Manicure brushes: 100 photos and videos of varieties and description of brush care

Manicure brushes are the basis of a beautiful design. Moreover, even simple nail techniques will be difficult to perform if you do not take care of choosing a quality tool. The professional range of manicure paraphernalia offers a huge selection of accessories, so before purchasing nail brushes, you should understand which ones you need.

Type of brushes

A huge assortment of manicure tools is available in almost all cosmetic boutiques. They are sold individually or as a set.

Sets most often include all the necessary brushes designed to perform various tasks. Each brush has its own purpose.

A dotted or thin brush is used when fine details need to be applied. She draws patterns well. With such a thin manicure brush, you can also apply rhinestones or glitter quite easily.

A petal brush is needed for applying simple strokes and glitter. This tool has a flatter shape, unlike a point tool, and it also has a special corner.

You will need a fan brush for manicure when applying abstractions and landscapes. She can blend shades very well. It has a semicircle shape, which makes it quite easy to apply glitter.

Using a dagger-shaped brush, complex three-dimensional drawings can be easily created. The tool has a flat, beveled end that allows you to pick up several polishes.

A wide brush is necessary when you want to completely cover the surface of the nail with varnish.

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A tool that has a short pile at the end is most often used to draw curls of various shapes, as well as leaves.

The hair is available in piles of various lengths. With its help, more complex patterns are created: ornaments, animal drawings, straight lines.

You can easily notice the visual difference in the shapes and sizes of the bristles of each of the above tools in any photo of manicure brushes.

Simple Drawings for Beginners

Every girl can make an original design on her nails, even if she does not have artistic talent. All that is required for this is imagination and simple items that are found in every home: varnishes of different shades, nail polish remover, a cotton swab, a brush, a toothpick, a needle, etc.

Before you begin the process, you should prepare your hands for this. To do this, give them a bath with warm water and sea salt. By holding your fingertips in it for 15-20 minutes, you can easily tidy up your nail plate and cuticle. At the next stage, you need to lubricate your hands with any nourishing cream, waiting until completely absorbed.

Avoid getting the cream on the nail, otherwise the future design may be ruined.

The easiest way is to make dots, lines and other geometric shapes on your nails. They can be applied in an orderly or chaotic manner. At the very beginning, the nail is covered with a base color. After the varnish layer has dried, lines are drawn with a brush, and neat dots can be applied with a needle.

If you are not sure that the lines are perfect, you can use special stencils. As soon as the design dries, the nail is covered with a layer of fixative, which will help preserve the manicure longer.

There are special tools for applying dots. However, if you don’t have these at home, you can easily replace them with a needle, toothpick, hairpin or the refill of an old ballpoint pen.

Purpose of brushes

There are 4 main groups into which manicure brushes are divided depending on the material to be worked with.

Velvet monograms on nails

This kind of decor is created using flock or velvet for nails. It can be purchased at any store that sells nail decoration products.

Instructions for creating velvet monograms:

Cover your nails with a base coat and then with a base color polish.
Choose a paint that best matches the color of the flock. It is better to take paint without a sticky layer
Draw monograms with a thin brush, and while the paint is wet, sprinkle flock on your nails
Dry your nails in a lamp, remove the remaining velvet with a soft brush

Velvet monograms on nails

Acrylic brushes

Most often used for nail extensions. They are designed to help create the necessary bend and to model the shape.

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These brushes have a special bristle rigidity. It is very elastic and, when pressed, easily returns to its original form. The tip of this brush is very convenient for applying powder, creating a cuticle line.

Monograms on nails with gel polish

To draw monograms when coating nails with gel polish, gel paints or shellac are used.

Instructions for creating monograms with gel polish:

Cover the nail with a base coat and dry it in a UV lamp.
Apply basecoat and dry it. Take a brush and dip it into the gel polish or paint. Draw monograms
Dry in a UV lamp and remove the sticky layer. Cover with top
Dry in a lamp and remove the sticky layer

Monograms on nails with gel polish

Brush care

After we have told you what and what a manicure brush is for, let's talk about care.
Proper care is important when using any tool. Manicure brushes are no exception. The service life of your brushes directly depends on how you properly care for them. It is under no circumstances recommended to use manicure tools for anything else. Nail design only. Otherwise, sudden hair loss will begin.

Do not keep the manicure brush under water for too long. This deforms the original appearance of its pile shape.

If this happens, we recommend holding the tool under hot water for several minutes. This will help restore the original look.

To avoid the varnish drying on the bristles, the brush should be washed immediately after use. If the varnish dries, you will need acetone to remove it, which has a detrimental effect on the fibers.

Do not expose brush bristles to hot air from a hair dryer.

Before placing brushes in a special storage box, they must be thoroughly dried.

White monograms on nails

White monograms are often combined with French manicures and used in wedding designs. This is a successful technique that will allow you to make a unique drawing.

Instructions for drawing white monograms:

Cover your nails with base coat and let it dry.
Squeeze some white acrylic paint into the palette and start the pattern at the side rollers
After this, move towards the center of the nail. Try to press down on the brush at the very beginning, and then release it smoothly. So, you can make the lines very neat

White monograms on nails

Creation at home

For those new to nail art, we can recommend creating a manicure brush from a regular paint brush.

To create, you will only need ordinary tweezers and a paint brush itself. Using forceps, carefully remove the tufts of villi at the base of the brush, moving from the edge to the center.

You need to make sure that the brush is located in the center. We carefully process the resulting pile with scissors to the size and length we need. As a result, we get a completely complete tool for manicure. Caring for this brush is very basic.

Monograms on nails step by step

Initially, draw the main drawing from fairly thick lines. Typically, one brush is used to draw lines of different thicknesses. To achieve different thicknesses, the pressure applied to the tuft of brush hairs is adjusted.

Instructions for creating monograms:

You should start working from the side of the nail, that is, at the rollers. Initially, the nails are varnished and dried.
Next, put a small amount of paint on the brush and draw thick lines. Next, loosening the pressure, small curls of small thickness are drawn
The thickness of such lines can be equal to the thickness of a needle. To do this, use special “needle” brushes made of thin, long and elastic bristles.
The decor is complemented with dots or sparkles. Shiny lines go well with monograms
Finally, the nails are covered with a fixative.

Monograms on nails step by step

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Monograms on nails schemes

Schemes are used when drawing monograms with a needle. The diagrams show where the varnish is applied and the direction of movement of the needle. It's very convenient and simple. The diagrams are presented below.

Monograms on nails schemes

Scheme of drawing with a needle

Scheme for drawing monograms

Design and painting of nails with monograms

There are many options for monograms on nails. They all differ in degree of difficulty. Accordingly, at the initial stage it is worth choosing simpler options. After a little training, start making complex drawings. Many masters consider monograms a good practice, which helps to master the technique of working with a thin brush and calculate the pressure of pressure. In the future, this will allow you to master Chinese painting and complex drawings.

Design and painting of nails with monograms and a needle

Design and painting of nails with monograms

Monograms are an easy way to make your nails attractive and learn how to use a brush. This is a great way to master more complex drawings.

Training card for painting nails with monograms

There are special templates that you can use to learn how to draw monograms. These are diagrams that are not filled with paint, but only outlines are drawn. It is necessary to fill in the drawings with paint. This helps you master the technique of drawing monograms and get better at it. So, you can quickly and easily draw monograms on the nail plate.

Training card for painting nails with monograms