Professional manicure in our time is already a routine and affordable procedure for nail care. Manicurists carefully monitor the trends of nail art, and offer their clients the most daring and modern solutions to create a beautiful manicure. But, the girls themselves make wonderful examples of nail design at home, as there are many tools to help create a manicure. No special skills are required.
Nail art trends for 2024-2025 are very encouraging. Now there are no strict rules and boundaries. Almost everything is allowed, starting from the simplest here and geometric images, ending with bright “tear eyes” shades with a variety of patterns, colors, animal faces, etc. Any fantasy flight is accepted. Nails of any shape and length will be appropriate.
Preparing for nail art
Proper preparation of the nail coating before applying colored varnish provides good adhesion of the nail (adhesion) to the applied coating. It is important to properly process the nails and the periungual area, and choose good materials.
So, if you decide not to go to salons and change nail designs according to your mood at home, not depend on the reputation and mood of the master, then you will need to arrange a mini-manicure room for yourself. To do this, you will need basic nail care products, as well as a number of tools.
Materials and tools for creating a manicure at home:
- Means for removing varnish;
- Cuticle oil;
- Cuticle softener;
- Hand skin care products;
- Cotton pads;
- Disinfectants for tools, skin and nail plates (hydrogen peroxide);
- Colored varnishes;
- Base coverage;
- Fixing coating (finish);
- Cotton napkin or towel.
If you decide not just to create beauty through varnishes on your nails, but want to do it using gel polish, then you need to invest in the purchase of the following items:
- An ultra-violet lamp with a power of 9 watts, which is quite enough for use at home;
- Nail clippers and scissors;
- File - a buff for polishing with abrasiveness (hardness) of at least 900 grit;
- Degreaser for nails or dehydrator (removes excess moisture and deeply dries the nails). Removes natural body fat and dirt from the surface of the nail plates;
- File for grinding and decoration of nail plates. Better with 4 surfaces;
- Lint-free wipes are required to remove the sticky layer after drying (cotton pads leave a lint);
- Base gel for smoothing the surface of the nail and adhesion with other layers;
- Prep primer is used for better adhesion to the base coat;
- A 3 in 1 acid-free primer is used if the nails are brittle. It is also a dehydrator, degreaser and base gel;
- Acid primers are used on strong healthy nails for a more tight grip of the base with gel polish. It helps soften horny scales, which allows you to penetrate and fix the base layer evenly;
- Colored varnishes and stencils;
- Topcoat to give the manicure a glossy or matte effect;
- Cuticle oil to finalize any manicure. It is a protective agent against infection, irritation and softens the periungual area;
- Gel polish remover.
Important: so that shellac and gel polish do not begin to peel off after a few days, it is necessary to degrease the nails well.
What nail art is now in fashion?
Each year brings something new to fashion. Nail art design is no exception. The Year of the Yellow Earth Pig dictates the coloristic direction associated with the entire gamut of yellow, gold and brown colors. Also, this season retains burgundy, blue, green, nude and, of course, almost never leaving the top - red and white.
Fashion lawmakers stipulate that the shape of the nails this season can be any, but preferably round (maybe a rounded square), almond-shaped and oval. The length should be medium.
The main trends of everyday nail art 2024 are geometry and minimalism, Scandinavian drawing, fresh flowers and fruits, animal texture and images of animals, as well as proximity to naturalness and tenderness. Another popular “naked” nail design (Negative space), in which the nail is divided into 2 parts, one of which is colorless, and the second image.
The festive nail decoration options for the 2024 season do not cancel previous trends, such as sequins, rhinestones, foil, glitter, decorative sand, velvet flock, broken glass with a holographic effect, etc.
Coloristic features of this season:
- Red plain manicure will, as always, be in trend in 2024. You can combine it with white, rhinestones and geometric shapes;
- Based on the white lacquer base, nail designers offer 3-D decor, abstract patterns, transparent glitter, foil decor and delicate flowers;
- Burgundy and dark brown varnishes can be combined with almost all directions and options;
- As for the blue shade for nails, the 2024 trend is saturated azure, indigo, cobalt, electrician and ultramarine;
- Black varnish is recommended to be combined this year with white, of course. It is possible to create color drawings and plain patterns on its basis;
- Nail designers offer interesting options with nude varnishes. They believe that delicate pastel colors can be perfectly combined with transparent glitter, in which the minimum number of “glitter”.
Now we turn directly to the art innovations of nails 2024-2025 winter-autumn. Indeed, for each season, designers recommend certain styles and decorations of nails. Such innovations, for example, include a “knitted” manicure and a Scottish cage. These two types of nail art have already managed to win the hearts of many women.
“Knitted” manicure is perfectly combined with a jacket and plain coating. He reminds me of knitting “pigtails” on a sweater. Of course, it refers to the cold seasons of the year - autumn-winter.
A cage or office manicure is also a fall-winter 2024-2025 trend. This is not only a wonderful combination with formal clothes, but also a comparison with the “warm blanket”, with the comfort of home. A cage can be completely diverse: Caledoni, Burberry, Royal Stuart, Black Watch, Border Tartan, Vichy, Glenchek, etc.
“Spider Web” or “threads” is a spectacular manicure that designers have allowed to keep for this season. It is a stretching heterogeneous thread over a monophonic base. Moreover, the basics can be both soft and bright, it goes well with foil and with rhinestones.
Gradient manicure also remains in fashion for 2024-2025. A variety of gradient manicure is simply amazing. This year, ombre is allowed on glossy and matte surfaces. A sharp geometric gradient and a smooth transition in completely different coloristic variations are used.
Reverse franchise, Dior's manicure or moonlight manicure is one of the most popular trends 2024-2025. There is no limit to fantasy. It is combined with absolutely any style. Nail designers apply various forms, coating the hole, for example, a triangular hole, either coated with “gold” or made of rhinestone. A hole in the form of stamping, lace, stickers, etc. is welcome.
Fell in love and become very popular, the rub remains one of the long-playing trends in 2024-2025. The holographic, mirror, pearl rub is supplemented with geometric patterns, minimalism, rhinestones, combined with a moon design, gradient, glitter, etc.
In spring and summer, nail designers offer to combine rich, deep colors as an easy complement to gentle, calm basic tones.
Impressionism and abstraction - the main directions of art design this season. They are careless bright strokes on a calm, gentle base.
Animal patterns are also a long-known trend. But, this year masters of nail design advise resorting to unexpected color solutions, further and further departing from the realism of colors.
“Flower manicure” is almost an icon of nail style. Flowers will never go out of fashion, and the variations in their execution are simply surprising in their diversity and development. This year, in addition to the already loved jacket and matte cover with flowers and leaves, flower sliders, sculpting, “sweet bloom”, etc., two opposites are recommended - complex paintings, flower designs and light, airy, minimalist images flowers.
Spring-summer 2024 also involves a gradient manicure in the form of a rainbow transition - bright and juicy, but do not ignore calm pastel colors. Gradient can be done in neon or glossy style.
Graphics is one of the leading trends in 2024-2025. Lines, squares, dots, geometric projections and origami, animalism, combined with a classic French jacket or moon manicure, is a great solution.
Negative space is also undergoing some changes since the 2024 season. The bare hole of the nail, or indicated by transparent varnish, is combined with bright coatings and glitter. It will be even more interesting if the hole is made of an unusual shape - in the form of a square, bevel, triangle, etc.
Geometry
Concise solutions of shapes and colors are the main trend for 2024. Minimalistic geometry involves the application of several lines, points, figures on one or more nails, since the rest remain monophonic.
If you want to create a brighter manicure, you can use the technique of “broken glass” in the form of geometric shapes.
Girls are very partial to geometric patterns in black and white, this is one of the laconic and strict options, but suitable for absolutely any style of clothing and event.
For to become the owner of a trendy geometric manicure yourselfIt is not necessary to be a manicurist or have serious art skills. The following recommendations must be observed:
- Decide on the type of nails. For short ones, ultra-thin vertical lines are suitable, for medium and long ones, absolutely all geometric variations, including bright geometry, for wide nails, a dark basic background and geometric compositions with rhombuses and rectangles are needed;
- Prepare your nails for coverage;
- Thin stripes are drawn with an ultra-thin brush with a pointed pile, or with a manicure art liner;
- It is better to apply the drawing according to preliminary marking with smooth movements and try not to take a lot of varnish on the brush;
- For drawing points, you can use toothpicks or orange sticks;
- You can use ready-made prints, stamps and stencils. In order to minimize errors when applying the picture, you can use duct tape.
Do not be afraid to experiment with styles. Add graphic elements in combination with any style.
Flowers
The drawings of flowers on the nails are most likely still not going to survive. This season is characterized by the contrast of this trend. Light, unobtrusive flowers or their elements are drawn on a nude, light or transparent basis, and the contrast of incredibly bright and complex floral paintings. They vary in execution technique, and, of course, in complexity:
- Stained glass flowers are painted starting with a black outline. First draw flowers, then leaves and lines. The pattern is divided into parts, in different directions by curved lines. Then the contour is dried and painted over in stained glass style, after which it is covered with a top layer and dried;
- To achieve ultra-thin airy and delicate flowers, you need the thinnest brush. Flowers are easier to draw than geometric patterns, because you can use different pressure, make the stems and leaves thinner or thicker. You can make the buds in one tone with the main coating and contour. Finalize the drawing with the top with alignment;
- Flowers for wet gel polish can be done using a special gel paint with a spreading effect on the main layer or apply a second background layer and draw on it without drying. After finishing work, having achieved the spreading effect, they are dried and covered with top;
- One of the easiest ways to decorate your nails with flowers is flower stencils. A sticky layer is removed from the dried base and a stencil is applied and smoothed. Each element is filled with gel polish with a thin brush and dried. The same manipulations are carried out with the next layer. The stencil is removed and the nail is covered with a top;
- One simple way to apply a “floral” pattern to your nails is with water-based stickers. It is necessary to cut out a drawing in the shape of a nail or a separate element along the contour and leave it for a specified time in the instructions in warm water (approximately 5 minutes). The pattern is wiped from water and removed from the substrate and applied to the prepared gel-varnish coating, it can even be smoothed out on the sticky layer. Cover with top and dried.
Fruits
Perhaps images of fruits or their imitation on nails is one of the easiest ways to decorate nails. In addition, it is a bright and spring-summer option. Such a design, even for a beginner, virtually eliminates the possibility of errors.
In order to draw any fruit on the nails, you must first prepare the nail according to all the rules. Then, on the finished base layer, you need to apply the background layer of the selected fruit. An arc is drawn along the nail - this is the boundary of the peel, if any. Seeds are drawn in the center or along the edge, and the composition is dried. We cover with a top. After drying, the marked border is painted over and dried, and again covered with top. Stickiness is removed. Can be coated with clear acrylic powder and dried again in a UV lamp.
Muzzles of animals
Images of animals can be drawn independently with a thin brush, a toothpick, an orange stick, or a manicure dots. You can draw muzzles, geometrically stylize or draw individual elements in a cartoon style. The easiest ways to decorate, of course, are sliders and stamping.
Photos for inspiration
The new season of 2024-2025 is an incredibly convenient year for realizing the most interesting fantasies of nail art. Do not be afraid to experiment and combine styles, colors and shapes.
