Blue is the current nail art trend of 2020. It looks great on short nails, another fashion trend this season. When choosing the right shade, matte blue manicure perfect for the office, and sequins, rhinestones and sophisticated decor will shine at a party or disco.
Blue manicure for short nails. Fashion trends of 2020
A blue manicure for short nails is considered universal. It is suitable for a business, casual and evening look. Blue is appropriate on long and short nails, without visually reducing their length.
Short nail length
Short nails have become popular recently. The natural length is practical and comfortable. It is appropriate in a work environment, will not interfere with sports or at home, and will always look stylish and fashionable.
Another plus - girls with brittle and fragile nails do not have to build them up and make them heavier with gel polish or acrylic. Enough quality care products and polish to be trendy.
Nail shape
The most versatile are almond nails. They suit almost all women, look feminine and can become the basis for a wide variety of designs.
The square shape of nails is also relevant, but not a strict geometric square, but a more sophisticated, rounded-square shape. She is very practical and looks more delicate and refined on her hands.
Shades of blue
The blue color is represented by almost 200 different shades and many subtones - gray, yellow, turquoise, purple, red, white, black. This allows you to choose the perfect shade for a manicure for short nails, suitable for a particular woman. Depending on the subtone, blue shades are cold and warm, light and dark.
| Cold shades | Warm shades | Light shades | Dark shades |
| pure blue + white, red, black | pure blue + yellow or gray | blue + white
| blue + black |
| ultramarine | turquoise | azure | ultramarine |
| electrician | sea wave | sea wave | blue dust |
| royal blue | hyacinth | lavender | Navy blue |
| cornflower | denim | cornflower | black-blue |
| bilberry | steel | light turquoise | bilberry |
| azure | topaz | denim | Prussian blue |
| cobalt | Black Sea | periwinkle | cobalt |
| indigo | Prussian blue | cyanogen | indigo |
| thunderous | slate | heavenly | thunderous |
| cyanogen | gray | gray | midnight blue |
| sapphire | dark blue | niagara | sapphire |
Successful color combinations
One of the most dramatic color combinations is blue and white. The second goes well with any shade of blue - light, dark, warm or cold. Blue patterns are especially good on a dense white surface when they imitate Gzhel.
The combination of blue and beige shades seems more delicate. It is especially suitable for French or moon manicure. Neutral colors are naturally in harmony with all colors. Blue is no exception. It goes well with white, flesh and, of course, black and gray.
Blue manicure for short nails is also combined with other colors:
- pink (create a bright and fresh contrast);
- red (rich and expressive contrast);
- shades of orange (pumpkin, peach, fiery and others);
- cold (cool range) and warm shades of green (soft and fresh combination);
- similar in gamut in purple.
An interesting nail design can be created by combining different shades of blue with each other. Slight contrast and tones similar in gamut will give the picture depth and expressiveness.
Accessories
There is a large selection of various accessories and materials on the market for creating fashionable designs:
- rub-in pigments;
- rhinestones;
- kamifubuki;
- rainbow decor;
- Yuki flakes;
- velvet sand;
- "Straw", or slice glitter;
- broth;
- semi-pearls;
- metallized and 3-D stickers and more.
How to make a beautiful blue manicure for short nails: step by step instructions, ideas
The blue color, thanks to its variety of shades, serves as an excellent basis for a variety of techniques and designs.
Matte manicure in blue tones
Matte manicure allows you to use even the most catchy shades in a strict business atmosphere. Matte, as it were, muffles the bright color and makes it less provocative.
Usually, a matte texture on the nails is combined with sparkles, broths, rhinestones, magnetic varnish; it is also used as a base for a drawing. Only a part of the nails is covered with matte varnish, the rest are distinguished with lighter colors and patterns.
A very popular one-color design, which combines matte and glossy varnish. Basically, this is a French manicure, when glossy and matte blue varnishes are visually separated by a thin gold or silver stripe. Matte textures look good in geometric or foil designs.
Drawings on blue manicure
Drawings with white or black varnish look good on a blue background, stylishly and concisely - in other tones of blue. Do not think that only a professional can perform this technique.
It can be done even at home:
- apply a base to the nails;
- cover it with blue varnish in 2 layers;
- apply a little thick varnish of a different color to a palette or a piece of foil;
- grab it with the tip of a toothpick or the thinnest brush, apply arbitrary curls and lines to the nail, dry;
- fix the result with a top.
If you make a drawing on dried varnish, then the drawing will be clear and expressive, if on wet - abstract and vague.
The original design of "Keda" looks really funny. For this unusual pattern, you need to paint over the nail with a thick blue varnish, highlight its edge in the form of an oval in white and circle it with a black line. Put 6 points in the middle of the nail with black varnish (in pairs in 3 rows) and connect them with black varnish, imitating laces.
Manicure with sparkles, rhinestones, glitters
Blue glossy manicure looks noble and elegant when one or several nails are completely covered with sparkles of the same shade. They are poured over a wet top covering the base varnish and dried. In the same way, you can highlight the edge of the nail in a French manicure or a hole in the moon.
Rhinestones also benefit when glued over blue polish. They glue a part of the nail at the base, they are applied in the form of patterns or stripes. Blue varnish is usually combined with silver or gold rhinestones, but blue and black stones also do not get lost on a blue background.
In an evening manicure, one fingernail is sometimes distinguished, combining sparkles and large rhinestones on it. This technique allows you to achieve an unusual result. To achieve the effect of a chrome surface, you can use a glitter rub. It looks like a pressed eye shadow that is carefully rubbed into the painted nail using a small sponge.
Foil design
A good backdrop for blue foil is thick black varnish. It is applied in two layers on top of a transparent base, allowed to dry, and then a small piece of blue foil is pressed against the painted nail plate with the matte side. This step is repeated several times. The finished design is secured with a top.
A blue base is also considered a classic option, on top of which a gold, silver, bronze or green foil coating is applied. Silver foil is combined with dark blue and light blue tones. One of the freshest solutions is to cover part of the nails with powder blue varnish, and part in royal blue and combine them with silver foil.
Ombre
The color blue is represented by almost 200 shades, often almost in contrast with each other. This can be played up with ombre design, using a transition not between different colors, but between different shades of blue.
The transition from medium blue to dark blue or from medium blue to light blue is quite restrained. However, the gradient from a very light shade to a deep blue is much more effective. This option allows you to visually lengthen short nails and create an extremely catchy manicure. The gradient from black to dark blue looks stylish and laconic.
Blue manicure for short nails using the "gradient" technique can be done in another way: paint the nails of one hand in the form of an ombre from thumb to little finger. In this case, it is important not only to paint the nails 5 times shades of blue, but to create a neat transition directly on the nail plates.
Lunar manicure on short nails
The simplest lunar design, ideal for short nails, is a monochromatic manicure of a forget-me-not color and with a hole at the base of the nail, painted over with a metallic silver varnish with sparkles. This elegant and easy-to-perform nail art can be made at home.
French
Most often, on short nails, a combination of a light beige shade as the main and dark blue is used to decorate the edge of the nail. Sometimes they are separated by a silver or gold stripe, black or white pattern.
The jacket looks exquisite in a blue palette with a combination of matte and glossy varnish of the same shade, as well as when highlighting the edge of the plate with a metallized silver sticker over a blue matte varnish.
Cat's eye
Magnetic varnish "Cat's eye" is available in a variety of colors, and one of the most common colors is blue.
Magnetic varnish is also interesting as a basis for monograms, drawings, for a jacket and even an ombre. The main advantage of this coating is the ability to create an expressive design even at home.
It's easy to do this:
- cover the nail with a base;
- apply magnetic varnish in 2 layers;
- bring a magnet to a dry surface to create a glare;
- dry;
- apply a transparent top.
Kamifubuki
Kamifubuki translates from Japanese as "paper storm". This is a great way to add variety to your nail designs. Tiny confetti are made in different sizes and shapes: round, square, polyhedron-like, moon or heart. Blue confetti looks great on short nails - either on white or black, or on bright neon backgrounds.
The way to use kamifubuki is simple:
- a transparent base is applied to the treated nails;
- a colored coating is applied to the nails in 2 layers;
- on a wet base or top with an orange stick, apply kamifubuki in the selected order and dry.
Design options:
- blue glossy manicure combined with kamifubuki on ring fingers covered with a transparent base;
- blue lacquer "cat's eye" with colored kamifubuki;
- beige manicure with a thin black line highlighted with a hole at the base of the nail (for moon manicure) or the edge of the nail (for a jacket), filled with blue sparkles.
Broken glass
Blue lacquer in both light and dark tones is an excellent basis for a broken glass design.
To create the effect of cracked glass, you must:
- cover the treated nail plate with a colorless base, dry;
- apply a thick layer of blue varnish, dry and repeat;
- transfer pieces of foil to the painted nail;
- cover with top and dry.
Pieces of foil cover most of the nail - on all fingers or, for example, only on the ring fingers.A clear geometric pattern can be created from pieces of foil. Nails covered with a monochromatic varnish, with foil glued in the form of a narrow longitudinal rectangle, look unusual.
Another novelty of the season is a manicure in two shades of the same color (for example, a combination of a shade of ice and deep blue). Pieces of foil of a contrasting shade (light on a dark base and vice versa) are glued on top of the varnish. This technique can be paired with a two-tone ombre.
Blue is a universal trend of the 2020 season, represented by a huge variety of shades, which allows you to create original manicure even on short nails. It will perfectly fit into casual, evening and business style and will become a bright accent of a woman's look.
Video master class on creating various manicure designs in blue
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