Magnetic lacquer is familiar with lovers of an unusual manicure for many years, but its popularity today is not so great. The thing is that the creation of a neat pattern with the effect of the volume required a certain skill and great effort, and the usual varnish on the nails was held no longer than 5-7 days. With the exit and distribution on the gel varnish market, which are polymerized on the nail into a solid layer using ultraviolet light lamps, the popularity of such design is gaining momentum. And together with multi-colored gels, an increasing amount of various magnets appear on sale, which allows you to obtain the famous volume effect on the nail plate.
Features of magnetic manicure
Magnetic manicure 5D is often also called the "cat's eye". It received its name due to the fact that as a result of the placement of a magnet over a single-color coating, one or more double bands of another shade are formed. A similar strip is similar to a vertical cat pupil, and the nail itself becomes similar to the semi-precious stone. Such an effect is achieved by the presence of many smallest metal particles as part of a gel varnish, which are collected in certain places during the magnet application.
Depending on the pattern of magnet itself, the drawing from the obtained bands changes. The consistency of this material is more dense and elastic than the conventional gel, and the socks are longer than the varnish. The resulting patterns are especially clearly visible when driving and flares of sunlight falling on painted marigolds. A huge number of shades of coating and patterns on magnets allow you to obtain a huge number of unique combinations. In this case, magnetic elements can be sold both in a set with gel varnish and in the form of an independent accessory, which works exclusively with a magnetic coating.
How to use a magnet?
Use the magnet to create the effect of the volume on the nails is quite simple. Most often on the package, which sells a set or accessory itself, there is a detailed instruction. The main thing is to properly bring it to the nail, without touching the gel lacquer, but also does not keep it too far. The whole process of creating such a spectacular manicure includes the following steps.
- Preparation of nail. Before applying the gel, it is necessary to make an ordinary manicure: crop or move the cuticle, endorse the edge of the nail, treat the top layer with Buff, so that the gel is better for the surface of the nail plate. To lay the base gel layer and bake it in the lamp.
- Coating. On the sticky layer of the base, apply the middle layer of a special magnetic gel lacquer and bring a magnet to it. It is necessary to do this immediately, otherwise the metal particles will move badly in the drying substance. Do not cover all nails at once, especially if this is the first experience of applying. In this case, the probability of error will be much smaller. Magnetic accessory should be brought to a distance of about 4-6 mm from the nail and keep in this position 10-12 seconds. It is not necessary to keep the magnet in one position, you can led them from side to the side at one height so that the drawing changed. As soon as a suitable pattern is found, you can use the UV lamp.
- Decor. If you wish, you can decorate magnetic gel varnish with additional rhinestones, foil, lace, drawings and many other decorative elements. It is best to do it after baking the coating in ultraviolet, but before removing the sticky layer. In this case, the drawing of metal particles will not be disturbed, and the element will fasten well on the nail.
- Finish coating. Apply the finishing coating to the finished manicure to secure the result for a longer period, bake it in the lamp and remove the sticky layer. Manicure is ready.
You can find a large number of magnets of various species.
Most often they are in the form of thin plates of various forms:
- round;
- rectangular;
- polygonal.
Such plates may contain only one magnet or be double sided. Then each side gives a coating a specific pattern. In addition, they can be made in the form of bulk cubes, washers, balls, and even in the form of pens or pencils. Unlike the large square of the usual magnet, the magnetic tip of the handle is quite small. Driving it above the coating, you can draw any patterns that are made of metal dust gel lacquer.
Many manufacturers claim that the brand of gel varnish and a magnetic accessory must necessarily be the same. In fact, the same magnet will work perfectly with all the magnetic gels that can be found on sale. Moreover, a special accessory can be replaced by any magnet acquired in the store or obtained with the analysis of the old household appliances. Although they are not intended to create patterns on nails.
How to save coating for a long time?
Despite the greater hardness and the strength of the gel coating, it, like ordinary varnish, can crack or shut at the edges. Of course, the better the quality of the materials themselves, the longer the finished manicure will last.
But there are several tricks that help keep the original appearance of nails even after a couple of weeks, not counting a small abstract edge at the well.
- Any homework, which occurs in water and with cleaning agents, is desirable to perform in rubber gloves. If you smear your hands with a fat cream and put on them gloves, even the usual washing of dishes can turn into a home cosmetic procedure with the SPA effect.
- When working with any alcohol-containing substances or solvents, you need to carefully follow so that they do not hit the nails. Of course, the usual alcohol dissolves the coating is quite difficult, but its hit can be removed beautiful shine and even slightly deform the sleek top layer.
- Within 2-3 days after the nail coating, the magnetic gel varnish is undesirable to have long contact with hot water or steam. A visit to the sauna and solarium should also be postponed until the end of this term.
- Do not try to turn the nails covered with gel varnish into a screwdriver or scraper. Even the solid coating baked in ultraviolet has its own strength. If there is a need to dug something from the table or floor surface, it is better to take a knife, a spatula or scissors.
How to remove magnetic gel lacas?
Like any other gel, the magnetic coating is not removed by a conventional lacquer fluid. We will have to get acquainted with the purchase of a special tool, but even with it this procedure occurs in several stages.
- Preparation. The solid coating procedure will take at least 30-40 minutes at a certain skill and exactly at least an hour if this happens for the first time. It is necessary to choose my free time so that nothing distracts anything, no one demanded attention at that moment. You need to cut your cotton discs in advance and prepare square pieces of foil 10x10 cm or buy special caps.
- Softening. To make a solid gel layer more supplied, it is necessary to richly moisten your cotton in the gel lacquer to remove and wrap around the nail. From above, your cotton is best covered with foil to create a greenhouse effect. You need to keep such a compress on the nails at least 10-15 minutes.
- Removal. After the hard gel turned into a softer supplement substance, it should be desired with a nail plate with an orange stick or a conventional toothpick.
- Care. Processing nail and leather around it with a solvent fluid negatively affects health and appearance of hands. In order to minimize the harm it, it is necessary to lubricate the surface to the surface with moisturizing cream or nutrient oil.
Ideas for design
Manicure magnetic gel varnish is good even without additional jewelry. It looks great both with everyday and feastfully complementing even the simplest outfit. At the same time, an unusual coating serves as a good base for manicure experiments. Make an image more bold and exquisite will help applying another shada gel to the ring finger or even colors.
The scattering of small beads or rhises will also allocate one or two nails and will not look too vulgar, as if they were struck for all ten.
On New Year's and Christmas holidays, you can add "cat's eyes" with sparkles or liquid stones. They will look especially good if their size is large than the metal particles of the gel itself.
An unexpected, but no less interesting combination is a magnetic lacquer and a stembling in the form of lace, colors or even feline silhouettes. Such pictures are placed on top of the colored coating and, covering the top, bake in ultraviolet. Such a consolidation allows you to keep even the thinnest pattern for a long time.
About the design options for manicure magnet, see the following video.