Bubble manicure or with foam 2019-2020: 50 photo ideas that you won’t pass by

What kind of foam is needed?

Absolutely anything, except shaving foam won't work. You can use:

• Bubble,
• Liquid soap,
• Shampoo,
• Bath foam, etc.

The liquid can simply be shaken in a glass until foam forms or placed in a bottle or jar (for example, baby food), which is convenient for reusable use when working with clients.

If you shake just a little, the soap bubbles will be large; if you shake for longer, the bubbles will be smaller. The final design on the nail depends on this.

What is bubbl manicure

Bubble design is a type of manicure in which the surface of one or more nails is covered with bubbles.
Despite the apparent complexity of execution, creating such a coating is quite simple. If you wish, you can do this yourself without contacting a manicurist. A special feature of bubble design is the ability to recreate interesting and unusual effects. Depending on the color and texture, the design on the nails can imitate reptile skin, lunar craters, honeycombs, porous chocolate, and thin lace. Foam manicure is created from scrap materials - soap bubbles, shaving cosmetics, etc.

Pros and cons of textured bubble nails

The trend for bubble nails has spread so rapidly and contagiously precisely because it has a lot of advantages compared to other nail techniques.

Let's look at the advantages of this new and at the same time well-forgotten old design:

• This decoration option is perfect for nails of any length and shape.

On short nails, the design looks like textured stone beads, which will appeal to clients who prefer the unity of manicure and favorite jewelry made from natural materials. However, this image looks most impressive at a length of medium and above.

If the client’s natural nails cannot boast of flexibility, strength, or lasting length, it is worth resorting to strengthening.

Another way to flaunt good length and trendy nails is to get nail extensions using acrylic, gel or polygel. If you choose colored polygel or acrylic with glitter for extensions, the artist will no longer need to use additional decorations, and the final design will look modest, elegant and quite office-appropriate;

• The design, made in compliance with technology, does not cause discomfort when worn and does not cling to clothing.

Despite the fact that the surface of the nail is ribbed and not completely smooth, foam nails are easy to care for, maintaining the beauty of the manicure right up to correction.

Contaminants that get into the design/pattern are easily washed out with water, regardless of whether they are made with a matte or glossy topcoat;

• When performing a manicure, the master is not limited in the choice of tools in order to polish the nails quickly and at the same time beautifully.

Tips-sticks for applying foam, bottles of foam for washing with a special dispenser, cups for acrylic liquids for diluting the soap base in water are used. It is also possible to apply foam with a fan brush (makeup brush).

And if the foam turns out to be as dense as possible, then to save time you can apply it directly with gloved fingers.

As for the downsides, these include the following:

• foam nails - a design involving about 4-5 layers of material on the nails.

This means that the client’s nails must either be in good condition initially, or prepared for wearing a multi-layered look, so as not to suffer at home or at work;

if you forget the stage of “combing” the texture (when the prickliness of the dried top is removed with a buff or nippers), such a design will be uncomfortable for the client to wear (it will cling to clothes, hair, and may leave scratches on the skin;

• Despite the apparent simplicity, you need to maintain a balance of correctly applying foam to the almost finished design.

The beauty of foam nails is ensured by the even distribution of foam. It should lie in a uniform layer, covering the area both at the cuticle and at the free edge. If the foam does not reach the cuticle, you will end up with an unaesthetic indentation. And if the free edge is not covered, the visual integrity of the textured surface is violated.

In this case, the indentation should be no more than a millimeter so that the top with foam does not flow into the subcuticle pocket when drying in the lamp.

• the master works at speed. It is better to create a foam texture one nail at a time, since the bubbles quickly collapse and there is a risk of not having time to dry them in foam form.

How to create this beautiful design quickly and correctly, avoiding possible disadvantages and experiencing only the advantages?

Let's look at a step-by-step manicure using the simplest options - foam nails stylized as frozen lava and rubbed foam.

Lava foam manicure technology

Photo author: @kirichenko_nails/Photo author: @markelova__darina

• Complete preliminary preparation of the nail is performed: a hardware manicure with a machine or a combined manicure using clippers. If lengthening is not intended, a degreaser and then an acid-free primer are applied to the nails with the gloss removed;
• Nails are covered with a base. Depending on the intended image, this can be a camouflage tint base (used as an independent color coating), a strengthening rubber base, or a duo of hard and elastic classic bases. The material is applied in one layer and polymerized in accordance with the manufacturer’s recommendations for the prescribed time in a hybrid, UV or LED lamp;
• The selected color gel polish coating is applied to the nails in 1-2 layers. This can be a monochromatic manicure in a dark color palette, or a delicate lava in a nude color palette (chocolate stylized with bubbles), or a daring disco-neon lava. When choosing a material, you should give preference to the most pigmented material (ideally, use a dense single-layer);
• After drying the gel polish in a lamp, the sticky layer is removed from it, and a matte top coat without stickiness is applied in one thin layer to ensure the wearability of the finished design. The top is dried in a lamp;
• Apply the second layer of matte top very thinly with a semi-dry brush. Doesn't dry out! Soap foam is applied to the selected nail (or to all nails in turn), after which the nail is immediately placed in a lamp for polymerization;
• Use a paper towel to blot off any remaining foam. A lint-free cloth soaked in cleanser is used to treat the surface of the nail with a foam pattern;
• There is no need to cover the design with a third layer of topcoat. If, after drying, particles of the top coat remain with sharp edges or there are flaws in the polymerized top foam in the area of ​​the cuticle and side ridges, this can be removed with nippers or smoothed out with a soft buff. The buff needs to be strictly soft, so as not to cut off the entire textured effect, and so that the nail is slightly smoothed and not scratchy. Movements of the buff on the nail should be light and smooth;
• The classic version of lava nails does not require the use of additional decor. But if desired, matte lava nails (if only part of the nail is decorated with foam) can be supplemented with rhinestones, broths or “Spiderweb” gel paint.

Photo author: @korkhovam/Photo author: @manikur_v_pushkino

Foam manicure technology - rubbing under foam

• Repeat steps 1-3 of the previous design. We choose a dark (black) gel polish to make the design look as spectacular as possible;
• Such a spectacular image as a foam rub looks most expressive when the base (gel polish) is applied using the “under the cuticle” technique. This allows you to wear such manicured beauty longer without losing aesthetics while the natural nail grows smoothly;
• The selected mirror rub is rubbed onto the dried top without stickiness - with a gloved finger or an applicator. Depending on the type of rubbing, the top can be cold (completely cooled) or hot (immediately after the lamp) at the time of rubbing. In this case, the rub can be applied both to gel polish (and then the nails are covered with foam) and to foam bubbles after drying in a lamp. Before applying the foam and drying the top with foam in a lamp, the manicure should be completely prepared: brush off the rub-in with a brush (brush), buff the ends of the nails to seal the rub-in with a second layer of top coat;
• After polymerization of the foam in the lamp, the remaining foam is blotted with a napkin, the nail is wiped with a cleanser, and the surface with the pattern is carefully buffed. If the client wishes, the design can be supplemented with additional decorative elements.

Photo author: @karrina_bg_nails/Photo author: @natalykashtanova

While practicing to create one or another type of foam design, nail artists noted several important recommendations, following which the chances of creating absolutely irresistible foam nails increase significantly. Here are some of the most significant lifehacks when performing a Bubbles Nails manicure.

Matte nails combined with an accent foam manicure

Stylish, gentle, cute... All this is about the newfangled bubble manicure with foam in a matte design, made in a variety of variations.

If we are talking about an everyday manicure with foam, then a matte effect in a delicate shade of blue, pink, cream and beige for spring-summer, or a calm dark color for autumn-winter is the ideal choice.

At the same time, you can play with different textures and combine a velvet coating with a rub on a foam design - a chic idea for a festive Bubble Nails manicure.

Foam French

The classic French manicure has the incredible ability to be uniquely played out in different techniques and adapt to many designs. We decorate the nails with a standard or colored version of the jacket and highlight accent fingers with a base made of varnish to match the smile, with fashionable bubbles. You can also use the foam directly to highlight the tip of your nails. Carefully drawing the smile line with stripes of glitter or small decorations will only elevate the chosen option.

Mirror rubbing and nail design using the Bubbles technique

An incredibly beautiful and unique foam manicure is offered with a mirror rub, which can be used not on the entire surface of the nail, but partially covering its individual sections, thus obtaining a very impressive and brilliant nail design for a holiday and for an evening look.

The chameleon rub looks interesting on a couple of nails with a foam manicure in tandem with a monochrome glossy or matte finish on the rest of the nails.

Gradient effect in nail design with bubbles

Color transition or color stretching is always an interesting and unusual technique in nail art, which masters quite often resort to when creating a newfangled nail design with foam using the Bubbles technique.

The same rubbing, or rather the use of several of its shades, will allow you to achieve a super cool gradient, creating a beautiful color transition on the nails, finally complementing them with a foam relief design.

Looks solemn and stunning!

Stylish gradient

Stretching a color or a smooth transition from one shade to another always looks interesting and is very popular among visitors to nail salons. Experienced craftsmen skillfully play with this idea in the most incredible interpretations and offer young ladies improved and bright new items, which also include a chic gradient design with bubbles. Smooth transitions can be performed vertically or horizontally. Stretching flowers from nail to nail looks impressive. We perform a manicure with selected shades and complement the coating with bubbles. Simple, but incredibly beautiful. For a more impressive look, you can complement the design with rubbing, which will significantly refresh any variations of shades.

Stylish monochrome bubble manicure with foam in black

For those who don’t like bright and colorful effects on their nails, we recommend paying attention to the stylish monochrome manicure with foam, made in black.

Masters offer interesting solutions even with plain black gel polish, creating bubbles on individual nails, and also by covering not the entire plate, but only individual sections of it, which looks stylish and unpretentious.

How to do Bubble manicure at home?

creating a design with bubbles is quite simple. But if you are doing this for the first time, perhaps the texture may not be expressed enough. We will tell you in detail how and how to perform a manicure with foam, so as not to make mistakes.

Preparation and necessary materials

Nail art is performed at the final stage of coating with gel polish, so first you need to do a manicure using your usual technique and cover it with color. For registration we will need:

• orange stick or wide brush;
• cotton swab;
• soap;
• top without sticky layer;
• LED/UV lamp.

The foam can be anything from shampoo, soap or shower gel. You can use what you have on hand. The main thing is to shake it well; for greater effect, you can slightly inflate a few bubbles with a straw. Below is a step-by-step implementation technology.

Bubble and rub. Step-by-step instruction

There are two similar models. This is a manicure with shimmer and glitter based on rubbing or using cat eye gel polish. Under the top you can only rub it in, and the cat's eye will become more textured.

How is a cat eye design made? First, gel polish is applied, then top coat and top coat again, but with foam. The disadvantage of this design is that it can stick to textiles and cosmetics, hand cream gets stuck in large bubbles, and you have to wash your hands more thoroughly.

The option of manicure foam scrubs is more practical, so let’s look at it in more detail. So, detailed instructions with photos on how to do a foam manicure.

First you need a black holder. Take the base and two thin layers of black gel polish.

Next, we create the same bubble effect by preparing a bottle or any other container with soapy water in advance. Which foam is suitable for manicure? Let's take a product that foams well, such as baby bubbles or bubble bath. Some people make foam from liquid soap. In general, take any cosmetic product that you have and beat it. A small bottle with a narrow neck (baby water or cleanser with a narrow neck) is best so that when you press on the top of the neck it forms a foam cap that can be easily transferred to the nail.

To create the same bubble effect, you need to apply a non-sticky topcoat and add foam to the wet layer. This must be done carefully so as not to smear the top on the surface. Then the calendula along with the foam is quickly sent into the lamp.

After the top and foam have dried, you need to wipe the surface with detergent to keep it dry and clean.

Then it's up to the problem. You can use color, but I wanted to try to create some sort of gradient. I caught a blue beetle and May. It is more convenient to use an old brush for application, because it will be difficult to rub the pigment onto a textured surface with a sponge or finger.

After both pigments have been applied to me, I take a separate top and brush so that fine dust from rubbing does not get into the working bottle and apply it. Before drying, you can turn your finger and hold it slightly to level the surface, then return it to its original position and dry.

Anything! The foam design is ready. The lighter your cat eye or rubbed eye, the brighter the glow and shine, the more dramatic your manicure will be.

Texture pattern. Step-by-step instruction

For several seasons in a row, the texture of crocodile or python skin has been trending. This year will be no exception. Thus, foam on nails can create a very interesting effect similar to these materials. In step by step photos I will show you how to make the famous lizard design.

I used a fairly bright green color as a basis. By the way, green will be very popular this summer and comes in all shades, from lemon green to mysterious dark green.

I then painted the lizard with black gel paint. Before creating the design, I covered the nail with the thinnest layer of topcoat without any sticky residue. Why is this necessary? Some gel polishes and gel polishes quickly spread over the surface, causing the outline of the design to become blurred and unsightly. To prevent this from happening, it is necessary to remove the viscosity from the working surface. So when drawing, it is not necessary to periodically dry the image in a lamp.

After the lizard was drawn, I covered the tip with a velvet top.

Removed the stickiness when the top cooled a little after the lamp.

I then took the top coat (again no stickiness) and applied with a fine brush to the image area only.

Immediately, he carefully applied the foam to the design and quickly directed the spikes into the lamp.

After drying, bubbles with foam formed only in the area of ​​the pattern, such as scales. To complete your manicure, you simply need to go over the entire surface with cleanser.

Now you know how to make a custom design using foam rubber. To prevent the top and bubbles from spreading, you need to act very quickly.

Texture sea pattern. Step-by-step instruction

There can be many ideas for foam manicure. But most importantly, this bubble manicure is associated with sea foam. And therefore, in the summer, it seems to me, there will be a lot of options for “beach” designs using this technique. I'll show you step by step how I made two versions of the nautical themed design. The first one is with a sea wave.

I used a yellow-beige shade as the base. Traditionally applied in two layers.

Then I applied the blue shade along the edge, blending it lightly with the top coat. It's dried up.

So let's make bubbles. Mix top coat and white gel polish. The color should be milky translucent. We apply the resulting composition to the border between the flowers, do not dry it, but immediately cover it with a solution of soap foam and then polymerize.

I emphasize once again that we dry with foam.

After this, the foam is removed using detergent. If desired, it can be applied to the edge of the top to partially cover the foam.

I wanted to add a pattern to the design. I took the top coat, pre-mixed with white gel polish, and painted a star. Then with the top clean I made a few drops in the center of the photo sending them to the lamp.

Then I ironed it and sprinkled it with acrylic powder.

As a result, I got a gel polish with voluminous foam. You can also do a bubble manicure with foam, but covered.

Passionate red foam manicure for true ladies

The second most popular shade, after black coating, in a monochrome foam manicure is red. The always exciting, temperamental and feminine red color of manicure fits very harmoniously into the fashionable foam nail design.

The Bubbles technique allows you to create an accent relief design in a red manicure on several nails or using a matte foam effect over the entire surface of the nails.

Solid color design

The fashionable mono design with the “bubble nails” effect looks very cool in red and black. Deep black and exciting red can highlight all the details of a textured design like no other. You can decorate all your nails with original bubbles or highlight a few fingers. Also, no less impressive is the arrangement of the foam pattern only in some areas of the nail plate, for example, openwork stripes, halves of the nail plate and other ideas.

Foam manicure designed with rhinestones, crystals and stones

When looking for a festive and celebratory manicure design for any important event (Birthday, New Year, Valentine's Day), take a closer look at the new styles of foam manicure with rhinestone decor, a scattering of crystals and crystal chips.

Looking at a fashionable foam manicure, you can be convinced that it itself is unusually bright, so the stones should be delicate and unobtrusive, and used as a laconic addition to a trendy bubble manicure.

How the foam manicure trend came about

It’s hard to name such a new plot. Nail service specialists have already tried to depict droplets, prints of snakes and crocodiles. If previously creating an original design required skills, various tools, materials and a fair amount of time, today, thanks to a new trend, everything has become easier. It takes no more than three minutes to create bubbles on your nails, and even a novice master can do it.

Customers are no longer willing to sit through a manicure for four hours, waiting for a unique and intricate design. The pace of life has changed, time has become an incredibly valuable resource. Craftsmen must be smart and understand how to please the customer in such a high competition without wasting precious minutes.

In addition, complex designs in the style of Chinese painting, rhinestones on all nails, sculpting and other types of designs that were popular in their time are no longer relevant. Minimalism entered our lives and took over everything, including manicure fashion.

Nail design “different handles” with foam effect

To create a beautiful accent using the fashionable trend of manicure with foam, another stylish technique in nail design will allow you to use the “different handles” manicure. So, on one hand we suggest using the super-fashionable foam manicure Bubble Nails, while on the other hand we suggest using a monochrome coating.

This tandem of foam manicure and a plain finish looks stylish and not boring.

Bright foam manicure design

A stylish manicure solution with foam will look great in the hot summer if you use a bright coating and an appropriate design.

A neon color can become the main color, while on nails with bubbles it is best to use a light-colored base, on which a bright bubble design with foam will look great in a matte neon color.

The essence of foam technology

A similar term is used for one of the types of textured nail designs. To get tiny burst bubbles of different sizes on your nails, you need to thoroughly shake the soap solution. It is applied to nails covered with a base layer of varnish before placing them under the rays of an ultraviolet lamp.

The relief pattern is slightly rough. But caring for such a manicure is not difficult. Marigolds can be easily washed with a regular soft brush.

What do you need for nail design?

The best coverage is obtained using a ready-made solution for soap bubbles. You can simply dilute any detergent in water.

When choosing a gel polish, it is better to choose a dense single-layer polish. The ideal option is a composition with the maximum amount of pigment. The darker the coating, the better the final result will look. The fixative (top) used as a finishing agent is chosen to be thin. Otherwise, instead of the smallest recesses, craters with rough edges that cling to everything are formed.

Combined manicure with Bubble Nails design

A real celebration on your nails is possible! A luxurious combined bubble manicure with foam, rhinestones and sparkling gel polish is a win-win tandem for an intriguing, memorable and elegant manicure for a special occasion.

Here the master’s imagination knows no bounds, which is clearly demonstrated by the example of a fashionable foam manicure in an exciting combined nail design.

Combined design

You have never seen such a spectacular combination before! The main task is not to overload your nails with unnecessary effects and at the same time harmoniously arrange several techniques on your fingers. To create a manicure, we use a tandem of a shiny bright or dark coating with a neutral shade, and additionally decorate several nails with bubbles, decor in the form of rhinestones or beads. Fantasy in this example knows no bounds.

A manicure with bubbles is incredibly beautiful, spectacular and gentle at the same time!

Carrying out the design will not take much time and does not require special skills. Let’s fantasize a little and complement the image with one of the stylish ideas for a foam masterpiece.

How to choose the right materials for foam design

To avoid any difficulties when creating bubble nails, you need to prepare the necessary tools and materials in advance:

• manicure accessories (scissors, nippers, spatula, file, buff);
• base, single-layer gel polish, top (liquid or medium thickness);
• soap scum;
• tool for applying foam (brush, sponge, etc.);
• paper napkins;
• other: gloves, antiseptic, cuticle softening oil, hand cream, disposable gloves (if necessary). You can choose any means for creating foam. The bubble effect is achieved by using household chemicals for washing dishes, shaving and washing foam, and soap. You can try several options and understand which one is more convenient to work with.

1. To obtain a pattern with small bubbles , the product is mixed with water and shaken vigorously for a long time.
2. Large cells are obtained if you shake the mixture briefly and lightly.

What is a marine manicure?

Marine manicure looks fresh and stylish. This is a design idea that suits young girls and older women. Waves on nails are a design that is practical, since the main color is a nude base or sandy shade. Both options grow back unnoticed, so this pattern can be worn longer than usual.

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A fashionable nautical manicure consists of waves drawn in the center of the nail plate or on the free edge. As a rule, they are not drawn near the cuticle. Waves on nails are a design that masters perform using several shades of gel polish, acrylic powder, special brushes and top coats (matte and glossy).

Types of bubble manicure

Bubble manicure gives room for imagination. Proof of this is the large number of varieties, each of which has its own characteristics.

Main types of manicure:

• Lava (pumice) effect. Nails are covered with gel polish of the same color, the result is fixed with a matte top coat.
• "Cat". It involves a combination of soap foam and coatings that create volumetric glare (magnetic rubbing, etc.).
• Foil under foam. It is performed using single-color shellac, matte or glossy foil.
• Colored foam on a contrasting background. Nails are coated with shellac and dried in a lamp. A layer of gel polish of a contrasting color is applied on top, and foam is distributed over it (without pre-drying).
• Rubbing. Foam manicure looks good in combination with any products (especially those that imitate jewelry or metals).
• Rhinestones. Jewelry can be of any shape. The main thing is that they are combined with the selected texture and shade of shellac.

• Smooth foam. After applying the foam, the nails are carefully polished and covered with a glossy top coat. This allows you to create beautiful highlights, make wear more comfortable and last longer.
• Neon foam. Involves the use of bright, “screaming” pigments. A good option for brave, confident girls. These nails look best in summer (especially in combination with tanned skin).
• French. The nail is covered with pastel pink or soft beige varnish, and a different color and soap bubbles are applied to the crescent-shaped tip. If desired, several nails can be done using this technique, and the rest can be covered with a single-color varnish.
• Three-dimensional decor. 3D elements go well with the foam design option. These can be sliders, volumetric flowers, patterns and shapes. If necessary, liquid metal can be used. To make such a design beautiful, you need to have good taste.

If you go too far with the number of decorative elements, the manicure will look funny and even vulgar.

Choosing a color

Its selection directly depends on what we want to get in the end.

Black

Black color looks strict and graceful and is perfect for everyday style.

The combination of contrasting black and white (or red) looks most impressive.

White

White color looks gentle and romantic.

Red

Red shades of varnish are in perfect harmony with gold.

Green

Rich green is more suitable for creating summer manicures. Its muted version, olive, in combination with beige, brown, yellow or gold, purple and blue colors looks good with elegant urban outfits, as well as casual clothes or military-style looks.

Pink

Delicate pink color in manicure is more often used by young girls. Its more harmonious pastel shades are more suitable for light, unobtrusive nail art. In this case, the foam texture turns into light, weightless lace.

Brown

Cinnamon looks great in a single color, as well as in combination with beige and green.

Violet

Purple looks bright and expensive.

Gold

The gold version is perfect for special occasions and festive events.

Bubles nail design tips

To avoid mistakes when designing bubbles, you need to follow the following recommendations:

• Strengthen thin nails before designing.
• Strictly follow the sequence of actions.
• Use thick shellacs, which are applied in 1 layer.
• Send your hand into the lamp immediately after applying the foam.
• Treat nails one at a time. After drying in the lamp, inspect the finished work for any thorny areas.
• Remove protruding jagged edges with a buff or nippers so that the bubble manicure will last a long time and your nails will not catch on anything.

Nails with foam over regular polish

Not every woman has the opportunity to constantly use shellac (due to lack of time or money). Some girls are allergic to gel, which forces them to opt for classic varnishes.

It is difficult to answer the question whether a foam manicure will last without fixing it in a lamp. The length of time you can wear a bubble design depends on various factors (products used, care, etc.).

You cannot count on the fact that classic varnish will last as long as gel.

But this method has an important advantage - the ability to update the design more often and try on different images.

Another difficulty when using classic varnish is that without drying in an ultraviolet lamp, the bubble quickly bursts. Therefore, creating a design requires skill.

Foam manicure ideas: photos of spectacular nail art