Liquid stones on the nails. Photo of manicure Cat's eye, French, rubbing, casting

Manicure on nails decorates all girls. But how to choose the best among the many photos with designs? Liquid Stones is a new technique suitable for almost all types of nails.

Materials and tools

If desired, you can use additional materials for decoration: glitter, sequins, ribbons.

Design advantages and disadvantages

Liquid stones on nails are photographically similar to designs using rhinestones and false stones, but, compared to them, have many more advantages:

• Durability. The “liquid stones” technique is carried out exclusively with the use of special gels, without auxiliary materials, which significantly prolongs the wearing time.
• Unusual and beautiful. When combining designs with “liquid stones”, you can get beautiful nail art on your nails even at home.
• Simplicity. The technique uses standard tools; after a couple of workouts, the design is easily recreated on any nails.

Step-by-step instructions for manicure with liquid stones

Liquid stones on nails, photos of which have flooded the Internet, are easy to perform and do not require large expenses. All materials can be purchased at any beauty store.

To complete the design, you need to follow simple instructions:

1. Preparatory stage. Preparing nails for applying manicure, filing, degreasing, shaping.
2. Base and color coating. After each layer, you need to dry the nail for 30-60 seconds in a lamp. If necessary, remove the sticky layer.
3. Thick lines and abstract pictures are drawn on a dry surface with a hair brush. It is better to use dense gels or gel polishes so that they become voluminous when they dry. It is recommended to use dark shades for good results.
4. The outlines of the stone are drawn with a color close to the base color. It is better to use denser gel consistencies too.
5. After drying, the stone is covered with sculpting gel to give it a bulge. It is best to use a thinner brush for this.
6. Dry the finished design in a lamp, apply a top coat to the nail plate so that the “liquid stones” last longer.

Decoration of liquid stones by casting

Liquid stones on nails can be combined with other designs. For example, there are often photos with casting decoration.

This technique is performed by creating a three-dimensional pattern followed by foil printing:

1. With a dense gel of a dark shade, using a hair brush on the base varnish (the sticky layer is removed), an ornament with wide lines is drawn. On very thin lines, the foil may not be printed or printed in chunks. Do not remove the stickiness from the gel.
2. After drying, you need to take a manicure foil, a golden hue looks best, attach a piece to the nail and press it tightly, then remove it sharply.
3. Casting decoration is completed, it remains only, following the previous instructions from the fourth point, to design liquid stones.

Using stained glass gels

Stained glass gels are often used to create unusual designs. The name comes from the gel's strong resemblance to stained glass on glass.

To apply stained glass gels in the design “liquid stones”, it is enough to follow steps 1 to 4. A drop of gel is placed in the contour of the stone and smoothed with a beveled brush under the edges, then the nail is polymerized in a lamp. If the stone is not bulky enough, then the gel is applied in another layer.

How to work with foil

Foil together with “liquid stones” is used not only in the casting technique. Manicure foil is a versatile tool in many designs.

After drawing the lines and the base of the stone (it is necessary to remove the stickiness), a drop is placed in the middle with a dark gel, and then it is leveled and polymerized in the lamp. Foil is pressed onto the sticky layer and tears off with a sharp jerk. The almost finished stone is covered with a sculptural transparent gel and dried in a lamp.

Liquid stones on extended nails

It is much easier to make liquid stones on extended nails than on natural ones. This is due to the fact that the stone does not spread on a special built-up gel, but keeps its shape.

Initially, this technique was developed specifically for nails extended with gel or acrylic powder. The technique of applying the design on extended nails is the same as on natural ones. Due to the density of the gel, the execution of "liquid stones" is not difficult.

Will manicure beautify short nails

For a clean execution of the technique, a large area is needed, but the masters have found a way to decorate short nails. To obtain a good result, the stones must be made small, several of them can be placed on one nail. Do not overuse and paint the entire nail plate. This will not add elegance, but rather ruin the picture.

On short nails, the design “liquid stones” should be done in light shades - this will visually increase them. If there are several stones, then the patterns can be connected together.

French with liquid stones

The use of "liquid stones" in combination with French manicure is very common. More often than not, this is considered a classic in the execution of "liquid stones".

You can decorate 8 out of 10 fingers with French manicure, and decorate the ring ones on both hands with liquid stones.

Sometimes an additional design is applied to the fingers with a jacket, for example, abstract drawings. It will be interesting to look at a drawing made by dots on the middle fingers, and liquid stones on the ring fingers. The main thing is to observe the color scheme.

One of the design options is to decorate the “smile line” directly with stones. There can be several stones, depending on the preferences of the person. The stones can either be separated from each other by lines or come into contact with each other.

Liquid stones with cat's eye varnish

A combination of cat's eye and liquid stones is also an excellent option. Cat's eye is a special gel polish that contains metal particles that tend to be attracted to each other with a magnet, which is why a pattern is formed.

In combination with liquid stones, the cat's eye acts as the main varnish. Depending on the design chosen, several nails are covered with the main color, for example, 8 or 6, and the design of liquid stones is applied to the rest. The color of the cat's eye may be different from the base color on nails with stones.

Liquid stones with rubbing

Rubbing is a powder or fine powder that is rubbed into the varnish. It is used as an additional design on nails without a stone, and as a full-fledged material, for example, for replacing foil using the casting technique, if it is not at hand.

The “chameleon” type of rub can replace the base of the stone itself. A dark varnish or gel with a sticky layer is applied to the contour of the future stone, and then dried in a lamp.The mirror coating is applied with a special sponge, but if it is not at hand, many craftsmen use just a finger. With patting movements, the rubbing is driven only into the base of the stone, and from above it is covered with sculptural gel.

It is important to remember that after covering the rub in with gel or top, some of the gloss is lost.

Wedding manicure

Liquid stones on nails, photos of which often appear on holiday photos of girls, will also be a great addition to wedding manicure.

For such an event, it is customary to decorate nails with light colors. Basically, it is white, peach, pastel pink, light blue, occasionally there are also pale gray and mint. At the same time, the stones themselves can be much brighter. For example, on a light blue base color, the stone can be made in an azure shade or ultramarine.

For a wedding celebration, a combination of a jacket and liquid stones will be an excellent option for manicure. This will add sophistication and beauty.

East style

The oriental style is characterized by volume and texture, which goes well with the design of "liquid stones".

Oriental drawings consist of dense spiral lines, sometimes ornamental patterns and plant stems with leaves are included in the ornament. The main characteristic is the luxury of the drawings, so gold tones are often found.

Stones in the oriental style can be made in any color, but most often blue and red are found.

Design ideas

Liquid stones go well with any design, so there are a lot of ideas. The technique can be performed on any nail shape and length.

1. Design "Heart". The stone can be made in any shape, and one such idea is the heart. The design follows the usual pattern, the only change is the outline of the stone. It is made in the shape of a heart. The stone inside is painted with red gel, and on top it is covered with a sculptural one to add volume.
2. Design "Eight". "Eight" represents two elongated stones connected to each other. The upper stone is made small, and the lower one is large. The designs are often decorated with rhinestones and glitter.
3. Animal-shaped design. Stones can be made not only in the shape of a heart, but absolutely any. Dragonflies, scorpions, butterflies are often found on girls' nails. Colors can also be any.

How to remove a liquid stone design

The design of liquid stones is done using gel varnishes and gels, which are removed from nails in two ways - chemical and mechanical.

The stone should never be torn off. This can be bad for the nail plate.

1. Chemical method. The chemical method consists in “soaking” it with a special gel polish remover. The sponge is thoroughly moistened with the product and placed on the nail; for the best effect, the finger can be wrapped in foil. The removal process lasts 10-15 minutes, the remaining gel is removed with an orange stick.
2. Mechanical method. With the mechanical method, a special apparatus for manicure and cutters is used. You can also use a hard file that needs to grind the nail until the gel polish comes off.

Liquid stones are one of the most popular nail designs. It is quite simple to execute it if you focus on the photo and step-by-step instructions.

Article design: Vladimir the Great

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