Rubbing technology
First prepare the nail plate:
- Remove or move the cuticle.
- Use a buff to buff your nails.
- Be sure to degrease your nails with alcohol, boric acid, or nail polish remover.
- Apply the base coat and wait until it dries well.
- Apply colored gel polish without top coat.
- Now the important step is to apply a top coat without a sticky layer and dry it in a lamp. It cannot be over-dried, but it also cannot be under-dried. If you have an LED lamp, dry for 20-30 seconds. If the lamp is UF -1.5-2 minutes. If the lamp is 2 in 1 -UF-LED, then dry for 30 seconds.
- And immediately start rubbing onto the hot gel polish after the lamp, don’t hesitate for a minute. Use the applicator that comes with the rub, or an eyeshadow applicator, a cosmetic sponge, or just your fingertip.
- Using an orange stick or any brush you have, remove excess glitter from around the side ridges and cuticles.
- Next, apply a finishing coat to your nails, you can use a regular one with a sticky layer.
- Then dry the top and remove the sticky layer with a special liquid for removing the sticky layer.
Types of rubs for pedicure
#1 Shellac pedicure with glitter: stylish everyday design
Glitter will help show the depth of the coating and visually enlarge small nails. Use silver and gold glitter, rainbow sparkles and other shiny decor for your design.
You can do a glitter pedicure yourself. For example, a design with geometry can be easily diluted with glitter. To do this, just draw straight lines with glitter or fill individual parts of the design with it. Stylists recommend that you definitely get transparent gel polishes with glitter. They will help revive any nail art, even the lightest and most translucent.
#5 Pedicure shellac and foil
Do you want to get a stylish and discreet nail design? Then choose manicure foil as decoration. A pedicure with foil looks well-groomed and neat, can be done in a matter of minutes, and harmonizes perfectly with a manicure using the same technique.
On dark gel polish, use rainbow and multi-colored foil. It looks especially beautiful on a black matte finish. Silver, gold, and rainbow foil looks beautiful on a light background. To make the foil texture look even brighter, be sure to cover it with a glossy topcoat.
Fashion ideas
There are endlessly many interesting options for this nail design. And by learning how to do a pedicure yourself, you too can create new, unique creations. Well, if you don’t want to invent anything, look at the following interesting design methods.
Gel polish with rhinestones
This pedicure always looks rich. In addition, if fixed correctly, the rhinestones will last as long as the varnish itself.
Gel polish with rhinestones
French with rhinestones
When performing a French pedicure, the base of a large nail can be laid out with pebbles, and glued one or two at a time to the remaining nails. For a lunar jacket, the rounded line of the edge is laid out with small rhinestones, and the background is chosen to be contrasting with the shade of the jewelry. Very often, the accent from a set of rhinestones is placed on the nails of the ring fingers.
French pedicure with rhinestones
painting
In combination with stones, such a pedicure looks like a work of art. Floral, marine, abstract and any other motifs can be successfully decorated with rhinestones.
Pattern decorated with rhinestones
Summer pedicure
The summer version of a pedicure is full of color and an explosion of imagination. You can use bright ornaments, a rainbow transition from nail to nail, multi-colored polka dots, etc. Decorations such as multi-colored small stones are perfect for a summer pedicure. In the sun they will shimmer with all colors.
Summer pedicure with rhinestones
New Year's pedicure
In this case, rhinestones are just perfect. Their shine will be thematically most harmonious. You can decorate your nails with picturesque frosty patterns with shiny stones or create a French manicure in New Year's colors (white-blue or white-red-green) with a scattering of stones.
New Year's pedicure with rhinestones
Various options for inlaying toenails with rhinestones are presented in this video:
What types of rhinestones are there?
Rhinestones are shiny jewelry of different sizes that imitate precious stones . Various materials are used for their manufacture: plastic, glass, zirconium, rock crystal. These decorative pebbles have two sides: flat, which is glued to the base, and convex, which creates the decor.
Rhinestones come in a variety of shapes, sizes and colors:
- round, oval, teardrop-shaped, polygonal, square;
- large, medium, small;
- colorless and painted in any color or shade.
Such a wide range of varieties of this decoration makes it possible to create a unique shimmering decor each time.
A pedicure with rhinestones is a way to stand out.
Rhinestones in pedicure are a very common phenomenon, since they have no particular disadvantages. If the decorations were glued correctly, then there is nothing to be afraid of them clinging to everything, getting in the way and coming off. An exception may be large stones, which are intended only for special occasions.
Do not use this type of pedicure for everyday purposes. Shoes and stress will do their job, and the rhinestones will most likely fall off quickly.
#6 Pedicure and manicure in the same style
Nail artists are still arguing about whether it is worth doing pedicures and manicures in the same style. A few seasons ago, such a decision was unanimously recognized as bad manners, but today girls are increasingly making the same design on their arms and legs to achieve a harmonious and complete look.
The only caveat to the same design is that it does not have to be absolutely identical. Create a similar nail design with the same accents on the hands and feet, use the same shades of gel polish. The identical design is especially relevant in summer looks.
Shellac pedicure is a simple and stylish solution for nail decoration. Having completed the design in this high-quality coating, you will not think about your feet for at least 3 weeks. With shellac your legs will always look stylish and attractive.
