For many girls, nail art remains just a dream, feasible only with the help of a professional. In fact, drawing is a simple matter, especially if you know a few techniques and have basic skills. Every beauty who has a couple of varnishes and dots in her arsenal can become the owner of an original, stylish and bright manicure. What is this outlandish tool, how to use it and how to bring all the most intricate designs into reality - look for details in the article prepared by your favorite guide to the beauty world, ProstoNail.
Why do you need a dot stick in manicure?
This term refers to a small thin stick that can be made of wood. It is also often made of plastic. The tip of this tool looks like a metal ball, and it can have different sizes.
Today, double-sided dots are increasingly being sold - at their ends there are balls of different diameters. Professional craftsmen will need a whole set. If you need a dots for home design, a small to medium size will suffice. Large instruments are used extremely rarely.
Dots is very easy and convenient to use. It allows you to quickly decorate your nails with dots, lace and other designs. It makes it easy to draw snowflakes or flowers. Dots are often used to create a small additional pattern. It can also be used for gluing rhinestones onto paintings.
Suitable manicure for different seasons: how to choose?
Perhaps, in this matter, everything is decided by personal preferences. Still, a fashionable polka dot manicure is very democratic. Most likely, the color scheme will remind you of this or that time of year. If this is your choice for a seaside holiday, then all shades of turquoise are at your service.
- The winter design is made in blue and white tones and is complemented by appropriate details: snowflakes, jacquard pattern.
- Autumn pairs beautifully with a color palette of vibrant foliage. Yellow, orange and terracotta shades in combination with green are ideal.
- Well, spring is the time of awakening, so twigs and flowers are relevant, as well as delicate greenery and all shades of pink and blue.
How to use Dots: step-by-step instructions
To use dots correctly, you need to follow a certain sequence of actions:
- First, coat your nails with clear varnish, then wait for the base of the pattern to dry completely. It is also possible to use a colored coating.
- Apply a little varnish to the palette - foil or a plastic container is suitable for this purpose.
- Take a stick and fix it perpendicular to the surface, then dip the end into the varnish. It is important that the entire instrument is treated with a coloring compound.
- Apply a few dots on the nail and complete the design. To get the perfect dots, the dots should be directed perpendicular to the nail.
- The varnish applied to the palette dries quite quickly. To create a neat pattern, you need to periodically add the product.
- After completing the pattern, the dots can be cleaned of any remaining dye.
What patterns can you draw with a brush?
With this tool you can easily create a huge number of beautiful and interesting patterns. For example, a butterfly or a flower applied with dots looks great.
Lunar manicure
To perform a lunar manicure decorated with a floral pattern, you can use a dots. In order not to make it too pretentious, it is better to perform the pattern on only two nails - most often the middle and ring fingers are chosen for this.
Then you can paint your nails with varnish of the main shade and dry well again. After this, you can cover them with a second layer of varnish and use a dot to create a design. To do this, you need to drop a little varnish onto the foil and use a tool to draw a flower consisting of 4-5 dots. Then use a wooden stick to draw out thin lines to make the composition more voluminous.
Using a thin brush, create a semicircle at the base of the nail plate. First you need to make an arc, and then fill it with color. It is important that the holes are the same.
French
This classic manicure suits all girls. The French technique is considered quite complex, since it is not easy to create a neat white line. However, dots makes this task much easier.
First, you need to prepare the nail, and then cover it with base varnish. The main stage of such nail art is considered to be making a smile. To do this, the dots need to be dipped in white varnish and used like a pen. After applying the main design, the nails can be treated with a fixative.
spot flowers
The image of dots on nails is considered one of the most popular designs. With the help of dots you can create such a design quite easily. To do this, you need to dip the device in varnish and cover the dried base with dots. This way you can create designs of different sizes.
It is also quite possible to show your imagination and make various patterns from dots - for example, flowers. Thanks to the use of dots, you can get designs of different sizes and colors, which will make your nail art truly unique. To make a beautiful flower, you need to put a large dot in the center, and use smaller dots to make the petals.
Lace
Lace designs on nails always look very gentle and feminine. To perform them you need to choose a varnish. Then cut out a wavy pattern from the tape, which will then become lace. It should be glued to the nail, and the free area should be covered with a delicate shade of varnish. After this, remove the tape.
Now you should use dots to make the lace, get rid of excess varnish and complete the neat design. To fix the pattern, the nails need to be covered with another layer of varnish.
Various techniques
A luxurious design with polka dots, of course, could not do without the well-known and beloved technique of applying varnish in the French manner.
- A French can decorate all nails, or decorate only a few nails, while polka dots can decorate a strip of French, located on one or several nails, combined with the laconicism of a traditional and atypical French.
- Undoubtedly, one cannot help but recall the lunar design , where polka dots also very well emphasize the lightness and romance of nail art.
You can decorate the holes with peas, or contrast with a plain hole, decorating all or several nails.
- For owners of long and medium nails, an interesting option will be with smiles or wrapped holes, painted in a contrasting or the same tone as the polka dots.
- Fashionable nail art trends offer women a combination of polka dots and multi-colored gradients. What could be more creative and unusual than all the varieties of ombre with dots.
How to replace a tool at home
Don't be upset if you don't have dots. Instead of this device, you can use any similar objects. A hairpin with a ball at the end is perfect. An equally effective pattern can be obtained using an ordinary ballpoint pen, a toothpick or an orange stick for manicure. The main thing is to apply the drawing as carefully and patiently as possible.
Possible options for replacing dots also include the following:
- sticks;
- pins with a rounded end;
- ordinary matches;
- hairpins;
- pencils that are not too sharp;
- toothpicks;
- carnations from a comb.
It is important to consider that small objects are not very convenient to hold when drawing. To solve the problem, you should use a regular pencil with an eraser at the end. To do this, just stick a pin into it.
Advantages
Dots are the most favorite tools for most nail service specialists. And this is not at all surprising, because it has a huge number of advantages.
- Among the main advantages is that dots is very easy to use. Whoever picks it up (a beginner or an expert) will very quickly master the technique of creating a drawing;
- The drawing will not take too long to complete. In addition, such a manicure is perfect for both work and weekends;
- This tool can be used to apply not only designs, but also sparkles or rhinestones. At the same time, the ball is very easy to clean from varnish or glue. When creating a manicure, many specialists prefer to use dots rather than a thin brush.
Photo ideas for nail design using dots
Dots helps to realize the most daring ideas in nail design, which is confirmed by numerous photographs. With the help of this simple tool, you can create a variety of designs on your nails - lace, floral patterns, geometric patterns. In any case, they will look neat and attractive.
Dots are a very convenient device that helps you create various patterns on your nails. With this tool you can get many interesting nail art options. The main thing is to be patient and do everything as carefully as possible. As you complete such drawings, you will acquire the necessary skills and be able to independently perform a beautiful salon manicure.
