What do the nail holes mean? Someone is big, someone else is small. Even on one hand their size is not the same. Tibetan healers diagnosed by their appearance. Now there is a science of nails - onychology, which studies in detail the structure of nails. Your doctor may give you a consultation with a specialist if you notice signs of heart disease, liver, kidney or oncology.
By the holes, many charlatans try to determine the state of health, heredity or even fate. For example, if there are no holes, such a grief palmist will almost predict the end of the world, but in fact all people have holes. Sometimes they are covered with a proximal roller, but regular manicure will help to open them. The end of the world is postponed.
The structure of the holes on the nails
Onychoblasts form the nail, which are formed in the matrix - the sprouting tissue located under the nail. Lunula is the visible part of the matrix that extends to the nail. A significant proportion of it remains under the rear roller, called proximal. If you move up and down the free edge of the nail, you can see how its continuation, the same lunula, moves under the roller.
This is the area where the cells are constantly moving up and forward, thereby removing the young nail from under the roller. Lunula injuries are fraught with improper nail growth for life. Sometimes with unsuccessful manicure, the integrity of the nail in the zone of the hole is violated and the young tissue begins to grow up, causing pain and inconvenience.
Medical diagnosis
Since the nail is formed in the matrix, the holes on the nails can talk about many problems in the body. The matrix feeds on blood vessels, so any deficiency of vitamins and minerals will manifest itself in the structure of onychoblasts. Now it is possible to take a nail section for analysis and find out which minerals are in short supply in the body and which ones are in excess.
The meaning of the holes on the nails:
- With kidney diseases, they may not cope with the removal of harmful substances, which will serve as an accumulation of urea in the nails. And the older the nail, the more it will be. In this case, the lunula is not visible, its area is white, and from the middle of the nail the color changes to dark pink, sometimes brownish. A biochemical blood test for urea will confirm the diagnosis of renal failure.
- Sometimes liver disease provokes the appearance of several semicircular strips on the nails, repeating the pattern of the lunula. This is due to swelling of the tissues under the nail. If you click on it, the color becomes uniform. Biochemistry will show liver failure.
These are serious diseases, but often people have very light, almost white nails, on which the holes are not visible. It may seem beautiful, but you should think about anemia - a lack of red blood cells. This will show a general blood test.
Natural fashion
When they began to do modeling with artificial materials, it turned out that very soon an ugly strip of an overgrown nail became visible. Camouflage acrylics and gels have appeared to avoid this border. But there was no hole, and this caused an impression of unnaturalness. In competitive modeling, the use of transparent pink material for the lunula region is mandatory. Then the nail looks healthy.
Such attention to the holes led to the appearance of a lunar manicure - nail design, in which the lunula is isolated with white or some other color. Although the first lunar manicure was in fashion back in the 1920s, its revival in our century has gone through a new stage.
At the beginning of the last century, painting a nail was completely considered the height of indecency - after all, corrupt women did this. Therefore, the ladies left the holes unpainted.
In 2007, Christian Dior models appeared with a lunar manicure on the catwalk. So the natural structure of the nail suggested the selection of a natural area, as Jeff Pink had once highlighted the free edge with white varnish, inventing the jacket.
The holes on the nails, the photo of which is presented above, are made in the style of “negative space”, that is, “negative space”. This is the unpainted part of the nail, the natural color of which fits into the color of the composition.
What happens lunar manicure
Wells are distinguished not only with colored varnish. This area is often used in designs, making a mirror coating or covering it with rhinestones. This part of the nail usually does not participate in the work of the fingers as a free edge, therefore it holds well varnish, rhinestones or a velvet coating. The hole is secreted with a glued chain, on which there may be a suspension.
The shape of the hole in the design can be not only semicircular, but also straight, triangular and square. Now it’s fashionable to wear the original jacket - when the pink part of the nail is small, slightly larger than the hole and has a straight line at the end. The free edge is raised high and on the border with pink varnish, the nail is accented with a decorative strip.
Negative space moon manicure
Performing such a design is easier than classic lunar. He will need stencils in the form of round rings. You can select the outer edge of the stencil, then the hole will turn out to be larger, and if you use the inner edge, the hole will be small. Carefully cut a thin strip that will cover the negative space.
For any coating, it is necessary to carefully prepare the nails - align the length, remove the pterygium and dry cuticle.
Step 1. Apply base on nails, dry.
Step 2. Carefully stick the screen strip.
Step 3. Coat the wells with white varnish, the nail with colored varnish and immediately remove the screen strip. If the line is smeared, clean with a solvent for varnishes. This is convenient to do with a brush.
Step 4. Cover the work with top, dry.
Step 5. Apply manicure oil to the cuticle area.
Highlighting holes with charmonics
For those who love gel polishes, we present a wonderful video that will show the allocation of holes on the nails with charmonics.
Description of work:
- After cleansing the nail plate, a base for gel polishes is applied, the polymerization time in the LED lamp is half a minute, in UV - 2 minutes. All other gels polymerize in the same way, unless otherwise specified by the manufacturer.
- A background coating is performed, if necessary in two layers with drying.
- Top coat is applied, dried.
- Half of the charmicon is cut out and glued.
- Top coat is applied, dried.
- Gel-paint flowers, dried.
- Rhinestones are put on the base and dried in a lamp.
- Work is covered with top gel and dried in a lamp.
Wedding Wells
White holes on the nails - how romantic it is! If the bride’s nails are long, the decorative holes will be large. This will keep the proportions of the nail. It is not necessary to draw them on all fingers, just one or two on each hand is enough. For weddings often choose building, so you can choose any form.
In the photo - the form of nails “ballerina”, almonds with a sawn top. With these nails it is convenient to take small objects, which can not be said about the classic almond-shaped form. A wedding dress is often not white, but sakura-colored - when the petals fall, they brighten and this pale pink shade, almost white, is called Japanese cherry.
Manicure is also chosen to match the color of the dress. Gel is applied to the simulation performed by camouflage, leaving a negative space. For convenience, triangular stencils for french are used. After staining and polymerization, a gold foil is printed onto a base coated with a thin layer and polymerized. Excess fingerprints are removed with a brush dipped in alcohol. The work is fixed with a top gel.
When the nails are short
There is an idea that it is impossible to draw either a jacket or holes on short nails. This is not true. It's all about proportions. If the nails are short, and the nail bed is naturally wide and flat, the triangular holes visually lengthen the nails. With this length, it is better to choose the square shape of the nails. A semicircular greatly simplifies them.
Short square nails look good when covered with dark gel. On the area of the hole, you can glue the metal element of the decor, silver or gold. It’s good to select a rectangle and place it vertically along the axis of the finger.
If the length of the free edge is at least two millimeters, you can extend the nail bed with camouflage - varnish or gel to match the color of the nail. It’s good to check the free edge as a checkmark to maximize the length. The holes for such a jacket are triangular, to the middle of the nail. One nail can become an accent if you draw an hourglass on it.
When the nails are long
With the lengthening of the nail bed, the hole increases. The rule of proportions is: long length - large holes on the nails. But they do not always adhere to proportions in the decor. They are observed in a classical manner, while the vanguard destroys stereotypes. For example, in a zone of a hole, a cameo framed by a frame is made. The hole is very large.
Almost always, the master tries to visually stretch the natural nail bed using camouflage. This is what they do when drawing a jacket. Sometimes the free edge zone is left for design: imitation of precious stones, mirrors, velor, reptile skin and other refinements. The repetition of the motif in the lunar version on long nails looks very good. They emphasize one nail, completely filling it with design. You can leave a negative space without painting the hole on this nail at all. This will add airiness to the whole composition.
Conclusion
Nails in manicure have already become classics. They are distinguished in many ways, using fashionable designs. The hole in the decorative coating may not coincide with its natural size. It depends on the total length of the nail. This suggests that the zone of the hole is considered by designers as a selected area, like a free edge.
On the nail, like on any miniature, it is difficult to build a composition. With the advent of lunar manicure, its classic zones have been established that help create the ensemble. This is the bed of the nail, the hole and the free edge. Anatomically, they almost always do not coincide with the decision of the designer, but the artist has different ideas about the proportions.
If you have not done lunar manicure for a long time - please yourself. And the selection of holes in the style of “negative space” will remind you of the amusing ideas of the last century about the decency of its owner.