Traditions of using mehendi
The mehendi culture appeared more than 5 thousand years ago. Oriental style designs were made with henna on the hands and body.
Mehendi was used as an everyday body decoration, which was made with simple patterns. There was also a festive version, which was performed with special care.
In different eastern cultures, special significance is attached to mehendi:
- In the Middle East, plant motifs are popular - a symbol of prosperity and life. Bedouins simply dipped their hands and feet in henna, giving a special color to the skin;
- In India, they prefer designs that symbolize fertility and religious motives. Therefore, lace painting is used to decorate a girl’s body for a wedding or major holidays;
- the peoples of Malaysia traditionally draw patterns on the bride’s body;
- In Indonesia there is a custom of painting the pads of the fingers and feet.
From a sacred image to a decorative one, today it is used as a temporary tattoo outside the East: in Europe and America.
Unlike stickers or transfer tattoos, henna does not tighten the skin and lasts up to 3 weeks. It is produced all over the world.
It is recommended to use hypoallergenic red henna. A special dye is added to black, which can cause contact dermatitis.
What designs can you choose to create an autumn manicure?
Each individual autumn nature item can become a unique design idea.
For an autumn manicure, you can choose images of autumn leaves, because leaves are associated with the incredible golden age, which great poets sang in their poems.
Gold, yellow, red leaves will be a wonderful decoration for a New Year's manicure. To find out how to draw a leaf correctly, you should look at the photos that are presented in large numbers on the sites.
You can also apply an image of autumn trees to your nails, and you can watch the video to see how to do this. Magnificent, mighty, incredibly beautiful birch and maple trees will be a wonderful image for an autumn manicure.
Images of autumn flowers will also look incredibly beautiful on your nails. Delicate asters, gladioli and chrysanthemums will perfectly decorate your manicure and create a great mood even on rainy days.
For autumn, gradient manicure becomes especially relevant, which allows you to bring the bright colors of summer into frosty days.
It’s not difficult to create such a manicure, because the main thing is to choose the right color combinations.
Creation methods
A mehendi design created with gel polish will last on your nails for about 3 weeks. You won't be able to apply it with regular varnish: it spreads as it dries.
Drawing with gel polish
To create mehendi patterns on nails, you need thin brushes, gel paint or gel polish for the design and background, a final coating (top), a special lamp for drying, and tools - dots. This is painstaking work that requires perseverance. It is important to decide on the lines in advance.
How to do a manicure step by step:
- Apply background color.
- Dry.
- Apply the pattern with a thin brush.
- Add dots with small diameter.
- Dry.
- Cover with top.
- Hold it in the lamp again.
The main task is to achieve thin and even lines. You can pre-practice on overhead plates or paper.
Patterns are also applied at the bottom of the nail, making a lower jacket. By playing with the saturation of the contour, translucent patterns are created. They look very neat and feminine, such a manicure can be worn at work.
Using a stencil
This design can also be done using stencils. In terms of detail, they are inferior to images made by hand. These are special nail stickers with cut out patterns. They are fixed on a plate and painted over with varnish. Then it is dried and covered with a protective layer.
It is important to take into account that it is not always possible to achieve even painting and not damage the varnish layer.
Applying a sticker
Mehendi manicure is also done using stickers. This is also an unoriginal design, but it is easy to do even for a novice craftsman or at home.
The stickers can be translated as follows:
- Degrease the surface of the plate.
- Cover with a background color or make a jacket.
- Tear off the protective layer and place the sticker evenly.
- Lightly wet the water stickers and dry them with a hairdryer.
- Cover with top.
- Dry again.
Drawing with a needle or tape
Before starting work, you need to arm yourself with a simple needle, a transparent varnish for applying the main background to the nails, and a varnish of your favorite color. In order to protect the surface of the nail from damage, it must be coated with colorless varnish. When it dries well, you can proceed to the next stage. Take your base color and apply a few drops or thin stripes. Then don’t wait for it to dry completely, but start drawing patterns using a needle or toothpick.
To continue the life of your creativity on your nails, be sure to coat them again with clear polish and wait until it dries completely. Don't test it with your finger; all your hard work may suffer and become covered with unsightly stains.
If you want something more complicated, very beautiful patterns using simple tape will help you achieve the perfect pedicure, and the nail design will be original and suitable for any style of clothing. Here you will already need two colors of varnish, try to match them to the color of the outfit. No design will help you if you try to experiment with completely different colors.
Apply polish to your nails and wait until completely dry. Try not to do anything, otherwise you may damage the layer that is not ready for further processing. Next, cut out the designs you like from tape and attach them to your nails. Of course, this will not be very comfortable on your toes, but if your best friend is not visiting, try to do this operation yourself as carefully as possible.
After this, apply a varnish of a different color and again wait until everything is completely dry. Don't start removing the tape prematurely, you can ruin the drawing, and instead of a perfect pedicure you will only get a ruined mood.
Design ideas
When thinking over a nail composition for a mehendi manicure, take into account:
- background color;
- design;
- palette
If you want to decorate all your nails, then the patterns should have subtle contours, not too bright. If you plan to apply mehendi on 1-2 nails on your hand, then you can use bright and bold solutions. For example, make black patterns on a pink or gold background.
Wedding manicure
This trend is popular not only in the East, but also in other regions of the world. It is appropriate to make the color match the wedding dress. Often a beige or natural background is used, and the patterns themselves are painted in white. Decorate 1-2 nails on the hand. Additionally, a henna design is applied to the hands.
A wedding jacket with mehendi looks interesting. It looks neat and more original than a standard manicure. A bold decision is to complement it with dark lines.
Manicure with bright accents
This manicure is suitable for everyday wear. The following ideas look interesting:
- mehendi on gradient transition
- gold patterns on a dark brown background;
- white thin lines on a turquoise background;
- black on white.
Additionally, the design is decorated with rhinestones, beads or modeling. You should select the composition, as well as the length and shape of the nails for a mehendi-style manicure, taking into account your needs: whether you are creating an everyday pattern or for a special occasion.
Set of accessories for painting on nails
Simple designs can be easily applied to the surface of the nails using available materials. To create patterns you will need:
- needle;
- scotch;
- foil;
- glitter powders;
- thin brushes;
- varnishes of different shades;
- cotton buds;
- nail files;
- toothpicks;
- dots for creating designs on nails;
- nail polish remover.
If the artist’s talent is absent, then you can use stencils.
For training, it is better to use watercolor paints; they wash off quickly.
The workplace where nail patterns will be created should be illuminated by tabletop devices with a simple light bulb. This is necessary so that it does not distort the colors.
Lunar nail design in white
There is another option, not inferior in beauty to the French manicure, which can easily be classified as a classic look - this is a white moon manicure. It is worth highlighting two varieties of this species. The first is a nail with a white base and a transparent or colored hole. The second is a colored nail with a white lunula. Despite its simplicity, a manicure with holes looks especially impressive. It adds charm and contrast to your nails.
A few more ideas for dessert
- Cover your nails with base polish. It is important that the base creates a contrast with the pattern.
- Pour a small amount of pink or red nail polish onto a previously prepared piece of paper.
- Use a toothpick to grab a little varnish and place parallel dots.
- From each point you need to draw thin strips down, which turn the workpiece into a heart.
Current ideas for fashionistas
A single-color coating is not the only technique that craftsmen use. With the advent of gel polish, beautiful nail design can only be limited by the imagination of the craftswoman. A gentle manicure for winter 2018 – 2020 is more relevant than ever. Fashion trends of the season can be seen in the photos in our article.
Nice design with stripes
There are different new products in manicure for short and long nails today. Geometric shapes - starting from thin, almost invisible lines, a proportional pattern is created. Squares, regular triangles, rhombuses are made for everyday manicure. If you add glitter decor to the design, you can show off your marigolds at the party. Professional stylists advise combining bed colors with one bright accent, one or two short stripes.
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A combination of different textures in a delicate manicure
Flowers - many masters overestimate the meaning of this word and apply completely unimaginable combinations to their nails. This season, the trend is to use delicate shades in decoration. Spring, with its timid step, is always fresh and capricious - so the flowers on the fingers should convey a spring mood and lightness (for example, snowdrops). It’s better to save poisonous phantasmagoria for New Year’s Eve.
Delicate manicure with flowers using watercolor technique
Delicate and at the same time bright patterns on a neutral surface
White and pink ombre and butterfly
Rhinestones - small droplets of water, shimmering with all the shades of the rainbow on the delicate fingers of a fashionista, look playful and flirtatious. Most importantly, you should not apply them in batches on your hands. There must be moderation in everything. A stylish print with several small stones should highlight the taste of the owner of the manicure. An overabundance of shiny elements, on the contrary, will turn an elegant lady into a provincial.
Interesting: The most beautiful matte manicure
Delicate beige manicure with rhinestones
Matte manicure with rhinestones
French is a classic delicate coating that still remains in the leading position. It is suitable for women of any age and looks very good on short or medium nails. At the same time, it requires well-groomed hands without calluses and hangnails.
Delicate jacket with rhinestones
French and stencil design
Acrylic powder - creates a velvet effect on the fingers, emphasizing the originality of the owner. Experienced craftsmen can create a real masterpiece using this coating technique.
Delicate nude version of nail art
Matte finish - be careful with this new product. Before applying the coating to your hands, take a closer look at examples on the Internet. Some options are downright tasteless.
Fashionable matte manicure
One-color varnish coating - the secret lies in the fact that you can apply a different color to each finger. It is important not to forget that warm tones do not combine with cold ones. Even the use of one delicate color looks impressive on well-groomed hands and does not catch the eye of others.
The finest lace and plain covering
Ombre - this year, professionals suggested combining bed colors to create a manicure. Previously, saturated colors were often used.
Spectacular ombre
A gentle manicure harmoniously matches a strict business look and is relevant as a wedding option (for example, you can use lace as decoration).
Bright and delicate watercolor in manicure
Manicure with a pattern 2020-2021: fashion trends, photos
Fashion trends 2020-2021 in the field of manicure are represented by a huge number of different techniques for modeling nail decor. Materials such as gel polish and shellac, which have successfully established themselves in the modern nail industry, have conquered modern times with their practicality, convenience and chic aesthetic appearance. Millions of modifications using daily emerging new products in the field of nail decoration elements allow today's fashionista to choose absolutely any nail design to suit her unsurpassed look for a party or for everyday wear. At the same time, the breadth of the range of such decorative additives to the main coating is surprising in its versatility.
Black and white nails: an original combination of classic colors
A contrasting pattern in dark blue or black will be a great option to highlight your sophistication. It is worth drawing only gentle thin lines that are woven into delicate patterns. Your nail art in black and white will resemble alluring lace. A worthy type of manicure with classic colors are geometric patterns that are made with straight and broken lines. You can also use a black pattern to create floral, plant or oriental motifs.
