Types of nail art design

NAIL ART TECHNIQUES

There are a lot variety of nail art techniques which are used by people to create unique and beautiful design. The design can be alone or combination of two or more techniques to give perfect look. Some of nail art techniques are very easy to understand, you can learn very fast, but some are tough and you need a professional expert help for it. Some of those techniques are given below:

• Stamping
• Sponging
• Dotting
• Taping
• Cuticle

STAMPING

The stamping nail art technique are to get different type of images prints  on your nails like prints of tiger stripes, panda spots,flower prints and many more. There are thousand of intricate designs of images available for you. Stamping is done by the help of a metal plate that has different patterns of design engraved into it, nail polish , a plastic card and rubber stamper to transfer the nail polish from the stamping plate to your nails.

Stamping nails art techniques, need a lot of practice to become professional in it. It is very necessary  to place the paper at perfect angle and placing the image by the stamp on nails for design.



SPONGING

By the name it is clear that in sponging nail art techniques, we use a sponge. Sponging nail art technique is very simple technique for creating colorful and attractive nail art design.  Sponging technique allow you to build up different color, it can be two or more than it in a intricate design. It just need a piece of  sponge and different colored nail polishes, to create awesome pattern on your nails. This is the easiest techniques from all type of techniques, and even a old sponge can become a great tool for your beautiful nail art design.

                      It will look awesome if you create gradient or galaxy nail art by using sponging technique. You just have to start with a gradient base and then add a stamped design on top of the nails.  even you can use tape of section with different blends of color to get an impressive nail design. Any one can easily learn this technique with little or no practice.

DOTTING

Dotting nail art technique can easily achieved by dotting tools easily available in market. This dotting tool is widely used by professionals artist and nail technicians to create and apply different patterns like flowers, lines arrows of colored dots on nail art using nail polish, gels, acrylic and many more.
 Dotting techniques can also used by combing it with stamping or sponging, to get a beautiful and intricate designs of nail art. For beginners, it will be good to start with simple designs and then work on  complex designs.


TAPING

Taping is one of the finest nail art design techniques. it is very easy to make, generally in this method, we have to tape off a particular areas of nails and apply another coat of nail polish on it. By using tapping techniques you can make crisp clean lines, half moon and many more designs. This is a very simple techniques and with a little assistance, any one can learn easily.

CUTICLE

Cuticle nail art technique is very popular nails art now a days. Cuticle technique was invented in japan, which allows them to create a beautiful intricate design. In this technique nail polish Little drops are dropped down into a filtered water, to create an awesome pattern.  This pattern is then transferred on to your nails,to give a gorgeous look of nail art.

Introduction of nail art design

NAIL ART

Nail art is not just a manicure or nail job, It is a creativity of drawing pictures or different types of designs on finger nails. Nail art is a best way to brighten up your look or accessorize on a special occasion like parties or fashion show. Nail art can be done on both finger nails and toe nails.  Nail art has their fashion roots on manicuring. Nail art become an important part of any ladies beauty salon as a type of fashion activity. There are many variants in Nail art design, ranging from subtle to funky and outrageous also.   

For example- You can choose to paint flowers design on your nails for party and date, or you can spell out your favorite soccer team name on the day of game. Nail art also includes all type of three dimension nails, and custom design art also of any types.  If you want intricate designs, then it will be good to choose professional artist for it.

ORIGIN OF NAIL ART

Nail art is present in world from thousands of years, first traces of nail art is found in the ancient Babylonian 5000 BC where it is uses by males to colored their nails with "kohl". This is done to indicate status of males. For examples - the higher class males apply black color, while the lower class males apply green color. But according to some historians Nail art beginning is from china around 3000 BC, where they use enamel on their finger, and left is for 3 to 4 hours which result a pink color obtained on their nails. The Chinese also use another nail art during Ming dynasty known as "Lacquer" which is made from various flower petals such as dizzy orchids, roses, beeswax and gelatin. This mixture generally applied on the night, and in the next morning, a shiny and beautiful color obtained on the nails.

 At the same period, Indian also practice the nail art. They use the juice of heena plant to decorate their nails, which give a shiny brown color after 3 to 4 hours. In ancient Egypt nail art is used to represent different class of society.  For example in 600 BC, During Zhou Dynasty , gold color represent royals,  silver for ministers and rich persons,  and black for all common people.

                                               The Modern history of nail art design began early in the 19 century, with modernization and popularizes of manicures, created a big business opportunities and many salons started to gain profit of that opportunities. The revolution in nail art design is started by the invention of new kind of nail enamel by the company Revlon in 1940. Revlon Company started using pigments in place of dyes changes the industries dramatically. 

                       The designs and colors are quickly adapted by the peoples, which make this invention successful and help the Revlon Company to become industry leader in this field. After this, nail art has become more creative and artistic art done by professional experts. Many trends have come now days like addition of symbols and crystals, air brushing, acrylic and gel nails. Nail art had become an important part of accessories and fashion world. 

There are many techniques of nail art; some of them are given below

•     Stamping nail art

•     Sponge nail art

•         Dotting nail art

•   Cuticle nail art

•     Taping nail art