French nail design with a pattern 2021 photo news of the most popular prints and types of decor

Who is the jacket suitable for?

French is a universal type of manicure, because it was developed specifically for Hollywood film stars, so that they look natural and well-groomed in any outfit, regardless of age.

French manicure easily fits into the most severe dress code. French is suitable for any length of nails, with the exception of very short ones. In the same way, it is used on nails of various shapes - square, rounded square, almond-shaped, oval, pointed, and even pointe shoes and stilettos.

Interesting, stylish manicure: triangular pink French manicure

To make your manicure more unusual, you can use two colors at once to create triangles. For example, these could be light pink and dark pink polishes. You can decorate your nails with multi-colored triangles in the following way: after painting the plates with transparent varnish and waiting for it to dry completely, you need to take tape and cover the entire nail with it, leaving only the upper part free. In this case, the tape is glued diagonally.

This is necessary so that the free part is in the shape of a triangle. After painting it with light pink varnish, you need to remove the tape. Then you need to tape your nails again. In this case, the other part of the tip of the nail should remain free. It needs to be painted with dark pink varnish. This way you will get a delicate and interesting triangular jacket.

Varnish selection

Initially, the French manicure was done with regular varnish, but this manicure had to be updated too often. The real salvation was the appearance of gel polishes on the market. A French polish made with gel polish lasts for at least 2 weeks, does not lose its decorativeness and shine, protects nails from brittleness, and thanks to several techniques, the overgrown plate is practically invisible for a long time.

However, sometimes the layer of base, gel polish and top coat is too thick, which not only looks unattractive, but is absolutely not suitable for girls with particularly fragile and brittle nails.

Shellac was developed for them - a special type of gel polish that contains a number of care components, and most importantly, allows you to reduce the number of layers of durable coating to a minimum.

In modern nail art, both matte and glossy varnishes are widely used for French manicure. Often they are combined in one design, serving as camouflage and a smile.

Palette

The classic French jacket is made in pastel colors. There are dozens of calm shades in the palette of any brand, but a good nail art master can create the perfect camouflage tone with only 2 of them at his disposal - peach and pink. Using them in different proportions, you can create the optimal nude color. It should be average between the color of the skin and the nail.

From the richest palette of white shades, two main tones can be distinguished - cool white (with a blue undertone) and warm white (with a yellowish undertone). Warm white varnish is usually very dense and applies evenly, but over time it can acquire an undesirable yellow tint.

Cool white is not prone to yellowing, but it adheres worse and requires several layers.

If we are not talking about a classic French jacket, then now absolutely all colors and shades are actively used, including black, dark green or blue. The choice of color depends only on the situation, the author's design and the compatibility of colors with each other.

Techniques for creating a French manicure for short and long square nails

French on square nails (the photos in the article illustrate in detail each stage of its implementation) requires compliance with several basic rules:

• the shape of the nails should be neat and absolutely even;
• the top points of the smile should be strictly at the same level;
• the most protruding part of the smile should be clearly in the center of the nail;
• the width of the smile should not exceed one fifth of the length of the nail plate (this is not relevant for colored French or other similar variations of French);
• the edge of the smile should be perfectly smooth;
• For square and rounded-square, as well as short nails, a shallow smile is best.

Fashionable shape and length of French nails with a pattern 2021

As for the shape and length of the nails in the fashionable French manicure 2021, they should be short (free edge - up to 4 mm maximum) and look as natural as possible. Therefore, almond-shaped and oval nail plates are trending. Round nails are suitable for those who like the simplest and most natural manicure. The round shape of the nail follows the shape of the finger and always looks appropriate. If you choose a round nail shape, then the nail itself can be cut quite short.

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Fashionable accessories for nail decoration

This season, nail design accessories such as:

• broths for creating caviar manicure (glass or metal balls of different diameters and colors, similar to small beads);
• acrylic, glass or crystal rhinestones;
• melange for Candy Chic design (fine matte multi-color crumbs);
• sliders (nail stickers with newspaper, floral, abstract patterns;
• kamifubuki in the form of circles, triangles, snowflakes, stars, crescents, hearts, fruits or flowers (shiny multi-colored confetti made of foil or plastic);
• decorative foil;
• glitters (rubbed in to create the illusion of pearl, metal, chrome coating);
• sand for velvet manicure (fine velvety powder);
• glitter;
• “broken glass” (pieces of holographic foil);
• Yuki flakes (pressed pieces of pigment);
• drop varnishes.

However, the most unusual accessory appeared last year in South Korea. Leading nail artist Yoon Kyung Park has created special nail clips to replace traditional rings. They are attached to only one side of the finger using a clip, which creates the impression that the jewelry is held on the nails by itself.

Nail clips often look like complex, massive paper clips made of precious materials, complemented with large rhinestones and pearls. They are very decorative, but extremely impractical and massive, and are intended, rather, for evening looks, since they constantly cling to clothes.

Ideas for short nails

There are many interesting French nail ideas for short nails. With glitter designs you can add a little extra sparkle to life. French includes a neutral background, dark tips and shine, which is distributed unevenly.

Asymmetrical configurations are popular. They look great on shortened nail plates and even visually lengthen them a little.

Glitter varnish for design will catch the glare. The original design allows you to stand out from the crowd.

For short nails, a design of two different colors is suitable. This design is suitable for active and sporting events.

The polka dot design looks unusual. You can complement the design with a small elegant bow.

Current ideas for French manicure for square nails

Among the fashion trends in nail art, it is worth highlighting the desire to combine a wide variety of techniques and materials in one design.

Thin French

French on square nails, the photo of which is most often found in modern magazines, is a thin French, the simplest and most classic of all possible options. It represents a thin strip of a shallow smile and a calm camouflage in a nude palette. In this simple way, the illusion of absolute naturalness is achieved.

Narrow, voluminous and geometric stripes

A narrow strip of French is perfect for a very unusual combination - black matte camouflage and a bright narrow smile in lilac, pink or turquoise. A laconic accent of a classic jacket can be a voluminous white stripe along the entire length of the nail plate. It is often complemented with a white pattern or several rhinestones.

Geometric stripes are also popular. They can outline a smile with an absolutely straight line or break it into several sectors, and a wide triangular strip of silver shiny varnish smoothes out the severity of a black and white jacket.

Other geometry

Another way to highlight the smile zone is geometry. Instead of a straight line along the edge of the nail, 2 triangles are drawn, touching or overlapping. Camouflage and both geometric shapes are made in different colors, additionally highlighted with contrasting varnish or an interval with a nude background.

Brilliant French

The 2021 season is distinguished by a huge variety of designs, colors and manicure options. When creating a French coat, glossy varnish, shiny rubs, metallic varnish for a smile, rhinestones, kamifubuki and “broken glass” are popular. In the latter case, it is combined with black varnish for a smile and contour, achieving the impression of a stained glass window.

Matte French

Matte French is a fashion trend for the 2021 season. Matte varnish is used for both pastel camouflage and a black smile curve. They carry out the entire design of a classic or colored French jacket. One of the most popular trends is a brown and beige design with white oriental curls.

Lunar manicure

The lunar manicure was first presented at the show of the new collection of the Dior Fashion House in 2010. In essence, it is an inverted French manicure. Instead of the usual smile, a hole near the cuticle is drawn along the edge of the nail plate (or, conversely, left unpainted). Another type of it is less common: a smile is drawn along the contour of the base of the nail.

Nail art masters often combine classic and lunar manicures in one design.

“French from Dior” is also relevant in the 2021 season. This type of manicure is suitable for all women, regardless of age, and looks great on square nails of any length - short, long, and standard.

The tendency to give the hole the shape of an acute or blunt triangle remains very popular. This manicure looks catchy and laconic, especially if you choose dense black and white gloss as the working colors. The pointed hole is often highlighted or completely filled with sparkles or rhinestones.

Another stylish option for a triangle hole is to combine matte and glossy varnish of the same (preferably dark) color in the design, while the outline of the design is often highlighted with mirror varnish of a gold, silver or bronze hue.

This technique is often used for a regular moon jacket with an oval hole. It is suitable for both a provocative evening manicure and for creating a stylish accent in an everyday manicure, when the nail is decorated in delicate, pastel colors, such as pale yellow.

Pastel colors (blue, candy pink, beige, fawn) are generally popular in the 2021 fashion season. However, sharp, rich shades (black, green, red) are no less popular.

A trend in recent years includes the combination of elements of different techniques in one design:

1. sequentially made triangular-shaped holes and ombre (the color transition is sharp and without blur);
2. lunar manicure and floral design instead of camouflage;
3. French manicure from Dior and mirror manicure;
4. sand and mirror manicure;
5. newspaper manicure and moon manicure.

Colored French

French on square nails (photos from fashion magazines clearly confirm this) looks especially impressive when a transparent or nude nail polish is combined with a bright, thick smile polish. For a spring-summer manicure, it is better to perform a smile using the gradient technique.

In this case, it is appropriate to use the brightest colors and their combinations - sunny yellow, yellow-green, orange, red, turquoise, blue, violet, blue. These bold shades are often used in the 2021 season even for a monochromatic smile, with the dense, thick color of the edge of the nail sometimes combined with a faint hint of it in a pastel camouflage tone.

For the office, a colored jacket with a subtle smile, made with rich blue, burgundy, and green varnish, would be more appropriate.

Fruit drawings

For a fruity design, your nails should be given a rounded square shape. The most obvious option for a French or lunar manicure is a watermelon design. A watermelon slice is ideally shaped to decorate the edge of the nail or its base.

The idea is quite simple:

1. A smile is drawn along the edge of the nail or the contour of the nail bed with dark green varnish and is additionally highlighted with a thin strip of a lighter shade (white, yellow-green or pale mint).
2. The nail plate is painted over with red or dark pink thick varnish, and then tiny seed dots are placed on it with a thin brush.

In salons, such a design is often turned into a real work of art. The green part is done with magnetic varnish, dark stripes are added to the watermelon slice, black rhinestones are used for voluminous, almost natural seeds, and for a greater effect, transparent drops are added throughout the nail with liquid varnish.

Other popular ideas include a manicure in the form of kiwi or citrus circles. Often, a bright, large, detailed fruit pattern is placed on only one nail, and all the rest are decorated with a regular colored jacket or moon manicure.

However, for the integrity of the image, the colored varnish of camouflage, hole or smile repeats the main color of the fruit - green (for kiwi). At home, you can get by with a standard nude jacket with a white smile and round stickers in the shape of fruits or berries.

Flower drawings

French on square nails is an excellent basis for a floral design. It goes well with voluminous modeling in nude tones, and with a multi-color painted composition in the form of a scattering of flowers. Numerous photos of the classic French jacket show that flowers often serve as a bright accent or act as a smile and reach almost to the middle of the nail plate.

New items for the season include a colored floral jacket, made in the same style as the fruit design described above:

1. the smile is made with thick colored varnish (for example, coral pink);
2. a drop of the same varnish that was used for the smile is added to transparent or nude camouflage (this will give the background a light, barely visible coral-pink tint);
3. a detailed multicolor composition in the form of a flower or a flower bouquet is drawn on one of the fingers;
4. The main design is often complemented by modeling, rhinestones, sand design and so on.

A simple white pattern in the form of flowers against the background of a regular jacket is always relevant. It is suitable for the office, for celebrations, and for everyday manicure.

Sakura on a white background

One of the most requested designs in oriental style was the cherry blossom pattern.

In the case of French, there are several options for its implementation:

1. a small sprig of sakura will be placed along the entire length of the nail with a classic jacket (round kamifubuki are often used for petals; they will give the design the missing volume);
2. a large, well-drawn flower is applied to one nail, and all other nails are painted with a colored jacket to match the flower);
3. The cherry blossom pattern is applied over the jacket in the form of a gradient.

Black and white manicure

Monochrome manicure looks unexpectedly interesting on long square nails. A smile painted with black varnish hides the angularity of the nail shape, visually making it more streamlined and soft.

French on square nails, the photo of which looks stylish and sophisticated, is black thin patterns on top of a regular French or white monograms on a nude finish with a black smile. A more eye-catching option is a black and white smile made of 2 touching triangles with a gold chrome border.

An elegant addition to a French manicure with a white or black edge of the nail will be a lace pattern in a contrasting (white or black) color. A lace pattern can also replace an ordinary solid smile, and it can be done on some nails with white varnish, and on others with black.

Gold in manicure

You can use gold glitter or sand polish to draw a smile or fill a hole near the cuticle . A peach or soft pink jacket looks luxurious and unobtrusive in combination with a stretch made of gold varnish from the edge of the nail to its center.

One of the most memorable designs in recent years has been the French manicure with metallic nail polish. They make a smile, and the nail itself is tightly painted over with royal blue gloss or blue matte varnish.

Another interesting design has appeared on the Internet this season: a classic French manicure is applied to all nails except one, the nail itself is covered with camouflage, and golden circles or kamifubuki polygons are densely attached to its base in the form of a gradient.

This manicure makes an unusual impression due to the contrast between the discreet French manicure and the scattering of gold circles, but overall this design looks organic.

Rhinestones

Rhinestones add extra shine and luxury to a classic French jacket. They are appropriate both as an edge to a white smile and as a replacement for it. In the latter case, it is best to use white, soft blue or pink crystals. However, bolder combinations have a right to exist (for example, small black rhinestones along the edge of the nail).

A complex composition of rhinestones on top of a classic French manicure looks advantageous. The pastel colors of the base will somewhat smooth out the excessiveness of the entire design.

Small silver rhinestones will emphasize the laconicism of a black and white lunar manicure. They can also be applied in the form of a gradient along the edge of the high white smile of a standard French jacket. French manicure combines with rhinestones like no other. This is true for both light colors and more striking ones (gold, black, blue or red).

Wedding design options

The traditional wedding design is the classic French one. It goes perfectly with the veil and white dress and the concept of purity and innocence they embody. Often the artist selects a shade of white for the smile, ideally matching the color of the dress, and complements the design with a pattern that repeats the pattern on the fabric.

The photo shows examples of a beautiful French manicure on square nails.

Such a lace or floral pattern can be made in the form of a pattern or modeling and decorated with light rhinestones. The pastel French gradient looks good with monograms, bouillons or aquarium designs.

Geometric French or stamping is also appropriate.

French manicure is often combined with glitter, melange or sand design, which is used to decorate 1-2 nails. The design combining French and pearl rubbing is especially impressive. In general, the most popular designs in 2021 are complex designs that combine different shades, techniques and accessories.

French manicure is an ideal choice for both lovers of modest classics and spectacular fashionistas who post photos of beauty innovations on social networks. It is suitable for any nail shape and length. Even on square short nails it looks fashionable and stylish and remains relevant in any setting and under any conditions.

French on different nail shapes

This design combines many styles and designs. The variety of designs makes it one of the favorites for ladies. Manicure is done on short nails, extended, sharp, square and oval.

The “smile” line highlights all the inaccuracies in the design, so you should carefully file down the correct shape of the nail.

Options for short nails

The information that French nails look less beautiful on short nails is a myth. In the new season, stylists recommend striving for natural length and shape. A non-standard manicure of this type on a short nail looks especially attractive.

It is not necessary to use exclusively pastel colors; you can give preference to brighter colors.

French on long nails

The long length of the nail allows the master to take creative flight. There are practically no restrictions on this type of nail plate. Any design made at an impressive length looks elegant and original.

For acute form

Sharp nails allow you to choose only daring natures. There are the following decorative options with a sharp end:

1. Almond-shaped with a sharp end. A manicure of this shape can be done in any color. Less bright ones are suitable for an ordinary day, and catchy ones for a festive day.
2. Stylet. An unusual manicure is suitable for people who are accustomed to being the center of attention.
3. Pike. Otherwise referred to as a triangular shape. Usually they resort to it when creating an extravagant and catchy manicure.

On round and almond-shaped

A round or almond shape is chosen by women who are accustomed to combining convenience, beauty and practicality. The almond-shaped option is perfect for those with chubby fingers. An elongated shape will visually make them longer and sleeker. Suitable for creating a feminine and romantic look.