When choosing a summer look for herself, every girl should take care of a beautiful and stylish manicure. At this time, marine themes become the most relevant. Marine manicure not only looks interesting and fresh, but also allows a girl to show her individuality. To do this, you can simply paint your nails aqua, or you can create a real masterpiece using holography, gold glitter, themed figures and drawings. We invite you to consider the most successful options for marine manicure.
A distinctive feature of marine manicure is that each finger is individual and completely different from its neighbor.
Color spectrum
A variety of shades are suitable for creating a marine-style manicure. And above all, these are all the shades of blue and yellow that we associate with the warm sea, sun and sand. They can be complemented with vanilla and emerald shades.
Various combinations of white and blue will look impressive. In addition, in the summer, neon tones become popular, allowing you to add a touch of freshness to the image and make the manicure more vibrant.
Fish scale effect
Despite its simplicity, this manicure looks very stylish. It's quite simple to do. A sea green varnish is suitable as a base. And for applying the pattern, you can choose golden or beige. You can draw a pattern that replicates fish scales with a thin brush. If you are not sure that you will be able to do this yourself, you can use special stencils.
Coastal waves
Light waves rushing onto the shore are a great idea for creating an original manicure. One way to do it is to cover your nails with a light matte base and decorate the tips of your nails with light blue polish in a wavy pattern.
Or, as a base, you can use a golden polish with small sparkles and additionally paint your nails with a blue coating, decorated with chaotic white foam:
Gradient
A manicure with an ombre effect is suitable for any time of year. Following the marine theme, you need to choose several shades of blue, making a smooth transition between them. Additionally, a gradient manicure in a marine style can be decorated with broken glass, thematic drawings or stickers.
Marine French
French and moon manicure have long become classics. Therefore, they can be used to create absolutely any image. In summer, the combination of blue with white or yellow becomes popular. Rhinestones, sparkles, sand and other decor will help decorate it.
Abstract manicure
If your vacation is still far away, but you want to feel like you’re relaxing on the seashore, you can use an abstract design that will be relevant even in the office. This can be a rub of a rich blue color with a greenish shimmer along the edge of the nail plate.
Broken glass or blurry stripes of white and blue colors will help create the effect of water. A non-standard solution would be a geometric manicure in blue or white tones, complemented with adhesive tape.
Anchors and ship's wheels
A separate theme in the chapter on nautical manicure includes nails decorated with anchors, lifebuoys and other ship attributes:
This kind of nail art always turns out bright and catchy, so you need to take into account the fact that upon returning from vacation you will probably bring it to work, where you can hardly wear such bright nails.
Marine manicure with a pattern
It’s impossible to imagine a nautical-themed manicure without the appropriate designs. Anchors, palm trees, inhabitants of the deep sea, shells, etc. will look spectacular. The choice depends only on your imagination.
Anchors and steering wheels
What do you associate the sea with? Many will probably answer with ships or sea cruises. Therefore, a nautical-themed manicure can be diversified with the image of an anchor or a ship’s wheel. If you are not sure that you can draw them perfectly, you can simply use the appropriate stickers. And those who are not afraid of painstaking work can even lay out their images from small beads.
Anchors will look good if they are drawn on top of horizontal stripes or even added to a French manicure. Traditionally, anchors are painted blue or black. But they turn out no less impressive if they are depicted in gold or red.
Sea waves
The image of a sea wave can not only lift your spirits on a hot summer day, but also complement your summer look. Of course, if you have the talent of an artist, you can easily draw the water element yourself. If not, then you can safely use the stamping technique.
In the form of waves, you can make a hole or a smile in a French or moon manicure. To do this, it is enough to depict them in the form of sea scallops in blue, white or light blue.
Fashionable vest
The image of a sailor will certainly attract the attention of others. In addition, striped manicure will be especially popular this summer. To make the lines smooth and clear, you can use tape or stamping. Horizontal stripes can fill the entire nail plate or just its edges. This way you will get a stylish nautical jacket.
Multi-colored horizontal stripes will make your manicure unusual. You can apply any marine pattern or decor on top.
Sea inhabitants
Your nails will become a real work of art if you decorate them with a beautiful pattern or appliqué of the inhabitants of the deep sea. You just need to choose who it will be: a turtle, a starfish, a crab, a coral or an ordinary shell.
You can stick an image of a goldfish on one accent nail. Cover all other fingers with blue or snow-white varnish. A dolphin or blue whale painted with a brush will look impressive.
Golden Beach
Don't forget about the seashore. To do this, use golden shimmer, which will smoothly transition into a white-blue coating. This way you will get the effect of a wave that rolls onto the warm sand. Alternatively, you can cover only one finger with shimmer, while all the others are painted with blue varnish.
A scattering of golden stones will help create a beach mood. These can be sequins, bouillons, kamifubuki, glitter, etc. A starfish or shell will add realism to the picture.
Palm trees
You can draw a palm tree on top on a blue background. They look incredibly impressive against a gradient background.
Shells
They are one of the most marine symbols, so shells are ideal for a marine-style manicure. Among their advantages is that there are no restrictions in such a design. That is, you can apply the shell only to your ring finger or decorate absolutely all your nails with them. Whatever you choose, the effect will be amazing.
The marine theme in nail art is quite diverse, so it does not prevent girls from showing their imagination. And beautiful and well-groomed hands with a themed manicure will certainly attract the attention of others.
Which nautical style manicure would you choose?
Making a “shell” at home
The step-by-step technique for creating a nail design with gel polish with shells is as follows:
- We prepare the nails for gel polish coating: push back and remove the cuticle, remove the natural gloss from the nails and apply a degreaser (primer).
- We apply a gel polish base to the nails and send it to polymerize in the lamp.
- We cover the nails under the shells with white in two layers, drying each of them in a lamp. I used Vogue Nails Snow Avalanche gel polish. Colored gel polish in light colors is applied to the remaining nails until a dense color is obtained. In my case, this is Patrisa Nail gel polish from the Avangard collection number 320, applied in two layers.
- Next, you need to make the surface of the nails matte. To do this, you can use a special matte top for gel polish or buff the surface of your nails by first covering them with a regular top. I recommend the matte topcoat, as it also works as a topcoat, thereby simplifying the work.
- Let's start working with shells. First of all, you need to secure the rhinestones. To do this, apply a transparent top coat with a thin brush, onto which we will attach them. We apply the top only in the place where the rhinestones will be placed. Now we carefully place them in the chosen position. To do this, you can use a special pencil for rhinestones, but I have already gotten the hang of catching them with an orange stick. In my design, I used a combination of Swarovski rhinestones, bouillons and special beads, which remind me very much of pink pearls. After laying out and leveling, we send it to dry in a lamp.
- To secure the rhinestones, we once again pass a transparent topcoat between them and along the edges, and dry them in a lamp.
- To draw the lines of a shell, it is best to use a thick gel paint without a sticky layer. If the gel paint has a sticky layer, then the technology requires it to be covered with a top coat, which will smooth out the volume of the design, but we don’t need this. Lines are drawn converging from the edges of the nail towards the rhinestones using a fine nail art brush. When everything is ready, put it in the lamp to dry for 2 minutes. This completes the design.
