In the modern world, every girl and woman gets a new manicure every day, it’s just painting her nails or adding new ones.
A few years ago, openwork manicure was in demand for weddings and holidays; now people wear such a manicure on ordinary weekdays.
A manicure with an openwork pattern gives even the roughest female hands neatness, cleanliness, and romanticism.
Lace for manicure has been used not so long ago; before that, everything was painted with thin brushes. The presented type of manicure always looks expensive and neat.
Glossy manicure with lace
Most often, manicures are performed using glossy varnishes and coatings. Manicures with lace are also often done in a glossy design. To draw lace, you can use special stencils or come up with your own imagination. The lace is painted with a thin brush, often using white or black acrylic paint. Look at a couple of options for a manicure with lace.
How to make an openwork manicure
Before starting work, prepare all the necessary materials. Carefully monitor the quality of the materials, do not use regular glue to apply lace to the nail, it can not only ruin the nail, but also harm your health.
To make working with lace manicure easier, there are ready-made sliders - these are stickers, lace substitutes, they are easier to apply, look good, but do not last long.
The highlight of the finished manicure can be rhinestones, sparkles, and mini bows.
If you think that there are only black openwork manicures or white ones, you are very mistaken; you can choose lace of any color that best suits your outfit.
To work you will need:
- Tweezers
- White varnish
- Lace
- Fixer
- Scissors
Pre-prepare your nails for manicure by trimming them and using a nail file to give them the desired shape.
Apply clear coat, let dry and apply base color. Cut the lace to fit your nails in advance.
Once the base color has dried, apply a transparent varnish and use tweezers to place the lace on the nail, open the nail with a fixer and that’s it, the manicure is ready.
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Bright manicure with lace
For those who love brighter nails, manicures with lace are also easy to use. The lace is simply drawn on a base of bright varnish colors. For contrast, use black or white lace paint.
Drawn lace manicure – 2 options
The most common method of nail design is drawing. Using brushes and available tools, you can paint almost any pattern on your nails, including openwork. Of course, this requires special skills and some special tools, but everything is possible.
Lace manicure is usually painted with brushes and dots. Dots help to create nodal points - neat points of the future pattern, and a thin brush easily connects them with weightless, neat lines. A little imagination and creativity, and your lace manicure is ready.
The second method of drawing is more complex, but its result enchants with the beauty of the openwork. This nail art is created using a needle. The design will require two contrasting varnishes, one of which will serve as the base, and the second will become the “thread” of the lace. The needle itself will act as a thin brush. Of course, such creativity requires skills, so it is better to entrust lace manicure with a needle to a master.
Manicure lace with stickers
The easiest and fastest way to make a lace manicure is to purchase lace stickers. These can be water-based or adhesive-based. The main thing is that you don’t have to think about how to draw the lace correctly. Just transfer the sticker to the color base and it's done. Finally, the sticker is secured with a topcoat. And now no one will even guess that you have a sticker and not a drawing.
Matte
A super stylish option would be to choose a matte finish with colored openwork patterns. Also popular colors are white, black, gold and silver.
Openwork designs are limited in their execution only by the imagination of your master. They can have different shapes, and in some cases have a convex structure. Your matte finish can be any color. In combination with dark options, the best color for the openwork would be white. In this combination, the two colors will successfully complement each other without drowning out each other.
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And also use decor. Large rhinestones, small stones, or broken glass. Because this will help complement the openwork pattern. It would also be a good idea to use glitter or powder. In this case, your manicure will shine and shimmer.
Wedding manicure with lace
Brides always choose a gentle and beautiful manicure. After all, everyone knows that he will be visible in photos and videos. Therefore, choosing a manicure with lace is an excellent option. This design is usually done in light colors. And they are often combined with French manicure. For a beautiful glitter effect, you can add a few rhinestones. They will add completeness to the manicure and add shimmer in the sun.
Manicure black veil or “tights”
This design looks very gentle and original on the fingers. It seems that it would be difficult to bring such beauty to life on your own. But this is not true, making lace nail designs is very simple. To do this, you need to prepare a black gel paint, top coat, and dots. The lace pattern is made like this:
- You need to mix black gel polish with top coat. Apply gel polish to your nails with a brush from under the top coat. Dry.
- Use black to make a border along the line of the plate.
- Use dots to put dots, make drawings in the form of a black veil.
- Cover your nails with topcoat, dry, and remove the sticky layer.
Nail design “Lace”: photos and features
If you prefer the first method of nail design “Lace”, then you should do the work with special care. This technique does not require artistic skills, but the selection of materials should be taken seriously. It is necessary to find high-quality, yet inexpensive, lace with a beautiful small pattern with various details or interesting curls.
The fabric is applied to a still fresh varnish and covered with several layers of fixative (for natural ones) or gel (for extended ones) to smooth out the surface relief of the nail. The lace under a layer of acrylic looks quite impressive . It seems that he was lowered into water or filled with liquid glass. Under no circumstances should you use superglue, which can seriously ruin your manicure and cause irreparable harm to the health of your nails.
Please note that ordinary lace material will not work here; it has a too dense structure and will not fit well on the surface of the nail. It is better to use special decorative lace , which can be made from both thin threads and paper, on a ready-made adhesive base ( sliders ).
You can do without additional costs if you draw the lace yourself. You don’t need any special talent for this; the drawing is not that difficult to execute. Although experienced professionals manage to depict the whole picture on a few millimeters of the nail surface. If you are one of them, all you need is a thin brush, water-based acrylic paints and inspiration. In addition, the “Lace” nail design can be perfectly complemented by several rhinestones or “bouillons” (very small beads).
The peculiarity of the stamping technique is that it is quite complex and is not suitable for a novice master. Stamping is applied to the nails using a special disc, rubber stamp, scraper and, of course, professional varnish.
Let’s look at the DIY “Lace” nail design using the “veil” . A fine mesh of ordinary strips is applied to the free part of the edge of the nail plate, but a dot is placed at each intersection of the lines. This pattern looks great in any color. However, if you decide to clutter the entire surface of the nail, then it is better to opt for a classic white shade.
To decorate an evening manicure, you can use shiny threads. In addition to color and materials, you also need to choose a pattern: classic semicircular curls, floral or frosty patterns, abstraction, etc.
