Manicure in purple tones for short and long nails with gel polish, shellac. A photo

Purple has a special place in the palette. It is located at the very end of the spectrum and combines two contrasting shades - the depth of blue and the passion of red. This is the mystical color of the riddle, the color of supreme power, passion and magic. It is this amazing color that has become one of the most relevant trends in nail art 2019-2020.

Purple manicure: fashion trends in 2019

The purple palette is rich in shades - almost 200 different variations with the addition of gray, red, pink, blue and blue tones. It features pale pastel colors like ice orchids to rich eggplant and blackberries. This allows you to feel free to experiment with the palette and combine notes of purple with many colors of the spectrum.

However, fashion trends are not limited to one color. Fashion extends to both shape and length of nails.

Nail length

There are no clear guidelines regarding the length of the nails today. Short manicure is still in fashion, as well as medium length nails, thanks to the desire for naturalness and naturalness.

Long nails are gradually returning their positions in fashion shows and in ordinary women, however, we are not talking about extreme, emphasized artificial length.

Nail shape

The shape of the nails must be selected not only following the trends, but also based on the natural shape and characteristics of the nail plate.

There are several basic forms of nails:

• square;
• oval;
• stylet;
• almond;
• pointe shoes;
• pipe;
• peak.

The shape of the peak remains irrelevant with extra-long nails... However, both on the catwalks and in salons, neat, slightly pointed nails and a more radical form of "pointe shoes" remain popular.

Lost their positions and strictly square nails. Most often, a softer oval-square or regular oval shape is chosen.

The most natural and universal is the almond shape of the nails. It suits almost everyone and always remains relevant.

Such a democratic choice of form allows you not to blindly adhere to fashion, ignoring your own tastes and convenience.

Light and dark shades of purple

A manicure in purple tones (the photos later in the article demonstrate the most unusual similar designs) has many shades. Any woman can choose her ideal tone, which will be combined with her color type, skin condition and age.

Successful color combinations

The violet palette and each of its shades are combined with a large number of colors of the spectrum suitable only for it. However, they are not combined with other tones of purple.A photo of a manicure in various tones of this color will help you choose the best option.

Helpful advice! When choosing a shade of purple, you should focus on your color type.

Saturated colors (purple, cyclamen) perfectly set off the bright cold beauty of women of the Winter and Summer color type. Sophisticated blended shades accentuate the subtle appearance of Spring and Autumn

Combinations of purple with other colors:

• red - a contrasting catchy combination (coral, ruby, garnet);
• orange - create an impressive contrast between cold and warm colors (peach, tangerine, pumpkin, honey);
• yellow - two complementary colors create an expressive and maximally saturated pair of shades (saffron, amber, sunny, lemon);
• green - purple is combined with both cold shades of this neutral color, creating a feeling of coolness and icy calm (mint, emerald, jade, patina color), and warm, which add depth to the basic tone (chartreuse, spring greens, light green, lime);
• blue and light blue - a cold calm pair (the color of a thrush's egg, topaz, turquoise, water color, heavenly);
• pink - due to the proximity of colors, the combination looks catchy, but harmonious (hot pink, magenta, fuchsia, lilac);
• brown - the pair will look vintage and somewhat old-fashioned (camel, chocolate, terracotta, brick);
• neutral - they set off the main tone, adding brightness (beige, creamy, light gray) and depth (anthracite, dark gray, black) to it.

Various shades of purple are harmoniously combined with each other - warm and cold, dark and light.

Accessories

This year, a neon gradient and a gradient on mirror and chrome nails, a monochrome volumetric manicure, an imitation of craquelure and textures on the nail plate, a knitted pattern and whole compositions of rhinestones and stones are in fashion.

Therefore, the design is actively used:

• decorative foil;
• glitters;
• sequins;
• acrylic powder and gels;
• kamifubuki;
• rhinestones;
• fonts for "newspaper manicure";
• rub-in pigments.

Technique for creating a manicure: a step-by-step description

Regular polish is good for strong healthy nails with a flat plate. But not all women can boast of such nails. Modern artificial coatings give a well-groomed and natural look to the most problematic nails.

Moreover, the components included in their composition take care of the nail plate, promote their growth and protect against adverse external influences.

Gel polish

This technique is performed as follows:

1. Buff over pre-treated nails to make them rough. Sweep away dust particles with a brush.
2. Align the edge of the nail and move the cuticle slightly.
3. Degrease the surface.
4. After a couple of seconds, gently apply the primer.
5. After 1 min. the first layer of the base is applied, cure in a lamp for 2 minutes.
6. Level the surface of the nail with a second layer and seal the free edge. Dry in a lamp for 2 minutes.
7. Apply the first thin coat of colored coating. You should start from the center of the nail and then smoothly approach the cuticle. Dry in a lamp for a couple of minutes.
8. Apply a second color coat, seal the ends and free edge. Dry in a lamp.
9. Cover with top.
10. Remove the sticky layer with a special liquid and lint-free wipes.

It is important! The darker the pigment, the longer it will take to dry in the lamp. Purple gel polish and especially purple sparkles are kept in the lamp for at least 2 minutes.

Shellac

The technique of applying shellac is no different from applying gel polish, because shellac is just a separate brand of gel polish from CND. Its main difference is in a special formula in which a mixture of UV and regular varnish is combined, which makes it possible not to thicken the coating layer and easily remove it without damaging the nail.

Its main advantage is hypoallergenicity, even texture and rich color, thanks to which it can be used even by women with very fragile and brittle nails.

Acrylic

Extension of nails with acrylic is now less and less common. Gel polish provides a much smoother, thinner and more natural finish. However, it cannot be said that acrylic has completely ceased to be used in nail art.

One of the newest techniques is a permanent gel manicure with acrylic powder.

Acrylic crushed into fine crumbs is mixed with minerals and vitamin supplements. Treated nails are covered with a base layer of gel polish, dried in a lamp, covered with a layer of powder, dried in a lamp and the remaining crumbs are brushed off. The top layer is leveled by grinding, covered with a top and dried.

This method allows you to create any surface - matte, transparent or shiny. Even neon fluorescent powder has been created for parties.

In addition to the basic beige, white and transparent options, powder comes in a variety of shades:

• yellow;
• pink;
• brown;
• blue;
• purple;
• green.

The main advantage of this technique is the care of the nail plate, a thin, almost imperceptible layer of coating. Acrylic powder adheres perfectly to the nails, it is less prone to chips and allows you to model the most complex patterns.

How to make a beautiful purple manicure: step by step instructions, ideas

Despite the fact that most of the most effective techniques seem difficult to perform, even beginners can follow simple rules.

Matte manicure in dark and light purple tones

The combination of matte and glossy textures in purple tones gives the manicure sophistication and aristocracy. Such nail art will be appropriate both in the office and at a party.

To make it less formal, you can combine not only textures, but shades of purple. In this case, a variety of techniques can be used - lunar and French manicure, geometric, dotted or floral patterns, monograms and casting. Or even easier - shiny purple foil in dark shades on a matte light purple base.

Drawings on purple manicure with gel polish

A manicure in purple tones (the photo clearly demonstrates this) looks especially interesting if it is performed using the dots technique - a dot pattern. It can be done on gel polish with a special thin brush with a ball at the end. It looks very impressive on a purple base, especially when combining bright colors: yellow, light green, blue, pink.

It is better to start the bitmap from the center with concentric circles. Depth of the picture will be given by nested points of a contrasting shade. It will not be difficult to draw a simple drawing in the form of a butterfly or a flower. It is worth remembering that you can apply the drawing on a wet and dry base.... In the first case, an interesting abstraction will turn out, and in the second, a clear pattern.

Glitter manicure

The most important thing in applying glitters is to apply them on a wet base, apply in large quantities, and only then let them dry very well.

A manicure in purple tones (photos represent different options with sparkles) has one very important nuance: dark gel polish and dark sparkles dry for a very long time - up to 2 minutes, but the result will be durable.

Sequins can be used to cover one nail, for example, with a solid purple manicure, highlight one finger with purple or gold sparkles. Or they can be used to process the edge of the cuticle or the free edge of the nail, as in the moon or French manicure.

The combination of small sequins and rhinestones on one finger, stripes, geometric patterns or flower petals made with sequins looks interesting.

Foil design

With this simple technique, you can create a concise yet very stylish variation:

• the processed nail plate is covered with a base and two layers of base varnish;
• a small piece of foil is applied to the dried varnish with the matte side, pressed with force and abruptly torn off;
• the foil nail is covered with a top.

There are various variations on how to use the foil.You can cover the entire nail or a certain part of it with it.

You can use a contrasting color foil (the classic version is gold, bronze or silver foil on a purple background), colored or foil of several colors (blue, red, green, you just need to choose a shade that is in harmony with the background), or you can add depth to the basic tone using different shades of purple palette.

The result will look different thanks to different tops. You can use a matte, glossy top. The combination of a stained glass top with a glossy finish looks the most impressive... It will add amazing volume and expressiveness to the entire design.

Manicure with rhinestones

The purple color is strict and rich enough so that rhinestones play with new shades against its background and don't look cheap. A moon manicure or a jacket made with rhinestones, geometric patterns and stripes of rhinestones look good.

One of the most extravagant nail designs has recently become a nail completely covered with large rhinestones. This surface resembles a solid sparkling crystal.

Ombre

Purple ombre looks especially stylish as it transitions from purple to black, gold glitter, or another shade of purple that is darker or lighter. The easiest way to achieve a gradient effect is to use a fine-pored sponge. Several strips of different varnish are applied to it, and after that it is pressed several times to the nail.

It is easy enough to make an ombre using liquid polish and a thin brush (this technique is most suitable for cat's eye polish). The nails are divided in half along the conditional vertical, the halves are painted over with thick varnish, and the place of their connection is carefully shaded with a very thin brush. The color transition is often emphasized with rhinestones, a foil strip or a strip of sequins.

Moon manicure

One of the ways to make a "reverse jacket" without resorting to stickers is the following:

• the base is applied to the treated nails and the base varnish is applied in 2 layers;
• at the cuticle, a crescent contour is drawn with a thin brush and filled with 2 layers of varnish of a different color;
• the result is fixed with the top.

Often, manicurists paint over a nail without touching the conditional crescent at its base, and then paint over it without any stickers or stripes, but this requires certain skills and confident use of the brush.

Nowadays, a modest beige-violet or colorless-violet version refers rather to everyday or office types of "reverse jacket", even if it is decorated with several discreet rhinestones.

Usually, the contrast is done through textures and accessories - the hole or even the main part is filled completely with rhinestones, sparkles, covered with a dense strip of foil, white or black. The use of matte and glossy purple varnish looks especially stylish.

French

The traditional version of the jacket involves the use of colorless or nude varnish in combination with purple or 2 of its shades (for example, lilac or dark purple).

Nowadays, more often the edge of the nail is formed with sparkles, rhinestones, foil, stretching the sparkles, the dots technique (single-colored or multi-colored dots are applied with a brush, in large quantities at the edge of the nail and gradually decreasing towards its middle). The jacket itself often becomes the basis for drawings and various compositions of rhinestones.

Nude

Nude shades of varnish serve as the basis for Chinese painting in the form of purple and lilac water lilies, orchids. It looks gentle, elegant and laconic.

Another option for combining purple and nude is the lace technique. It looks complicated, pretentious, but it is very simple. A nail with a dried flesh base color is tightly wrapped with a piece of lace and painted over with purple. After complete drying, the lace is removed, and the nail is covered with a top.

Cat's eye

This wonderful varnish can also be applied at home.It is presented in a huge number of shades, including the richest purple palette.

To create a glare effect, a magnetic varnish is applied to the nails covered with the base, and while it is not dry, a magnet is brought to it (you can even use a regular magnet from the refrigerator). The main thing is not to touch the wet nail. After that, the varnish is allowed to dry, and the procedure is repeated. Thus, the "cat's eye" effect appears more expressive.

"Cat's Eye" looks great on its own. However, it looks even more interesting as a basis for monograms or patterns. In this case, a monogram, or a lattice, or a flower pattern is drawn on a wet varnish with a thin brush, and then dried.

Casting

The casting technique is most suitable for extended nails. They should be very strong and perfectly smooth. After the varnished nail has been dried and degreased, a pattern is applied on it with a thin brush using a very thick varnish, a piece of foil is applied to it and dried. After complete drying, the foil is torn off in one motion and fixed.

Casting can be gold, silver and colored. In this way, you can create a variety of effects, such as snake skin, baroque ornaments, voluminous floral patterns.

A manicure from one or more dark shades of purple with casting of an even darker or even just black color looks very stylish.

Kamifubuki

"Paper storm", or kamifubuki - a novelty of nail art originally from Japan. A very simple but effective nail design option literally means “confetti”. These are various circles, squares, rhombuses, hearts and stars made of foil, plastic or paper, which are used to cover painted nails so that the manicure looks like the floor after the explosion of a confetti popper.

Kamifubuki are available in monochromatic and multi-colored. Multicolored blue-violet-green, gold or silver kamifubuki look great on purple nails.

Broken glass

Like the previous design, the broken glass effect nail art comes from Southeast Asia, not Japan, but South Korea. For him, you will need a purchased or prepared independently colored foil, cut into pieces.

The nail plate, covered with a base and 2 layers of varnish, is thoroughly dried and, in random order, alternately covered with pieces of foil of different colors and sizes. It is best to use tweezers for this. The glued foil is torn off and repeated until the surface of the nail looks like a battered Christmas tree toy. The result is covered with a top.

This design option looks great on purple nails of any shade - both light (lavender, lilac) and dark. On the latter, it is better to use multi-colored foil.

Glitters

Glitters, or rubbing, recently appeared on the market, instantly gained popularity. They allow you to create chrome, pearl shine or give your nails a chameleon or hologram effect.

It is very simple to use them: the nail plate covered with dried purple varnish is gently rubbed with fine powder of glitter using the applicator that is usually attached to the jar.

Purple chrome manicure is considered one of the most expressive beauty trends of this year.

Saturated tones and chrome look great with glitter, glitter, patterns and rhinestones on adjacent nails. Photos on the pages of glossy magazines will tell you which option to choose and which techniques to apply.

Video about the process of creating a manicure in purple

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