Has the latest fashion fever caught you yet? NAIL ART is the buzz word these days. Think beyond French manicures and transform your nails into a canvas for expressing your creativity. We are talking designs, patterns, colours, stickers, beads, glitters, glamour and all that jazz. NOIDAN WAY tells you about this latest craze that has got all hands jazzed up!
Beauty is definitely one business that has withstood the repercussions of the fluctuating economy graph and has bloomed unrestricted. The recent years have witnessed it mushrooming with beauty salons taking bolder strides to be at par with the international style parameters. With the growing trend of nail art, the latest craze among girls is to get their nails painted with seemingly endless designs created with the help of vivid nail paints, stars, glitter, stones, stickers, beads, and flowers. Nail piercing and wearing trinkets or expensive pieces of jewellery like ringlets, is also on a rise.
The arrival of easy-to-do nail art is a great boon for modern women constantly in a rush. Simple nail art not only conceals the flaws in your nails but also exudes a great style statement. The list of nail art techniques is endless. Moreover, nail art is not a time consuming process and therefore can easily be adopted in one’s daily lifestyle.
The regular way of filing nails and touching them up with a single coat of polish is out of fashion. French nail art has taken over. French manicure provides a good base for nail art designs as it ensures extended longevity.
Homemade Recipes
With a little bit of creativity and a dash of imagination, your nail can achieve a professionally created designer look. Spice your unique style with funky accessories and watch your nails attain a unique character of their own. Here are a couple of tips on how to go wild with your creativity and create dazzling nail art designs on your own:
• For starters, you need a clear base coat, a top coat, nail polish or color and a tooth pick.
• To begin with, file your nails properly with a nail file.
• Apply the base coat on your nails followed by a coat of nail polish. Let it dry properly.
• After the polish has dried off completely (make sure it s not lumpy and is free of bubbles), start painting the nails with the help of a toothpick dipped in your favorite nail color. Create your own designs to adorn your nails.
• Put the final or the top coat to make the pattern last longer.
• Before applying the top coat, you can choose to add glitters to make the designs more attractive.
However, if you have a paucity of time, you can go for fabric or stickers to achieve similar results.
• In order to use fabric to create nail art, make an outline of your nails on paper.
• Cut the fabric to perfection according to the size of your nails.
• Using adhesive or a thick coat of nail polish stick the fabric on your natural nails. Remember to use a transparent nail polish in case you want it to act as the glue.
• After the fabric is stuck on your nail, apply a coat of transparent nail polish to make the design look natural. Lo and behold! You have the most attractive nails to flaunt!
Classic Nail Art
Classic nails are based on beautiful, well-trimmed and shaped nails polished to perfection. You do not need to exaggerate the design to make your nails attractive. Being practical, strong and reliable, class nails are a perfect choice for a working professional. Teamed with pre done French manicure, it lends an ultra feminine streak to your personality. It is undoubtedly an evergreen trend and usually blends well with any outfit or occasion.
Edgy Nail Art
With fashion trends being redefined and experimented with, nail art designs has also adapted to edgier looks. Learnt from the Japanese, who have mastered this art, edgy nails involve unreal designs, over accessorizing and the use of ceramic shapes that make the nails look like a real work of art. Although the edgy nail art is not a practical option, nonetheless, it does leave the nails looking drop dead gorgeous.
Nail extensions
There may be several reasons why women are unable to grow their nails to a fashionable length and maintain them. Brittle nails, working factors, lifestyle or the most popular vice of biting nails may be a few reasons. However, nail technicians have come up with the alternative of nail extensions that help curb all these factors and let women flaunt great, stylish nails.
Artificial nail extensions not only provide long lasting polished looks, but also have unlimited possibilities of designing them and latest techniques to achieve the desired results of unbelievable designs and unique styles.
Nail extension involve the fixing of artificial nails on top of the natural nail. As and when the natural base nail grows, the gap is filled with nail extension material. Depending upon the type of material used, nail extension can broadly be categorized under acrylic, silk wrap and gel extension categories. These are unnatural nails grown naturally on fingers. However, they can also be used on healthy nails to accentuate style at occasions or as daily wear.
Says Meenakshi, Owner of Meenakshi Beauty and Nail Hub, Greater Noida, “We mostly do UV gel extensions using Star Nails, a product made in USA. One UV gel extension sitting costs Rs. 1800 and lasts six months. However, a major part of my clientele visit me for the more sober French nail extensions which comprise a gel overlay that makes the nails stronger and prettier and lasts up to six months with regular refills. These refills are basically essential to cover up the gap between the artificial extensions and the natural nails. The price tag is a nominal Rs.1100 for ten fingers.”
Beyond the clichéd
For those who want to go beyond the traditional nail art designs, ideas are inexhaustible. As far as the design and color are concerned, women choose them according to the season and occasion. While pink ruled the roost initially, the advent of gold, magenta, red and black have transformed the clichéd perception and has rendered a more dramatic character to this art. Designs are mostly freehand. However, you can opt for using your own nail art brushes, acrylic paints, beads, glitter, and rings etc. to create masterpieces.
Says Taruna, a professional nail artist, “Liquid and powder nail extensions, also known as acrylic nails are most popular these days. Colored powders are mixed in varying proportions to achieve a typical desired shade. This is topped up with glitters, dried flowers, beads, pearls, crushed shells, and synthetic or semi precious stones to create fascinating designs. French manicure, on the other hand involves the use of liquid and powder acrylic, fiberglass or UV gels. To create these designs, white enamel is used to paint the free edge of the nail and give them a French manicure look. The art work follows later.”
Taruna adds, “Women like to have more intricate and embellished designs at occasions such as weddings. Red and gold are the hot colors and nails are accessorized heavily with gemstones, rhinestones and pearls to attain a bejeweled look. For occasions like Christmas, holly leaves can be painted on the nails while on Valentine day red hearts and cupids painted meticulously on the nails look fabulous.”
Nail piercing
After exhausting the possibilities of body piercing, the fad of nail piercing is on a tremendous rise. Pierce your nails carefully and adorn them with ringlets and studs. Choose a shimmering color and design that suits your personality and create sensational nail art designs.
A pinch of imagination + A dash of French Manicure
French nail art, replete with innovations and techniques, is all about treating the nails as individual canvases. Some eye-catching designs ideas that can let you own a stunning set of nails are as follows:
• Jewels have more to do than adorning ears, neck and hands. For a formal do, garnish your nails with small silver ringlets or similar jewelry when it comes to French nail art. All it requires is drilling a hole in the nail.
• Experiment with various colors and coloring techniques. Choose a color and a design carefully for each occasion. Go wild with jungle theme and animal prints!
• Most French nail art enhancement products comprise a white tip to achieve a French manicured look. Use dried flowers, glitters, acrylic shapes and bullion beads etc to create permanent French nail art. Experiment with rhinestones, flicks, dots and glitters.
• Use stick-on stones. There are plenty of options available in the market. Invest time and imagination to create a sensational look.
• Experiment with various airbrush techniques.
Try the reverse French tip. Use white on the entire nail and pink at the tip. Some gorgeous combinations are bright pink and bright yellow and metallic purple and silver. Top it up with glitter to add more jazz.
According to Sathya, Proprieter, Sravi Enterprises, Greater Noida, which supplies nail extension kits, “for a professional nail artist and parlours, we have nail extension kits that three gels – clear, pink and cover pink, primer, finishing gel, acrylic stick, brushes, buffer, cleaner, gel cleaner solution and brush cleaner solution, available at Rs. 9250. All gels are 15 ml as against the standard 7ml gels available in the markets and of international quality. The kit, however, does not include a UV lamp and customers need to buy it from the market.”
Meenakshi suggests, “Always ensure you follow all the instructions your salon may offer regarding nail care. This is primarily important when you experiment with nail art design and need to keep your nails maintained for a long period of time.”
Says Taruna, “There are endless ways to style your nail, according to the outfit you want to match it with, the occasion you are going to, or simply to your personality. You can choose simple, or extra edgy styles, starting from the classic French manicure and till the ceramic figurines that can be applied on the nails.”
Nails are an important part of our entire look and hence their importance should not be underestimated. Nothing is more repelling than dirty, unshapely fingernails. Even the minutest detail can make a difference. The key is to find the right style that suits your personality, and make it your signature manicure. Make the most gorgeous nail art designs on your own, or visit a professional for more intricate styles and get yourself some jaw-dropping glamorous nails.
P.S. I got a wonderful nail job done at Scratch, GK-2, New Delhi. The services @ Scratch are credible and extremely affordable (not to forget, probably the cheapest in Delhi too!. You can check them out here: www.scratchnails.in
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