Manicure with Scotch tape: a handy idea
Manicure with Scotch tape This is the name that was popular inthe last time the technique of performing a manicure, in which to create a variety of patterns and effects, you use ordinary office tape. The manicure with the help of Scotch tape is very simple, and this procedure takes quite a bit of time.
It's hard to say who first decided to use scotch to create beautiful drawings on nails, but it is believed that the manicure with scotch "officially" came into use in 2011. However, it can not be said that earlier in the home conditions such a method of creating a decorative manicure has never been used.
With the help of an adhesive tape manicure can be performed any way you like. The main feature of a manicure with an adhesive tape is that such a method of applying a decorative coating allows you to get very clear, even borders of the picture without much effort.
The technique of doing a manicure with tape is quite simple. It will be required for a manicure directly scotch,with necessarily low or medium tackiness, leaving no traces on the surface of the nails, one or more colored nail varnishes, base and fixing varnishes, as well as decor for nails, if desired.
Nails are prepared for applying decorative coatings in any convenient way, whether it's traditional edging orEuropean unedged manicure. Then the nails are covered with base lacquer - it will allow the decorative coating to last longer, and also will level the surface of the nails.
Further Nails are varnished in the color that is selected for the background. After complete drying of the varnish, you can proceedto the most interesting stage of performing a manicure with Scotch tape - the formation of patterns. To do this, you must first prepare stencils from Scotch tape. It can be stripes of different widths, zigzags, waves, circles and any other geometric shapes.
Prepared Stencils from Scotch tape are neatly applied to the nails, according to the conceived design, then carefullythey are pressed and smoothed. Next on the nails is applied the lacquer of the color that is selected for the picture. Depending on the chosen idea of a manicure, the color of the varnish is chosen contrasting with respect to the background varnish or, conversely, similar to the background one.
When applying a varnish, you can not worry about the clarityborders of the drawing - this is what Scotch needs. After the drying of the varnish, the scotch can be carefully removed and the finished clear pattern remains on the nails. If the chosen design of the nails does not provide for the application of other colors, then on this manicure with scotch tape you can finish by covering the nails in the end with a transparent lacquer-fixer.
If you need more colors for your drawing, then step with drawing on the nails of the tape is repeated: again cut out and glued stencils, again applied the lacquer of the desired shade. The finished manicure is covered with a colorless varnish for fastening.
Today There are just a lot of examples of manicure scotch. The design of nails, decorated in this way,can be the most diverse, which allows you to choose the appropriate option for each specific case. For example, for manicure in the office you can choose soft colors of varnish and a very simple pattern in the form of horizontal, vertical or diagonal strips. But for the evening manicure you can choose a "chess" pattern, an "explosive" pattern or other bright patterns.
