Not so long ago, mystylex.techinfus.com/en/ wrote about the most suitable shades of nail polishes for women after 40 years, as well as what mistakes should not be made in manicure at that age. And now we are ready to offer you 5 of the most interesting, stylish and fashionable ideas for anti-aging manicure that can really make you look younger!

Idea # 1: Try vibrant hues

Aged after 40 It is not at all necessary to dwell on colorless varnish, classic French manicure or exclusively on nude shades. Feel free to try bright colors and experiment with them. The only thing is that you need to choose the right color so that it matches the skin tone of your hands. The fact is that, first of all, it is the hands that give out age. The skin becomes dull, dry, pale and discolored. If you overuse your tan or your hands are always in sight, age spots may also appear.

Avoid bright blues and greens if your skin is pale. But you can quite afford a classic red, and for the summer - a brighter coral or carrot. If the skin is uniform or dark enough, you can choose a subdued blue or grassy green and purple. Bordeaux is completely out of competition, as well as deep fuchsia color. Bright shades can be different and even very saturated, but neon "felt-tip" colors should still be avoided.

Idea # 2: Use shimmer and shine

Shine, shimmer, glitter and glitter can really rejuvenate your hands. Glitter draws attention to the manicure, but, paradoxically, at the same time it distracts from imperfections in the skin of the brushes, protruding veins or uneven color. The only caveat: there shouldn't be too much gloss. Now a manicure with a monochromatic base color of varnish and one nail covered with glitter looks very relevant. Small glitters look good over the base color, but also on one nail.

Glitter can be in the color of the varnish, but with shimmering particles, or it can be silver, golden or even iridescent with all the colors of the rainbow. Gold is suitable for warm colors of varnishes: nude, beige, chocolate, terracotta, orange and yellow, as well as green with a warm undertone. Gold with red will look vulgar, in general, classic red is a very self-sufficient color. Silver goes well with pink, light blue, blue, purple and gray.

Idea number 3: get a multi-colored manicure

If you are already tired of a boring monochromatic manicure in one color and without a design, try a multi-colored manicure. A manicure in a single color scheme looks very elegant and incredibly interesting. But with shades from light to dark. In this case, you can choose any color: from chocolate, to beige and very light cream, from burgundy to light pink, from inky blue to blue. Exposure in one scale looks very elegant, but at the same time the manicure is not boring.

A bolder idea would be to combine different colors. Only here you need to be careful: they must be in harmony with each other. Choose orange with yellow, blue with purple, green and lemon. Red, as we said above, is very self-sufficient. But on the other hand, it can be safely combined with achromatic colors: white, black, gray. Accordingly, achromatic shades are combined with any other colors of the spectrum.

Idea # 4: use new variations of French and moon manicure

This is a classic that will never go out of style and will be relevant for any age. But it will look especially good in a manicure after 40 years.In this case, it is not at all necessary to make a classic jacket with a white "smile". Try other colors and shades, but the base should be completely transparent or translucent nude. If you still like the white tips of the nail, then you can just play with the base: make it pink (even bright), red, blue.

Lunar manicure, as a rule, is presented in most cases in classic red or burgundy. But here you can use any other colors, even very light pastel colors - it is not at all necessary that there is a sharp contrast between the unpainted hole and the color of the varnish. And yes, the hole shouldn't be transparent either. It can be done in a contrasting color, for example, a white hole looks great on any shade. You can also use small silver glitter for the hole.

Idea # 5: Give preference to geometric design

With age, you start to appreciate elegance. And, of course, it manifests itself not in drawings in the form of butterflies-flowers, but in a clear, correct and sophisticated geometry. Floristic motives have not been canceled, but they are more appropriate for a bright base of the varnish and for the spring-summer season. And for fall-winter, we strongly recommend trying interesting graphic designs and geometric patterns. These can be dots, stripes, intersecting lines or cells, triangles and rhombuses, beautiful contrasting geometric ornaments.



Try the so-called "Spanish" manicure: the nail is covered with stripes of contrasting shades. The simplest and most famous version of it is covering the nail in half lengthwise with two different colors. Initially in Spain, manicure in a combination of black and red shades was very popular - hence the name. There can be more stripes using several shades. Also, they will not necessarily be the length of the nail, you can draw horizontal or intersecting stripes.