How to make a moon manicure at home
No wonder they say that everything new is well forgotten old. In the 20s of the last century, women of fashion, painting their nails at their own peril and risk, left a small distance along the hole of the nail, covering the tips with a bright red or pink color, thereby showing that they did not allow themselves indecent liberties. Fortunately, in our time, women have no restrictions in design and styles, but this type of manicure has become still fashionable and popular.
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Lunar manicure at home: a step-by-step description
Lunar manicure can be done in almost any salon or nail studio. But many girls have adapted so much that they do it on their own in their own hands. In fact, there is nothing difficult in this and after reading this article you can make such a manicure, avoiding all possible difficulties.
Like any other type of manicure, whether you cover your nails with regular nail polish or use shellac or gel polish, hands must be prepared by removing all irregularities and roughness from the surface of the nails and the skin around them, polishing and smoothing the nails to the same length, and degreasing upon completion. By the way, for several seasons, short, neat marigolds, with a slightly protruding free edge, are still in trend. You can learn more about all these stages of preparing the nail plate for any further coating. read here.
- Decide on the shades you want to use in your moon manicure. The classic version in retro style there remains an unpainted lunula of the nail and bright, contrasting shades from fuchsia to rich red or dark burgundy. The picture shows the ideal color combinations depending on the color scheme.
- Apply a clear base coat to the prepared, treated and degreased nail plate to avoid unevenness in the base coat. Let it dry completely.
Next, proceed depending on the design of the moon manicure you have chosen.
- Classic moon manicure in retro style.
Apply clear polish to the prepared nail surface. Let it dry completely and coat the nail with an even coat of rich, dense varnish in red shades. Once completely dry, apply another fixing layer of clear varnish.
- Option with a colored, contrasting moon.
If the texture of your nail polish is thick and dense enough, then paint the entire nail with the color you intend to use for the main top coat.
With a very thin, or vice versa, a wide brush, paint a hole with colored varnish on each nail, after the bottom layer is completely dry.
Secure the layers with clear varnish.
If you understand that applying two selected varnishes on top of each other, they will merge or will shine through, then first draw neat holes, and after they are completely dry, paint over the main part of the nail with a contrasting varnish. Don't forget to seal the layers with clear varnish.
Moon Manicure Stencils
Modern women of fashion are much more fortunate than their predecessors in the 20th century. After all, as soon as a trend becomes more or less popular, all kinds of auxiliary accessories immediately appear on the market in this area. Marilyn Monroe could only dream of this!
With the special moon manicure stencils, you will create the perfect pattern on all your fingers in just a few minutes.
The principle of operation is almost the same as using a brush.
- Apply a clear base coat.
- Wait until it dries completely.
- Apply the varnish you prepared for coloring the lunula all over the nail.
- Let it dry completely.
- Glue the stencil evenly to each nail as if it were the final result.
- Paint the rest of the nail with the base color of the nail polish.
- Without waiting for it to dry, remove the stencils and then wait until the layer dries well.
- Secure the layers with clear varnish.
If you chose the option with a classic moon manicure, where the nail lunula remains unpainted, then skip steps 3-4 and go straight to step 5.
Moon Manicure Stickers
Such stickers for the lunar or for the French manicure can be made independently with the help of ordinary scotch tape.
You will need:
- narrow or wide tape (you can use colored or transparent);
- sharp nail scissors;
- gel pen or fine felt-tip pen.
- Cut a strip of tape 3-5 cm long.
- Glue it to the table top.
- Cut another strip of the same size.
- Glue it over the first one, stepping back a little from the edge.
- Considering that from each strip of wide adhesive tape you will get 2 stencils, and from narrow one by one, cut and glue the required number of such strips on top of each other.
- Peel off gently from the table.
- If you used wide adhesive tape, then cut it lengthwise into 2 narrow strips (so that the indents of the layers remain on top) and glue them exactly along the edge on top of each other.
- Draw a future stencil with a gel pen or felt-tip pen, of your choice.
- Cut them along the contour with nail scissors.
- Use by tearing off the comfortable tip from the side of the offset from the edge.
Lunar manicure for short nails: performance features
As we wrote above, long nails have long faded into the background. Young modern women opt for short, neat manicure.
Lunar manicure or, as it is often called, an inverted jacket, not only visually lengthens the nail plate, but also makes the fingers visually thinner, due to which the female handle looks more elegant.
