Like metallic manicure pop divas and centerfold? Do you want to learn how to create a chic manicure but do not know where to start? In this article you can learn how to use foil to polish and create with the help of its great design.
foil types
Before you learn how to use foil to polish, you should consider the variety of this material. There are several types of foil, it is different texture and method of application to the nail plate.
Keep in mind that to create a beautiful manicure, plain foil will not work, and even if there is a beautiful wrapper on the candy, it should not be used for design.
sheet
Foil sheets - for sale in the form of small plates, has no special adhesive layer, so this type of foil easy to cut various patterns. To glue foil to the nails need to purchase a special adhesive, through which the material is easy to stick to the nail. This type is often used to create a mirror or a metal nail. It can be used for any flight of fancy, therefore, how to use foil to polish it is up to you.
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The peculiarity of this type of foil, is its ability to copy the pattern on the nail plate. Available this kind of small rolls, placed in a sealable jar lid. The material is a carbon copy of a different color coating, as well as with a variety of patterns and intricate hieroglyphs. The width of the roll of approximately three centimeters, length - one meter. The material is easy to use, so it is well suited for home nail art. For more information about how to use the transfer foil to polish, you can learn by reading the full article.
embossed
Sold in sheets of small size, such as encountered in matt shades it has a textured, roughened surface. Most often it is used in conjunction with other types or for creating a pattern on a nail.
thermo
The film is easy to use and does not require additional materials. The distinguishing feature of this type, a method applying to the nail platinum. After selecting the desired size of the material, it is necessary to take one corner with tweezers and bring it to an ultraviolet lamp to heat. Warmed up film can be directly attached to the nail plate, without using an additional adhesive backing.
Ribbons and stickers
A special kind of material commercially represented as two-layer strips. The top layer is colored, the lower transparent or white. The color scheme of ribbons varied, there are: plain, colored, with patterns, as well as stickers and strips. Tapes are easy to use, so have gained popularity among beginners nail art.
Tighting
Tighting foil sold in special containers. She was very thin, like a tinsel. The material is placed in a vessel zhatom, crumpled form. Won wide popularity in the creation of the aquarium on naraschonnyh manicure nails.
The steps of creating a manicure with foil
To create any manicure and development of new techniques need special tools. To do a manicure at home with the help of the foil need first of all a lot of patience, and the second to buy all of the materials specified in the list below.
Tools required:
- liquid to remove cuticles;
- manicure set with nail file;
- varnish - basis;
- buff;
- for degreasing liquid;
- primer;
- fixer;
- special foil - any shade;
- adhesive foil if there is no adhesive backing;
- Ultraviolet lamp;
- A special wand.
adhesives
To create a design using the foil, there is little to choose a quality basic material, you also need to choose the right glue. Clay can be purchased in specialty stores and on the internet ordering. Most importantly, the time of purchase adhesive, via the internet, read the reviews about the product.
Among most users, the most popular is the company Jina glue. It is sold in tubes with a brush for easy application. Glue this company is good to go to the nail plate, long holds taped material that does not require additional equipment to dry. Price per jar «Jina» adhesive, is 80 rubles.
Before you use the glue foil to the nails need to apply the base color lacquer. Only after the complete drying of the basics, you can use glue, applying it with a thin layer over the entire surface of the nail plate. When the glue will change its color, and only then, you can stick the tape to the nail, otherwise the foil may stick badly or not at all adhere.
HONGYI firm glue holds well not just the foil but also rhinestones. Sold in jars with a thin brush. A bottle of glue of 16 milliliters worth 160 rubles. Clay dries in five minutes, does not require additional drying under ultraviolet light and can be easily removed from the skin around the fingers.
Rio Profi firm adhesive produces a clear color which makes it possible to receive the high gloss coating evenly distributed on the nail plate, and drying for only three minutes. The sale comes in black opaque bubbles, a volume of 10 milliliters. Price of one vial of 149 rubles.
Global Fashion - glue dries this company just a few minutes, during the drying agent changes color from white to transparent. Changing the color palette is a signal for applying the foil to the nail. Clay is sold in tubes of 15 ml, can be both a fine and a normal brush. Price range varies from 135 rubles to 165 rubles.
Using the transfer foil and the adhesive
The following instructions tell us more about creating a manicure at home on natural nails.
Step-by-step instruction:
- Remove the previous coat to the nails.
- Make European or manicure.
- Using a nail file, give each nail desired shape.
- Polish fingernails using buff whose abrasive 300 grit.
- Degrease the nails.
- Apply a base.
- Dry all under an ultraviolet lamp.
- Remove sticky layer with special cloths.
- Paint your nails in a color similar to the color gamut of the foil or put a transparent substrate.
- Dry under a UV lamp.
- Remove the adhesive layer.
- If you use a simple varnish, the steps 7-11 are not needed.
- After drying lacquer completely fluff nail plate adhesive. If you want to make some sort of pattern, the adhesive is processed only a certain part of the nail.
- Wait a few minutes, depending on the adhesive firm, until the coating is transparent.
- Attach the inner, white part of the foil to the area, which was an adhesive.
- Using a cotton swab or other materials at hand, spread evenly on the surface of the nail foil.
- A few seconds later, the foil must be removed with nail sharp movement to the side.
- After 2 hours the surface of the nail applied topcoat, better gel finish. If you do it earlier, the foil can sozhitsya.
To tear the foil is better to use the adhesive, as the material of the foil sheet is made more rigid, and may be difficult to adhere to the nail.
Working with the foil without glue
If the hand is not adhesive or do not want to spend money to buy this tool, you can use the foil to create a beautiful design without first applying the adhesive. The simplest option for use without an adhesive agent, is the acquisition of adhesive tapes or stickers. If there is no adhesive in translation or a sheet foil, then the work is suitable for both normal nail and gel nail.
How to use a foil nail without glue:
- perform the first six points of the above instructions;
- cover each nail primer, wait until it is completely dry, without using a lamp;
- cut into ten pieces of sheet or break into small pieces zhatuyu foil;
- if the transfer film, then it can not be cut;
- Apply foundation;
- allow time to completely dry under a lamp;
- selecting a color gel polish, paint each nail;
- put nails under the lamp for a few minutes, until completely dry;
- without removing the adhesive layer, to attach the foil to the nail;
- distribute and smooth the foil over the entire area of the nail;
- abruptly remove the transfer film for another kind of miss the point;
- on the surface of the nail with foil applied finish;
- allow to dry under a UV lamp;
- after drying, remove the adherent layer.
thermal foils
One of the most popular and the most convenient types of film. To work with thermofilm, apart from the standard set of tools need a hair dryer or lamp. The foil is often sold in the form of a plate on which ten adhered labels, shaped like a nail plate. Labels can be a different color, with colored drawings or simply monophonic. Before you create a design, you need to bring your feet in order, a manicure and degrease the nails.
Depending on the base and the main lacquer will increase design time. If you choose a gel lacquer, it is required to dry under the lamp and remove the sticky layer. If you take regular nail the basics, it is enough to simply wait for the complete drying.
Next, using tweezers to peel the foil, a little warm up it. Preheated form to apply to the top of the nail plate by gently pulling to bring the tip of the nail. After blending, the foil is well leveled, and extra pieces removed with a nail file. Secure the result obtained with a special tool.
Video Tutorial
Watching the video, you can learn how to use foil to polish during the development of casting technology.
Variants of using a foil
Thanks to the foil, you can easily create beautiful designs on nails. Foil is used for casting on nailsFor the moon and French manicure. If you are going to a party, you can make mirror manicure, using gold or silver foil. For such a design is better to take the form of sheet.
Using zhatuyu tear the foil, you can create a beautiful manicure with colored grains. The smaller the break pieces of foil, the more beautiful image is obtained. Need to establish small pieces with forceps, they can stick like glue, and varnish on the adhesive layer.
lunar design
Through the use of the foil during the creation of the moon manicure, nails look not only beautiful, but also attract the attention of others with his brilliance and extraordinary performance. Moon manicure looks great both on the short and on the long nails. The main emphasis in the creation of such a design is given well or lunula - short distance from the ground to the center of the nail. Well, you can make different versions:
- triangular;
- convex;
- curved;
- straight.
before creating moon manicure you need to consider not only the type of wells, but also the color scheme as the varnish and foil. It is best to pick up the contrast design. For example, a gold moon against a black or dark-blue background.
Before you create a decoration should lead the nails in order and do a manicure by removing paint residues. You need to cut the foil ten pieces for the design of the well. To make a smooth and neat band, best to use stencils or make a first draft of the paper, and then transfer it to the foil.
stages:
- Degreasing.
- Nail coating basis.
- Drying of the first layer.
- Application of the basic lacquer color.
- Drying in air or under a UV light, depending on the material chosen.
- Removal of the adhesive layer in the case of using a varnish gel.
- The application of glue on the nail hole.
- After the glue has become transparent, using tweezers to glue the cut foil.
- Leveling Q-tip blade foil.
- Apply gel fixer.
- Dry nails.
If you use a transfer foil, then neprosohshy base layer, it is necessary to glue a piece of transfer foil. After careful leveling and consolidation, sharp movement to disrupt the protective coating. Then carefully paint each nail polish color, leaving the shape of the moon. At the end of topcoat applied.
Jacket with foil
French manicure gained its popularity for a long time. This design is widely used in weddings, as well as for everyday meetings. To give a flavor of the French manicure, you can use foil to the smile line. Free edge can be designed as a half-moon, as well as in the form of a triangle. For beginners special stencils are sold, with which you can make a straight line. Thanks to foil you can create not only a standard jacket, but oblique.
Creation of the French manicure with respect is no different from the lunar design. The main feature is not sticking foil on the hole, and on the regrown nail station. For oblique jacket, you need to pre-cut foil sheet into triangles. If we take the transfer film after applying and drying base color lacquer, adhesive nail part is greased diagonally, then you need to perform all the steps of working with the transfer foil.
Specular metal or manicure
Reflecting the best manicures done with the help of thermal film, thanks to this kind of foil always turns out beautiful manicure, and nail plate is covered with smooth, shiny layer. Terms of Use thermal foils described above. Foil is best to take the silver or gold color, without additional drawings.
Creature:
- treatment of nail plate;
- cuticle removal;
- degreasing;
- grinding;
- application framework and its drying;
- cover the entire adhesive area of the nail;
- overlay foil to the nail to put the inner side;
- smoothing of the film using rods;
- removal of the top film layer, an abrupt movement;
- Application of the fixing means.
Design of casting nails
Manicure with molding effect often created on artificial nails, but it can be performed on natural marigold home. To create a manicure casting, beginners are best taken transfer foil, it is much easier to work in contrast to the bill - a sheet of foil.
There are several options on how to use the foil for casting on the nails. The first method involves the presence of an adhesive, to a second embodiment need gel coat. For each embodiment previously should make a standard nail treatment: manicure, a cuticle removal degreasing.
Step-by-step instruction:
- The application of a protective coating on the nail.
- Polymerization under an ultraviolet lamp.
- Application of the basic lacquer hue.
- Drying under a lamp.
- Removal of the adhesive layer.
- Grinding.
- Patterning a fine brush by means of adhesive or bright colors gel varnish.
- If the adhesive has been applied, it is necessary to wait for it to discoloration, if varnish - it is necessary to dry the drawing under a lamp for about two minutes.
- A piece of transfer foil, it is necessary to attach to the inside of the glue or varnish.
- Foil pressed to the entire contour of the figure.
- Sharp movement to remove the remainder of the foil.
- Designed to cover the top.
- Dried under a lamp.
- Remove the adhesive layer.
casting design can be supplemented with liquid stone or acrylic powder. You can make stained-glass windows with the help of colored lacquers.
