Drawings on nails with a gel pen are today a very good alternative to a salon manicure. This innovation appeared relatively recently and immediately gained incredible popularity among the fair sex. The secret of this success is very simple - the usual gel pen for writing is available in almost every home, and handling it does not require any special skills.
Almost every woman can make drawings on her nails with a gel pen. In this case, in order to transform the nails and make them original, she does not need to go to the salon and spend money on artistic manicure. The main thing is to be patient and decide on the shape of the nails, since it is the shape that will determine what the drawing will be.
Gel pen drawings are best done on a color basis - that is, on nails previously coated with colored varnish. The choice of color of the pen depends on the main background. Original look drawings on the nails made by a pen in gold or silver. When applying the drawing, care must be taken to ensure that the lines applied by the pen are as clear as possible.
Young women who first encountered the fact that a gel pen can be a tool for art painting of nails, and decided to try to make such a painting on their own, it is best to start with the simplest forms. First you can draw rhombuses, zigzags, triangles, straight and curved lines. Those who are ready for more complex and intricate patterns can try to depict floral motifs, which are especially popular today.
In order to begin to draw all kinds of patterns on nails , you will need not one gel pen, but a whole set, and it is desirable that the set contains glossy pens. In order to develop the elementary skills of drawing small patterns that will be needed for applying art painting on nails, you need to find a suitable drawing and reproduce it on plain paper. If everything turns out as it should - you can start painting nails.
The first step will be to apply a suitable shade of varnish to the nails, this varnish will be the background for future painting. If the varnish is light in a thin layer, it is better to apply it on the nail again. For the next step you will need a gel pen. It is necessary to accurately draw each line and each element of the pattern. To make the painting look more impressive, you will need a silver-colored pen and a white gel pen, with which you can set the necessary accents.
After the pattern is applied to each nail plate, you need to fix the result, covering the nails with colorless varnish.
In such a simple way that does not require special professional skills, you can create real masterpieces on the nails, despite the fact that the sets of gel pens do not differ in a wide variety of shades. Each time, including additional colors and elements of painting in the patterns, you can achieve amazing results, and a manicure made with a regular gel pen will look just as good as a salon.