Matt gel-lacquer

Matte manicure gel-varnish - a great way to diversify the options for the design of nails. It looks unusual, but, at the same time, perfectly suited for both bright and festive images, and for everyday and restrained.

Design with frosted gel-varnish

If desired, the nails can be completely covered with matte lacquer, or play in contrast, using in one design a matte and a shiny finish. Now many companies offer a wide choice of matte shades of gel-varnish: from light, to the darkest. However, many note that the most advantageous look shades of gel-varnish in the dark scale, since in this case an interesting matte texture immediately strikes the eye. In addition, on a matte dark base, the design elements are better visible if you decide to use two types of varnish of the same shade. For example, a black matte gel varnish will be an excellent background for black patterns. Another option: cover the nails with a matte varnish, and then make a jacket , emphasizing the edges of the nail plate with a glossy coating. Actually, and the opposite solution - frosted coat with gel-varnish. It will also be interesting to look like a moon manicure using a matte varnish. Other, the most beautiful colors of such a coating, except black, are blue and red matte gel varnishes.

If you decide to create yourself a manicure using such an unusual cover, then it should take into account several of its features. First, a matte gel-nail polish can emphasize the various irregularities of the nail plate, so it will be necessary to thoroughly grind it. Secondly, even if you use the main color gel-lacquer with a matte effect, you also need a matte top, since without it, the manicure will not be sufficiently resistant. However, this condition can be circumvented, using various ways to create a matte coating yourself. Finally, applying a matte gel-varnish should be as accurate as possible, since all the flaws will be much more noticeable than on a glossy coating, and removing them is more difficult, most often you have to completely remodel the damaged nail.

Ways to make gel-lacquer frosted

If you want to make yourself a fashionable matte manicure, you need to know that it is not necessary to purchase such a coating, or you can impart a matte effect to any of your gel-lacquer. There are several ways for this.

The first is that instead of a colored matte gel-lacquer, a matte top is obtained, that is, an upper fixing coating, which gives the manicure of any color the desired effect.

The next method is the purchase of special powders, which are applied to a ready-made, but not dried top coat with the help of a fan brush, and then together with it are baked in a UV or LED lamp and give that same desired dullness. Usually used acrylic powder or matte dust.

You can polish the surface of each nail with a machine for a hardware manicure or block with which you process nails before application of gel-varnish after applying varnish and top, but this is a rather laborious and demanding process, because grinding should be uniform throughout the area of ​​the nail.

Finally, after applying and before drying the gel-varnish, you can hold it for a few seconds over the water vapor, and this will give it a matte effect. This method is the simplest and suitable for home conditions, but you should remember that you are faced with a choice: either to abandon the top cover and, thus, to make the life of the manicure shorter, or anyway, after the colored gel, use a matte top that will have to be purchased additionally.