Lemon is one of the shades of yellow that pleases girls with its richness and brightness. This is a very positive color that looks great on both short and long nails. Lemon manicure fits perfectly into summer looks, highlighting your tan. The bright yellow design also looks good in the winter season, warming its owner with gentle warmth and comfort.
For daily use, lemon color may seem too intense and not always appropriate for office and business dress codes. But don’t give up on sunny nail art right away. To prevent the lemon color from looking so ambiguous, use a lighter and more restrained shade of yellow, cover your nails with matte gel polish, which “calms” even the brightest shade.
Lemon manicure 2019-2020: main trends in bright nail art
Lemon color is a great solution for creating positive and inspiring nail art. The design attracts attention, looks bright and original. Like any rich shades, lemon color goes well with contrasting tones. The best complement to lemon color would be colors such as:
- black - gives the most catchy and contrasting combination you can imagine
- blue - looks especially interesting with denim, creating an ideal palette for a yellow shade
- mint is an excellent combination for creating floral nail art, it looks very elegant and fresh
- cream, beige, white - combinations for creating delicate, everyday nail art
- blue is a great option for geometric nail art. Create a French manicure with a triangle or a moon manicure with a sharp hole, geometric shapes on the ring finger, etc.
In addition to these basic shades, lemon color harmonizes perfectly with green, emerald, pistachio, pink, brown, turquoise, lilac, and purple. In fact, lemon color is a universal solution for creating dozens of interesting contrasting and laconic nail art for every day.
Juicy design
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For summer, you can safely choose the nail art suggested in the photo. To do it at home, you should prepare: a toothpick, bright lemon varnish, light green, white and transparent. When everything you need is at hand, let's move on to action:
- Paint the nails of the ring and middle fingers green. Let's dry it.
- On the remaining ones we perform a lunar manicure. Draw a semicircle at the base of the nail and paint the separated part with a yellow tint. Let's dry it.
- Next, on top of the green varnish, paint the center, veins and outer part of the lime. We use white varnish and a toothpick. Let's dry it.
- Now it is important to perform the manipulations very carefully. After all, you need to put drops of transparent varnish on top of the drawn fruit.
- And then, fixing your hand in one position, dry your summer nail design.
#1 Lemon manicure with design
There are no special restrictions regarding the design of lemon manicure. Draw the pattern you like best on your nails. Among the favorites of the season we can highlight:
- floristry – designs made with brushes, stamping, and sliders look great. As for color, choose contrasting rich tones: black, blue or delicate pastel shades.
- geometry - looks great in dark colors with additional decoration with glitter or rhinestones
- foil – use silver or gold foil to decorate individual nails
- themed decor – yellow manicure looks great with lemons and other fruits. Lemons seem to be asking for bright nails and look most appropriate on them. In the photo selection you can find several examples of such nail art.
If we talk about the decor of lemon marigolds, then the best solution would be contrasting nail art. Many masters choose lemon color precisely because of its successful combination with dark shades.
Yellow-green nail art
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Even a novice master can create a monochrome design. For this reason, we will not pay attention to it in the article. It’s better to immediately move on to ultra-top designs, which, if desired, can be done at home. The first one requires preparing pale lemon and light green nail polish. It doesn’t matter which product is used as a basis - gel or regular. The only thing is that the latter option involves the use of glue on which the rhinestones will be placed. The design technology is simple: after painting the nail plates in the desired color, you should attach the decorations, and then dry the two-color lemon manicure.
#2 Lemon manicure on short nails
Lemon manicure looks great on nails of any length, but it looks especially good on short nails. Today, when natural length nails are in trend, lemon manicure on short nails will be especially relevant.
Lemon color looks great even on ultra-short nails. It visually stretches the nails, making the manicure more neat and elegant. On short nails, a combination with light colors, such as florals or rhinestones, looks great.
How to choose a tone
In the summer season, lemon color manicure is at the peak of popularity. Considering the huge amount of manicure cosmetics, choosing a tone to suit your mood is not difficult.
But there are several features that should still be taken into account when choosing a lemon shade for yourself. And these are not only personal preferences, but also:
- design idea;
- the image to be complemented;
- skin tone;
- nail style;
- varnish texture;
- shape of the nail plate.
For example, delicate tones are ideal for fair-skinned girls. But for tanned and naturally dark-skinned ladies, a bright and rich color is more suitable. To make the color look more expressive, it is best to apply it over a white background. The decor can be a drop of sparkles or rhinestones. You can look at a photo of a manicure with lemon to understand what it looks like.
The big advantage of yellow polish is that it can be called universal for all shapes of the nail plate.
However, if you want to achieve the maximum “unity” effect, you should stick to soft tones. They look great on angular and rounded nails. Any manicurist will tell you that the first place belongs to the round and almond shapes of the nail plate.
But don’t think that only yellow is the color that modern fashionistas like. Nowadays, lime, lemon, orange manicures are held in high esteem - that is, literally all the shades associated with tropical fruits. A good choice is to combine them with pastel lemon.
#3 Lemon matte manicure 2019-2020
Girls really like matte manicure. It smooths out even the brightest shades, making dark tones deeper and more refined. As for the lemon matte manicure, it looks great in a single color version.
Matte lemon manicure looks great on long square and almond-shaped nails. It is not advisable to complement a matte manicure with contrasting patterns; a pair of miniature rhinestones in the root zone will be enough.
#4 French lemon manicure
The classic French jacket has long undergone significant changes in relation to the basic shades. Lemon French looks more than original and attractive. In this design, only the edge of the nail is highlighted in lemon color, the rest of the space is covered with a transparent top.
If you wish, you can add turquoise, blue, and dark tones to the lemon jacket. They look great in tandem with yellow, creating original contrasting nail art.
#5 Delicate lemon manicure with white
Girls with short nails really like gentle and calm color combinations. The tandem of yellow and white is guaranteed to look great on these nails. Yellow-white manicure looks soft and elegant, fits into bright summer and cozy winter looks.
As for the decor, instead of brush drawings and sliders, you can use a matte texture, acrylic powder and other voluminous decor.
#6 Gradient lemon manicure
Yellow gel polish is great for creating a gradient manicure. It is recommended to use white as a second shade. Create a manicure with a stretch from yellow to white from the root zone to the edge of the nail.
In addition to white, you can use any other shade from those recommended above. Gradient manicure can be created using gel polishes or acrylic powder. With acrylic, such a manicure will look more laconic and casual.
Gradient nail art
If lemon polish seems not bright enough, it can be combined with other rich shades. For example, play with pink. It is very easy to repeat the design at home. You just need to prepare lemon and raspberry polish, a special brush for performing gel ombre, or a household sponge and rich cream for a regular manicure with yellow polish.
The idea is easy to implement in two ways
- Apply pink tint at the base of the nail and yellow at the tip. Carefully blur the border using a shade stretching brush.
- Draw two horizontal stripes on the sponge - raspberry varnish at the top, lemon varnish at the bottom. Moreover, the latter should slightly overlap the first. Then make an imprint on the nail plate. Pre-lubricate the skin around it with a thick layer of cream so as not to stain it.
When all the nail plates have been painted using any of the described methods, fix the manicure with a lemon-colored finish and dry it in a suitable way.
#7 Lemon manicure with rhinestones
Monochromatic nail art in lemon color harmonizes perfectly with rhinestones of various shades. Use classic silver rhinestones, yellow, turquoise, lilac stones. As for the placement of stones, the best place would be the root zone on the ring finger.
In addition to rhinestones, broths and kamifubuki fit perfectly into lemon manicure. Place the material on accent nails, in the root zone, highlight floristry, fruit design, etc.
Lemon is an underrated color in nail design. Many girls are scared by the richness and sparkling brightness of this shade. However, lemon color looks great on nails and fits perfectly into everyday and even office nail art. Try creating lemon-colored nail art on your nails and you will understand how sophisticated and stylish it will look.
