Butterflies are a symbol of tenderness, lightness and femininity. The image of these colorful and surprisingly attractive insects can be found everywhere - in clothes, accessories and even in makeup. Butterfly manicure is an interesting idea for nail art. After all, it involves a variety of shapes and colors, and in complexity it can be both quite simple, accessible to beginners, and very difficult, which only painstaking professionals can do. In the article you will find many beautiful options for how to make a manicure “Butterflies on nails”. They will inspire you to create your masterpieces.
Special finger
The easiest way to make a manicure with butterflies is to limit the pattern to only one nail. As a rule, this honor falls to the ring finger.
The remaining nails can be decorated in different ways:
- The easiest way to do a classic French manicure. The pattern on one nail is an interesting way to diversify it.
- You can make a custom jacket in tones that match the butterfly. For example, change the color of the tip of the nail, or optionally bring a "smile".
- But such a manicure with butterflies and rhinestones is available for beginners, but still it is not as simple as it might seem. Pay attention to the gradient on the wings of the insect and the clear, even stripes on the thumb. They will have to work carefully, but the other three nails are done quite quickly.
- You can repeat the simplified version of the picture on the remaining nails. If you do not draw very well, it is best to visit a nail salon to repeat such a manicure, since it requires experience and accuracy. Otherwise, the effect of the similarity of the main pattern and details on the remaining nails will be lost, and the idea will lose its attractiveness.
One is good and two is better
You can paint only two nails, for example:
- Decorate two nails with a pattern, and paint and decorate the rest in the same style, but with different patterns.
- Or make a jacket with bright tips and beautiful patterns that also look unusual. And so that the manicure with butterflies does not look overloaded, and that the drawings do not get lost on a bright background, you can completely cover the nails without patterns with varnish, and make the nails with butterflies in the style of a French manicure.
- These options are also made on the basis of the French: But since they require a fair amount of effort to create a drawing, it will be difficult to repeat them yourself, and you will need to contact a nail salon.
- Metallic accents will decorate the nails in an original way. Butterflies are drawn on top of the standard jacket, and to complement them, you can outline the line of "smiles" with foil spangles.
- You can approach the task non-standard, and place the butterfly on two adjacent nails. But you need to carefully consider the design, so that even when the fingers are not closed together, the insect looked attractive, and not strange.
Knowing of limits
If you have a firm, well-packed hand, then you can try to make a more complex manicure. The butterfly pattern on all nails looks very impressive:
It is important to choose harmonious colors, so that the nails do not look lurid, and work very carefully. Compare these two manicures:
One looks beautiful, while the other looks more like a kindergarten drawing.
A manicure made in different shades of the same color looks very elegant. Like, for example, this one, in which pale and saturated purple are involved:
Black and white colors, as well as sparkles are used to outline the drawings. Thanks to the calm shades, even the presence of two different animalistic patterns and the butterflies themselves does not make this manicure tasteless, but rather very elegant and thoughtful.
Fluttering beauty
Butterfly manicure also has such a direction as nail art with a pattern of butterfly wings. It requires skill and patience in its creation, but it looks very impressive. It looks good on plain nails (especially when the color is the substrate with sparkles or an unusual shade), but the coating with the gradient effect makes it truly sophisticated and elegant.
If you are not successful in color transitions, then you can simplify your task a bit and use magnetic varnish. When using a spatula with diagonal stripes, the pattern fits nicely without much effort and looks pretty impressive.
Master Class
Let's look at how to make a beautiful manicure with the wings of a butterfly Danaid Monarch step by step.
To create it you need:
- a clean piece of makeup sponge;
- nail polish (yellow, orange, black, white, transparent);
- base and top coat for nails;
- thin brush for nail art;
- nail polish remover;
- cotton buds;
- toothpicks.
Operating procedure
- Cover the nail with a base coat so that the bright colors of the varnish do not leave stains on the nail plate. In addition, so a manicure with butterflies will last longer.
- Apply 2 coats of yellow varnish. Wait for it to dry completely.
- Apply two strips of nail polish to the makeup sponge - orange and yellow. They should penetrate the porous surface well.
- Put a sponge on your fingernail, then mix colors with patting movements. Let them dry for 1 minute, and then repeat the operation, but place the sponge diagonally in relation to the nail.
- Apply a layer of clear varnish. It allows you to even out the color of the gradient and smooth out the bumps left after the sponge. This will facilitate the application of the pattern on the nails. After the varnish dries, remove the excess remaining on the cuticle with a cotton swab and nail polish remover.
Fine work
We proceed to the drawing:
- From the cuticle, draw a rounded line. Draw thinly without pressure.
- From her, make 3 lines, slightly not reaching the edges of the nail.
- With rounded lines “close” 2 sections of the picture.
- Now you can fill the sketch with black varnish. Circle the nail around the perimeter, finish 2 more sections of the butterfly wing, paint the tip of the nail with black color.
- Move the thin lines to make them look richer.
- Dip a toothpick in a white varnish and put dots on the edge of the nail.
- Wait for it to dry, and then apply the topcoat.
After that, the manicure is ready.