Moon manicure belongs to those nail design techniques that do not become outdated over time and are considered classics of manicure art. The moon manicure is wonderfully shown on nails of different shapes and lengths, allowing you to choose one or another trendy nail design with holes for yourself.
An undeniable advantage for fashionistas when choosing an elegant lunar manicure design for 2022-2023 will be its versatility and neatness even with overgrown nails.
After all, the directions of lunar manicure are so diverse that they allow you to perform a lunar “naked” manicure or in tandem with “negative space,” which is attractive.
Innovations in manicure with lunula will be presented by many ideas with different shapes, sizes and styles of highlighting the lunula. Traditional oval holes in the style of precious metals with sparkles, long triangular holes, as well as straight holes will be fashionable.
The trendy moon manicure is the reverse of the French manicure, which makes these two trends an ideal tandem for fashionable nail design.
Lovely ladies will be delighted by the variability of fashionable lunar manicure, which allows you to complement the fashionable lunar design with a matte solution, make an ombre manicure with holes, decorate the holes with rhinestones, and highlight them with minimalist thin stripes.
The lunar manicure design looks nice with different types of holes (oval, frame-shaped, triangular, filled and transparent) in one manicure, just on different fingers.
The effectiveness of a fashionable lunar manicure allows you to demonstrate it in an evening look, a stylish business set for the office, a delicate wedding look, for a romantic date, as well as for every day in everyday life.
A beautiful moon manicure can be used in themed nail art, such as for Valentine's Day, as well as seasonal spring manicure, nail designs for summer, winter and autumn. Each of the moon manicure options surprises with its uniqueness and fresh innovations.
For you, we decided to select the most creative manicure trends in the lunar technique for 2022-2023 using the example of the top 15 ideas, which you can find in our collection below.
This will be a fashionable lunar manicure for the holiday with a sea of glitter and a scattering of crystals, a muted and mysterious matte lunar design, as well as exciting lunar nail art in different styles.
Find for yourself a fashionable holiday manicure with holes or a discreet lunar manicure for the office, an interesting geometric manicure with holes or a wonderful gradient with a lunar design, which are made in a fashionable modern style.
How to make the perfect moon manicure: instructions for implementation
It's actually very simple. It is enough to prepare your nails in the usual way, stock up on time, a set of gel polishes and round stencils. It is preferable to choose varnishes from one brand, this will make it easier to choose the right color scheme for a lunar manicure. The order of application of coatings is as follows: the first layer is applied to the entire surface of the nail plate, white varnish or the one you chose for the crescent, the second layer is the main color. To make the manicure more durable, you can use a clear varnish as a finishing layer. If you want an unusual lunar manicure, then in addition you will need brushes and various nail decoration elements. If you don’t want to come up with a nail design yourself, then examples of photos of the original lunar manicure can be found on the Internet.
There are also non-standard approaches to performing lunar manicure. For example, first of all, the nails are covered with varnish of the main color, and the hole is woken up with sparkles or shimmering powder. Also, a lunar manicure can be done in one color. To do this, you need to have a glossy gel polish and a matte finish in your arsenal. First, gloss is applied, and then the main part of the nail is covered with a matte top.
4 most popular ways: how to do a moon manicure at home
Now there are many ways to perform this design even on short nails. Here are step-by-step photo instructions for some of them.
- 1 METHOD: HOW TO DO IT WITH Stencils
METHOD 2: HOW TO CORRECTLY DRAW A HOLE WITH GEL POLISH
METHOD 3: HOW TO MAKE A MOON DESIGN WITH REGULAR VARNISH
METHOD 4: HOW TO QUICKLY MAKE A DIRECT DESIGN
Lunar manicure is created for everyday life and festive occasions. Depending on the chosen design, it is perfect for both a business meeting and a special occasion. Moon manicure is universal and therefore suitable for various occasions.
In summer, variegated shades of varnish are used to create lunar nail designs; in winter, cooler colors are used. Although there are no general rules, here everyone chooses a color palette for themselves: according to the occasion, according to their mood or in accordance with current trends.
Should there be holes on the nails - white semicircles at the base of the nail?
To understand this issue, you should pay attention to the physiological structure of the nail plate.
According to the structure of a healthy nail, there should be holes.
The white color of the nail hole is a consequence of reduced blood circulation and weaker capillary nutrition as a result of the pressure of the growing nail.
Classic moon manicure colors
The favorite colors of nail art masters for lunar manicure are red, black and white. They are standard and quite universal. However, now gel polish manufacturers have such a variety of shades of UV coatings for nails that it would be a shame not to take advantage of this, especially in the spring-summer season, when you want to see bright colors in literally everything, even on the tips of your nails. Nowadays, bright blue colors, beige and green shades are very popular. One of the current nail trends is considered to be a combined design, combining different colors, textures and decorative elements.
White moon manicure
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A white manicure is often done for a wedding, additionally decorating it with rhinestones, appliqués or pearls. When choosing a white UV coating for nails, give preference to high-quality gel polishes, since cheap ones, as a rule, turn out to be of a liquid consistency and cover the nails unevenly, leaving gaps and smudges. This rule applies to the entire basic and light palette. Usually, you can save money without losing quality on colored and darker shades. Almost all manufacturers have them thicker.
Black moon manicure
Black manicure has not gone out of fashion for several years. It is always relevant. Black manicure can be done in a variety of styles: classic, gothic, grunge and others. Black moon manicure is very popular among young girls. It is best to apply a rub on black gel polish, with which you can create a beautiful and fashionable mirror finish. Black goes with any shade of polish and nail decoration, be it rhinestones, foil, mosaic, etc., so you can come up with many design ideas based on it.
Red moon manicure
A sort of classic of the genre. Red color in manicure is considered basic and goes with any clothes and makeup. Red manicure is especially popular in autumn; this color is often combined with gold, rhinestones and kamifubuki. In lunar design, the fashionable combination of black and red is very popular. If you do not want to do a very bright manicure, then give preference to cherry, darker wine shade or marsala color. There are beautiful cherry-colored shellacs in the CND palette, if you need an evening option, then the line of the ENTITY and MASURA brands contains deep burgundy shades with microglitters, and almost every manufacturer has a classic red, the OPI brand even released the original red “Coca-Cola”. Among the magnetic gel polishes, we can highlight a beautiful raspberry-red shade with a golden shimmer from the MASURA collection, which is called “Raspberry Cat”, as well as a light burgundy shade of TNL “Magnet lux”.
Lunar red manicure
Fashionable blue gel polish
Blue is the color of the fall-winter 2022 season, and any variation of it: from light shades and bright blue to deep dark color. The trend is smoky blue and a combination of blue and gray in nail designs. The blue “cat's eye” does not lose its relevance, which can be given even greater expressiveness with the help of an additional layer of transparent stained glass varnish. In general, the combination of magnetic and stained glass shellac is now very popular; a similar design option can be supplemented with rhinestones or mosaics. Well, don’t forget about the classic New Year’s lunar blue manicure with iridescent snowflakes sprinkled with shimmering acrylic sand.
Beige lunar nude design
Beige manicure is a wonderful everyday option for nail design. Powdery shades are very popular now. This spring, the TNL brand released an amazing universal collection of base colors for creating French manicures, nude manicures and other types of nail designs, called Color Base. The same brand also has another collection that has pretty golden beige shades. It's called Morocco. There are interesting beige tones in the OPI “Soft Shades” and “Infinite Shine” lines, as well as the IRISK brand in the NUDE collection, etc.
Now let’s see what can be painted on nails using beige gel polish.
In pink
Pink, just like beige, is a universal color for everyday manicure. It is indispensable for designing short nails, because... Light shades visually lengthen nails. Pink is the color of spring and summer. It goes well with floral patterns and monograms. If you wish, you can also make a geometric pattern, for example, line it with “broken glass” foil; it looks very stylish on pink gel polish.
New items and fashion trends in lunar nail design: what is popular in 2022?
Minimalism, naturalness and non-standard forms have come into fashion. These three trends were also reflected in lunar manicure.
There are also very unexpected solutions in the technique of performing lunar manicure. Thanks to the rich imagination of nail art masters, more and more new forms of lunar manicure are appearing. Various shapes and patterns are drawn on the nails. Sometimes it becomes difficult to recognize a classic moon manicure behind these designs.
NEW FORMS: GEOMETRY
DESIGN WITH UNPAINTED AREAS
In 2022, it is fashionable to leave unpainted areas on the nails. In a lunar manicure, this can be a hole or the nail itself, when two arcs are applied with colored varnish (at the base and at the edge of the nail), and the rest remains uncovered. Or there is a stylish option when only stripes are applied as “markings”.
TEXTURED 3D DESIGN
FASHIONABLE NEW – INLAY
DESIGN WITH STRIPES
SILVER SHINE
There are many options for moon manicure. By experimenting, nail art masters create new types and ideas of manicure and update its classic versions. Lunar manicure provides complete scope for creativity, the main thing is to take into account the basic canons, but otherwise you can invent anything you want.
Collection of photos with moon manicure ideas
Looking through photos of other artists, we get inspired and find some of our own design solutions. The photo collection includes different options for lunar manicure, among which you can find one suitable for almost any occasion.
- heart shaped for Valentine's Day
- With rhinestones
- With blue gel polish
- for short nails
- for long nails of different shapes: triangular and square
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