7 popular ways to get the perfect manicure at home

Modern women, when choosing a particular service to care for themselves and their bodies, first of all pay attention to those that take the least amount of time. His constant absence is literally the scourge of the 21st century. In this article you will learn how to get your hands in perfect order in just 15-20 minutes, without resorting to the help of specialists and avoiding trips to salons.

Easy and elegant manicure in 15 minutes

It’s probably no secret to anyone that before applying absolutely any coating to the nail plate, your hands must be prepared.

1. Give your nails the same correct shape using a plastic file.
2. Polish the nail plate with a special buff so that the future coating is as smooth as possible.
3. Treat cuticles and skin around nails. For this stage, everyone chooses the type of manicure that is closest to them: classic edged or European, - using a special device or liquid to dissolve the cuticle.
4. Cover your nails with clear polish or any other manicure base.

We talked in more detail about all these stages and the choice of nail care products. here.

The simplest and one of the classic types of manicure is an ordinary single-color coating in any color. But sometimes you really want variety and, given that time is often short, a variety of nail stickers come to the rescue.

Using them is very simple, you only need water and tweezers:

1. Place the sticker in water for a few seconds;
2. separate the protective layer with tweezers;
3. press firmly onto the nail;
4. coat with clear varnish.

In just a few minutes your hands will look interesting and well-groomed!

But what to do if you have never had such stickers at home, you have neither the time nor the desire to look for them in stores, but you really want to do something unusual on your nails? Of course, we can advise you to paint patterns on your nails with nail polishes and a thin brush, but this will not take 15 minutes.

1. Cut the newspaper into 10 small pieces to fit your nails.
2. Pour some alcohol or vodka into a small cup.
3. Using tweezers, dip a piece of newspaper into a cup of alcohol, hold until the newspaper is completely saturated with alcohol and press it firmly and evenly onto the nail for 15-20 seconds.
4. Carefully remove a piece of newspaper and coat your nail with clear polish.

This manicure looks good on both colorless nails and those painted in any color.

French manicure at home

French manicure has long become a classic; it is done both in salons and at home, and is often used as a design for long-term coverage, because... it practically never gets boring and fits with any look, any clothes.

It is hardly possible to find at least one girl who has never tried to make a French jacket for herself at home.

Specialized nail design stores sell entire kits for creating a French manicure, which already include a base base in a natural shade, varnish for painting the tips white and special stencils with which the stripes will be equally even on each finger.

Gel manicure at home

Initially, long-term gel polish coating was considered a salon procedure, but more and more often women are purchasing kits for such a manicure for home use, saving not only their time, but also money, because it is much more profitable to spend money once and calmly carry out the service yourself.

To learn how to make gel polish yourself at home, a minimal starter kit will be enough.

• primer (literally translated as “primer”) for preparing nails;
• base - for applying the bottom layer;
• top coat - serves as the last layer;
• tools for preparing nails (orange stick, clinser for removing the sticky layer and degreasing, etc.)
• ultraviolet lamp for drying each layer;
• gel polish remover;
• The gel polish itself is at least one color.

Homemade shellac

Shellac is the name of one of the gel polishes produced by the American company CND, which was one of the first to combine the properties of thickening gel and nail polish with colored pigments. Later, when competing companies began to produce their own similar gel polishes, confusion arose, but shellac still remains one of the highest quality long-term nail coatings.

As a rule, professionals recommend purchasing such nail design kits of the same line, because... Each means and instrument complements each other. Only in this case your shellac it will be perfectly bright and even, and will last you more than one week.

Hardware manicure

Hardware manicure refers to the European, non-edged type of manicure. Such care of nails and the skin around them is provided with the help of a special machine - a device that in most cases is suitable for both manicure and pedicure: it all depends on the number and types of attachments - cutters.

Such devices are now sold even in the smallest stores with household appliances, online catalogs with cosmetics and, of course, in professional stores for nail industry professionals. For home use, especially at first, a very ordinary device with 5-6 attachments will be enough for you. The price of such a machine, by the way, largely depends on what these cutters are made of.

The most expensive devices come with dark gray attachments with diamond chips; they are suitable for the most delicate fingers and thin, fragile nails. In salons, and for home use, ceramic attachments of varying hardness are most in demand; you can easily recognize them: they are usually available in soft pink, blue and white colors.

Mirror manicure

Mirror or metallic manicure has remained very popular for several seasons now. Many girls think that making it is very difficult and do not even allow the thought of making it themselves.

There are 3 ways to get a metallic shine on your nails:

1. mirror nail polish;
2. foil for design;
3. metallic effect stickers.

At home, the easiest way is to use a mirror (not metallic! - this is a varnish with absolutely another effect) nail polish. The most fashionable and versatile shades for this manicure are gold and silver. When buying such varnish, pay attention to the bottle: it must be marked “MIRROR”.

By the way, this varnish thickens very quickly and it will not be possible to dilute it - it will immediately lose all its mirror shine and become just “metallic”. Therefore, do not skimp on it, especially since it should be applied evenly with a wide brush over the entire width of the nail to avoid streaks and unevenness.

Lunar manicure

Lunar manicure- this is one of those fashion trends that have returned to us from the last century. It’s not for nothing that they say that fashion comes back every 30-40 years. To avoid being branded as slutty girls, fashionistas of that time came up with the idea of ​​painting only the tips of their nails in bright red, which seemed breathtaking colors. This was a rather cunning knight's move: with such a manicure, the girl immediately became the most fashionable among her peers, and when the older generation appeared, she could easily hide the tips of her nails by clenching her fist.

Now this retro manicure is back in trend and you don’t even have to go to the salon to repeat it: draw a lunula - a smile line with an up or down curve, use a thin brush or convenient paper stencils. For this, take a bright red polish or any other, combining the boldest shades.