How To Choose The Best Brushes For Nail Art Decoration

 How To Choose The Best Brushes For Nail Art Decoration

I always saw nail decoration tutorials and they seemed easy designs, but I was going to do them and I couldn't, I thought I had a trick or that the video was simply edited, since I tried again and again and could not make the design that I wanted to, I spent hours repeating the tutorial to see where it failed and nothing, I could no longer deal with my frustration because no design was nice as I saw it, I even thought that maybe it was not good for this although I am passionate about everything that has to do nails on.

Here you will find the characteristics, care, uses and designs that you can make with the nail decoration brushes.

Well, I did not give up and from looking and investigating so much I discovered what my failure was and of course: it was the brushes.

- How To Choose The Best Brushes For Nail Art Decoration and Nail Art Accessories

That is why I set out to research everything about nail art brushes.

Collect a lot of information and I have brought it for you, because I don't want you to be discouraged.

Many times we just don't use the right ones since we don't know how to choose them.

 

If you are interested in the world of Nail Art, that is why you should know the tools that make each decoration possible and you must learn how to use them and what each one is for, we generally use enamels or acrylic paints for decoration, today I will talk specifically about the nail decoration brushes that you can easily get in an art store, as well as in our store, I am sure you will be surprised and the explanation we have of each of them will be useful to you. Let us begin!

PARTS OF A BRUSH

MANGO
It is important that when you buy your brushes, you check the handle very well, that it is the correct size for your hand, that it is not too heavy and that it has the right shape for you.
RECORDED
Check the type of number of your brush because according to its shape it comes in different sizes, think about your specific need and what you are going to use it for.
Splint
Check that there is a good connection of the hairs to the handle, here we can check the quality of the brush that we are going to acquire.
HAIR
I will talk later about the types of hair and their use so that you can choose according to your need.

BRUSH ON NATURAL OR SYNTHETIC HAIR
Natural hair brushes are more expensive than synthetic ones and the reason is that they have higher quality and durability.

If you are a beginner you will want to choose synthetics for their price but once they have been damaged they will not do the same again.
Those with natural hair come in materials such as: goat, camel and ox, obviously also because of the texture they have different uses.

The synthetic hair are made of toray hair and taklon hair.
It should be borne in mind that there are people allergic to natural brushes, and it must be extremely hygienic to avoid fungal problems and others.

 

NATURAL BRUSHES
BRISTLE HAIR: It is the most economical of the series, the best are manufactured in China, its texture is elastic and rough.

MARTA KOLINSKY HAIR
It is obtained from the tail of this little animal that lives in the regions of Siberia and Mongolia, its texture is very good as it retains a good amount of paint and quickly returns to its original shape. It is very expensive.

RED MARTA HAIR
They also retain a large amount of water and you can get very fine tips to draw small details, their texture is flexible.

SQUIRREL HAIR

This type of hair is very soft and absorbent.

HAIR SABELINE
Obtained from the Ox in the market they look like an imitation of the red sable brushes with similar characteristics and colors.

ELEVEN TYPES ACCORDING TO THEIR SHAPE
One of the tools that facilitate manicure and decoration are brushes. Here I bring you a compilation of the eleven most used.

1.FAN BRUSH
fan brush to decorate nails

As its name indicates, it is shaped like a fan and is the largest of all, it is used to apply two glazes at the same time, to fade, and also to spread glitter or any texture that you want to add to your decoration.

Fan Brush Designs

These designs can be made very easy with this brush, because it allows you to spread the texture in the place you want in an organized way or according to your design, it also allows you to shake your nail and remove the excesses and as I told you before, decorate your nails with various colors of polishes.

2. FLAT BRUSH

Commonly used to make the French line on the tips of the nails, it also serves, like the previous one, to apply two polishes in a single pass and perhaps with better precision, in addition to many uses that you can give it.

Flat brush designs nail decoration in flowers with commas

For this design, you impregnate the tip of the brush that you are going to use with paint or white enamel and pass it vertically until you form a smile, these brushes are very precise and will give you a very clean outline.

3.CAT'S TONGUE BRUSH
cat's tongue-brush-for-acrylic-nails

It has a triangular shape with a fine tip to make different designs and sizes of lines, it gives firmness in the lines. You can make countless designs with these brushes as they are very practical.

It is easy to use, it is used to apply acrylics, its texture is soft and flexible, it allows us to spread the product on the nail with great precision.

Cat Tongue Brush Design

You can easily do this design with this brush thanks to its tip that gives depth to your designs. You can easily make straight or curved strokes.

4.BRUSH LINER

It is used to make all kinds of lines since it has a long and fine tip, ideal for making small drawings on the nails and very fine lines, it also serves to shape your designs, you can perfectly outline your drawing.

It has a very delicate and fine tip, you can use it to outline your designs or to make straight lines or waves, but they will always be very thin and defined.

 Design with the Liner Brush

As we observed in this design, this brush is very useful as it allows you to perfectly outline any figure in your design, you can make thin or thick strokes as you wish.

5.ROUND BRUSH

It provides great precision therefore it is ideal for making very specific petals or figures. If you want small petals, only support it halfway and if you want it wider, you can support everything when defining your petal or shape that you want. You can simply slide it from the thickest to the thinnest, so you will achieve the petal shape.

Decorated With Round Brush

This design is a sample of what you can do with this brush, since you can make petals, leaves or outline the smile, in short, just let your imagination fly and let yourself go.

6. ANGLE BRUSH

It is used to fill small spaces or to reach the tips of the nails. You can make perfect circles if you use it as a compass, affirm the shortest part on the surface of the nail and turn it over with the largest part, this way of using it allows you to create a faded figure, if you wish you can use two colors at the time.

Flowers made with an angular brush

This beautiful design can be done with this brush, it helps you to give shade and definition to your flowers, you can also combine your flowers with stones and accessories, give your designs your personal touch, it will make them unique.

7. BRUSH MOP
Mop brush for nail art

It helps to create small smudges depending on the size of the brush, without leaving excess enamel, you can also use it to shake off the excesses when you finish your decoration if you use solid materials.

Mop Brush Decorated Nails

This is a beautiful sample of what you can do with these brushes that are our main tool in the World of Nail Art.

8. Long brushes 1,2,3

They serve to make defined and fine lines, you can also draw: leaves, flowers, butterflies and many other things in a more precise way.

Ideas with designs for decorating your nails flowers on nails decorated with a long brush

You can make these figures using different types of brushes, but especially this design gives you a clear example of how each figure is defined with the outline.

9.BRUSH FLAT
nail decoration with flat brush

It is similar in use to the fan only that it has longer hairs and other shorter ones, it helps to create original designs.

Spring design

Mandala nail art in yellow and green

Solid materials are used for this type of design and this brush will be your main tool because, like the fan brush, it helps us spread the product, but being smaller, it helps you add the product in a specific area, such as in this case, the tip.

10.BRUSHES FOR BRUSHES

brushes to decorate nails with brush strokes

These can have a straight or angular shape and are special for brush strokes or one stroke since their shape allows it to be loaded with two colors, you must take into account the termination of the brush bristles because it is very important that they are soft and even to achieve the best designs.

Flower in Brushstrokes

This square brush comes in different sizes, it is used to use two colors at the same time in the brushstroke technique, pour two drops of different colors on a surface, smear each half of the brush with each color and you will get an excellent brushstroke, you can also use it for French manicure.

11.ACRYLIC NAIL BRUSHES
Acrylic Nail Brushes

This brush is perfect for making your nails in gel or acrylic because its shape and pointed end allow you to form the pearls you need for this procedure.

Design with Flower In acrylic


This design also has the flower in acrylic, with this type of brush you can make this complete project.

12. PUNCHES

Nail art, the art of drawing on your nails

 Nail art, the art of drawing on your nails

They came from Japan and New York a few years ago and nail art has conquered female nails. You just have to go around the cities and observe the hands of the youngest (and not so young) and you will discover colored nails, drawings, stones, glitter and even the shields of Madrid, Barça Classicism is dead! Long live the revolution in nails! We could almost yell French Manicure Out! I say almost and I will deny having said it because it is the one I like the most, but… fashions come and you have to hold them tightly and get on the train of colored hands with drawings, stones, cracked, stamped, with foil transfer tape to effect mirror ... Anything goes in the world of fantasy.

Although it is true that the fashion for nail art came from Japan and New York - what does not come from there - it seems that it began in India or Egypt thousands of years ago. I like the Egyptian theory, that those were women with a lot of makeup on. In China the first varnish was invented and its women began to adorn their nails. But the real nail art started in the 90s of the last century. The first woman I saw with a nail-art-museum was athlete Florence Griffith, an Olympic medalist in Seoul in 1988.


- Nail art, the art of drawing on your nails and nail art accessories

In this nail art there are true wonders and true artists. Not only do you need to know how to do a good manicure, but you also have to know how to draw and paint miniatures because what they do on the nails are tiny pictures.

To find out how nail art is made, I have approached one of the centers that do this type of nail makeup, Siberia Salon, run by two young Russian women (from Novosibirsk, in the heart of Siberia): Sofía Khasanova and Julia Philippova, who They came to Madrid looking to start a small beauty business and, indeed, it is small but well-stocked and with a lot of customers. For two years that they settled in the city they have been perfecting their techniques with various courses in each of the types of nail art that are made: liquid stones, cracking, stamping (stamping), with gold effect, silver, aluminum, sugar … Almost every day there is a different one.

When you arrive at Siberia Salón, Sofía shows her “sample fans” like these above and you don't know what to choose from the number of models you can choose from. Because if one is pretty, the other is more so. But be careful! Don't go out as if you were a Christmas tree either. "The normal thing," explains Sofía, "is that the manicure is made simple, in the color that each one wants, yes, permanent, and then, one of these nail art techniques is worked on a single nail."


One of the ones that most caught my attention is that of liquid stones (on the left of the image), which is made by polishing the nails well; you always have to polish them to make them thinner. A gel is then applied and dried under a nail drying lamp and then a layer of a clear builder gel and the nail is put back into the drying lamp. This device is of tremendous importance because otherwise the duration of nail art would be more than triple the time. The nail is polished well to achieve a completely smooth surface. Now is the time to make the drawing that we want and begin to prepare the liquid stone with glitter mixed with a transparent builder gel that is placed on the area of ​​the nail where the space to put the liquid stone has been left. The nail is placed back on the drying lamp so that the gel does not move and dry. Finally, a clear base is applied and it dries again. All of this is done with exquisite care and each nail takes about 20 minutes or so. Then there is the result.

The most difficult part of these nail art techniques is drawing and not all manicures know how to do it because, in addition, it requires almost a surgeon's precision. I found it extremely difficult and miniature. See if you are not images made to a client.

You can wear wonders on your nails if you want and, really, they are beautiful. In addition, they usually last about three weeks and do not need much care; just don't use chemicals and put on gloves. Then, to remove both the permanent manicure and the nail art they have to do it in a professional center because it is not as easy as removing the nail polish that we normally use.

See what wonders are made with this miniature art! By the way, according to Sofía, this year unicorns and flamingos are going to be in fashion. You are warned.

What Brush to Use to Apply Acrylic Nails

 What Brush to Use to Apply Acrylic Nails

Hello! In this article we are going to learn about a very interesting topic in the nail application area and it is the brush that we use to carry out this work.
The brushes are found in different coats, going from synthetic ones to Kolinsky malt.

- What Brush to Use to Apply Acrylic Nails and Nail Art Accessories

Why choose a Kolinsky material brush?

MALTA KOLINSKY hair is the favorite of all nail techniques and beginners, as it gives you greater absorption when taking each acrylic pearl.
It is distinguished by its great resistance to the passage of time, which, given the necessary care, we can say that a kolinsky quality brush can last up to approximately 5 years.

Therefore instead of being an expense, we should consider it an excellent investment.

Although currently, we have the option of using synthetic bristle brushes to apply nails.

The handle of each brush can be made of different materials, ranging from wood, plastic and metal, another point to consider is the length of each of them, as you prefer.

And the splint can be found oval or flat, in both ways you can work on your applications, although when we start, it is best to use a flat splint brush, to have greater control of the acrylic pearls and its application.

In this video I show you the different brushes for acrylic nails.

Types of Files to apply Acrylic Nails

 Types of Files to apply Acrylic Nails

The files for the application of acrylic nails are very important, it depends on whether you do a more aesthetic job.
Knowing how to use them we will be making really beautiful nail applications.

In the first post of this blog we saw the importance of having a good nail application brush.
Now it is time for files to take their place and they cannot be absent when buying our nail application material.

- Types of Files to apply Acrylic Nails and Nail Art Accessories

This tool for applying acrylic nails is very important, and knowing when to use it according to its grain number.
Since each type of file has its function, from the preparation of the natural nail, to forming the structure.

Acrylic Nail File Numbers
In the files we have the numbering, ranging from 80/80 grain to 240/240 grain files.
And sponge files and limes to shine.

From the number of file you will know when to use it.
The 80,100 and 120 grain files are more abrasive when filing.

And its basic function is to devastate acrylic on tip nails and sculptural nails.
Do gel polish and nail art retreats.
Also when doing an acrylic nail or gel nail removal.

The 150 grit files work to shape the tips of acrylic nails (ballerina, coffin, almond, square etc).
They are used to remove excess acrylic with an enveloping filing, and to achieve a more aesthetic surface and finish.

You can use 180 grit files to add the finishing touch to your application work.
Here you will have to correct errors that you have in the application of the product. They are ideal for sealing the cuticle area, removing some excesses in the tension area of ​​the acrylic nail and flaps.
You find them in 2 presentations, such as wood or cardboard file and sponge or buffer file.

3d Acrylic Nails Bear Design

 3d Acrylic Nails Bear Design

Hi friends! This time I want to show you how to make a 3d bear on acrylic nails.
I hope you like it a lot, I loved the result .

You can create this nail design at any time of the year, you just have to make a few small changes and voila!

• Don't worry if you're new to 3d acrylic nails, what matters here is practicing as many times as you can.
• When we work with this technique, it is normal that at first it is a bit difficult, learning to control the humidity of your acrylic pearls, you will see that it is easier and easier to achieve very beautiful designs.

- 3d Acrylic Nails Bear Design and Nail Art Accessories

When your acrylic pearl becomes opaque is when you can start to mold it, quite the contrary if your pearl is wet you will not be able to control the acrylic because it can run off.
And if you let the acrylic pearl dry it will be impossible to give it the desired shape, so you just have to focus on practicing and having a lot of patience.

Material for 3d in acrylic nails

• Monomer
• 3d brush # 3 or # 4
• Colored acrylics
• Application brush
• Texturing awl (if you don't have a needle or pin.)

There are quick-drying monomers on the market, they are ideal in cold areas when acrylic takes time to dry, it is also used when working 3d nail designs.

Basic Material to Apply Acrylic Nails

 Basic Material to Apply Acrylic Nails

Hi ! welcome to another post here on the Nail Art blog.
This time I am going to show you the basic material to apply acrylic nails, and what you need to buy.

We will know the most important tools for manicure and acrylic nails.

This is the basic list you need to buy, to apply acrylic nails:

- Basic Material to Apply Acrylic Nails and Nail Art Accessories

List of Material to Apply Acrylic Nails

• Manicure kit.- You find them very cheap and you should check that it brings a cuticle pusher, cuticle cutter, and of course its nail clippers.
• 100% pure acetone.- You will need it to remove normal polish, gel polish, make a removal of acrylic nails, clean synthetic brushes, never kolinsky brushes! Among other uses.
• Alcohol or Sanitizer.- To disinfect our manicure tools and our acrylic nail files.
• PH Leveler + True Bond .- The PH Leveler helps you remove excess moisture and grease from the natural nail.
• True Bond provides excellent adhesion and must be acid free to avoid irritating the natural nail.
• Files for acrylic nails .- This point is very important and I invite you to read the article on the "Different types of files to apply acrylic nails" here on the blog.
• Kolinsky brush # 6 .- Ideal for beginners, you can buy natural hair or Kolinsky hair.
• To find out which brush you should buy, I invite you to read this article.
• «What brush to use to apply acrylic nails»
• Monomer.- You find it in different prices and ounces, the price may vary depending on the brand, and it must be with a reliable distributor.
• It must be monomer for acrylic nails that is free of Methyl Methacrylate, for more information I invite you to read this article, and you will be able to distinguish between a monomer for medical use and a monomer for aesthetic use.
• «What is the best monomer for acrylic nails»
• Basic Acrylics (polymers) .- The 3 base shades of acrylics for nail application are:
• crystal / clear, white, and nude / cover.
• These are the most important base colors.
• Little by little you can acquire more colored acrylics.
• Resin .- To stick tips and paste some decoration and crystals in your nail designs.
• Tips and Sculptural Forms.- The tips facilitate the work in your application of acrylic nails. We must pay attention to gluing them well and according to the size of the natural nail. Sculpture shapes are used to create the artificial nail from scratch.
• Cortatips.- Indispensable when cutting the tips, they must be cut to the desired size of our client.
• Uv / led lamp.- It is very important that you acquire your lamp for acrylic nails, it is an indispensable tool for everyone who is dedicated to this business.
• Top finish or Glitter for nails.- Both give the final touch to your application of acrylic nails and gel polish that you do.
• Cuticle oil.- Moisturizes and softens the skin, cuticle area, and fingers.

This in my opinion, is the basic material to apply nails that you need to acquire.

Am I missing something?
Do not forget to write it down in the comments

Baby Boomer in Acrylic Nails, trendy design

 Baby Boomer in Acrylic Nails, trendy design

The baby boomer technique in acrylic nails is a trend effect that is here to stay.
The most attractive thing about this design is that it adapts to all the styles and tastes of each of us.

Being a gradient design in neutral colors, we can wear it on our nails at any time of the year, since it is a discreet and very elegant manicure.

- Baby Boomer in Acrylic Nails, trendy design and nail art accessories

You can make it even more attractive, adding nail effects such as: ada powder, rose gold, mirror effect, unicorn effect and more.
For lovers of Swaroski crystals, this design is ideal to be able to wear them in it.

You can wear it on your natural nails, in an application of gel polish «gelish» and in your application of acrylic nails.

Baby boomer on your nails and their combinations.

If you want to make your acrylic nails look their best, do not hesitate to make combinations between this effect and add 3D designs among others.

Your manicurist will know what to recommend in this regard and give you ideas and suggestions of how your nails can look beautiful.

The length of your nails, the tip you decide to wear, are a very important point for your application of acrylic nails, to be an experience that is pleasant and meets your expectations.

So in your next application, do not hesitate to ask for this nail design, and also add all the designs and effects you want, I recommend you make an appointment and ask for a quote on the nail set that you like.

And organize your budget

The most interesting thing about this design in acrylic nails is that it adapts according to the lifestyle and work you have, which is accessible to combine in any event, and best of all, you can find it in every salon or nail bar .

If you already have it, tell me in the comments how your nails were and if you were satisfied with the result.