Every girl strives to make her hands look feminine and neat, and her nails to attract the gaze of others. A variety of designs on nails can emphasize individuality, add some zest and complete your look. Based on this, most girls, when creating a manicure, prefer a design with the presence of artistic painting, and the use of acrylic paints allows you to display an original, realistic design with a beautiful highlight of shadows.
What is paint?
Acrylic paint is a special mixture based on a water-dispersed liquid with a creamy consistency. It is quite convenient to use: it is diluted with water, has no odor and is quite easy to apply to the nail.
Before you learn how to paint your nails with acrylic paints, you should clarify some nuances: how to choose high-quality paint and how to apply it correctly.
Advantages of decor
The advantages of acrylic paints are as follows:
- Variety of colors. This paint allows you to mix shades with each other to get the color you need.
- Drawings can be applied to natural or artificial surfaces.
- Drawings with acrylic paints dry quickly enough in the open air.
- Acrylic paints are low cost and material consumption is low.
- The material is completely non-toxic. The paint is odorless, and its base is ordinary water.
- When the drawing is blurred or does not turn out very well, you can erase it with a sponge and drinking water.
- The technique of applying acrylic paints is quite simple and does not require additional equipment.
Considering all the advantages of acrylic mixtures, you can safely choose this material for applying high-quality manicure.
Why acrylic?
Traditionally, acrylic paints are used in many areas - from art to renovation. Acrylic provides a coating that is resistant to many environmental factors and durable. And at the same time, acrylic paints can also be used by a non-professional; they are quite easy to work with.
Here is the main list of benefits:
- acrylic is UV resistant and does not fade in the sun;
- water resistance;
- resistance to external influences;
- saturated color;
- there is a lot of scope for creativity: they are easy to mix, dilute to the desired consistency, and work in different techniques;
- inexpensive price - from 25 rubles for a small tube, usually sold in sets;
- no unpleasant odor.
Even an amateur can master the technique of working with acrylics. There are several types of acrylic paints, you need to learn how to use them correctly:
- transparent;
- translucent;
- pasty (have a very dense, pasty consistency);
- opaque (overlap the previous layer).
Acrylic paints can also be made with water or acetone base.
It is more convenient to use water-based paints, they are easier to dilute and mix, but acetone paints last much longer.
What do we need
Before you start painting your nails with acrylic paints, you need to acquire the necessary tools.
- Manicure accessories (tweezers, nail files).
- Set for applying gel polish.
- UV lamp.
- Acrylic paints of various colors.
- Brushes of different sizes.
- Surface for mixing paints (you can use a piece of foil).
- Cotton pads, a vase of water.
Having prepared everything you need, we begin to learn how to create a unique design at home.
Acrylic painting technique
First of all, we will study in detail how to paint with acrylic paints on gel polish, so that the resulting design is no different from professional application.
- We give a neat look to your nails. We remove cuticles, file nails and polish them.
- Degrease the nail plates.
- We apply Shellac coating in the standard way (base, color varnish and top coat).
- Remove the sticky layer using a special liquid or regular alcohol.
- We wait until the varnish layer is completely dry. At this time, leave a drop of paint on a separate surface; if the consistency is thick, dilute it with a drop of water and mix well.
- Using a brush of the required thickness, we begin painting on the nails with acrylic paints and apply the selected patterns.
- Dry the drawing in the open air and secure the finish with a coating.
Painting with acrylic mixtures is not that difficult, but painting experience will still help. If you are a beginner, try applying simpler patterns, each time making the design more complex.
Manicure with tape at home
A geometric pattern on your nails can be easily created using adhesive tapes. They can be easily replaced with regular stationery tape. The easiest manicure done using this method is all kinds of stripes and blocks on the nails. To begin with, the nail plate is coated with base varnish. After it dries, pieces of tape are glued on top, and the unsealed part is painted with another varnish. This way you can make a two-color manicure.
Similarly, stripes and other geometric shapes are drawn on the nails. One of the most popular manicures today is chessboard, which can also be done using tape, which is cut into small strips in the form of a stencil.
Scotch tape will become indispensable for performing French or moonlight manicures at home.
French and butterflies on nails
The technique of drawing butterflies is quite simple, even a beginner can handle it, the main thing is to have a little patience and the luxurious design will decorate your nails for a long time.
Stock up on the following materials.
- Shellac coating kit.
- Beige and white matte gel polish colors.
- Pink and black acrylic paints (pink can be obtained by mixing white and red).
- Medium and fine brushes.
- A piece of foil, sponges, a little water.
Follow these step-by-step instructions:
- We cover the prepared nails with gel polish of a natural color.
- Draw a “smile” line in white.
- After drying the finish coat, be sure to remove the sticky layer.
- Take pink acrylic paint and draw the wings of the future butterfly. It will look beautiful if you depict one half of the butterfly on one nail, and the second part on the next nail plate.
- After drying, we can highlight the outline of the design using black acrylic paint and a thin brush.
- The design can be applied to each nail or by focusing on only two or three surfaces.
- We fix the design with a top coat and dry it.
Having tried this design in practice, you will undoubtedly be convinced that painting on nails with acrylic paints is not as difficult as it seems, since a butterfly is a fairly large design that does not require excessive painstaking work.
Themed manicure
A manicure made on a specific theme looks bright and fun. Football fans can use balls to decorate their nails, cartoon lovers can add their favorite characters. For the New Year, you can easily decorate your nails with green Christmas trees, which will definitely lift your spirits.
To create such a drawing you should:
- use adhesive tape to cover part of the nail, leaving only a triangular section;
- need to be painted over with green varnish;
- After complete drying, remove the stencil;
- Place a dot-star on the top of the Christmas tree with dots;
- You can also add a few sparkles to symbolize New Year's balls.
A plot from spikelets
Having mastered the technique of drawing large drawings with acrylic paints, you should learn to design with the presence of small details.
For this we need:
- Shellac coating kit.
- White, yellow, green and black acrylic paints.
- Thin brushes.
- A piece of foil, sponges, a little water.
Let's take a closer look at the image of the spikelets.
- We coat the prepared nails with gel polish. For this design, the nail plate can be left natural color.
- After removing the sticky layer of Shellac, you can begin to apply the design.
- First of all, we learn to depict green grass. We draw thin lines in a chaotic manner, thickening them closer to the free edge. It turns out quite beautiful if you make several shades of green, diluting it with white.
- Next, mix white and yellow colors and draw ears of wheat. Carefully make identical strokes.
- After the acrylic paint has dried, we can begin applying the accents of the design. To do this, draw the contours with black paint and show some highlights. Don't overdo it with dark lines so as not to spoil the design.
- After the acrylic paint has dried, we fix the resulting design with a finish - a coating.
Practice, try applying various designs with acrylic paints. The main thing is to use your imagination, and you will see that luxurious designs are not so complicated.
Small elements and lines with a thin brush
If you need to make a light, barely noticeable and at the same time sophisticated design, small elements with a thin brush will do the job perfectly. This design can be completed in a matter of minutes, does not require practice and looks original.
With a thin brush you can paint a large beautiful flower on a neutral background, as in the photo. The combination of only two shades and the intricate interweaving of lines, as when making a rose, allows you to achieve an elegant and feminine manicure. Decorate your ring finger with a small pearl matching the color of the design to highlight the painting, the background color, and make the design elegant.
Photo of nail polish coating
Even more photos at the link: Gel polish with photo painting.
