Flowers on nails with gel polish – ideas of manicure and new design: French, voluminous, delicate, transparent, beautiful flowers. Photo

Among the latest fashion novelties, an original floral manicure stands out. In spring and summer, bright flowers created by gel polish are especially relevant on nails. The floral ornament will give the image of romance, not to mention the fact that flowers have always been associated with femininity, tenderness and spring mood.

New Nail Designs with Flowers

In the new year, bright and delicate floral nail art remains in the trend. The popular form of nails is oval, almond-shaped, rectangular, but sharp corners should be avoided. As for the color scheme, pastel, delicate shades diluted with red, burgundy, and purple colors are welcome. According to the masters, small floral branches will look stylish.

Ways to paint with gel polish

You can paint flowers on nails with gel varnish using various techniques:

1. The use of dots. Dots – a special stick with a ball on the end for drawing on nails (the ball is of different diameters). With its help, you can simply apply floral patterns, dots. It is widely used for manicure at home. Due to the fact that at the end of dots, the varnish on its tip becomes smaller, so the line or pattern is getting thinner. With the help of a large dots, you can simply draw flower petals (poppies, daisies). With small dots, it is easy to make dotted miniature flowers. However, creating a more complex floral print with dots will be difficult.
2. Using a brush for nail art . Brushes for painting on nails vary in pile thickness, tip shape, material. The technique of applying a pattern with a brush requires certain skills, so it is more often used in nail salons than at home. But a little practice, and a beginner will be able to master this method. To create a spectacular floral design, it is advisable to use several types of brushes.
3. On wet gel polish. This technique is somewhat reminiscent of drawing with a needle on ordinary wet varnish, but this is not entirely true. First, professional brushes, mostly thin ones, are required. Secondly, not any varnish or gel varnish is suitable for the technique, a certain consistency for spreading is necessary.

   

4. Modeling. Volumetric flowers can be created using sculpting. Thick and dense consistency gel varnishes (3D and 4d gels, sculptural gel) are suitable for this technique. The execution method is complex. These flowers look very elegant, so they are made mainly for celebrations and weddings.

Nail preparation

Before applying gel polish, it is necessary to properly prepare the nail plates:

• Remove old nail polish with special tools.
• Nail file to give the desired shape.
• Strip off the barbs with forceps and push the cuticle away.
• Align the surface of the nail plate with a buffer to a matte state.
• Treat with anti-silicone to remove residual nail dust, dirt and grease.
• Use a dehydrator to get rid of excess moisture in the nail.
• Apply an acid-free bonder for better adhesion of gel polish to the nail.
• Apply a base (base coat) to prevent the penetration of colored pigment into the nail and better adhesion.
• Dry in a UV lamp for about 10 seconds. After drying, the base will acquire a sticky structure, which must be leveled with a dry brush.
• All coatings should be applied as thin as possible, departing from the cuticle of 0. 1’2 inch.

Manicure “Spring Tender Flowers”

Floral print is especially relevant in the spring. To create a delicate look, you need to choose pastel and nude shades diluted with delicate branches of flowers on several nails. This option is ideal for business and daily style and eliminates the abundance of decor (rhinestone, shiny foil).

You will need:

• Base and finish (fixer).
• Set of gel polishes. The main varnish for the background is pastel color (pale pink, peach, light beige). Several varnishes for flowers (pink, pale green, fuchsia, lavender). You can choose any kind of flowers at will: lavender, sakura, lilies of the valley, tulips, hyacinths.
• Nail art brushes, dots.

Step-by-step execution:

1. After preliminary preparation, apply a basic gel polish of pastel shade on all nails. If necessary, apply it in two layers.
2. With the tip of a thin brush, draw neat twigs in a gentle green color (only on a few nail plates).
3. On the nail with a brush, draw 3 small petals in a different color, and with the dots an unbroken bud.
4. Secure with finish.
5. Dry each layer in a lamp.

French with flowers

Universal and classic manicure is considered French. The technique is a plate coating in flesh or colorless, and the tip is drawn in white or another color.

Decorate a strict manicure will help a floral print made in two ways:

1. Draw a small flower on each nail along the border of the white end.
2. Apply a floral pattern to one of the nails.

It is necessary:

• Base and fixer of gel polish.
• Gel varnish shades: flesh, white, pink, fuchsia.
• Stencil strips for french manicure.
• Brushes for manicure.

How to do:

1. After the base coat, draw a line on the tip of the nail with white varnish. Or use stencils for a neat line.
2. Paint your nails with body or colorless gel polish.
3. On one or two of the nails, with a brush, draw in pink and color the function of a flower with white borders of the petals.

Voluminous flowers

Volumetric textured flowers look especially solemn and elegant. However, the technique is quite complex and requires some skill. Depending on the level of training, one-level or multi-level decors can be made. For a more restrained version, voluminous white flowers can be created on one or two nails, in combination with French manicure.

You will need:

• Sculptural gel or plasticine.
• Colored varnishes, fixative.
• Dots, flat synthetic brushes.
• Buff.

How to do:

1. Prepare nails and apply the necessary layers of colored gel polish.
2. Dry in a lamp.
3. Separate with a brush or stick a small piece of plastic gel and form petals.
4. Put the petals in the right place, with a brush to give them a beautiful shape. Each decor element is fixed separately by the lamp, because when connecting the colored petals before fixing, the colors can merge.

Transparent flowers

Flowers on nails in a transparent gel varnish technique look airy and unusual.  Gentle transparent flowers on a black background will be spectacular.

What do you need:

• The varnish is black and white.
• Thin brushes.
• Neon gel polish pink and green.

Technique of execution:

1. Apply a black background to previously prepared nail plates.
2. After drying with a white lamp, draw sketches of the petals, stems and leaves.
3. Using a dry brush, blend the outline of the flower and dry it.
4. Circle the edges of the flower with leaves with a thin brush and dry.
5. Give colors to the petals with pink neon varnish, leaves – green.
6. Dry, apply top coat.

Flower with rhinestones on the ring finger

To flower nail art looked more elegant and fabulous, it can be decorated with rhinestones. For a more casual and restrained version, a flower decorated with rhinestones should be placed only on the ring fingers.

It is necessary:

• Base top and several gel polishes (mint for the main tone, yellow and black for the flower).
• Brushes for drawing details.
• Rhinestones.

Step-by-step instruction:

1. Paint your nails with mint varnish and dry.
2. On the ring finger, paint a yellow flower with a brush.
3. Draw black petals on the flower with the petals and the core, dry in a lamp.
4. Put a yellow strass in the core of the flower.
5. Secure with top coat.

Flower on two nails

The composition of flowers on 2 nails with gel polish, painted with a smooth transition into each other or in the form of flower halves on two adjacent nails, will add romance and femininity. The first option is quite difficult to perform. The second technique is simple in execution and will give an image of originality. It is even easier to draw such flowers with a needle on wet varnish. Fashionable this year sakura flowers, orchids.

Tools required:

• Set of colored gel polishes.
• Tassels, needles or dots.
• Sparkles or glitter for decor.

Needle color technique:

1. Apply violet gel polish to pre-prepared nails.
2. On wet varnish on the ring and middle finger, drop 3 drops of purple varnish.
3. Drop a drop of white varnish on top of the purple drop.
4. From the drops with the help of a needle, brush or dots form the petals of the flower.
5. Ready drawing to dry in a lamp.
6. Apply a little sparkle to the petals and the final layer of fixative.

Chamomile gel polish

Summer art will give nail art with daisies. Depending on the color scheme, the image with daisies can be created warm and bright or delicate and fresh. The technique is simple in execution and looks very nice on nails.

What do you need:

• Gel varnishes in blue, white, orange and yellow.
• Dots, brush.

How to do:

1. After the base coat, apply a blue gel polish to all nails.
2. Dry the layer in the lamp.
3. White lacquer to draw the petals of daisies.
4. In the center of the flowers, put the yellow and orange dots in the dots.
5. Dry each layer in a lamp.
6. Apply the finish.

A manicure with daisies can be done on any main background, even on a dark one. Daisies look very gentle on a natural background or in French, such a manicure is suitable for every day.

Poppies gel polish

Flowers in the form of poppies on nails created by gel varnish in the trend for several seasons. This manicure is bright and effective. For a more restrained nail art, only one nail can be decorated with poppies.

Required Items:

• Light varnish for the base.
• Tassels (thin and flat), dots for nail art.
• Red, green and black gel polish.

Step by step description of the technique:

1. After the base coat, apply a light gel polish (beige, nude, cream, white) and dry.
2. With a flat brush, scoop up red varnish from one end and a little black from the other. Paint the poppies of the poppies with the brush so that the black one is in the center.
3. With light varnish in the middle of the flower, draw the core using dots.
4. Black color with a thin brush in the core to draw stamens, green varnish – graceful stems.

Roses gel polish

The classic floral pattern for manicure is roses. Such nail art can be made romantic-elegant or brightly elegant. The effectiveness of a manicure depends on the complexity of the technique and the chosen color scheme. For example, on a bright base, draw white openwork roses.

Or choose a vintage style: on a blue (lilac, light green, cream) background, draw small roses (pink, peach, coral). Roses can be drawn in various techniques: volumetric, transparent, Chinese painting. A stylish option will be roses made on a whole nail, in the same color scheme as the main background.

For nail art with roses in the style of Provence you need:

• Blue gel polish for the main color.
• A thick consistency of pink and white color varnish for roses.
• Thin brushes, dots or a toothpick.

How to make a manicure:

1. Apply the main color on the aligned nails – light blue. Dry in a lamp.
2. Apply two dots of pink and white alternately on the base color with dots.
3. Toothbrush (dots) or brush to mix colors in the form of rose petals.
4. Thus, draw a few small roses on the nail and dry.
5. Fix the finish.

Flowers on nails can also be painted with gel polish using a more sophisticated technique, using
a wide brush to paint pink and white polish on both ends. Make brush strokes to make wide and large petals. Inside which draw a pair of smaller petals.

Sakura gel polish

You can create delicate floral nail art by drawing spring cherry blossoms. The method is simple to implement and is suitable for beginners.

Tools required:

• Gel varnishes in white, black, light pink and green.
• Brush, dots.

Drawing technique:

1. Cover two nails with white, the rest with black.
2. On white, draw a thin brush in black curved branches of Japanese cherry.
3. Between the branches of the dots, put 3 pink dots next to each other. Put a white dot in their center.
4. With a green color, carefully draw several fresh leaves with a brush.

Tips from professional craftsmen

Flowers on nails with gel polish are not difficult to make for a beginner, possessing a certain technique.

Correctly draw floral patterns at home will help the advice of professional masters:

1. To learn how to paint gel flowers with varnish correctly, you first need to master the technique on ordinary varnishes.
2. Before drawing, come up with the idea of manicure in advance and draw it on paper.
3. It is quite difficult to draw flowers with watercolor or stained glass paints, so they should not be chosen for beginners to choose for manicure.
4. If you can’t draw beautiful flowers, you can use stencils.
5. When working with a brush, you need to start drawing a flower with a contour.
6. Draw large flowers preferably on long nails. On short nails, small floral painting will look better.
7. Before decorating the flower, the main coating should dry well.
8. To visually lengthen your nails you need to draw a floral print vertically.
9. Dry in a lamp each layer.
10. Choose a good quality gel polish, and correctly combine colors.

You can create a floral manicure gel varnish in many ways and techniques depending on the skill of drawing on nails (from simple painting with a needle to ornate flowers made with brushes).

With practical drawing skills and imagination, you can create unique and original floral masterpieces.

Video about flowers on nails with gel polish

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