Beauty art has been function-oriented once. But lately, it is attracting much attention as an artistic genre that aims to express personalities in wonderful and unique ways. The genre is also being variously developed in itself. The purpose of this study is to propose a new creative form of beauty art through combining functional aspects of beauty art itself with a variety of fine art designs.
Beauty art works are being diversified as the nail industry is being developed. They are now being requested to be more unique and creative in quality. Beyond satisfying individuals' beauty like when under the nail industry of the past, nail art is currently being recognized as an artistic genre in which a variety of formative works are being created.
Currently, formative nail arts generally mean works that realistically express humans, flowers, animals and so on by using acrylic powders or UV gels. But this study used other materials and technique than usually used to make such nail art works as mentioned before. In the study, this researcher attempted to make a nail art work that is associated with aspects of ordinary life and felt comfortable while it is expressed as more creative and unique by using new materials and technique.
The researcher's work employed one of sense organs, that is, eyes as its motive. Irises seem similar to each other, but in fact, they are differently shaped as if they reflect different human personalities. Like fingerprints, eyes are used to identify or notice people. It seems that people are not different from each other in the spatial position and shape of eyes. But in fact, the eyes are the reflection of individual persons' own personality and character. This means that with eyes as its motive, nail art works may be expressed to have various effects.
In the researcher's work, eyes were expressed with the most basic elements like dots and lines. To make the motive feel more vivid, both the dots and lines were used with different sizes and colors. To make the work present the cool but urban atmosphere, the researcher relied on achromatic colors that can give the feelings of urbanity and modernity. the researcher tried to make the work feel high-technological and cold but arranged by facilitating the acrylic quality of the work, that is, transparency. To make her nail art work look more clear but energetic, the researcher put points in red on it. And different acryl colors were used to reduce dulness by achromatic colors, making the work look more sophisticated.
Through her work, the researcher sought to show lots of the possibilities of nail art expression and raise the image of nail art itself. Also she tried to show a new world of nail art, which has nothing to do with conventional formative nail art works, by using the hand painting technique that is frequently used at nail salons.
Finally, the researcher hopes that this study provides a right direction which leads nail art students to try a variety of nail art works by using other new materials and techniques before and that this study helps the nail industry firmly establish its position as an independent new art industry.