Choosing a decent nail design is quite difficult. Especially considering the demands of modern ladies. However, marine manicure can appeal to even very demanding and demanding people. Many professional masters recommend such summer designs to those who go on vacation to the sea or are just preparing to have a good rest. The marine-style manicure is really refreshing and gives the image originality and effect.
When is it in demand?
Most often, marine manicures are performed in the summer or on vacation abroad in winter or autumn. It is noteworthy that each girl decides for herself what exactly she wants to see on the tips of her nails: palm trees, the sea, anchors or abstract lines forming a single marine composition. There are plenty of options, but there are also especially loved by ladies around the world.
The sea worries once ...
Very often, girls choose a manicure in a marine style, where the main pattern is water. A kind of marine symbol. And to make such a design yourself is quite simple. Of the tools and materials required:
- blue and blue nail polish;
- base and top;
- thin brush for nail art (columns number 00 or stripper);
- nail polish remover.
Pre-nails need to be prepared. First, you should give them a beautiful and suitable shape: oval, square, almond or semicircle. Secondly, it is necessary to remove the old coating and cuticle. The latter is recommended not to be cut with scissors or forceps, but dissolved with a special tool. It is much safer. Especially at home.
When the nails are prepared, they are applied base. Blue varnish acts as the primary base color, which covers all the nail plates. Using a thin brush and blue varnish, thin curved lines are drawn horizontally or vertically. They imitate the worrying sea. Finished design overlap top. It turns out a stylish and fashionable manicure. Marine subjects can be presented in a more complex design. However, it is worthwhile to prepare for the fact that the first time the conceived composition may not work out.
Stickers
There are so many nail art materials, especially stickers. At the same time, you can choose everything that your heart desires, from individual shells to a whole composition on a marine theme. For example, thermal stickers are in great demand, which under the influence of warm water tightly fit the nails, creating a strong but elastic design. Using them is a pleasure.
It is noteworthy that thermal stickers usually represent a completely ready-made composition: beach, palm trees, sea. Or any other picture, depending on the girl’s choice. Such a marine-style manicure is performed at home on your own in just a few seconds.
How to use thermal stickers
In order for the marine manicure to turn out to be even and neat, and at the same time not have to paint anything by hand, you will need a minimal set of tools :
- stickers;
- tweezers;
- scissors;
- warm water;
- grinding buff;
- cotton pads.
First, the nails are cleaned of the old coating. Then they are polished with a buff so that the surface is even and smooth. The nails are immersed in a warm bath for a few seconds, then pulled out. Thermal stickers are applied to the surface, tightly covered with cotton pads, which previously stood in hot water. After 2-3 minutes they are removed. Using tweezers, the upper transparent layer is removed from the stickers. Scissors cut off the excess. To make the design last longer, it is covered with a top.
In addition, you can pre-diversify a manicure. The marine theme welcomes additions such as small rhinestones, sparkles, sequins. The main thing is that the stickers were really on the right subject: water, beaches, palm trees, ships, marine life, the underwater world. The latter, by the way, is in great demand among those who go south on vacation. Such a manicure emphasizes the mood of the owner of a really good time.
Varnish painting
There is nothing complicated in doing marine manicure on your own. For example, you can paint your nails with varnish in the desired style. Most often portray waves or anchors. In order to draw them you will need:
- several colored varnishes (for example, white, blue and red);
- thin brush;
- nail polish remover;
- toothpick or dots.
Naturally, the nails are first prepared: they are cut off, the cuticle is removed, and if necessary, the surface is ground. Then they are covered with colored varnishes. For example, a pair of nails - in blue, one or two - in red, the rest - in white. When the varnish dries, wave patterns are drawn with a thin brush. Most often they distinguish the French zone if the nails are long, or the entire surface - if the length is very short. With the help of a dots, points are put down, which are then connected to an anchor drawing. Usually, they allocate only one fingernail so as not to overload the composition with elements. Using nail polish remover removes excess varnish, and the finished design is fixed with a top.
How to make a composition?
So that the sea manicure does not look clumsy and ugly, you need to choose the right pattern. So, for example, horizontal strips make the nails wide and short, so they should be as thin and neat as possible. An overabundance of decor elements will make the manicure heavy and vulgar. Therefore, the masters strongly recommend that in the marine theme to adhere to one main rule - do no harm.
First, a color composition is selected, and then patterns. Under the large and saturated drawing, only one nail is assigned. For example, an anchor is drawn on the ring finger, and stripes and other small additional elements on all the others. But there are exceptions. For example, a classic manicure "sea wave". Here, strips depict flowing water on all nails, and a large drawing is placed on top: the anchor or starfish are drawn on the waves, of course, in a different color from the main one. This gives the design originality and showiness.