French manicure with rhinestones: design ideas and color combinations

For many seasons in a row, French manicure has been considered one of the best and most fashionable nail design techniques. One of the controversial designs today is considered to be the use of sparkling decor in a jacket. Someone likes it, some do not, but fashion does not look back at someone's opinion, and therefore we suggest that you familiarize yourself with the material of this article in order to understand what are the current trends in a jacket with rhinestones, which allows it to declare itself as one of the the best design options.

French manicure became popular almost immediately after its creation in 1976, because it successfully fit into any female image. The story of its appearance was based on creating a universal manicure for actresses, suitable for any outfit. This idea originated in the head of one of the directors, and the founder of Orly brought it to life.

At its core, manicure meant staining the main part of the nail with a flesh color, and overgrown with white contrast. Initially, the creator of the French jacket, Jeff Pink, called it "Natural Look", although later the name changed, as it seemed to the author too simple. Today, the technique is undergoing various modifications, but its essence remains unchanged: the design must necessarily have a base and a smile, denoting a grown nail.

They create a modern jacket in different ways, including using special strips of various shapes and widths for an even design of the edges. The basic technique is to cover the base with the desired color and brighten it up with a smile.However, brevity today is considered a boring approach to design, therefore, in addition to pigments, nails are decorated with prints, and after them - with rhinestones and stones.

Today it is fashionable to design nails using the technique of negative space., in which part of the nail is not stained at all, while the smile itself is formed. To ennoble the natural nail plate, coatings with a translucent flesh-colored texture are used. However, if earlier the nail was first painted with one color, and then covered the edge with another, today many variations of the basic technique have been invented.

For example, you can decorate the edge of the nail with more than just a contrasting line or even a geometric figure. Contour strokes are also in vogue, which can extend from the top to half of the nail plate, or even to its base. However, if earlier only the classics were known, then today the jacket can be mirrored or inverted. In this design, the smile is located at the base of the nail plate or in the cuticle growth zone.

There are other options for a jacket. For example, in addition to fantasy and geometric, it can be asymmetrical, diagonal, or even gradient. In the latter case, it is created using contrasting varnishes and tiny sponge brushes, dusting them with a smile over the main background pigment. As for the different lines, today it is not difficult to create them. Thanks to ready-made templates, you can depict not only an arch, but also a transverse line, a wave, a lightning, a heart motif, a star or a zigzag.

Classic French manicure involves the use of a natural base color and white for a smile or regrowth. Along with this, today the color schemes of the jacket can be very diverse. For example, apart from nude and flesh color, the base can be done in absolutely any color, including pastel, neutral, bright and neon colors.

Correlating all this information with the fashion trends of the new season, it is worth highlighting the most successful and effective combinations, which include combinations:

• black and white;
• powdery and black;
• emerald and gold;
• black and silver;
• purple and white;
• marsal and white;

• orange and white;
• brown and milky;
• pink and white;
• flesh and pink;
• nude and blue (red);
• gray and white.

In addition, turquoise, mint, coral, coffee and fuchsia, as well as juicy raspberry and cherry tones, are considered fashionable shades of the color palette today.

The inconsistency of the relevance of rhinestones in the design of a jacket is explained by their inept use. Despite the beautiful shine and aesthetic appeal, rhinestones can deprive a design of expressiveness, saturating it with vulgarity. To prevent this, you need to think carefully about the design before you start decorating the accent fingers. Beauty is born impromptu only among professionals, and then they do not throw in a scattering of sparkling decor for greater effect.

In reality, the expressiveness of a manicure depends on the correct placement of accents. Today it is fashionable to decorate no more than two or three nails out of ten. If, at the same time, there are a lot of rhinestones on all of them, this can make the design tasteless. However, if the location of the rhinestones is dotted, and there are few of them themselves, this option will look different.

It should be noted right away that in no case should rhinestones be sculpted onto all ten fingers at once. This is not only ugly, but also brings to the image the style of the "magpie", greedy for everything shiny and not versed in beauty. Ideally, one accent with rhinestones would be enough. For a bunch of two nails, you can decorate both, but in different ways.As a rule, there should be less rhinestones on one nail than on the second.

If earlier sparkling compositions and even patterns made of rhinestones and volumetric stones were welcomed, today this approach is considered inappropriate in the design of a jacket, the purpose of which is to ennoble the image and focus on the feminine principle. French is associated with lightness, and therefore neither the background, nor the pattern, and even more so rhinestones should not weigh it down.

For example, rather than randomly littering rhinestones over a lace background, it is better to use no more than two of the smallest ones at the base of the curls. Rhinestones in the cuticle area will look good if you place them with a small bow. Various prints on accent nails are also an excellent base for rhinestones. By the way, the use of rhinestones together with a drawing is today considered a more harmonious method of inscribing glitter in the design of a French manicure.

Rhinestones can be used to decorate the centers of painted flowers, dream catcher's web, make tiny buds or even buds on painted branches, eyes of painted animals. Rhinestones will look great as grain of ears.

All this will look harmonious if:

• the accent nail will not have a cloned pattern;
• the emphasis will be single on one hand;
• rhinestones in the design will be small with the right color;
• stones from small to very tiny will be used in the design;
• the rest of the nails will not be complicated by layers of patterns and decor.

Rhinestones look more harmonious, coupled with tiny dots of gold or silver. This allows them to fit softer into the design of the jacket. For example, a center with one rhinestone surrounded by several silver dots looks better than several rhinestones together. In the same way, you can fit rhinestones into the design of an accent nail with a small pattern. Also, a butterfly wing, decorated with rhinestones and gold dots, will look more aesthetically pleasing than a scattering of stones of different caliber.

It is necessary to combine rhinestones with sequins correctly, starting with the choice of material. For example, a flake effect rub will work better with glittering decor than glitter varnish. In addition, to achieve the desired effect, varnish will have to apply not one, but several layers of the product.

Each new nail season brings something of its own to the design of French manicure, thereby enriching it. Today, the attention of fashion trends is focused on the seasonality of design. And the best means of expressing the belonging of a design to a particular season, in addition to color temperature, is a drawing. You can paint on one of the equally shaped nails right over the smile.

Of course, hand-painting cannot be called simple, but constant training on special templates and regular practice will allow you to hone your skills and decorate accent nails with graceful mehendi, which is considered fashionable today. By the way, such drawings have a lot of places for rhinestones, so choosing the best of them will not be difficult. You can decorate with rhinestones and lace stickers, which is no less fashionable today. To do this, first, stickers are transferred to the accent nails, and then rhinestones are glued to them in certain places.

It is super fashionable to decorate accent nails with tape-type manicure foil. And this design can be complemented with sparkling pebbles. Considering the fact that tape foil has mostly medium-sized patterns, rhinestones in this design can be used as part of a print. For example, it can be not only drops on the leaves or the same center of flowers, but also the body of a tiny butterfly, dragonfly, May beetle.

Rhinestones can be used to decorate one of the best decor techniques today - painting on wet gel polish. For a jacket, this technique can be done in two ways: using a white or transparent base varnish, which will cause the pigments applied over it to spread. Even if all other nails are made in a traditional jacket, and only the ring finger is chosen as an accent, such a design will look incredibly delicate, which is especially important for a French manicure.

This technique consists in drawing simple lines, commas and blobs on a special varnish. When flowing, it will create the effect of watercolor flowers. Such drawings look especially beautiful, they bring lightness to the design. Rhinestones are used in them based on the design idea. For example, if it is a flower, then a pebble is placed instead of the middle. If it is an abstraction, the rhinestone is placed pointwise, more often at the base of the nail.

Today, no shape of nails is an obstacle to decoration with rhinestones. However, their size will matter as well as their quantity. And here it will be a matter of length. When the nails are short, they are perceived easier, glitter or pebbles on such nails look easier. Due to their length, you can't fit a lot of them, which is good. Long nails attract attention and, especially in dark colors, run the risk of looking vulgar, since dark tones and rhinestones, together, already oblige you to a certain image.

Almond-shaped, square, oval nails are in fashion. Any of these shapes can be refined with a different bow, thereby making the fingers thinner and more graceful. However, sharp and long stiletto nails in combination with rhinestones do not look beautiful, as well as a volumetric design with stucco and stones is inappropriate for them. Medium to moderate is considered the best length, with the ring finger being the best accent. You can decorate the accent of such a manicure with a vertical and glue two rhinestones of different sizes at the base of the nail.

Fashion shows of this nail season are distinguished by the laconicism of manicure. At the same time, rhinestones are also recognized as a worthy decor of modern design. To see a truly beautiful design of a jacket on your fingernails, we suggest referring to the photo gallery with illustrative examples.

• Beautiful design with rhinestones for an evening out.

• A gentle solution for romantic natures.

• Stylish French manicure of a combined type.

• An example with the appropriate placement of sparkling decor.

• A harmonious design option that will appeal to every girl.

• Design in bright colors for fans of bold and effective solutions.

• The decoration for girls on vacation is filled with rich colors.

• French with rhinestones that can improve a woman's mood.

• Seasonal manicure with stones, appropriate in the bow of a city woman.

For information on how to perform a delicate French manicure with rhinestones, see the next video.