Manicure for wide nails has its own characteristics, since its main task is to lengthen and correct the shape.
How to shape your hands to make them more graceful? Find the answer to this question in our article.
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What to do
Not every girl can boast of perfect nails. Previously, short, trapezoidal, wide plates gave their owners a lot of trouble. Today, the art of manicure offers a huge selection of techniques that allow you to change any defect on your fingers.
Apply strengthening agents, special foundations and primers, the action of which is aimed at strengthening the structure. This will give you the opportunity to grow the "desired" plate size.
When preparing for painting, file the sides well with a nail file so that the nails become narrower. The ideal shape in this case will be a smooth oval, avoid sharp corners - this further emphasizes the flaw.
The line of the nail bed must be carefully worked out. For this, the excess cuticle is removed and smoothed with a polishing roller.
Do not leave your nails uncoated, protect their structure with strengthening bases. Regular manicure will help you grow the length you want.
It is not difficult to transform a large plate, add neatness to it. The main thing is to choose the right color of the coating, pattern, try to make harmonious proportions.
How to visually narrow your nails
Here are some ideas for shaping:
- Cover with colored varnish only the central part, leaving the sides intact. This will visually lengthen the plate and add grace to your hands.
- Apply dark varnish around the edges, fill the middle with light pigment.
- Take advantage of the new technology of drawing - "geometry". The trendy direction offers to apply laconic shapes with straight vertical lines.
- Be sure to purchase nude shades of varnishes for home manicure: nude, beige, coffee, cream. The nails will become an extension of the fingers, this creates the effect of well-groomed and elegance.
- Choose dark colors: black, burgundy, dark blue, plum, green. They visually narrow the dimensions.
- The classic jacket with white "mustache" perfectly corrects any flaws.
- Decoration with shimmer elements, mirror effect, "cat's eye", sea waves, metallic pigment - will help to achieve the desired result.
Do not give up red varnish. The gel material of a rich color lays down in a dense layer, which allows you to stretch the nail a little.
What should be the shape
A wide plate is not a sentence, as many women believe. It has a lot of advantages: the shape is easy to change, it is easier for the master to handle, there is a significant area for fashionable design.
The most suitable option in this case is a round or smoothly rounded shape. Well-processed corners are convenient in everyday life, at work. They will be appreciated by women with a dynamic lifestyle. Such a plate is not easy to break, you can do what you love without obstacles.
It seems to many that the trapezoidal and spade-shaped plates do not lend themselves to change, and in the painted form they attract too much attention. However, this is a misconception - by changing the line of the base and top edge, you can achieve an excellent result.
The following outlines are suitable for wide nails:
- Oval - classic design will make your hands feminine.
- Rounded arch - the absence of sharp corners with a well-processed cuticle gives ample opportunities for decoration.
- Square - suitable for those who cannot grow or gnaw their nails. At the initial stage, it helps to maintain structure and grow in length. Choose strengthening tops and varnishes.
- Rectangle - meticulous filing and the right finish looks great on the hands of modern ladies.
Perform all manipulations with the cuticle after steaming the skin. Treat it with special oil or hand emollient cream. In this case, it will grow back more slowly and will look healthy and well-groomed.
Manicure length
If you have a wide base and edges of the nail plate, then choose a short or medium length - significant dimensions only draw attention to the natural form.
If your nails are bitten, try to grow them at least a little so that they protrude at least a few millimeters above the fingertips. Use materials for growth and strengthening, of which there are a huge number of store shelves today.
When choosing the optimal length, one should take into account the natural thickness of the plate: the thinner it is, the shorter the top edge should be - this will prevent delamination and brittleness.
Pay attention to the skin under the plate: sometimes it thickens and it is absolutely impossible to injure this place, therefore this factor also determines the final length.
Completely remove overgrown cuticles - excess skin at the base will shorten the nails.
Color palette
The choice of a palette of pigments can be a decisive step in completing a manicure for wide nails. Colors play an important role in the final result, a successful varnish will make women's hands soft and attractive.
The work done in dark colors looks great - blue, black, purple, deep scarlet, burgundy, emerald with overflow are ideal. Do not refuse to use bright jewelry in the form of rhinestones, glitter, pearls.
For unusual special effects, mirror rubbing, shining powder, small foil confetti are suitable. Fashionable nowadays - ombre, "cat's eye", marble and matte design - ideally hide any flaws.
For short marigolds, a solid pink varnish with a translucent structure will be an excellent solution. Decorate one of the fingers with an unobtrusive ornament. Combine several shades at once: gray and crimson, blue and metallic, blue and black.
If you want a bright mood, you should pay attention to the colorful tandem of turquoise and yellow, mint and white, green and salad. A graphic design with laconic lines on one of the fingers will create a colorful accent in a spring-summer look.
Dark tones or a combination based on the principle of having a rich color in the middle and light at the edges will help achieve the desired proportions.
Decor
When choosing a decoration, you should adhere to the basic rules that will save you from mistakes.
The professional secrets of leading masters will help you with this:
- If the choice fell on a small drawing of numerous details, then limit yourself to the design of only one or two fingers.
- Give up forever from horizontal stripes - they visually "cut" nails, distort natural data. Cross lines are only allowed in a jacket.
- The coating of flashy neon pigments attracts undue attention and creates a bulky volume that looks ridiculous on hands with such a structure.
Try using a self-adhesive tape stencil and make a striped print. It perfectly changes the shape of the plate.
Ideas 2021
In the last season, designers presented many interesting options for decorating ladies' hands.
Nail stylists recommend that owners of wide nails in 2021 apply new trends in manicure art:
- Placement of ornament and decor only in the center or at the base of the bed. This technique distracts attention from the size.
- Do not overuse large dimensional prints - choose a filigree painting, limit yourself to subtle elements.
- Using two different colors, separate them vertically.
- Try a space ombre, in which a light gradient at the cuticle fades into a dark one at the ends.
- Feel free to use glitter varnishes - they distract attention from imperfections, make the outlines more streamlined.
- A spectacular trend - animalistic ornament depicting animals - transforms women's hands.
- Geometric patterns, stained glass, "knitted" or Indian ornament look stylish and actual. Draw small elements - circles, triangles, diamonds, feathers.
- Avoid large squares and triangles - they are inappropriate, because they emphasize the natural shape even more.
For short marigolds, the negative space design, which is fashionable this season, is suitable, which is applied with a blurred gradient to a part of the plate, visually "stretching" it.
Give preference to "vertical" designs. This design will save even the most deplorable condition of the hands.
For short nails
The gel material offers the opportunity to solve many cosmetic problems. Professional shellacs "build up" the extra size and perfectly correct the appearance of the hands. Modern products have a dense, dense texture that prevents delamination and fragility of the stratum corneum.
Competent application of gel polish on short nails will allow you to achieve a pointed manicure with graceful lines. The main thing is to correctly calculate all the distances and proportions in the building process.
The outer edges must be harmoniously combined with the shape of the bed, otherwise the result obtained, instead of satisfaction, will bring frank disappointment.
The lack of length is well compensated by the classic French jacket: draw the lunar line at the edge, taking into account the structural features of the plate.
A manicure can be made colorful, supplemented with interesting drawings and unusual decorative elements.
The technique in which the "smile" line is depicted diagonally looks original - such nail art looks fresh and stylish.
Square and trapezoidal plates are remarkably amenable to adjustment using the technology of cutting the side edges with maximum release of the nail from the skin.
If long
For girls who have everything in order with the length, but they would like to narrow the parameters of their marigolds and make their hands more refined, the masters of the nail industry recommend carefully file the lateral surfaces, and leave the upper edge rectangular or oval.
Long nails are recommended to be strengthened with a gel material to maintain the integrity of the layers and avoid brittleness.
A Few Tips
The main weapon in the struggle for the ideal shape of the master is the timely removal of the cuticle. To make it grow back more slowly and look delicate, constantly moisturize your skin with creams.
It is possible to remove the regrown epithelium with a special apparatus or with rounded scissors, having previously bend it with a spatula.
To correct an unwanted shape, follow these rules:
- Leave unpainted areas on the sides. This technology can handle any size. By changing the size of the color border, you can create any parameters for the perfect manicure.
- Do not limit yourself to a monochromatic coating - interspersed with neat stylish patterns will cheer you up and correct minor defects.
- Do not be afraid to resort to building up synthetic materials - this will help completely change the previous shape.
- Do your manicure regularly, take good care of your hands, and do not leave your nails without a protective base.
- Try to get rid of the habit of biting or cutting your nails at the root.
- File the side edges carefully to achieve the desired effect.
- Use an orange stick to push the cuticle back to the base before applying the base polish.
