How to draw a girl on nails
One of the most popular designs associated with a person's nails is the girl's back design.
To complete the work you will need:
- thin brush;
- colors of blue, brown, yellow, red, white.
Technique for how to draw a girl on nails:
- Before you start applying the design, you should make the background with white varnish or shellac. This way the drawing will be very well emphasized on the fingers.
- Now you need to start drawing. You need to draw the back and arms with beige color.
- Use blue paints to paint a dress.
- Next, mix brown and beige and draw a stripe of shadow on the back.
- Use a top coat without a sticky layer to blend the strip.
- Draw an outline with brown color and shade it on the inside of the arm.
- Make a shadow on the neck and blend.
- Using dark blue color draw a shadow on the dress.
- Next you need to draw the head. This work shows a brunette with a long ponytail.
- Mixing a transparent top with sparkles can perfectly decorate a girl's dress.
- Strengthen the shadow on the neck and outline the dress.
- The work is ready!
Features of applying faces to nails
A few tips to make painting your nails easier:
- Before you start drawing a face, you need to practice on paper. Even an experienced painter sometimes finds it difficult to reproduce such a drawing in a small size.
- Much attention should be paid to the proportions of the face. Despite the reduced format, they should replicate the real ones.
- The ideal background for the picture is white. It is worth applying it before work, and also walking over it with a buff to create a rough surface.
- Another valuable life hack that helps many artists is the use of a simple pencil, which makes it very easy to sketch out the main features of the face. It is also easy to erase them: to do this, you need to dip a brush in degreaser and go over the unwanted stroke.
- You can also remove an unnecessary element using the background color - all you need is a thin brush and the desired shade.
- If the work is done with gel polish, then it is better to dry the nail in a lamp after painting each large element. This way you can avoid blurring the lines.
Masters also advise painting faces using contrasting shades. This way you can draw even more attention to your hands. An example of a face design on a nail is shown in the photo:
Exclusive design ideas from Instagram
Owners of Instagram accounts choose a manicure that looks good in the photo. Stamping is indispensable in this regard. Any drawing will be accurate and neat, even when shooting closely.
Photos of interesting silhouettes on nails
Today there are many options for depicting faces and silhouettes in manicure. Many girls draw cartoon characters, singers and actors on their hands, and sometimes such portraits become real masterpieces.
Tools for drawing a beautiful manicure with a face
Among the abundance of manicure tools, we can highlight those that will make painting girls on their nails much easier. These include:
- Thin brush. Without it, it’s hard to imagine creating almost any design on your nails. Masters call this a striper, and its main feature is considered to be the creation of thin lines.
- Dotter. It is a point brush, which is sometimes indispensable in creating the whole image of a girl on her nails. Its tip, a metal ball, is good for drawing “polka dots” on dresses.
- Prints for stamping. With their help it is easy to create an interesting design. Nail artists even came up with prints with images of faces - so, in a few seconds you can leave a mark on the nail without using a large number of brushes.
- Glitter is another indispensable thing when creating interesting work. Small particles come in a round jar, making it very convenient to use these glitters on your nails. They perfectly complement and highlight a girl's dress.
- Needle. Yes Yes! It is this tool that will help in drawing the smallest details.
Technique for applying face designs to nails
In order to make the process of creating a face on your nails easier, nail artists have created a special training card with which you can test the image and perfect it before applying it to the nail plate.
Advice! This stencil can be printed on a printer at home.
Masters advise first to practice and hone small details. And you can also use those acrylic paints that you don’t mind.
To begin with, it is better to draw the outline (oval) of the face, then paint the space inside. Small details need to be painted with a thin 00 brush. Although this seems very simple, it actually takes a lot of practice to get the desired result.
This training map will help you draw a girl’s body:
Combination of Abstraction with other types of nail designs
The advantage of Abstract design is that it can be easily combined with many types and techniques of nail design. This gives it a unique style and bright individuality in design. Let's look at some of these combinations.
Abstraction combined with Geometry design
The most popular nail design styles are, of course, “Abstraction” and “Geometry”. Fashionistas all over the globe have been giving their preference to them for several years now. That's why the combination of these two styles is so popular in nail studios.
The combination of Abstract designs with various geometric shapes makes the manicure, on the one hand, stylish and strict, and on the other hand, abstraction gives it freedom and lightness. You can endlessly fantasize with this type of design and make absolutely unique designs on your nails.
We can say that Abstract geometric design in manicure also inherited the styles of abstract fine art.
They can be divided into the following areas:
- The intersection of straight and broken lines, the decomposition of objects into cubes and their overlay on each other. These variants of abstract geometric design are classified as cubism.
- Combinations of large rectangles, clearly separated by perpendicular lines of black and painted in local colors of the main spectrum - yellow, blue, red - with the addition of white and gray tones. These variants of abstract geometric design are classified as neoplasticism.
- Refraction of light rays and their play in sunlight. The effect is similar to that of a kaleidoscope. These variants of abstract geometric design are referred to as Rayonism.
- A combination of lines and simple geometric shapes colored in different colors (square, circle, triangle, rectangle), superimposed on each other in different orders. These variants of abstract geometric design are classified as supermatism.
French combined with abstraction
A French manicure can be an original type of nail design if done in an abstract style. For example, it turns out incredibly stylish if, in the classic French version, the tips of the nails are decorated in the style of abstract geometry in black and white. An abstract French manicure with black nail tips is somewhat reminiscent of the Gothic style.
Another interesting option for making a French jacket is to make the main background nude and draw abstract patterns on the tips. Or draw the tips of your nails with two beveled triangles of different colors. These triangles or abstract patterns can be made both in bright colors and in black and white. It will turn out very unusual and interesting.
Alternatively, you can add some abstract geometric shapes to one or two nails. Or decorate a couple of nails with foil. You can add bouillon or glitter to the design.
Abstraction combined with Ombre and Quail Egg designs
The “Quail Egg” manicure design, or as it is also called “Paint Splatter”, in itself already looks like an Abstract painting. You can decorate all your nails with this design or focus on two or three nails.
Nails look very unusual and impressive if you apply two or three bright strokes of gel polish to a bare nail. And on top decorate all the nails or several of them with the “Quail Egg” design. You can also add geometric shapes, abstract faces or floral abstraction.
Often, to create an unusual, eye-catching Abstraction, manicurists use the Ombre design technique. These smooth transitions from one color to another will not leave any girl indifferent.
Abstraction combined with Brush Strokes design
Nail design “Brush strokes” is an equally interesting and effective design technique. The strokes themselves already resemble some kind of artistic Abstraction.
Manicurists often add Strokes to the composition of an Abstract manicure. This results in an even more unique design.
For example, you can apply several strokes of gel polish to a bare nail and draw a twig with leaves, lines, dots or an abstract face on top of these strokes.
Abstraction in the style of "Minimalism"
If you like a light, laconic manicure without frills, then Abstract manicure in the “Minimalism” style is what you need. For example, you can apply a light base to all nails, and on one or two nails make neat, subtle geometric designs or abstract faces.
An excellent choice would be a manicure on a light camouflage base with floral abstraction and dots in beige and black and white colors. Nails in a nude shade with delicate yellow-blue abstractions on two nails will also look great.
Drawing of a ballerina girl on nails
Now a beautiful dress can be worn not only as clothing, but also in nail design. Here are a few steps, following which you can get a delicate and beautiful drawing of a ballerina:
- The base color is a color called Blueberry Milk. One nail is painted white.
- Using a thin brush and a pale beige color, start drawing the body.
- Next is an image of hair. First, you should draw a dark outline, then paint over and shade the space with a light shade.
- When starting on the dress, highlight the back and waist with a dark color, and also darken the lower contours of the tutu.
- Blend the color with the top and combine with the back. Use a dark shade to work out the folds.
- Shade along the contour of the body and back with dark beige.
- You can also add a black outline. This will make the drawing brighter and more noticeable on a white background.
- Each stage (except for shading) is dried in a lamp. To finish, add white highlights to the hair and cover the design with a top coat.
Abstract manicure for summer, autumn, winter and spring
Summer manicure “Abstraction” this year will be relevant in both bright colors and calmer pastel colors. Abstract summer manicure in neon, yellow, orange and pink colors is very popular. For example, you can cover all your nails with bright orange polish, and on one or two nails paint abstract wavy lines in different bright colors.
Autumn manicure with an Abstract design will be relevant in warm and neutral autumn shades. For example, this fall the trending colors in manicure will be red, cherry, chocolate, cinnamon and gold. For example, it will look beautiful if you cover all your nails except your big toes with red polish with a matte finish. Cover large nails with thick white gel polish and draw an abstract geometric pattern on them with black gel paint, while painting several triangles inside the design with red and silver polish.
The winter trendy version of Abstract manicure is a combination of blue, white, gray, silver, khaki and black. For example, it will look stylish and elegant if the nails on one hand are completely covered with black varnish with a matte finish. And on the other hand, cover it with white camouflage. Apply one large abstract stroke of black on top of the white color, and sprinkle with pieces of gold foil.
In the spring, Abstract manicure in light pastel shades of pink, coral, beige and various versions of lilac, green, mint and soft pink will be in fashion. For example, a manicure in a soft lilac shade with two bare nails in the center will look advantageous. On these nails you can make a couple of large strokes of white and soft lilac varnish. On top of one nail draw an abstraction in the form of a face or silhouette, and on the other - dots.
Drawing a silhouette on nails with a needle
Using this instrument requires some experience from the performer. Therefore, it is better for beginners to learn how to decorate only one or two nails with a needle, since the work is quite painstaking and takes a long time. It is worth acquiring varnishes of various shades, a whole set of needles of different lengths and sizes. To draw the contour of the body - a large needle, for facial features and eyes - a thin tool. Toothpicks can be a good alternative to needles. With their help, you can easily make small dots and spots.
In order for the drawing to turn out well, it is worth sanding the nail well. A nail file or buff will help you do this at home. Next, a base is applied to level the surface of the plate. Then the first layer is applied, after which the nail dries, the second is covered.
Advice! Before applying the design, the varnish must dry thoroughly, as the needle will stick and can ruin the coating.
When the coating is completely dry, it is worth applying the silhouette of a girl or face, as well as a dress or other paraphernalia, which a needle will help to accomplish.
