Manicure with sliders: what is it, how to do it, photo

What are nail sliders

Slider is a sticker used in manicure decoration. The image is applied to a thin film and glued to the backing along with other similar pictures.

The decorative element received its name due to its ability to slide over the nail during the decoration process: “to slide” is literally translated from English as “to slide.”

Advantages:

if the artist does not have outstanding artistic abilities, stickers will become an alternative to hand painting;
do not peel off;
make manicure interesting and original.

Comment! The stickers are easy to use and designing with them is not difficult.

A manicure with a slider design is shown in the photo below.

How to glue a sticker on gel polish

Before you start gluing, you need to prepare your nails. Thoroughly clean the nail plate from old varnish and file the edges to make your nails look neat and beautiful. Before applying the varnish, the nail is thoroughly degreased with a cotton swab dipped in alcohol.

Step-by-step manicure with nail sliders.

Apply two layers of gel polish to the nail in advance. It should dry well and have no flaws.

It is easy to stick a slider onto such a surface, following the following instructions:

Before separating the sticker from the backing, you need to attach it to the nail and cut off the excess parts of the slider with scissors;
take the sticker with tweezers and immerse it in a jar of water for 30 seconds;
carefully transfer the moistened sticker to the surface of the nail;
carefully smooth it out with a cotton swab so that there are no unevenness or bubbles.

After carrying out all these procedures, making sure that the sticker lies absolutely flat, the fixing layer is applied.

Types of nail sliders

The classification of nail stickers is conditional. Depending on the coverage of the nail surface by the pattern, masters distinguish the following types:

sticker for the entire nail. Creates a sense of design integrity. This type of decor is recommended to be used to decorate one or two fingers;
small sliders, most often on a transparent base, forming a small pattern.

Based on the principle of using a certain type of sticker base, the following types of decorative elements are distinguished:

drawings on a transparent backing. When you paste a picture, the color and texture of the varnish shines through it. This decor can be small in size or for the entire nail;
images on a dense basis. Usually they completely cover the entire nail; neither the color nor the structure of the varnish is visualized underneath. They are glued to a white or any other substrate.

Different types of slider manicure are shown in the photo below.

Nail designs with stickers 2020

One of the brightest transitional trends in 2022 is photo nail design. This is the application of a real image to the nail plate. The material is a pattern printed on film on a thin but durable cardboard base. The vinyl-based foam is so thin that it is completely invisible on the nail, and you get the feeling that the design is very carefully drawn.

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All kinds of nail stickers are also in great demand. In 2022, simple patterns, horizontal and vertical stripes, and broken lines will be popular. The hits of autumn are umbrellas, mushrooms, raindrops and animals. Winter manicure loves snowflakes, Christmas trees, snowmen and bullfinches. Spring flowers, dew drops and insects. In summer, tropical design is popular - a variety of fruits and berries, palm leaves and exotic birds.

Nails should be well treated using classic hygiene procedures, such as an untrimmed manicure. And the area of the design photo must be precisely determined by size so as not to remove excess film from the nail.

Features of nail design with sliders

Manufacturers of adhesive designs recommend combining gel polish with the slider. A product that is not gel-based has less strong adhesion to the composition necessary to fix the decor. In this regard, the sticker on regular varnish will not stick well and will eventually come off completely.

Applying a slider design to gel polish does not require any special skills; any girl can do it. If you can’t position the image perfectly straight, you have time to move the illustration before the composition hardens.

Features of the described design:

practical. A flat image, unlike rhinestones, sugar marigolds, stones and some other types of decor, does not cling to anything and does not interfere with daily household chores;
durable. If the technology for creating a slider design is followed, the stickers do not lag behind the plate;
individual. A huge number of images offered in salons allows you to choose your own and place it on any nails you like, making the manicure unique.

Beautiful nail sliders, applied tastefully and appropriately, will decorate even the most modest monochromatic manicure.

Comment! Nail service specialists recommend placing adhesive pictures not on all nails, but highlighting only a few fingers so that the design does not look rough.

Slider and regular varnish

Unlike gel polish, regular polish lasts only a few days. But girls more often design with stickers using regular varnish. After all, the same drawing gets boring, but updating it won’t be difficult. You can make a French jacket with sliders at home:

They prepare the nails, correct their shape, polish the surface so that it becomes smooth.
A layer of colorless varnish is applied. You need to wait for it to dry, otherwise it will be difficult to draw French smiles.
In the case of a French manicure, it is recommended to glue sliders only on the ring finger. Thick stickers with floral prints are best for this. Before applying the slider, the surface of the nail is painted over again so that the sticker is well fixed.

French can be painted in any color. The most delicate designs are white, pink, blue and turquoise. You can use special stencils to draw smiles. The top of the nail must be covered with another layer of colorless varnish.

Thus, sliders on nails look beautiful and original. At the same time, you can glue them yourself in just a few minutes. As a result, it becomes possible to update your manicure even daily.

Manicure ideas with sliders

Stickers can be used with almost any type of design. Manicurists combine pictures:

with French manicure, classic or non-traditional;
lunar design;
matte top;
rhinestones, stones.

Sometimes a nail specialist complements the finished image with hand painting if the idea for the manicure was unusual and requires exclusivity of the illustration.

French with sliders

Adding stickers to a classic manicure (French design) will dilute the look, making it interesting.

A traditional French manicure consists of highlighting the tip of the nail, extending beyond the finger, in white, while the rest of the surface is covered with a nude shade of varnish: soft pink, beige. The slider is glued:

to the part not filled with white;
locally, going to the smile line;
on a separate finger completely, wanting to highlight it (in this case, use a pattern with a dense base).

Manicure with sliders and flowers

Floral motifs are one of the trends of the new season. Flowers are hand-painted using stamping stencils and adhesive pictures.

Roses, lilies, daisies, tulips are the most popular flowers for illustrations. Sliders allow you to convey the image as realistically as possible, making the manicure lively and unusual.

In addition to natural floral projection, stickers can be represented by a general schematic design of flowers.

Nail design with sliders and rhinestones

The technique of applying a slider design to gel polish is harmoniously combined with shiny small stones - rhinestones. This manicure looks festive and bright, it is chosen for celebrations and relaxation.

The outline of the design is decorated with rhinestones, they are placed in a chaotic order, and the nails with a monochromatic coating are laid out with stones.

Matte nails with sliders

The matte top has not lost popularity for several seasons in a row. The technology for its creation is simple: the finished manicure is coated with a composition that does not impart gloss to the surface, but dulls the shine.

Matte nails combined with pasted pictures are a simple but effective solution.

Moon manicure with slider design

Lunar design involves highlighting an area at the base of the nail (lunula) with a different color, rhinestones, decorative elements, leaving it blank (transparent).

A manicure with a crescent at the base of the nail suits everyone and is considered a design classic, otherwise it is called “reverse French.”

Advice! The lunar design makes the fact of nail growth less noticeable.

If it is known in advance that the next visit to the nail studio will not be soon, nail art masters often recommend just such a design.

Lunar manicure, like a French manicure, is harmoniously combined with adhesive designs.

For long nails

Soft pink design with dried flowers. When using dried flowers, it is important to securely fix them, or better yet, make them part of the aquarium design.

Hand painted flowers to match the background.

One of the common options is the image of lavender.

A volume effect can be created by drawing borders with a thick layer of gel polish or gel.

Green design with acrylic sculpting.

Small flowers are a fashionable and common nail design.

Single large flowers are no less popular.

White and yellow design for almonds.