Especially for you, we have collected the main trends in nail design 2021. In this collection you will find interesting tools, techniques and combinations. Feel free to use them throughout the year, because the experiments remain relevant!
1. Nude nail design
This year, the secret of understated classic manicures is minimalistic and graceful details. It can be a couple of dots, several stickers, thin stripes, single glitters or inconspicuous patterns. Stamping and thin stripes are great.
2. Bright nail design
The main bright color of 2021 is yellow. Pay attention to the rich neon pigments and light blurry watercolors. You can even combine several colors, but leave them some unifying detail: a beige backing, a contrasting pattern on top, or a certain arrangement of strokes.
3. Light nail design
The main shades of the coming year will be milky, light gray and ashy pastel colors. They go well with foil, glitter, pearl rub, and marbled stains.
4. Dark nail design
In addition to classic blacks, pay attention to deep greens, blues and purples. A very popular dark gray, almost graphite. Pair them with a matte top for variety.
5. Contrast nail design
Manicure with contrasts remains in the trends of 2021. Several contrasting shades can be combined even on one nail - with drawings, stamping, a gradient or a creative jacket.
6. Nail design with rubbing
Rub in so many, and each gives its own interesting effect. Pearl, mirror, chameleons, metallics - they are all at your disposal!
7. Manicure with stamping
Stamping in 2021 is used in very different ways. The main trends are minimalistic accents, animal prints, solid unifying patterns and abstractions from many small details.
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8. Nail design with kamifubuki
Multicolored confetti is used instead of accents or as the main design element. They can even lay out the entire nail plate or stretch it. Iridescent translucent kamifubuki look very beautiful.
9. Glitter nail design
Shimmer, small sparkles, large glitter, shiny stretch - do not deny yourself anything. Even bases and tops over the past year began to be made en masse at once with sparkles. Complex metallic shades and multi-colored holographs are especially good.
10. Lunar manicure
This is a very interesting technique when the hole below is painted in a different color, remains beige or even completely without additional color. In fact, this is a reverse jacket. In addition to the beautiful design, its advantage is that it grows imperceptibly.
11. Nail design with foil
The foil is ideal for both calm nude and shiny contrasting manicures. In addition to metallic shades, it can be of any color you like. Its shine is more discreet than that of glitter. In 2021, matte and abstract designs with foil are trendy.
12. Nail design with flakes
Metallic flakes resemble shredded pieces of foil or coarse rub. It is very interesting to work with them, and they always shimmer beautifully and change color.
13. Nail design with dried flowers
Transparent gels with dried flowers began to appear several years ago, and since then they have constantly been in trends. They are especially good for spring and autumn manicures.
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14. Manicure with ombre or gradient
Ombre was in vogue about a year and a half ago, and then the wave of excitement subsided. But in 2020-2021, complex combined designs with gradients using an airbrush quickly burst into trends.
15. Volumetric nail design
A voluminous manicure is not very comfortable, but always very interesting.These are rhinestones, thin chains, imitation rivets, pearls and beads. This also includes unusual textured coatings such as sand, knitting, or water droplets.
16. Animal print nail designs
Animal prints are back in vogue with the beginning of the Year of the Ox. Moreover, in addition to the traditional leopard and zebra, more unusual options are also relevant - a cow, a Dalmatian, a snake skin.
17. Matte nail art
A matte top is always a new experience. It can be applied to literally any surface for a completely new result. Looks especially interesting in combination with glitter and foil.
18. French manicure
French in 2021 still gravitates towards experimentation. New shapes, sharp lines instead of a rounded arch, different colors and even several shades at the same time. Lovers of the classics can also try something new!
19. Nail design with strokes
This is a very original and effective technique when the contour of the nail plate is outlined in a different color - most often black. For the base, lighter or even nude shades are usually used. It turns out the effect of a gem in a frame!
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20. Design for oval nails
Designs with the same rounded lines look very beautiful on an oval shape. Dots, quail eggs, round stickers, rhinestones, confetti. The spider web and stretching with sparkles looks interesting.
21. Design for almond nails
Almonds are very versatile when it comes to design. Drawings, contrast strokes, geometry, strokes, stripes, ombre and stretch are all at your disposal too. Even a simple one-color coating looks impressive and bright.
22. Design for square nails
Geometry and abstraction are the best friends of a square shape. If you want to visually lengthen the nail bed, choose designs with elongated vertical lines.
23. Design for long nails
On long nails, a manicure looks amazing, which involves smooth transitions. These are gradients, ombre and all sorts of stretch marks with a different color or sparkles. By the way, the gradient can be not only vertical, but also horizontal.
24. Design for short nails
On short nails, nude manicures with a laconic design look stylish. And from the bright solutions - chaotic abstractions with stamping and stickers. The main colors of 2021, yellow and gray, will work great for you too!
25. Wedding Nail Designs 2021
Wedding fashion now combines the incongruous. On the one hand, it is eclecticism and combinations of different techniques. On the other hand, the striving for brevity and simplicity remains.
