Gradient on nails with gel polish: how to do it, smooth transition technique, French with a brush, shading

A gradient on nails with gel polish is the use of several colors on a plate and blurred boundaries between them, which looks very natural even with contrasting tones. It can be vertical, horizontal (classic), chaotic, there are “baby boomer” techniques, French, with sparkles, mirror rubbing, velvet sand, geometry.

The design is made with a comb brush, which blurs the boundaries of shades, or with a sponge, air puffing, or sponge. You can do it with an airbrush, but it requires special paint.

What does gradient mean on nails with gel polish?

A gradient on gel polish nails, also called ombre or stretch, is a smooth flow of one tone into another - from light to dark or vice versa. This technique has something in common with French manicure, but the most significant difference is the absence of a clear boundary between shades.

Transitions should be blurry, that's the beauty of design. And the shades of varnish are very different. But they look better when they belong to the same color scheme, for example, burgundy, red, pink.

We recommend reading the article on how to do a French manicure with gel polish. From it you will learn what you need to do a French manicure with gel polish, which gel polish is better and the types of French manicure with gel polish. And here is more information about how gel polish differs from shellac.

“Air” gradient: features of using an airbrush to create a manicure.

Nowadays, creating gradients, especially horizontal ones, using an airbrush is gaining popularity.
An airbrush is a special device that sprays a thin layer of paint using air pressure. We'll look at the pros and cons of brush and airbrush gradients. A horizontal gradient with a brush on nails is quite difficult to perform; its careful execution is painstaking and time-consuming work. Many masters use an airbrush to simplify and speed up their work; thanks to the device, it takes about two minutes to create a gradient on 1 nail, while with a brush we spend about fifteen minutes shading gel polish or paint. The essence of the method is that we pour paint into the airbrush, turn on the compressor and simply spray the paint onto the nail. In this case, the paint is usually water-based or alcohol-based. In order to clean the client's handles and side rollers, there is no need to use special liquids; it is enough to cover the design with topcoat and send the client to wash their hands with soap. This not only saves liquids for the master, but also does not harm the skin of the client’s hands and eliminates allergies to liquids. The paint is sprayed in the thinnest layer, so paint consumption is minimal. The layer on the nail is thin and does not create “patty nails” that can be obtained by layering with a regular gradient.

What to choose, gradient manicure with shellac or varnish?

If you actively use gel polishes, then we recommend using gel polishes and paints, because the gradient effect in this case will remain on your nails for several weeks and will delight you every day. The nail polish gradient is quite simple to perform and can be completed faster, but it will last just like regular nail polish for 3-6 days.

How to make a gradient on nails with gel polish, what is needed for this

To make a gradient on your nails with gel polish, you need to:

perform a hygienic manicure
use a base, preferably transparent, and if camouflage, then choose the most neutral shade;
have 2 or more tones of varnish, topcoat, cleanser, lint-free napkins, orange sticks;
prepare a comb brush or foam sponge, air puffing, sponge, airbrush, paint for the latter;
the presence of a UV or LED lamp for drying the coating.

Depending on the type of ombre, you may need glitter, stencils, foil, film, and velvet sand.

There are several types of this manicure, but the main ones are:

Type of manicure	Description	Photo example
Vertical	With it, the shades change from the area near the cuticle to the free edge and vice versa.
Horizontal	The shades transform into each other from the right to the left sinus.
Original	The flow of tones is carried out from one nail to another, that is, each of them is painted in its own color.
French	Here, the free edge of the nail must be lighter or darker than the rest of the nail, usually it is white.

What helps to achieve a smooth transition

A smooth transition of shades is achieved by shading one varnish over another. Both products should not be allowed to dry.

The flow of colors is ensured by using:

Sponge or sponge made of foam rubber . You can take a dishwasher one, but only a new, unused one, be sure to cut it to reduce its size.
Special brush - comb . It is quite wide, almost flat, and the hairs at the end are spread out, like the teeth of a comb.
Aeropuffing . This is something like a brush, but its working part is not lint, but a foam ball.
Airbrush . This is a compressor manicure device that sprays gel polish using air pressure.

Foam sponge to create a gradient Special brush - comb Aeropuffing Airbrush
After completing the gradient, before drying, you need to let the gel polish “sit” a little on the nail, the bubbles disappear. That is, you should wait a few seconds before sending it to the lamp.

What kind of brush should it be?

The brush called “comb” should be:

with a fairly long pile;
soft;
with equally diverging hairs at the tip.

Similar ones are produced by TNL, Pole, RuNail, Rubloff, Patrisa Nail and others.

In addition to the “comb”, you will need a brush to apply the base shade; you can use the one in the bottle with the product itself. A “hair” is also needed for painting areas near the cuticle and sinuses. Skilled craftsmen use a fan brush instead of a comb. But not everyone will be able to work with it; the fleecy part of this tool is too wide.

Watch the video on how to prepare a gradient brush:

How to choose a sponge

The width and length of the sponge should be larger than the nail plate, quite thick so that it can be comfortably fixed with your fingers. The one designed for washing dishes is suitable. But you should use its soft side, and the hard side can be cut off, at the same time reducing the overall size. The sponge must be porous to hold the gel polish inside. Therefore, sponges that are too smooth are not suitable for applying cosmetics. They will make an even impression, as if with a brush, but shading is needed.

Gradient is quick and easy. The two most popular methods of execution.

The first method is to apply several shades of varnish in strips directly onto a sponge.
Immediately after application, you need to transfer the varnish onto the nail with light patting movements - due to this, the varnishes on the border will mix and give a soft transition. However, be careful! If you fiddle with the sponge for too long, the varnishes at the border of the transition may interfere with each other and give a dirty shade. To prevent this from happening, it is better to use different shades of the same color for this method. There is also a high probability that the varnishes will begin to dry out, since the layer of varnish on the sponge is very thin, and will begin to roll off on the sponge and nail, leaving stains and gaps. In this case, it is better to make a thin first layer, dry it, and then add a new varnish to the sponge and duplicate the layer again - so it will be bright, and the sponge will not create any inconvenience for you. So that after performing the ombre effect on your nails, it is easy and quick to clean skin from excess paint, you can use liquid tape (it’s called Skin Defender). Also popularly, this product for water and French gradient manicure is called pink tape or pink thing. It will allow you to remove excess from your fingers quickly and without the use of cleaning liquids, without drying out the skin of your hands and fingers.

The second method of applying gradient manicure with nail polish is to use any hard surface, plastic or glass. You can also mix polishes and create transitions using a special silicone nail mat.

We apply the lightest shade used in the gradient to the nail and let it dry. Next, we’ll dampen the polish sponge a little, so the polish won’t be absorbed into it too quickly and will allow us to do a manicure. On our glass surface we need to apply the dark shade used for the gradient, and next to it the same light shade that we applied to the nail. The shades should touch slightly. To make the border even smoother, we mix the varnishes at the junction with a toothpick or an orange stick, now we have our gradient in front of our eyes. This procedure must be done quickly enough so that the varnish does not have time to dry completely.

Next, we imprint our gradient onto the sponge with patting movements, slightly smearing it so that the borders of the colors blend a little and give a smooth transition, and apply the varnish from the sponge to the nail with the same movements. For each subsequent nail, you need to renew the varnishes, but with proper skill you can manage to apply the coating to several nails at once.

After the gradient has dried, you need to remove excess from the skin around the nail and cuticle area with a corrector or a cotton swab with nail polish remover. Next, cover all nails with top coat.

Gradient on nails with gel polish step by step with a comb brush

A gradient on nails with gel polish using a “comb” is done step by step as follows:

After degreasing the nail plate, a rubber base is applied and must be dried.
At the base, the nail should be painted with a dark color, in the center with a neon shade, and the free edge should be made completely light.
Using a comb brush, pull the dark shade through the middle to the tip of the plate.
The “hair” is painted at the cuticle and dried.
Next, steps 2-4 are repeated in the same order so that the varnish layer is denser and the stretching is smoother.
Where there is a clear border of colors, you need to go over the comb brush again to better shade it.
After drying the second layer of gradient coating, apply topcoat and place your finger in the lamp.

For a more uniform shading of colors, the brush can be dipped into the clinser and slightly squeezed, and then worked along the boundaries of the transition of shades. You should move the instrument with short strokes in the direction of the stretch and at the same time make movements from the right sinus to the left and vice versa. You need to walk along the sides of the nails with a “hair”.

Rubbing on lilac manicure

Mirror or pearl, mother-of-pearl gloss is a sure way to draw the attention of others to your well-groomed hands, give your appearance a unique character, and find your own, daring style. Light shades of violet, lavender, sky-iris shades are very elegant, used for everyday use and for going out and meeting with friends. The rich tones are also great.

For greater effectiveness, the rub is combined with sparkles and rhinestones. Alternate with mattifying top. The gradient technique or a smooth transition from a mirror surface to a matte one on one plate looks very interesting.

Manicure with color transition using baby boomer gel polish

A gel polish manicure with a color transition called “baby boomer” is done like this:

After drying, a light beige flower garden is applied to oil-free nails coated with primer and base, covering each plate entirely. You will need 2 layers, both need to be dried.
Apply white varnish to the tip of the foam sponge and blot this layer on the foil. You just need to touch the glossy surface with the product several times.
Then tap the sponge along the free edges of the nails, almost to the center of the plates. The first layer must be dried and the second must be applied in the same way, and after the next drying, the third. The finger is again sent into the lamp, and the fourth layer is applied with a sponge. After drying, cover the nails with a non-sticky top, leveling them out. This is followed by final polymerization.

Long lilac manicure

This form is an amazing platform for all kinds of experiments. Patterns and stripes are placed lengthwise, diagonally and across. Rubbed, matte and plain coatings are popular. Don’t forget about the rich decor using pearls, Swarovski stones, and rhinestones.

How to transition nails with airpuffing

The transition on nails with a gradient manicure using air puffing should be done as follows:

A darker shade of varnish is applied to the prepared and base coated plate, covering it completely.
This layer must be dried.
Place a little dense gel polish or gel paint of a lighter tone on a clean palette.
It must be collected by air puffing, tapping the product with the soft tip of the tool.
Then the same is done at the base of the nail so that the border with the darker color is blurred.
The finger should be placed in the lamp.
Then a new, smaller portion of light gel polish is placed on the palette, collected by air puffing and applied with a tapping motion as a second layer to the same area of the plate.
Border shading is done with the clean side of the device.
The finished design is dried.
All that remains is to coat the nail with topcoat and place it under the lamp again.

After use, wipe the instrument with a cloth moistened with a cleaner.

Horizontal and vertical gradient: technical features.

What is a horizontal gradient
? In this case, a smooth transition of colors is created on the nail, starting from the cuticle area and moving towards the tips of the nails. The color scheme can be absolutely any, from close shades - then the manicure will turn out more delicate and “smooth”, to completely different, contrasting colors. In this case, the manicure will turn out bright and extravagant.

In this manicure you can combine two, three or even more colors. It should be noted that the more colors are used, the sharper the transition of colors in a contrasting gradient of nails will be and the smoother the gradient will be with similar shades of varnishes.

Vertical gradient

It is also performed on the nail with a smooth transition from one shade to another. However, the technology differs in that the color changes from one side roller to another, vertically. You can also create different variations of this nail coating. For example, a manicure looks very original in which the little finger is painted entirely in one color, a gradient transition to another color is made on the ring finger, the middle finger is covered with the color we switched to on the ring finger, and a transition is made on the index finger again. This way, 3-4 or even 5 colors will be used in the gradient, and the manicure will become even more original.

Another interesting feature of ombre manicure is the use of thermal nail polishes. You also do a manicure with a transition, but instead of just varnish or gel polish, you use thermo shades; at the slightest change in temperature, the varnishes will change shades and the gradient will sparkle with new colors!

French gradient gel polish

French gradient gel polish is done so that the tips of the nails are highlighted in a lighter or darker tone or several:

The prepared plates are treated with a dehydrator.
Then an acid-free primer and a thin layer of base are applied to the nail and dried.
From the base to a third it is painted over with dark varnish.
The remaining clean part up to the free edge is covered with a lighter tone.
Using a comb brush, making small movements across the nail, pull the dark color towards the end, periodically wiping the pile on a napkin.
This layer needs to be polymerized.
Then steps 3-5 are repeated, only the border should be shaded more carefully, and the nail should be painted with a thin brush near the cuticle.
After drying, a top coat is applied and polymerized again.

Watch the video on how to make a French gradient:

Dark lilac manicure

The minimalistic design in dark violet tones looks aristocratic and noble. It is multifaceted, serves perfectly every day, creating the image of a stately lady who knows her worth. Appropriate for a dinner party or formal event.

Gradient brush with glitter

A gradient with a brush can be made not only with different colors of gel polish, but also by highlighting areas of the nails with decor, for example, sparkles:

A flower bed is applied to the dried base, covering the entire nail.
After polymerization, a portion of glitter with a transparent base is placed on the tip.
Using a brush, they are stretched towards the center of the nail so that the transition is smooth.
The coating must be dried again.
Finally, a top coat is applied, which is also polymerized in a lamp.

Ombre instead of French

A gentle stretch from white to beige is a new alternative to the French coat, which will be relevant for at least several more seasons. This ombre was especially appreciated by nude lovers who don’t like French for being too geometric.

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TOP 25 ideas for gentle manicure for short nails

Gradient on nails with gel polish sponge and rubbing

A gradient on nails with gel polish using a sponge using rubbing is no more difficult than just using different colors:

The nails are covered with a base and placed in a lamp.
The next step is the flower bed, it is applied to the entire plate with a regular brush, in one layer.
After drying, cover with a top coat without a sticky layer and polymerize.
Using a sponge, scoop up a rub of one color and drive it in at the base of the nails to about a quarter of the length.
Take turns using the same product in two more shades, apply to the middle of the plates and in the penultimate quarter.
Excess rubbing is brushed off with a flat brush.
All nails are decorated in the same way, and part of the free edge is covered with the brightest gold powder.
All that remains is to shake off the excess, cover your nails with 2 layers of topcoat, and dry both.

You can use one color rub or a transparent silver one. But then the gradient is made with several shades of gel polishes, dried, covered with topcoat, polymerized, and mirror powder is rubbed onto all nails. The final layer is applied with a finish, which is also dried in a lamp.

You should always use a very small amount of rub, as the excess will come off the nails. If the product gets on the skin, remove it with a cloth moistened with a degreaser.

Watch the video on how to make a gradient using a sponge and rubbing:

Contrast ombre

The gradient looks best and brightest with rich contrasting colors. And this option remains the most popular among fashionistas. For a change, try a matte top or a top with shimmer.

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Gradient on short nails with gel polish: which one should not be done

Gradient gel polish on short nails will look natural if:

use no more than 2 colors;
give preference to shades of the same range (white with pink, beige, latte or blue-blue, red-burgundy);
make the base of the nail darker and lighten it towards the free edge;
abandon the abundance of geometric lines and large ornaments.

All other ombre options, except the last one, are not only acceptable, but also ideal, helping to visually stretch out the plates and make them more graceful.

Ombre nail designs in different colors

Ombre manicure can be done in various color combinations. Both nude shades and bright, contrasting colors look equally interesting.

Spring-summer ombre option

Manicure spring 2022 is associated with something gentle, unobtrusive and light. For spring design, you can use neutral shades such as white, pink, beige, cream, powder, soft blue, malachite. Manicure spring 2022 includes not only a delicate color palette, but also various decorations in the form of twigs, sparkles, and rhinestones. This glitter manicure will look spectacular and not boring at all.

Blue ombre manicure

This is the most popular option for the spring-summer season 2022. Most often it is combined with deep blue, white, soft pink, yellow, orange, lilac, black, slate, and light green.

Ombre manicure black and silver

This is the trend of the season. This combination is ideal under a business suit or a straight black dress with a strict silhouette. A red and black ombre manicure with gel polish looks no less impressive.

"Rainbow" ombre

Fashionable ombre manicure 2022 for spring and summer involves the use of rich shades, such as yellow with red or orange, purple with green, fuchsia and deep blue. A manicure in the ombre “rainbow” style looks provocative.

French ombre manicure

It is always relevant. Suitable for any look, occasion and occasion. Ombre manicure for short nails using the French technique looks neat, but experts recommend using this design on long or medium nails. In this case, it will look much more interesting.

Fashionable ombre manicure: a large collection of photos with ideas

An ombre manicure (photo of the idea below) is a great option to add an original design to your look. Look at the pictures on the Internet, and you will understand that ombre 2022 is a rather interesting and unpredictable nail design option. After all, this technique is not capricious and is combined with other methods of design, thanks to which the final result can turn out unrealistically beautiful.

2020 photos of new items will tell you how to combine colors correctly and what options are suitable for a particular occasion.

Shading on nails with gel polish and sand

Shading on nails with gel polish and sand is called a sugar gradient and is done like this:

A classic ombre is applied to the dried base. It can be a vertical or horizontal gradient, of two or three shades.
The gel polish is dried in a lamp. Then the same tones are applied in a second layer, shaded and polymerized again.
Now you need to cover your nails with topcoat and do not dry it. Sprinkle transparent powder or tint powder on top with a spatula, or you can use sand of several colors on different parts of the nail.
You need to lower your finger down and tap so that the excess product falls off. Drying is needed again.
Then they go over the nail with a trusty brush to remove the remaining unnecessary sand. The final stage is applying the top and polymerization.

Velvet sand cannot be used on the entire nail. Sometimes it is enough to highlight one or several stripes for them, near the sinus, in the center, along the cuticle, in a word, as your imagination dictates.

Watch the video for step-by-step instructions on how to apply a horizontal gradient with a sponge:

Painting with floral motifs on lilac nails

Exclusive painting performed by the author literally transforms the nails, giving the design its own character and a certain mood. Violet and lavender tones are great for watercolors, paintings in the delicate Provence style and richly bright flower buds. Typically, irises, bouquets or sprigs of lavender, violets, and other flowers of suitable color are depicted. Often craftsmen depict blackberries and thin twigs on plates. Since lilac harmonizes well with greens, brown, yellow and fiery colors, there are practically no restrictions on the subjects.

Gradient on nails with gel polish with white geometry

Gradient gel polish on nails with white geometric lines requires more effort than traditional ombre, although many of the steps are repeated:

First, apply the base and dry it in a lamp.
Then paint the nails with the main shade in 2 layers and polymerize.
You need to go over the surface of the plates with a buff to remove the glossiness.
Protective strips are applied to the nails where the base color needs to be left.
White paint is sprayed onto the remaining open areas using an airbrush, maybe not evenly, but more on the free edge, less at the base.
The protective strips need to be removed, and the ends of the nails should be lightly processed with a file to remove excess light pigment.
Then, with a thin brush, white lines are drawn with gel paint along or across the plate, possibly diagonally, and polymerized.
All that remains is to apply the finishing coat and dry it too.

To complete this design, you can do without an airbrush and make transitions with a thin brush using white over a darker base tone.

#2 White ombre manicure 2022

In the new season, white has become even softer and more airy. Instead of rich white, fashionistas prefer to use a milky shade. Visually, the milky color looks like a slightly diluted white. This shade can be achieved by mixing classic white with a transparent base.

The milky gradient is combined with delicate pink shades, beige, cream and other tones. In this design, rhinestones, stones, and broths in the root zone will not be superfluous. The design with rubbing, floristry, and stripes looks great.

Gradient gel polish using a sponge and stencil

A gradient of gel polish using a sponge and a stencil turns out to be very catchy, so you can design one or two nails on each hand like this:

The plate is covered with base and dried. The surfaces of the nails on which the stencil needs to be glued are treated with a buff.
Use a napkin to remove sawdust. The stencil is separated from the base with tweezers and attached to the nail. You need to smooth it out, fix it well and use scissors to cut off the parts that are outside the plate.
Strips of gel polish are applied to the palette in the order in which they want to be seen on the nail, layering one color on top of another and blending the transitions. There can be 2-3 shades.
A sponge is applied to this multi-colored print. And then it is leaned against the surface of the nail with a stencil so that the open areas are painted.
Now you can peel off the protective film by carefully picking up the edges with tweezers and pulling in the direction of the design. The finger must be placed in the lamp.
A top coat is applied over the dried gel polish. It is also polymerized.

A striped gradient is also made using stencils:

The strips are glued onto a dried camouflage base across the plate.
The remaining open space is painted with white gel paint on a third of the nail.
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Each mini-strip is shaded with a sponge closer to the middle of the plate.
Dry and repeat steps 2 and 3 a couple more times.
After the next polymerization, the strips are removed, the nail is covered with a top coat without a sticky layer, and dried.
New stencil devices are glued again across the plate, but this time covering the gradient.
Gel paint in 3 layers is applied to the open stripes, only on the other side of the nail and almost up to half of it.
Each time it is shaded with a sponge and polymerized without removing the stencil.
After drying the 3rd layer of white gel paint, the strips are peeled off.
The last step is to apply topcoat and dry.

Watch the video on how to make a gradient with gel polish using a sponge and stencil:

All the variety of lilac palette, as well as the most winning combinations

Lilac is a complex color. It is formed by mixing three simple colors: white, blue and red. The perception of the shade depends on the percentage of content of each of them. They fall into three main categories:

the predominance of blue creates cold tones;
red adds warmth and fire;
white is responsible for the intensity, brightness of a particular tone.

This palette goes well with most known shades. However, there are the most preferred compositions that you should know about when choosing decor and varnishes for complex designs:

for classics - purple, silver sparkles and foil, gray, blue, brown;
pale lilac – golden glitter and foil, pink, lemon yellow, snow-white, heavenly, mint, peach;
blue-lilac – rich malachite, dusty wormwood, light pinkish, apricot;
amethyst - flesh, beige and natural pinkish tones, menthol, forget-me-not, gray;
violet - light green, neutral beige, milky cream, gray, black;
lavender – coral, orange, blue, pink;
violet-lilac - peach, creamy milky, pearl, light warm pastel.

The most advantageous and universal combinations for the entire palette are snow-white, silver glitter or mirror, milky white (pearl).

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Geometric gradient gel polish at home

The following geometric gradient using gel polish at home is quite simple to do, despite the apparent complexity of the design:

A little white varnish and colored varnish are laid out on the palette.
A drop of the latter is mixed into the light gel using a “hair” brush.
Using this mixture, draw 3 triangles in a row, the vertices of which should be at the beginning of the free edge of the nail.
The coating is dried, and a little more color is added to the gel polish mixture.
Use it to draw the next row of triangles, placing them lower and in a checkerboard pattern.
After drying, steps 4 and 5 are repeated until the entire nail to the base is painted.
The bottom row of triangles is made with dark varnish without adding white.
After its polymerization, everything is covered with a matte topcoat and dried.

This design is done on 1-2 plates or on all fingers.

Geometry in combination with ombre can be in the form of waves, straight or irregular lines, and shapes. The main thing you need to do when creating a design this way:

mix gel polishes with white on a palette or foil;
work with a thin brush;
dry each drawn detail.

Nude ombre

A light and delicate ombre in white, milky, peach and pink tones will suit everyone. This is a great choice for every day, and also easily fits into any dress code.

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"Ink" gradient

The shading does not have to be symmetrical; chaotic also looks interesting, and it can be done in any tones:

A drop of gel polish in two colors (for example, black and blue), as well as a top coat, is applied to the palette.
The nails are prepared and the base applied to them is dried.
At the base of the plate a top coat is applied in a stripe, the middle part is coated with blue varnish, and the free edge is coated with black.
On the undried top coat, make streaks with both colors using a flat brush.
It is used to smear the border between shades, after which the nail is dried.
Then additional black and blue stains are applied with a hair on the transparent part.
The free edge is drawn more clearly in the darkest tone.
All that remains is to dry it, cover it with top coat, and polymerize it again.

Liquid varnishes are perfect for this manicure. But they need to work quickly. And the areas near the cuticle and sinuses should be painted with a thin brush after the first drying.

Watch the video on how to make an ink gradient:

Plain lilac manicure

A classic option for work and home, long trips. The lilac and violet palette enlivens the monochrome design, making the female image more mysterious, elusively attractive. It is often combined with matching accessories - scarves, belts, handbags.

Original gradient

The original ombre design involves painting each nail a different color, but all shades must belong to the same range. For example, tones from soft pink to muted red or from light green to sea green are used. This design looks more organic on young girls. And it is better to use pastel shades.

We recommend reading the article on how to do a manicure with red gel polish. From it you will learn about manicure design options for short and long nails and application techniques. And here is more information about how to remove shellac at home.

Gradient is the richest design option, and many of them are easy to implement. And at the end you can get a unique manicure, calm or flashy - whatever you want. After all, the technique of applying varnishes gives you the chance to use colors that differ by a couple of tones, and contrasting ones.

Stickers and drawings

Graphic elements allow you to add personality, use it on nails of any length. Size, quantity and color - choose as you wish.

Natural motifs are the trend for 2022. The trend is reflected in clothing, accessories and, of course, manicure.

The already mentioned Essie brand with their impressive palette is used not only for coating, but also for design. The photo shows a manicure made exclusively with products from this manufacturer. Gradient of shades “Off topic”, “Beauty nap” and “Mojito madness”. Drawing – “Daring damsel”.

A beautiful manicure is obtained with a graphic gradient. This design is created using stencils or drawing each row of diamonds. For this design you will need only two varnishes - color and white. Pictured is Opi shade “Scores a Goal”.

In general, the drawing can be anything - colored or monochromatic, bright or barely noticeable, clear or abstract.

Gradient is a bright and stylish nail design option.
Combine any shades and different design elements. Get inspired by these photos and create a trendy design on your nails. Do you like gradient manicure? Comment