea, it is important to adhere to some tips:

  1. Beginners are advised to choose a foil that has an adhesive base on one side. You just need to cut out the appropriate size of the material, after which it is applied to the pre-treated nail plate with the sticky side. This technique is performed using tweezers.
  2. Before applying any material, the plate is pre-filed and treated with a degreasing agent.This is necessary so that the finished coating adheres to the surface of the nail as tightly as possible.
  3. After pretreatment, a varnish, gel or gel varnish is coated. Only then do foil application begin.
  4. To create a print or small decorative elements, sheet foil is best suited. To begin with, the necessary figures are cut out of it, and then the material is fixed using special glue. This type of foil is suitable for highlighting the free edge of the nail plate, and is also appropriate when creating a classic jacket.
  5. Before applying the transfer foil, the nails are covered with an adhesive base. Only after this, prepared pieces of material are applied, and then they are removed from the surface with a sharp movement of the hand. The result is a coating with small shiny particles.Note! With the help of a transfer foil, you will not be able to create decor elements with clear lines and borders. Such material is suitable for abstract patterns, since the finished drawing is blurry.
  6. The reaped foil has the appearance of miniature torn pieces, which are packed in a small glass container. The material is presented in different colors, so it is often used to embody the most daring design decisions.

Foil Striped Nail Design

Striped nail art has grown in popularity thanks to Korean beauty bloggers who quite often prefer brilliant manicure. Russian fashionistas took it into service and gladly picked up a new-fangled idea.

 

Nail design with strips of foil will be especially relevant before the upcoming New Year holidays, so do not forget to adopt a few effective recommendations:

  1. Too many stripes look elaborate and clumsy. Combine foil with rhinestones or sequins, however, do not overdo it with the amount of decor.
  2. Do not be afraid to experiment and combine strips of different sizes. In addition, you can create unusual patterns using both vertical and horizontal stripes.
  3. Fans of restrained images are advised to give preference to a minimalist design in soothing nude tones or using several contrasting colors.
  4. So that the finished manicure lasts as long as possible, do not forget to use the finish coating at the end of the procedure, after applying the foil.

Fashion ideas for gel polish

In this case, the mica is selected so that it harmonizes with the main color of the gel coating.

Please note that the foil material is applied to a fully dried nail plate. For this, the gel polish coating is polymerized in a UV lamp for at least three minutes.

 

After the drawing is fully framed, the manicure with foil is again treated for several minutes with a lamp. At the final stage, the top layer is applied. After do not forget to remove the sticky layer of gel.

 

Decorated in this style, the nails look incredibly feminine and stylish. You can cut various patterns from mica, create a mosaic, apply material on the entire surface of the plate, or process only your ring finger in the fashionable style of Feng Shui.

With sparkles and rhinestones

 

On the eve of the New Year holidays, a bright iridescent design is more relevant than ever. Manicure supplemented with stones and sparkles will become a highlight of your elegant evening look. In addition, such options for nail art look harmoniously in a wedding look. Young brides are advised to give preference to delicate design in restrained pastel shades, decorating the foil coating with rhinestones of various diameters. The photo shows the most popular methods for designing a nail plate with mica and rhinestones. As before, the cover decorated with exquisite floral patterns does not lose its relevance.

French manicure with addition

French is a permanent classic that will be relevant, despite the modern development of the masters. The classic design is complemented by various decorative elements, thus creating a unique design in the nail industry. You can use both standard metallized foil versions of gold and silver shades, as well as brighter saturated colors for bold images. The most popular technique involves a contrasting combination of the metallized tip of the nail plate with a matte finish in tone to the foil.

 

Another unusual variation is when instead of the classic horizontal “smile” they make an oblique French manicure. To create it, you can use transfer or tear-off foil, which is cut into small triangles. Then the material is glued to the edge of the nail plate, the free tip is carefully filed and the effect obtained is fixed with a finish coating.

Liquid Foil Nail Design

This technique appeared recently, however, many fans of modern nail art have already managed to fall in love. Masters boldly declare that liquid foil for nails will become a real hit of the next seasons. The basis of the product includes many tiny sparkles, which creates the effect of a foil coating. Using liquid gel polish you can create various patterns, prints and other decorative elements that will become a real highlight of the finished design.

 

It is only necessary to observe some recommendations:

  1. Before using liquid foil, the nail plate is thoroughly treated with a buff, the remaining dust is removed, and then the primer and base are applied.
  2. The content bottle is preliminarily rolled out in the palms to pick up the sparkles from the bottom of the bottle. So the finished coating will look more impressive.
  3. Then the layer is polymerized using a UV lamp, after which the application is repeated once more.
  4. At the final stage, use the topcoat and remove the sticky layer.

 

Today, the nail service offers its customers many modern techniques with which to create real masterpieces of nail art. We hope that our article will be useful for you, and you without any difficulties will make a unique nail design at home.

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