"Transparent" manicure: photos, fashionable nail design ideas

“Transparent” manicure is gaining momentum and we are increasingly noticing it on women’s hands. It is so multifaceted, natural and at the same time spectacular. When using a transparent base or weightless colors. For example, an example would be a plain design with stained glass gel polish. Or perhaps with elements of aquarium design or just foil. As another option, just a minimalist style slider located on a transparent varnish background. In any case, “naked” manicure has become popular.

Manicure with a transparent hole

Every girl wants to feel feminine and sophisticated. Therefore, fashionistas are often in search of a gentle, attractive manicure. After all, beautiful nails are the perfect complement to a gorgeous look on a beautiful day.

Manicurists offer a creative tool for visual correction of the length and shape of nails - transparent holes. This nail art is suitable for any color and finish. But this season it is recommended to turn to soft pastels or just nude shades. Among the techniques, the best combinations would be French manicure, lunar and geometry. Airy, unusual design that requires a minimum of effort and time.

Smooth transitions

Fashionable smooth color transitions can be made not only between bright shades, but also between any chosen color and transparent varnish.

A French manicure done using this technique looks impressive; the tips of the nails can have not only white color, but also any other color or even glitter.

French with transparent nail tips

Although it was important for girls to show naturalness and disguise the extended nails, now masters are offering to highlight the artificial length in an unusual way. The transparent free edge of the nail, if skillfully designed, will look amazing and magical. Especially with a sharp shape or square. The gradient technique with a dark tone, turning into transparent tips, looks especially attractive.

How to apply kamifubuki to gel polish + video

A master class from beauty guide ProstoNail will tell you how to use all of the above tools, how to apply and attach glitter to your nails, and how to create a kamifubuki manicure with minimal effort. Step-by-step ProstoNail instructions are included:

perform hygienic preparation of nails: adjust the shape and length of the nail plate with a nail file, and also polish the surface with a buff to eliminate unevenness;
Apply a protective and sealing base coat to help the paint adhere better to the slab. Mandatory polymerization in a UV or LED lamp;
Apply colored gel polish in one or several layers to achieve the desired shade intensity. Dry them under ultraviolet light;
cover your nails with top coat without polymerizing them;
place the confetti on top of the sticky layer. The method of applying glitter depends on your individual taste, and the technique of application and fixing is extremely simple: you just need to stick the film to the coating;
After the drawing has dried, coat it with a finishing agent. By the way, glitter looks impressive under a matte top.

Transparent nails with glitter

For the most sophisticated clients, masters can create a real fairy tale in the form of a transparent manicure with sparkles. This can be either a small scattering or large confetti of various shapes. Gold stars or colored circles - for long nails such decor will be a harmonious addition. But not only sparkles and foil - textured shiny decor can perfectly decorate the transparent background of nails. It will appeal to those whose nails grow quickly. Because the design will look as fresh as possible from correction to correction.

Nail art ideas

Nail experts offer hundreds, no, thousands of negative space style manicure ideas for short and long nails. For nail design, they use transparent gel polish, translucent coatings in pastel colors (pale pink, milky, cream, beige, white and yellow) or camouflage bases (used for French manicure) with delicate nude shades. We have selected for you the most beautiful nail designs, photos of the best works and descriptions of techniques.

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Stones and sparkles

The delicate translucent design can be complemented with shiny decor. These can be rhinestones, stones, kamifubuki, glitter, shiny ribbons. Most often, a manicure with glitter is done on long nails, but it will also look beautiful on short nails.

It is noteworthy that glitter nail art is suitable for any season. In the summer, rhinestones and glitters will sparkle beautifully in the sun, and in the winter they will look like fragile pieces of ice on your nails. Adding stones and sparkles to a translucent design is a great way to highlight your individuality and add a little chic to your look.

Deep design

Among the most fashionable nail techniques, it is worth highlighting deep-design, translated from English as “deep design”. This technology involves creating the outlines of various shapes on the nails. The entire nail is covered with gel polish of the selected shade, and the figure remains transparent. Such an original nuance of a manicure can be geometric shapes, the outline of an ice cream cone, a feather, a butterfly, a flamingo, a flower...

To create a deep design, special stencils with a sticky layer are used. They are glued to the nail, and after applying the gel polish, they are carefully removed. As a result, a “bare” nail plate remains under the stencil, which is filled with a transparent top. You should definitely get this manicure for short nails . It looks very stylish and laconic.

Stylish minimalism

Girls who prefer simplicity and convenience will like a manicure on a transparent background without decorative elements, with a minimalist design. Those who agree with the statement that beauty lies in simplicity will appreciate colorless matte nails with a neat shape. You can add a few nuances using brush strokes, small elements of geometrically regular shapes, and thin lines.

Tip : Choose a clear finish with a slight undertone, such as a translucent pink or soft beige shade. A beautiful color can set the mood for the entire manicure. When choosing a color, be guided by the tone of the nail plate.

Stripes and geometry

If you like asceticism and restraint in your manicure, then a geometric design with translucent elements or nail art with stripes, made on a transparent background, is for you. This manicure looks win-win on short nails, and a matte top will be the most successful finish.

Tip: Don't be afraid of bright colors! Feel free to combine blue and green, red and black. In combination with transparent areas and a matte top, such a manicure will not look overloaded or too flashy.

When creating a design with geometric patterns and stripes, we recommend adhering to the following principles:

if you have long nails, you can choose both horizontal and vertical placement of patterns and ornaments; you also shouldn’t be afraid of bright geometric patterns;
on short nails it is better to make drawings with a vertical direction, use thin, graceful lines that will visually elongate the plate;
If the nail bed is too wide, it is better to cover the middle of the nail or the area closer to the tip with translucent gel polish, and apply a dark shade of gel polish to the side areas.

Points

The translucent, minimalist design can be added with just a few dots to give it a personal touch. A nude matte manicure with black dots on all nails looks beautiful. Moreover, it is enough to place just one large accent on each nail.

Want a more complex design? Add some foil glitter to your nails.

If you have long nails, the dots can be placed in a row along the entire nail plate from the hole to the tip. You can make the drawing on one or two nails or on all fingers. Nail designs with dots can be complemented with thin, even lines in a contrasting color or the same shade.

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Want more originality? Experiment with the size and color of the dots. Why not cover your nails with colorful confetti? Perform a manicure on a transparent background, and cover the result with a top with a velor effect.

Nail designs

You can look at nail designs with drawings for hours! Even one finger, decorated with paintings and designs, will become the object of attention and the “highlight” of the image. By the way, you don’t have to have an art school education to create a transparent manicure with a pattern on your nails. You can replace hand painting with a slider design or stickers. The background for drawings, including sliders, does not always have to be white. A manicure may involve a translucent background.

The topic for drawing can be:

nature: plants, flowers, tree branches, natural phenomena - one of the most popular destinations;
animalism: drawings of animals can be both realistic and graphic, created using simple lines;
ornaments: colored diamonds, circles, triangles and lines can be alternated, creating beautiful patterns;
marine theme: waves, seagulls, shells, anchors and palm leaves can become a theme for a summer manicure;
cartoons: bright images of your favorite characters will successfully complement a translucent manicure with gel polish.

French manicure

French manicure, also known as “French”, was invented by stylist Jeff Pink back in the 60s of the last century, but does not lose its relevance in 2019. This is a classic manicure that will never go out of style. But a classic white manicure with a pinkish-peach shade of the base looks a bit boring. Other color combinations can be used. Any shade of tips will be combined with a transparent base: black, blue, red, pink, yellow and even gold and silver.

If you want to make the design more delicate, complement the transparent manicure with a pattern of white or soft pink gel paint. It is better to do the drawing on several nails or one of them, so as not to overload the design.

Holes

An alternative to a French manicure can be a moon manicure. It can be called the most practical and durable nail design, as it looks decent for 3 – 4 weeks.

Tip: Moon manicure looks best on medium-length nails. It should not be done on too short nails, as the nail plates will visually become even shorter.

For lunar design, you can choose absolutely any shade. Black nails with colorless holes, as well as a matte manicure in red, look stylish.

The hole can be outlined in a smooth semicircle or sharply separated by a straight line. To complicate the design, you can combine gloss and matte on your nails, add lines, patterns, and sparkles. Or perhaps you decide to perform a lunar translucent manicure with gel polish in a minimalist version: cover your nails with transparent beige gel polish or a camouflage base, and after the coating has dried, draw thin lines along the contours of the lunar nails.

Foil design

Another nail trend is manicure with clear varnish and transfer foil. For the background, it is better to use a camouflage base or a soft pink or light beige gel polish. Foil is used in various shades; you should not limit yourself to silver or gold. White, turquoise, green, blue, red foil prints can be randomly placed over the entire surface of the nail plate or only in the tip area. The top of the nails is covered with a finishing topcoat, but a matte manicure also looks beautiful with foil.

We invite you to admire the translucent manicure a little more. Photos of the most beautiful designs are collected below:

Fashionable designs on a transparent background of nails

Even minimalism can be interesting and original. Stickers, stamping, hand painting or designs on a transparent base look natural and fresh. Especially with the use of shiny, bright and rich gel paints. Detailed plant motifs and geometry are gaining the most popularity. For skilled nail art masters, such easy patterns will not take much time, but the result will definitely attract the attention of others.

Foil slider design

Foil sliders have an interesting structure, similar to the stamping technique. They are now confidently keeping up with newfangled trends. In addition to the most brilliant structure, the advantage of such stickers is their unique style of patterns and perfect accessibility. Metallic motifs in elegant patterns will be an excellent solution both for accenting one nail and for the entire manicure.

Transparent manicure with abstraction

Separately, you can highlight nail design with abstraction. Especially if, among all the known techniques, everything has already been tried, and you want something new. Feel free to embrace abstraction. On a transparent base, the harmonious chaos of spots and stripes looks bold and fresh. However, such a manicure is suitable only for the most daring images and lovers of experiments.

Design made with cobweb

Design 2022 – examples of current trends

In fact, there are a lot of successful combinations in which bright confetti forms the main accent. They are in harmony with the following basics:

with rich dark and light pastel tones of gel polishes;
with negative space, when a clear varnish is selected as the background; with cat eye shellacs.

We bring to your attention the following options for harmonious combinations, which can safely be classified as a hit of 2018:

disco style. Here, bright multi-colored circles on a rich base resemble fragments of disco balls. This solution is most beneficial on a rich black, emerald, or peach background;

Disco style

accent of one finger. This is not the first season that this technique has been popular. Only one, maximum two nails on one hand are decorated, and the rest are decorated using a standard and calm technique;

One finger accent

shaded negative. The technique is similar to the previous version, the only difference is that the accent fingers are covered with a transparent layer, and the rest are covered with delicate pastel undertones;

Shaded negative

defiantly modern. The appeal of this proposal lies in the combination of rich background colors and bright sequins located at the base or tip of the plate. Dark cherry, charming burgundy, rich blue, black - all these colors appeal to flashy kamifubis;

Defiant modern

a game of contrasts. This approach attracts with the combination of noble black gel polish and colored kamifubiks, which favorably highlight the base;
matte superiority. Glossy shine looks elegant together with matte textures. Take advantage of this offer.

As you can see, modern fashion provides us with a wide field for activity. Turn on your imagination, listen to your inner desires. Today almost any experiments are permissible.

Transparent manicure for short nails

For short nails, a transparent manicure can also sparkle with unusual colors. Both the polka dot pattern made of pearls and the French pattern made with sparkles are in trend. Simple geometric solutions will definitely embellish a girl of any age. The versatility of such nail art is difficult to overestimate. For business style or for a summer party - with such nails any outfit will look good.

"Broken glass"

This design is very effective on clear varnish. Triangular pieces of different sizes are cut out of decorative colored foil. They are applied to non-dried varnish and covered with a transparent top.

The triangles need to be placed at a short distance from each other, like fragments of a broken mirror. For decoration, it is better to choose silver foil or foil with a holographic effect.

Transparent manicure is not only beautiful, but also a very practical option for decorating nails. However, before applying clear polish or gel polish, you need to carefully prepare your nails and make sure that there are no uneven spots or stains.

If your nails have a yellowish tint or have white stripes on them (a sign of vitamin deficiency), it is better to choose a coating with a light tone.

Transparent manicure for long nails

Transparent design for long nails is grace and magic in one bottle. An elongated square with small honeycombs and pointed almonds with delicate watercolor buds are the hits of the season that have won the hearts of girls. To emphasize sensuality, it is better to turn to nude, shiny or black patterns.

Slider design with plant and flower patterns

The spring-summer mood can be emphasized by stickers with plant and flower patterns. Often on stickers the print is made in a watercolor style, replete with a wide color palette. Delicate floral motifs will emphasize femininity and add lightness to the spring look. Roses and poppies look especially sophisticated together with thin green stems in pastel colors.

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Transparent-volume manicure

Deep design will not leave anyone indifferent, even after three seasons it remains a rarity. Each master will be able to implement such a technique as a transparent pattern on a colored background using a stencil. The lucky ones whose nails are created in this style are truly delighted.

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How to replace clear varnish?

Clear varnish is a universal thing. However, it is often not available at the right time. Therefore, you need to think about what to replace it with. A better alternative would be a well-done manicure using a polishing file. If you approach this problem carefully, the result may surprise the most demanding craftsmen. After all, glossy nails shine, just like nails with a colorless coating. In addition, they will look clean and well-groomed.

Of course, you can play with different shades. For this, a transparent varnish of a soft pink shade of the same color as the nail plate is suitable. This option can be used in cases where the nail plate is yellowish. This will make your nails lighter.

Transparent manicure “different hands”

If you want to be on the same wavelength with new trends, then choose only the best. Manicure “different hands” is a godsend, thanks to which masters can show all their imagination. With a transparent base it will be possible to soften the bright colors of the patterns. And also give a calmer tone to the entire nail art. As a rule, the decor and designs are light, made in different styles, laconic in the style of minimalism.

How to do it at home?

Before you decide to make a transparent coating at home, you need to study some of its characteristics. This is necessary so that a higher quality coating can be assembled.

The composition of such paint must include a film former. It helps the coating harden better and also prevents chipping.
Clear varnish has a completely different consistency. This is also worth paying attention to.
The composition should also include various diluents or particles that promote better fixation of the nail polish on the nails.
In addition, another important component is the photoinitiator. It is responsible for absorbing ultraviolet radiation.

When all the features have been studied, you can buy varnish taking into account all these points and start manicure. Doing your own manicure will also save you time that would otherwise be spent going to a salon, and money.

First you need to degrease the entire nail plate. Also remove all remnants of the previous paint. This can be done using a cotton pad or scarf. If previously the coating was done with colored varnish and it was not possible to completely remove the color, you can do this with toothpaste and a toothbrush. And only after that you can start applying paint.

The easiest way is to make a glitter finish at home. To do this, you need to apply varnish to the nail plate and distribute it evenly. Next, dry glitter should be distributed with a brush along the edge of the nail. Finally, another coat of clear coat needs to be applied. This will ensure a good drawing.

To make this process even easier, you can combine dry glitter with clear polish and mix everything well. Sequins can come in different sizes. Most often they are large, a little smaller than average and a little fine, like a flicker of dust.

In addition, getting a French manicure is not difficult. To do this, you need to apply a clear varnish to the nail. Must be applied in 2 layers. After it hardens, you can use a very thin brush to paint the tip of the nail with white or another varnish.

The result should be a smile, which is the calling card of the jacket. At the end, it is necessary to apply a layer of fixative so that the manicure lasts longer. If you want the paint to dry a little faster, you can dip your hand directly in cold water.

Manicure negative space

No less than the design contains the “Negative space” technique, which requires an impressive amount of time to create and an ideal sense of composition. After all, a “naked” manicure is a special nail art that should have a certain harmony. So, this season, thin lines reminiscent of chains and contour patterns decorating two to four fingers are popular.

What are kamifubuki, types and forms

Despite the literal interpretation of the word kamifubuki, meaning “paper storm,” the coveted shiny sequins are not always made from this natural material. Usually, for such a delicate task, a special type of artificial plastic or special foil is used. Bright glitter has a lot of varieties and we will look at the most popular ones below.

So, kamifubuki differ in appearance, size and shape. There will definitely be no difficulties with the size, everything is standard here:

large;
average;
small.

As a rule, one jar contains kamifubuki of all three sizes. Things are somewhat more complicated with the form, because there are no limits to the imagination of the creators:

stars, especially relevant for galactic, space designs in a futuristic style;
hearts, this decor will be appreciated by romantic young ladies. It is also good for themed manicures for Valentine's Day;
flowers, spectacular velvet roses, tremulous daisies or lush peonies. A real florarium is contained in the coveted glitter for nails;
snowflakes. Another popular form of sequins, often decorating New Year's manicures;
apples, cherries and even pineapples - fruits familiar and exotic to the average European also have their brilliant embodiment.

The last point on which kamifubuki differ is their appearance. We will take the basic geometric classification, following which we distinguish the following types:

diamonds. Triangular sequins are very unusual and non-trivial. At the same time, they add variety even to a monotonous or monochrome manicure, they perfectly set off a white jacket, and the diamond also looks luxurious in splendid isolation;
squares. Square confetti is only appropriate on long nails, since the proportions of short nails are significantly distorted and suffer. But square sequins harmoniously combine with diamonds, playing up their cut in a new way;
round. The standard and, perhaps, the most common form of glitter, used by every second master and appropriate for any manicure;
multifaceted. Multifaceted sequins are similar to droplets of frozen mica, small prisms that break the glow, or like morning dew tremblingly falling from crispy green blades of grass.

The only difficulty of kamifubuki is the variety of choices. Fortunately, you have a whole life to try all the types of designs you like. Save our pictures quickly.

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Kamifubuki nail design 2022-2023: confetti on several nails

The kamifubuki nail design on all nails will help you create a truly festive mood.

This manicure is ultra fashionable in the fall-winter season, especially if bright red, burgundy, blue, purple, green and other rich colors of the palette are used for the base.

It is kamifubuki on nails 2022-2023 that are an excellent solution for New Year’s manicure, so on the eve of the New Year’s celebrations, our selection will undoubtedly be useful to all women who think through the New Year’s look to the smallest detail.

Kamifubuki nail designs can include different confetti, randomly placed on the nails. It all depends on your imagination and the appropriateness of this or that nail art.

Fashionable kamifubuki nail design 2022-2023: designs, patterns, textures, rhinestones and more

Recently, almost all women prefer gel polishes or shellac, so when choosing a new manicure, you always want something interesting so that the manicure does not get boring, remains relevant, and is in place.

Kamifubuki nail design 2022-2023 will perfectly cope with this task, because there are a lot of application options, so confetti will never look typical.

And although kamifubuki on nails looks very self-sufficient and does not require additional decor, manicurists still combine kamifubuki nail designs with designs of a certain style, minimalist or sophisticated patterns, and also try to combine this decor with sparkles and rhinestones.

So that you can see how chic kamifubuki are on nails, here are our awesome ideas for you.