Owners of short nails this season will be able to choose a manicure of any complexity. The masters have prepared a lot of new products in the design of short nails that all representatives of the fair sex can try.
Now you don’t have to grow long nails or add extra length to be able to create the nail design of your dreams, since even the shortest and smallest nails can look great and chic with the right approach.
The main thing in manicure for short nails 2022-2023 is to adhere to the basic rules - the designs should be small, the lines thin and graceful, the accents delicate and not too catchy. Even a small amount of foil and glitter will be enough to transform your manicure and make it perfect.
Among other things, it is very important to choose the current color of a fashionable manicure for short nails. Feel free to use both dark and light shades depending on your mood. Also, short nails can be covered with bright or delicate colors of varnish, which may be determined by seasonal trends in manicure. Designers suggested the shine of metal as a fashionable nail design for manicure 2022-2023.
Natural beauty and natural nails, which undoubtedly include manicures on short nails, will turn out to be trendy and relevant, regardless of other nail trends.
What short manicure ideas are worth trying, we will consider further in this material, presenting for you the top 12 fashionable short manicure options for 2022-2023.
Whether it’s a holiday, a desire to complement a business look, a seasonal manicure for spring-summer or fall-winter, a youth or discreet manicure for short nails – you will probably find all these variations and more in our large photo collection below.
Flowers
Floral motifs are a classic feminine and romantic nail art that fits perfectly into the design of short nails. Floral and plant motifs can be drawn by hand in the form of a chic painting as in our photo example, or you can use ready-made slider stickers with floral prints, use stamping, or use dried flowers.
The top nail shapes for the 2022-2023 season in short lengths will be oval and square.
Water manicure spring 2022
Water manicure is an ideal option for those who do their own nails. It is simple to do and looks like the work of a master. And most importantly, with water manicure you can create the most unique nail design.
All you need is warm water, a toothpick and the necessary varnishes. The varnishes are mixed in water, a toothpick “draws” the design and everything is transferred to the nail. The drawing will depend on how you draw the lines, it all depends on your imagination:
- Circular movements;
- Lines.
Minimalism
Minimalism remains a favorite among short nail designs 2022-2023, allowing you to create a laconic and versatile manicure for any occasion. This style assumes the presence of one small accent in the form of an elegant pattern, stripes, figures or decor, for example, gold leaf or beads.
Metal manicure spring 2022
Metallic manicure is a fashion trend in manicures for spring 2022.
This design is done in several ways:
- Rubbing;
- Stickers;
- Foil;
- On glue;
- On the sticky layer.
The most perfect specularity will be on stickers. Rubbing will last longer, but will be less reflective. The foil will not completely transfer to the sticky layer, only in parts. This is a great option for cotton designs. And the foil is glued, but completely reprinted.
There are pros and cons to each type of metal manicure. But each of them is beautiful in its own way, it’s up to you to choose.
French
The unsurpassed French look on short nails has been replenished with cool new items this season. Masters suggest highlighting the free edge of the nail in different styles - with a metallic effect using rubbing or foil, colored varnish, and decorating with drawings. Micro-French on short nails will look very stylish in the new season.
Pros of short nails
Owners of short nails will without hesitation list the advantages of their manicure in comparison with long nails. These include:
- comfort in everyday wear;
- convenience while doing household chores;
- rare chips of the coating;
- less susceptible to breakage;
- no need for correction if one of the nails breaks;
- ease of doing a manicure with your own hands;
- neatness of appearance;
- natural manicure, especially in combination with nude coatings;
- compatibility with different nail shapes;
- variability of designs.
As for the last advantage, we are not talking about very short nails, since they have a significant drawback - the difficulty of creating a design due to the insufficient size of the nail plate.
According to one survey, most men like girls with short nails. This is due to the fact that owners of long nails are often given labels: capricious, white-handed, spoiled.
Short nails have become one of the nail trends of recent seasons. Today naturalness and naturalness are in fashion, and therefore neatly filed oval or square nails remain at the peak of popularity. The most successful option is a free edge 1.5 - 2 mm long. You can create various designs on such nails, while they remain neat, non-provocative and comfortable.
Dark
The dark color palette makes short manicures stylish and laconic. Deep dark colors look cool, such as green, blue, purple, graphite, burgundy with a pleasant velvet effect. Gold leaf and foil will add elegance, and bright strokes will help refresh a dark manicure on short nails.
Delicate shades
Cold and rich winter decorations are being replaced by delicate and light colors. And the most popular is the lovely blue varnish, as if reflecting the bottomless spring sky.
A similar option can be created using a variety of techniques: moonlit French, elegant gradient, combined spring nail manicure.
Additional colors include mint or turquoise shades, which stylishly emphasize femininity, softness, and elegance.
Dark blue cobalt was a discovery this spring. It charmed all the girls with its depth, which will be revealed as fully as possible in combination with purple or lilac shades, as well as with the universal white color.
Nude
A manicure on short nails in nude color is beautiful in every way. Firstly, it will suit any outfit, both for every day and for some special occasion. Secondly, you won’t get tired of a nude manicure. Thirdly, a nude manicure can be safely worn all year round, if desired, complemented with thematic designs.
Manicure stamping spring 2022
Stamping is no longer a new thing, but it is still very popular. With just a couple of touches you can make a wide variety of drawings. If you don't know how to draw, but want some unusual notes, this is for you. Monograms, geometry, flowers, palm trees, ships - this is not the entire list of stamping designs.
The main thing in stamping is not to overdo it. Despite the fact that it is simple, you should not decorate every nail with a design. Better a pair of beautiful nails. But if you really want to, then choose an extremely small and neat design.
Bright
Colorful and colorful manicures for short nails can most often be seen in the summer, when everything around speaks of relaxation, the sun is shining and gives everyone warmth.
But sometimes you want bright colors in spring, autumn, and winter, because bright colors charge you with positivity and positive emotions. A bright manicure on short nails is best done to match the tone of your outfit, preferring the current colors of the season - blue, green, yellow, orange, lavender, turquoise, etc. Masters suggest accenting one nail with a trendy print in an abstract or “animal” style.
Additional ideas for stylish spring manicure 2022
Spring manicure for short nails
Why are many women so attracted to short nails? And all because it is incredibly comfortable, gentle and feminine. Many masters recommend their clients to choose a short shape for spring, due to its delicate appearance and a large selection of varied designs. Thanks to the many shades that will be available in the spring of 2022, you can choose between calm, neutral, or, on the contrary, bright and non-trivial.
The short form is not only the most comfortable, but also the most stylish. Many business women never change it, choosing the same length from year to year.
Spring 2022 suggests using a red monotone for short nails, which will go very well with different clothing looks, highlight and highlight it. Red varnish is nevertheless very diverse, with a choice of cold and warm tones. Some especially beautiful colors are filled with internal shine, in the form of shimmer or sparkles. Here it is already possible to select the optimal varnish as desired.
Spring manicure for medium nails
Medium nails are short in length and, unlike short ones, allow for a variety of designs or prints. After all, the length of the nail itself will allow something that significantly expands the method of applying varnish, drawing, pattern, and even laying out stones and other accessories. If you like something original, then it is better to choose an opal manicure for the spring, where the color can vary from neutral to rich dark.
Often, such a manicure along the frame of the nail itself is highlighted with additional gold crumbs and the nail turns out to be enclosed, as if in a gold frame. The frame itself can have a different color from the main one to create a beautiful transition. At the same time, it doesn’t hurt to experiment with the crumb itself, making it larger, smaller, or grooved. There are a lot of ideas for creating a frame, where you can put your imagination and creativity into action. A finishing top gel or fixing varnish is always applied on top of such a design.
Spring manicure for long nails
Long nails are always bold and extravagant. You need to know how to wear long nails, as they are not easy to handle. They often break and are inconvenient to handle small objects, much less work on the keyboard. But, if you have long preferred long nails, then more experience has suggested how to properly preserve their integrity and beauty, which is important in this type of manicure.
Long nails, like no other, allow you to use watercolor techniques on them, where you can choose the future tone of the finished design. The watercolor technique involves applying a lively-looking design to the nail, which the master always draws by hand. This indicator obliges the master to possess artistic skills in order to create a truly beautiful and attractive design.
Among the spring new products, a selection of bright and delicate colors, contrast, minimalism and futurism is allowed. The watercolor technique looks especially chic on long nails, because here there is room for the creative work of the master, which ultimately allows you to create real masterpieces on the nails.
Spring manicure for square nails
Square nail shapes break much less often than others. It's all about more optimal distribution of pressure on the nail, where the corners are the most fragile parts. Therefore, a manicure on square-shaped nails lasts much longer than on round and oval ones. Spring 2022 invites square nails to plunge into the world of brightness and cheerful colors. This could be a rainbow manicure, yellow and blue, seductive caramel and bright drops. There are absolutely no restrictions on creating a design, which absolutely frees up the hands of the master in the salon, or you personally, if you are used to doing your own manicure.
Bright colors help to visually enlarge the nail plate and combine beautifully with square nail shapes. This allows women with narrow nails to visually make them a little wider and generally change the entire look. The opposite effect also applies here, where a small nail plate is visually lengthened with the help of bright tones.
Spring manicure for round nails
The second most popular round nail shape is best suited for women with large and short fingers. It will visually make the entire manicure more neat, feminine and allow you to choose any type of design. The round shape supports the uniform application of gel or dark-colored varnish well. Popular colors for spring 2021 include brown, black, black-blue, purple, graphite, chocolate and others.
The most interesting thing is that similar colors are not difficult to find among the varnishes or gel polishes on the market, but finding high-quality ones is quite difficult. It's all about the density of the varnish itself, where for such colors it should be increased and have good coverage in order to create a stylish manicure look, and not a cheap one.
In particular, this can be offered by professional varnishes, which are sold in specialized nail service stores. You can also get a manicure done in a good salon, where the master will use a similar polish or gel polish. By the way, in the latter case, gel polish will be much more effective than regular polish, as it can last up to 3 weeks without renewal.
Spring manicure for oval nails
And now we get to the most popular and sought-after nail shape - oval. It attracts a lot of women with its ease of creation and the ability to vary the length: from short to mega-long. There are a lot of designs for oval nails, each of which is good and unique in its own way. In the spring of 2022, all types of gel polish with the addition of fine shimmer are considered relevant. Fine shimmer creates a unique depth in the polish that no other glitter can do.
This effect allows the nails to seem to glow from within. This version of gel polish is quite expensive, but the result is definitely worth it. Thanks to the properties of gel polish with fine shimmer, it is ideal for creating a cosmetic manicure. A space manicure must be dark or contain dark colors in order to be as similar as possible to the classics.
With gel polishes with fine shimmer, it will be very easy to create a festive and catchy manicure, or, in another interpretation, a gentle and feminine one.
Spring manicure with
With tulips
Tulips are very beautiful and delicate flowers that are easy to draw. Thanks to the simple technique of creating tulips, even amateurs who are holding a brush and acrylic paints in their hands for the first time can draw tulips. But here you need to start with acrylic paints, which will be very simple and easy to paint monograms, make various circles, draw a fleshy or thinner bud and petals.
The tulip bud itself can be displayed in different colors, where it can be blue, blue, violet, pink, scarlet, red, yellow, orange, lemon, lilac, indigo, cherry and others. It is allowed to decorate one or a couple of selected nails with a tulip, so as not to oversaturate the entire design. In some types, the tulip is divided into components and distributed over three nails: the little finger, the ring finger and the middle one.
The tulip can be decorated with various nail accessories, where rhinestones are considered the most popular. But since tulips are quite cute and delicate flowers, it is better to choose graceful and delicate rhinestones.
With glitter
Fortunately, there is a huge amount of glitter on sale, where each color is very bright and saturated. Sequins differ not only in color, but also in dispersion, where fine and coarse shiny sand is present. This sand is suitable for adding to regular varnishes and gels to create an even coating with deep shine.
In another form, glitter is used on top of different colors of varnish, as a finishing touch to the overall composition. This allows you to highlight the desired nail and focus special attention on it. Most often, the ring finger is emphasized, the nail of which can be completely highlighted in sparkles. The most universal colors that suit different design styles are gold, silver and holographic.
Sequins are relevant at the end of various designs, patterns, where a small inclusion of sparkles would not be out of place. A protective coating is always applied over the sparkles, which will help protect them from complete abrasion between manicure procedures.
With an image
The design on the nail can be completely different, which in the end is limited only by the artist’s imagination or a set of creative tools: dots, brushes with different bristles, various colors of varnishes, acrylic paints, accessories for decoration. In spring, summer drawings are especially appreciated, which may include floristry, minimalism, negative space and watercolor techniques.
A cute and unusual approach would be to use animals and cartoon characters as drawings. Especially in demand are a variety of bears, which can be presented in different colors, with additional decor and decoration.
There are often options for painting a landscape that will demonstrate spring mood and freshness. In this form, the master must have artistic skills in order to create a decent composition on the nails. Sometimes, instead of a drawing, you can use stickers, which are almost impossible to distinguish from a real hand-made drawing. This will give even beginners the opportunity to “draw” complex designs without resorting to the services of a master.
With flowers
The floral range is truly delightful. A lot of ideas are concentrated here, which are replenished from year to year with new creative approaches from nail service professionals. In the spring of 2021, you can select any flowers, with a special place given to tulips and snowdrops. These two flowers personify the tenderness and femininity of any female nature.
Thanks to the variety of color palettes, even the classic color of a certain flower can be changed to suit your taste and color. This is the perfect combination and harmonization of the process, allowing you to create a manicure that suits your holiday atmosphere.
If you need a bright and catchy manicure, then you can choose poppies, where bright red or scarlet buds will perfectly decorate all nails or selective ones. They can be decorated with rhinestones, sparkles or foil, whichever is available.
Cute daisies highlight the image of a young girl and will not burden the image. Chamomiles are suitable for any office, work, and some types even for a wedding. In such a case, daisies will require high-quality decoration and possible appliqué, which can be easily created using acrylic powder.
Orchid lovers will be very pleased with a manicure with luxurious buds of such flowers that will beautifully decorate one chosen nail or smoothly flow onto others. In particular, their creations use bright and rich colors that will definitely not leave anyone indifferent.
With rubbing
Rubbing is a fine powder that is rubbed into the finished coating on the nail, or mixed with varnish in advance. This polish looks like it's shiny from the inside, but doesn't give too much of an effect like shimmer or glitter. The rub is suitable for creating a metallic sheen on nails, where its properties can sometimes be compared to a mirror. Mirror rubbing is one of the most popular, and metal comes in second place.
For the spring of 2022, any metallic tint of the rub will be in fashion, which can be delicate, neutral, calm, or bright and rich. It can be easily combined with another type of manicure, which allows you to create beautiful and extraordinary designs.
Rubbing is a self-sufficient decoration, so it does not need additional decor. But here everything will purely depend on your personal preferences, so you have the right to select rhinestones, kamifubuki, sparkles, foil and more.
With butterflies
Butterflies are very cute and feminine designs, where the abundance of ideas will allow you not to be limited to the same type of designs. Butterflies are usually presented in a variegated and multi-colored form, which ultimately makes them stand out on any nail surface. It is butterflies that are more often suitable for decorating a French manicure than other designs. A French jacket with butterflies looks cute, gentle and is better suited for a wedding than others. Therefore, if you wanted a gentle and very feminine manicure, you should not ignore the symbiosis of a French manicure and a butterfly.
A manicure with a butterfly involves applying different designs to the nails themselves, where the butterfly can be whole, or its wings will be located on two nails at once. There is also the option to depict only wings, which craftsmen often decorate with rhinestones, stones, sparkles, or combine with other designs.
With snowdrops
A cute and unusually feminine manicure with snowdrops will not leave anyone indifferent. The snowdrop is depicted in delicate colors, so it is well suited for a minimalist manicure. But if you like a bold solution, then it would be better to choose brighter colors.
The snowdrop pattern does not have to be painted with acrylic paints or varnish, but you can use glitter, acrylic powder, or lay it out using small rhinestones. If you choose an elegant and easy option for creating a flower, then in this case it can be applied to all nails at once. This will allow you not to oversaturate the entire manicure in general, but at the same time it will prevent the feeling of emptiness.
If you don’t know how to draw, and you don’t plan to visit a painter in the near future, then it’s better to choose stickers. They are very easily glued to nails using varnish or an adhesive base that is activated by water. But unfortunately, decor cannot be applied to the sticker, as it will not stick.
Spring manicure for the office
Evening manicure for spring 2022 should not be overloaded and contain too bright elements. After all, in one office a free style is allowed, but in another, restrained and formal. Here it is important to maintain the optimal length of the nail plate, where its length should not be more than average. You can choose any of the current ones for spring 2022 as a uniform.
In terms of design, minimalism will be popular, focusing on one finger, slight carelessness, but only with the creation of pastel or not very bright varnish colors. An absolute classic for the office is a plain cover and a French coat. You can definitely win with this type of manicure, because a single color is selected in connection with the outfit, and a French manicure will suit anyone.
Abstract
A fashionable short manicure 2022-2023 is unthinkable without drawings, among which abstraction is very popular. Current abstract designs combine several different directions - strokes, stains, stripes, gradients, spider webs, animal prints, which will be a good alternative to geometric manicure.
French manicure spring 2022
Naturally timeless classic French manicure. French fashion trends are to mix it with various other types and new designs. He gets along with:
- By rubbing;
- Lace;
- Metal manicure;
- Gradient;
- With drawings.
Nowadays, French is not boring, monotonous or only for weddings, no! It can be bright, non-standard and combined with any design. This is what we see in the photo.
Textures
A hit in the design of short nails with a pattern will be a technique called “natural textures”, giving mystery and uniqueness to your hands. Multi-colored stains reminiscent of haze, sea waves, natural stones and many other effects are excellent in fashionable manicure for short nails 2022-2023. We suggest finishing this nail art design with pieces of foil.
How to do a manicure on short nails?
You can do a stylish manicure for a spring look yourself. We recommend getting a stamping kit to create masterpieces on your hands in a matter of minutes. Using stamping it’s easy to make the most trendy spring design:
- Apply a transparent coating to your nails and dry it;
- take beige and gray-green varnish;
- place strokes on your nails in a random order, alternating beige and green;
- when the coating dries, you can create drawings on it;
- take stamping with designs of flowers and twigs and black varnish;
- transfer patterns to your nails, placing them in different parts of the nail plates;
- When the designs are dry, cover your nails with top coat.
This design can be done using either gel polishes or regular decorative nail polishes. Leave your nails transparent closer to the cuticle, then the result will be more accurate.
Negative space
Translucent and unpainted-looking pieces of the nail continue to be quite common in the requests of fashionistas in 2021. Stylish manicures are performed in monochrome or color, using fairly bright colors.
A manicure option in which the base of the nail remains unpainted looks very unusual and stylish. An additional advantage of this design will be its durability.
This manicure can be safely used on rapidly growing nails or before a long trip. No one will even guess that the regrown holes were created naturally.
Marble manicure
The most fashionable two-color manicure is marble manicure. As a rule, I use white and black varnishes to create it. The base is made white, and thin veins are drawn in black over the entire area of the nail, thus creating a marble effect.
This manicure looks very stylish on round, square and almond-shaped nails of any length.
