In modern nail art, brushes are often used to draw minute elements on nails. Drawing with a brush is now considered a very delicate, professional work and is generally valued much more than drawing with the usual helium pen. Natural delicate stokes made with a brush arouse admiration both with amateur and professional nail experts. However, it is not at all easy to draw with a brush - this art requires certain skills and practice. To give a head start to a nail art career, it is generally recommended to try one's hand on artificial nails - practice a little before painting on real nails. This is what European nail magazines teach us.

There is a wide variety of forms of brushes. We shall touch upon only few of them. One of the most commonly used brushes is the one that has a ball on its end, just like a ball pen. A manicurist dips this brush into a varnish and starts painting.

The brush Peacock is similar to a fan. Two or three drops of various nail varnishes are dripped on a palette. With one movement, a manicurist anoints nail varnish on a brush - these drops should lie separately, without merging. It is possible to draw wavy lines with this kind of brush. The special long and thin brush is very convenient for paining direct and slightly bent lines. A short brush is used to draw ringlet. A flat brush has also been widely discussed on pages of European nail magazines. Petal brush looks the same as the flat brush. The only difference is that its one corner is a little cut off. This kind of brush is used mainly to draw leaves and flowers.

Many European nail magazines now recommend using fluffy brush with a sharp end to cover surfaces and for palettes. Thin and short brushes are good for painting on professional nails. It is easy to find them in Internet-shops. You can make an order to have them delivered to your studio.

Lace is used to hide scratches on nails. It is smaller than a usual lace. Laces vary in weave and color. They can be used fragmentarily, if needed. Laces are cut out and pasted on a transparent varnish or glue. The fine grid represents one kind of lace.

European nail magazines feature the different colors and spangles that can be used to beautify nails. Asterisks, hearts, small squares, circles are widely applied in professional manicure. Once sunrays touch the nails, they start to glitter and can often outshine the best quality jewelry. To create a composition, it is recommended to wait until the varnish dries out. Toothpicks or needles are then moistened in water. Spangles are dipped into varnish and applied on nails.  Spangles can be of different colors. One has to be cautious though - all colors except for gold and silver can be smeared by a fixer and thus spoil the manicure! Varnish can dissolve a paint with which the silvered or gold foil is covered. To achieve desirable results, it is necessary to remove surpluses of a transparent varnish from a brush and accurately touch up to each spangle; after the varnish dries up on each spangle, it is possible to varnish whole nails.