Color wheel for manicure

The color wheel is a palette of colors in the form of a circle, arranged in such a way that using special rules to determine the ideal combination and to see incompatible colors. We will analyze how to do this and all the combination rules further.

Size: 21 * 30cm

The color wheel in manicure is used to select colors when performing nail designs: it allows you to choose from one to four colors that perfectly match each other. However, besides this, using the color wheel, you can easily learn how to mix colors. This is very convenient if the set of paints or, for example, gel polishes, is limited at home.

You can find different types of color wheel depending on the number of rings, however they all start with a base circle.

The base circle consists of 12 colors, which are formed as follows:

Primary or primary colors are three colors: red, yellow, and blue. They constitute the "skeleton" of the color wheel, since they cannot be obtained by mixing other colors.

Secondary colors - green, purple and orange - are colors that are obtained by mixing two primary colors: blue + yellow = green, red + blue = purple, yellow + red = orange.

Tertiary or intermediate colors are obtained by mixing one of the primary colors with one of the secondary colors. The resulting colors are called as follows: the primary color comes first, and the secondary color is written through a hyphen, although many of them have their own separate names. There are 6 tertiary colors: yellow-green (lime), yellow-orange (gold), red-violet (purple), red-orange (scarlet), blue-green (turquoise), blue-violet (ink).

How to match colors using the color wheel:

Combinations of two colors

• Monochrome scheme - colors are selected from one sector of the color wheel. For example, if you take blue as the main color, then you can add lighter blue and sky colors to it.
• A similar scheme is a combination of colors from adjacent sectors, that is, adjacent to each other.
• Linear scheme - colors that are opposite to each other are selected here. That is, if you connect the colors of the circle with a straight line, then they form a linear scheme.

Combinations of three colors

• The triangular pattern is the basic combination of three colors, but there are options here too. The main combinations are when the colors are connected by equal segments, that is, an equilateral triangle is obtained.

Combinations of four colors

• A square scheme or a tetraider - a scheme is determined in a similar way to a triangular one: colors are selected that are located at the four vertices of a square.