A blue New Year's manicure is a chic solution for a successful completion of an evening and club holiday look, and if you want to stay at home or go outdoors for a magical night, then the rich color will come in handy and will decorate your hands very nicely. So, in any of the options, choosing a beautiful design in this velvet tone, you can’t go wrong.
Blue New Year's manicure?
Why not? The blue color is unique; it will be a good addition to both a strict and youthful look. And even though most people still consider this shade to be purely masculine, we are sure that a blue New Year’s manicure will favorably emphasize your femininity and beauty.
Today you can increasingly see photos of blue manicure at fashion house shows and at celebrity receptions. What's the secret? In an incredible variety of shades, for any choice. Blue combines brightly and favorably with white, black, and red details, looks elegant in a matte version - and combines perfectly with any decor.
Blue manicure – original ideas
Blue is considered a masculine color by most opinions. You will be very surprised to know how popular this shade is among women for manicures. Blue itself looks quite radical, but its stylish design in the new 2022 manicure products will make you change your mind. The main benefit of blue nail designs is that there are many types of shades of blue to choose from. It combines very beautifully and interestingly with red, black and white. It looks elegant in a matte finish and combines wonderfully with patterns and decorative elements. The choice of blue color using the French manicure technique remains popular. Let's take a closer look at these newfangled options together.
Mesmerizing nail art
The color of the winter night sky, the most magical and incredibly beautiful option for New Year's Eve! It will look harmonious in both matte and glossy versions. Juicy and deep, this shade of blue will suitably decorate your hands.
Want to add a little originality? Just ask your nail technician to add glitter on one of your nails to match your jewelry to your outfit, rub it in or lightly powder it, and make your nails velvety.
Silver-blue manicure for the New Year
The combination of blue and silver looks incredibly feminine - definitely suitable for New Year's Eve. Moreover, in 2022, these colors are mandatory attributes of New Year’s Eve. A sophisticated design with expressive details, for example, decorated with intricate patterns, festive toys or even a blue Christmas tree will add to the mood.
Short nails: paint brightly!
Blue manicure for short nails? Yes, yes and again, yes. An excellent choice for active ladies! Simply opt for either sky blue or a very dark blue, set off with a light trim. The most important and very important thing: bright colors on short nails look good only if the varnish is applied with the utmost care.
This winter's trend for short nails is thin stripes, lines or glued ribbons. A combination of golden and azure shades will look good.
Turquoise varnish looks very stylish in combination with glitter, small elements of bright foil, rhinestones and/or geometric patterns. Be careful with the details, overloading will be unnecessary.
New Year's manicure in blue tones with snowflakes
Another unifying New Year's motif for the entire design can be snowflakes, barely noticeable on blue polish or gel polish. You can also add other techniques and decor, such as French and metallic gel paints. Shiny details can make a big difference to the overall impression.
The most fashionable, the most interesting
Manicure in blue is leading the trends this winter in an elegant and rich combination with beads, rhinestones and a scattering of glitter. Solemn, festive - a great choice for a bright New Year's look.
Combine boldly varied shades of royally luxurious blue with gold, copper and silver, you can't go wrong. Any variations! Stripes, geometric motifs, single foil decoration of the ring finger nail combined with a neutral finish on the rest of the nails - whatever you like.
New Year's blue French manicure 2022
If you are closer to the classic direction in manicure, then you can consider the idea of a blue French manicure with a wave-like shape or place the color on the tips of the nails diagonally/vertically (photo 4). The result can turn out original; additionally “play up” the design with blue sparkles and snowflakes. To make the French look stylish for the New Year, it is enough to transform several nails into this design and cover the rest, for example, with liquid foil.
Let's add some classics
An original and easily recognizable Gzhel painting - how do you like this version of a blue manicure for the New Year? Exquisite interweaving of white and blue flowers will become an aristocratic, impeccable highlight, worthy of highlighting strict and restrained evening looks. Such work is performed in several ways.
If you want to get the real magic of harmony, contact a master of a high level of professionalism. The Gzhel technique is applied to the nails with a very thin brush, using artistic painting.
However, if you decide to do such a painting yourself, at home, you can get good results using special stamps or even purchase special stickers.
Inexpensive and also quite impressive: most often, Gzhel painting is used to decorate a pair of nails with a base coat of a neutral beige and/or white shade.
Gradient pattern and ombre
Do you have very little time to create a manicure and don’t want to struggle with complex designs? Try making a simple gradient. The color blue has a huge number of shades, and five of them are enough for a gradient pattern on all nails. This is a very popular and fashionable manicure option.
The classic ombre on one nail is also trending now, but now you can safely combine colors in any order. For example, shades of blue can create the effect of the northern lights or a charming evening sky.
Space pattern on nails
The effect of the night starry sky looks very original and expensive. Any girl can draw stars, planets and entire galaxies on her nails without spending a lot of time and effort. You just need to get inspired and start creating.
- To make your manicure reliable and durable, you should first paint your nails with a colorless base or strengthening varnish.
- After the base has dried, apply the main dark varnish - at least two layers.
- Cut the sponge into several small pieces.
- Apply a light polish to the sponge and gently touch your nails, creating cosmic effects to your liking.
- Perform the same actions with multi-colored varnishes chosen to your taste. Add new strokes and intricate lines to the finished coating.
- Done, you have drawn space!
Add planets to your space. To do this, you can use large sparkles or shiny varnish. At the final stage, coat your nails with a sealer.
It won’t take much time to draw a cosmic pattern, but you can achieve a stunning effect. It won’t even occur to anyone that you did this manicure yourself, and not from a nail service specialist.
Broken glass effect
The ever-popular broken glass effect can be achieved by attaching small pieces of material to your nails in specific positions. The design can be symmetrical and regular (like an ornament) or completely chaotic and random. In any case, when the sun's rays hit your nails, they will shimmer with all the shades of the rainbow.
Lunar manicure for the New Year
If you prefer a classic manicure and don’t want to bother with complex designs, patterns and ornaments, try creating a Lunar New Year manicure with blue polish. You can create a similar nail design for the New Year holidays in blue and white colors or decorate your nails with a silver hole. A dark blue lunar New Year's manicure with a hole decorated with large sparkles or small rhinestones looks very elegant and beautiful.
Geometric pattern for New Year's manicure
For several years, geometric designs on nails have not gone out of fashion. Parallel lines, triangles, rectangles and other regular shapes create an interesting pattern. Such an original drawing not only looks beautiful, but also does not get boring for a long time.
You can get creative and use round shapes, partial shapes, zigzags and much more. But be sure to keep in mind that the more complex the pattern, the more neutral the colors of the varnishes should be chosen. Black figures on a blue or blue background look very nice. If you want to make your design more festive, try adding glitter.
Shiny blue manicure for the New Year with sparkles, rhinestones, glitter, sand
When creating a New Year's manicure, it is difficult to overdo it with shiny elements. This is an excellent occasion when you can safely embody the most daring and sparkling ideas.
Nails with rhinestones - of various shapes and shades - were and remain relevant this year for the New Year.
Shiny ombre and gradient with mica and shine looks very fresh and eye-catching.
A manicure with glitter looks bright and dazzling. To create it, shining sand of different shades is used, in the choice of which you will have no restrictions.
Various drawings on a blue background
Nail designs for the New Year holidays are amazing abstractions and the luxury of shining sparkles. Modern geometric designs and classical Chinese motifs are very relevant now. The list of nail design trends for the New Year includes images of festive trees, clocks, glasses of champagne and aristocratic monograms. Such a bold painting decorates your hands and gives you a great mood for the holidays.
Variety of blue tones in nail designs
The blue color is good for its restraint, the rich character of some shades and a huge selection of designs. All this attracts many girls to use shades of blue to create a modern holiday manicure. Many, on the contrary, are put off by this color because it seems too contrasting. There are several dark shades of blue:
- midnight blue;
- sapphire;
- Navy blue;
- ultramarine.
If you don’t like rich shades, then you can safely choose from a large number of light colors, including all shades of blue and turquoise. Most often, the following light variations of blue are used in manicure:
- cornflower;
- gray;
- azure;
- aquamarine.
The names of these shades not only sound, but also look very beautiful. You will definitely find them in the palette of any nail technician.
Blue shades go well with many other colors. These include yellow, black, green, white and red, as well as gold and silver. In addition, you can combine companion colors and different shades of blue in one design, creating a unique manicure.
When decorating your nails for the New Year holidays, try to ensure that your manicure matches your outfit. And don’t forget that you need to look beautiful and stylish on New Year’s Eve, avoiding clown and comical bright combinations that would be more appropriate on a holiday tree rather than on your nails.
Blue and white: flawless manicure 2022
Elegant, fresh, winter-like - the combination of white and blue shades on nails will suit both young fashionistas and beautiful older ladies. These colors, in their many modifications, will complement a casual, formal or evening look well.
The most popular at the moment are French manicure, white “frosty” designs on a dark blue background and variations in a marine theme. White color, perfectly combined with all shades of blue, brings special lightness and freshness.
Let's add red
Bold and very daring – or restrained and sophisticated? It all depends on the shade, it all depends on your desire. Whatever look you choose for the New Year, a blue manicure will look great in combination with red decorative details.
Stylists are offering a very interesting technique this season: paint a few nails blue and the rest red! Fresh and original! Or opt for an unusual gradient or frosty patterns. If desired, you can add pictures or bright beads.
New Year's blue manicure with sparkles
Glitter can complement almost any color and style of manicure. If your choice is a blue base coat, use both small and large glitter or glitter powder to decorate your jacket, textures, New Year's designs and patterns. You can also implement the idea of a milky blue gradient with sparkles at the cuticle. Thanks to this, the manicure does not look deliberately elegant, although it is quite a brilliant option.
The magic of matte tones
The blue color of the manicure is flawless in a matte finish. Stylists clearly agree that it is best to use the brightest and richest shades for this technique.
If you want, cover all your nails the same way, or if you want, highlight a couple of nail plates against the background of an overall neutral design. Matte blue pairs well with rhinestones, foil elements and bright stripes.
French manicure in blue with hand painting
Many modern beauties love to create real masterpieces on their nails, so they prefer to visit manicurists who can decorate their nails with paintings. Such ornaments are often made using acrylic paints. Modern workers in manicure salons have begun to often use watercolor-style techniques. This decorative technology resembles a slightly sunken and blurred pattern, which seems to be immersed in the main background of the varnish coating.
Dance of shadows in the winter night
A gradient on your nails in shades of varnish from light blue to charcoal black will look extremely interesting, it will be original and not boring. A bold solution is the French version of blue and black.
In addition, the harmony of these two shades is wonderfully emphasized by simple patterns in the form of stripes, lines and geometric patterns.
"Knitted" blue manicure
The design with the “knitting” effect has been known for a long time, but in winter it is especially popular. Allows you to maintain the overall impression of holiday, winter and comfort. And it goes beautifully with the blue color, shining decor. For example, next to a “knitted” nail design, visual points of attraction can be created in the form of foil, rubbing, glitter or another color.
French in blue tones
French manicure has been a win-win option for many years now. A basic clear coat will look very gentle – and a blue smile of any shade. Experiment and combine options: triangular jacket, double lines, gold, silver.
Stylists boldly call this winter's trend a combination of velvet and matte nails combined with a bright, glossy smile line. It is also possible to decorate such lines with bright decor.
Manicure in white and blue tones for the New Year
There is a combination of shades that exists outside of trends and seasons; these include blue and white manicure. Interest in it increases even on the eve of the New Year holidays. Therefore, it makes sense to consider a blue and white design as an elegant manicure for short or long nails. And to decorate it in New Year’s style, look at the new photos for ideas in different techniques, from minimalist ombre options to a very bright manicure.
