Nail Art

Nail art is a creative process for hand drawing pictures or designs on fingernails and toenails. It is a form of art. Fingernails and toenails are seen by many as important in completing one’s personal look these days. Also, it is a type of fashion statement.

The process of nail art involves decorating nails with available materials and has become very popular in the last ten years. You can create your own nail art designs with available nail art kits.

Nails are a real status and fashion statement. Nail art designs for example includes color blends nail designs, painted and polished nail designs, French manicures and many more. Your personal nail design should reflect your ideas and thoughts and match your personality.

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There are a number of processes and methods that fall under the category of nail art. Even a manicure can be thought of as arts because it is an essential makeup for almost every woman these days. Manicure not only involves shaping and filing nails but can also include painting and drawing different pictures and images on to the nails. Modern nail artists are continually studying and coming up with different materials and techniques to enhance the beauty of nails. They are also improving their standards and increasing the range of images that can be drawn on nails.

Nail art designs requires a very high skill nail artist that has mastery over creating beautiful results. Nail art painting is done through different instruments like needles, stencils and nail brushes. Decoration is done through different polishes and paints that are available in a wide range of colors. One of the most required art skill is performed by gluing flowers, beads, feathers, stones and clips over the nail creating a beautiful looking nails.

Piercing is another form of nail art that requires the nail artists to pierce the nails and insert buttons, clips, chains, and precious metals into nails. But  nail piercing require a lot of skill and practice to make the process comfortable and painless. When having your nails pierced make sure that the nail artist has a lot of experience with nail art piercing.

These are some of the most popular nail accessories used by professionals in creating nail art. There is the nail stripes, which are peeled off sheets and applied on the surface of nails. Other accessories used in nail arts include stars and dots which are available in the form of stickers or polish. Water marbling is a process requiring the mixing of different colors in water and applying the mixture to nails like a polish. Today with a number of different accessories, nail decoration has become a major part of today’s fashion market.

The main product used in the nail art is acrylic nails with ready-made designs which can be stuck on top of natural nails that have been manicured. Another popular process includes the application of gel nail from a gel nail kit to the nails and then creating the beautiful art work on top to the gel nails. This process has proven to allow the art work to last up to three weeks without chipping before having to be replaced.

Nail art designs are not simple. First of all, you have to select a color that suits your desired look. Some people even try a mixture of different colors on their nails. You can select any color combination but be careful that enough time is giving for the first color to dry before the next color is applied.

There are nail art kits by Konard that you can purchase to do your own nail art if you think the salons charge too much. Nail art may seem to be a little hectic process, but it can be a lot of  fun when one gets the hang of it. You can even create your very own designs instantly and have fun exploring your creative side and/or enjoying the activity with family members. Check the Konard Stamping Nail Art Kit.

Nail art starts by painting the nails with a gel base coat that is a light color like a shade of pink, blue, white, green etc. Only after the base coat dries, should a second coat be applied.

Now it is time to determine the nail art design you want painted on your nails. You can try your own creativity design or choose from samples provided by the nail artist. Stripes including the vertical, horizontal, diagonal and the wavy stripes are quite easy to draw by the artist. However, one benefit of stripes is that you can choose two contrasting colors, two different stripes and even multi-colored as well.

Dots are also one of the easiest nail art designs. Normally a gel base coat of a dark color like red, black, or pink is applied before multi-colored dots or even varied sized dots are placed on the base color. This will look very glamorous and will surely attract a lot of glances.

There are many cool creative designs like blending of colors and shapes. For example, you can try triangles, circles, or stars on a light gel base color. This will gives your nails a very trendy look with a neat touch.

Another design idea is to have the nail divided by splitting it into two colors, the more striking they are, the catchier they’ll look. Paint one side with a bright nail color and the other diagonal half with another bright color. The contrast would be awesome and would look incredible. This is a simple design that the nail artist can be apply within minutes. This type of nail art designs are usually applied with the help of nail polish pens.

Here are some more cool nail art design ideas. The nail artist can apply a gel base coat of a light color such as white or pink or any other subtle color. Then have a smiley faces with varying expressions painted on each nail. Another idea is to have small flowers filled with different colors painted on the nails.

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