Modern fashion provides great opportunities for the selection of colors in clothes and manicure. No need to strictly comply color compatibility rules, you can afford bold and daring combinations. This especially affects the area of nail art, where it is allowed not to be tied in color to the style of clothing and haberdashery.
For example, a manicure for a burgundy dress can be unexpected green or blue shades, which this season are trendy combinations with burgundy varnish.
Features of manicure under a burgundy dress
Manicure for a burgundy dress is selected depending on the style of the model and the event for which it is intended. The shade of burgundy color that the material has is also of great importance.
Burgundy color options:
| Shade | Possible combinations in manicure |
| Pink-burgundy | Creates delicate and romantic designs, suitable for the spring-summer season, but when combined with neon shades of orange and emerald, it becomes much brighter and more extravagant. |
| Coral burgundy | A bright and rich hue, combined with any color, creates vibrant designs that are suitable for parties and will be out of place within the office style. |
| Red-burgundy | It belongs to the Christmas scale and is considered a classic shade, closest in tone to red, therefore it cannot be combined with it, it creates bright options for designs with black and white colors. |
| Ruby burgundy | Often used in manicure with gold or silver decor, it is used as a mono color in design, it does not go well with all dark shades, it combines well with pink and light brown in geometric and abstract manicure designs. |
| Dark burgundy | A dark color that hardly contrasts with black and gray, but due to its neutral properties, it combines well with all bright, light shades. |
To correctly assess the color of the fabric of the dress, it is necessary to examine it in the light of the sun, since any artificial lighting visually changes its shade. After that, you need to choose the color of the base varnish of a burgundy shade, which will be as close as possible to the tone of the dress.
After that, a design drawing and other shades of gel polishes are selected, starting not from the color of the dress, but from the selected base shade of the gel polish.
Burgundy color of any shade goes well with bright shiny decor. Complex inlays of large rhinestones look exquisite against a burgundy background. Decorating with multi-colored tear-off foil also allows you to create an eye-catching manicure (a description of possible decorating options is given below in the article).
Lacquer colors matching burgundy dress
A manicure for a burgundy dress can be made monochromatic by choosing a similar shade of gel polish. To add variety to a solid color design, it can be decorated with rhinestones or foil. Often, masters offer clients a burgundy matte manicure. This color looks very elegant after removing the external gloss.
Combinations of burgundy base color with other shades:
- With pink: to create designs, it is recommended to select soft, pastel shades of pink that will harmoniously combine with the base burgundy color due to the presence of one tone in the base - red.
- With red: these colors practically do not contrast with each other, therefore they are rarely used simultaneously in manicure (if bright scarlet acts as a red tone, then such combinations are possible, especially if there is a third color - black), it is possible to use them to create gradients.
- With orange: a trendy combination for this season, in which a bright orange color looks softer and warmer against a burgundy base gel polish, the combination goes well with a third color - white or black.
- With yellow and gold: they are considered antagonists of burgundy in both color and heat range, therefore they are used to create avant-garde, defiant designs, often used in the form of imprinting gold foil on a basic burgundy background.
- With green: this season, a combination of pastel green tones with a burgundy color is popular, this combination looks especially organic in design against a background of dark burgundy gel polish, it is not used in combination with bright, neon shades of green.
- With blue: combinations with classic blue are practically not used in design, however, combinations with gray-blue shades or pastel blue can create strict and elegant manicure designs.
- With brown: the combination with this color cannot provide a bright contrast, but with this combination soft, warm abstractions or gradients are created that can serve as a neutral background for decorating with rhinestones or act as a standalone design after overlapping with a matte top.
For a burgundy dress, you need to select a design, taking into account the style of manicure. For an evening dress, you can choose bright, eye-catching shades of varnish. For the office style, calmer and more traditional color combinations are selected.
Fashion trends and new items 2020 for burgundy manicure
Today, trends in manicure design suggest bold combinations of contrasting shades, it is possible to complement the design with bright decor - foil, rhinestones, kamifubiki, glitter.
5 stylish designs popular for the 2020 season:
- Dark burgundy manicure with holographic kamifubiki: dark shades of burgundy are chosen for the background coating. The coating is applied over the entire length of the nail and dried in an LED lamp for at least 60 seconds (dark shades of gel polishes have a longer polymerization time). On the sticky layer of gel polish, using dots or an orange stick, kamifubiki of different diameters are installed in random order. You can put them more tightly at the cuticle and stretch them with a smaller decor diameter to the free edge. For decoration, it is recommended to choose kamifubiki with a holographic effect, which do not have a specific color, but shimmer in different shades when exposed to sunlight.
- Decorating with a strip of small rhinestones: such decor is made with rhinestones of white or light shade, which are surrounded by silver broths, imitating a piece of jewelry. Such a strip can be made in the center of the nail plate along its entire length. It is also performed diagonally, but in this option it is necessary to especially carefully align the edge of such an imitation so that it is even, and this is often beyond the power of novice craftsmen.
- Geometry using white cobweb gel polish: fast and stylish design offered by the masters in the salons. If desired, it can be decorated with small rhinestones. Lines are made in the form of straight lines or pounced on the nail like a string of beads.
- Printing different color foil: on the base background, which is made with a burgundy shade of gel polish, foil of several colors is randomly imprinted to obtain shiny spots. The design can be applied in several stages, layering the foil, but then you need a special glue for the foil.
- Smear design: such a design is usually performed on 2 fingers of one hand, the rest of the nails are covered with a solid burgundy color. Two fingers (ring and middle) are covered with a camouflage base, on which strokes are made with a thin brush with several colors of gel polish (white, burgundy, pastel blue or any nude shade). Above the design can be supplemented with black drawing or stamping.
To make a manicure look stylish and elegant, as a rule, only 2-3 fingers are decorated on one hand. However, this is not a prerequisite, today's fashion relies on the choice of the mistress of the manicure. If you wish, you can decorate all fingers with kamifubiki or foil.
Which manicure is right
In the 2020 season, preference is given to short oval or round nails. However, lovers of the classic form of nails "almond" choose it for themselves for an average length of nails. A manicure in burgundy shades is suitable for any shape of nails, but has some peculiarities depending on their length.
Manicure under a burgundy dress for long nails:
- inlaid with rhinestones or imitation of a gem in a frame (performed on the ring finger and located along the nail plate);
- stamping in the form of plant decoration - branches, leaves, flower arrangements along the nail, placed in the center or at the side roller;
- stretching with gold or silver glitter - glitters are applied in a dense layer near the cuticle, then stretched with a semi-dry thin brush to the end of the nail;
- decorating with kamifubiki of different sizes, when more large confetti are located at the cuticle, and the decor of a smaller diameter is located at the edge of the nail.
For short nails:
- decoration with gold or silver ribbons on a burgundy background (strips must be glued along the nail in order to visually increase its length);
- geometric patterns in the style of minimalism, which are made with the help of “cobweb” gel and dots (they are performed using dots of different diameters or you can use the sharp end of an orange stick);
- plain matt manicure;
- combination of a solid burgundy color on 3 fingers of one hand and abstraction with other colors on 2 fingers (as colors for abstraction, you can pick up contrasting colors that are considered fashionable in this season).
Depending on the appearance of the hair color, which are in trend in 2020:
- "dusk" - a combination of natural dull shades, for example, ash gray and golden, often this combination is additionally colored with purple strands (it goes well with manicure designs in burgundy tones with golden decor);
- "Raid of the 2000s" - a combination of contrasting light and dark shades horizontally (in combination with burgundy manicure, bright, extravagant images are created);
- "Fruity red" - the combination of bright scarlet with white, in itself looks defiant and in combination with burgundy manicure, bold, daring images are created that will suit confident girls;
- Cabernet - hair color involves dyeing in a muted red tone (it goes well with burgundy designs, especially in combination with rhinestones or other shiny decor).
Owners of less radical dyes can also be in trend by creating "lightened strands", which are considered the highlight of the season. To do this, there is no need to change the natural hair color, it is enough to lighten the strands by several tones. In this case, a burgundy manicure will be combined with fashionable coloring.
Tips & Tricks
According to the Pantone Color Institute, the following shades are popular in 2020:
- orange-scarlet (warm fiery);
- pastel blue with combinations of white (shabby denim);
- rich brown (cinnamon stick);
- bright yellow (classic saffron);
- emerald green (Biscay green).
Basic guidelines for making designs based on burgundy color:
- for an evening style, choose contrasting shades - warm fiery with burgundy or Biscay green with a dark burgundy shade;
- the trendy shade of “shabby denim” in combination with burgundy is chosen to create a background for graphic designs or as a canvas for attaching sliders with text;
- for strict office designs, especially for a short length of nails, when decorating with ribbons, you need to place them along the nail plate, and not horizontally;
- it is not recommended to combine burgundy shades with classic blue;
- you can combine burgundy with red in horizontal and vertical gradients to make the manicure brighter, it is recommended to design on long nails and use an intermediate white shade;
- the burgundy shade goes well with peach and brown, these designs are suitable for any style of clothing.
Before performing a manicure, which is planned to be created for the style of a burgundy dress, you need to decide on 3 main factors:
- accurately determine the shade of burgundy on the fabric of the dress;
- formulate a style - evening, casual or office;
- choose shades of varnish to match your hair color and hairstyle (the solution to this problem is especially important for special events).
After such an analysis of the situation, it will be possible to correctly choose the color and pattern of the nail design.
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