As the seasons change and the days get brighter, it’s the perfect time to refresh your look, starting with your fingertips! This season’s nail trends offer something for everyone, whether you love delicate florals, minimalist chic, high-shine gloss, or bold pops of color.
Get ready to explore a diverse palette of designs that will elevate your style and capture the essence of spring and summer.
Blooming Petals Nails – Soft floral patterns with pastel hues.
Design Features
This look features delicate, hand-painted or stamped floral patterns, often focusing on simple petal shapes like daisies, forget-me-nots, or abstract blossoms.
The base is typically a soft pastel shade such as baby pink, lilac, sky blue, mint green, or pale yellow, allowing the floral details to pop gently.
The overall aesthetic is soft, feminine, and reminiscent of a spring garden.
How To Achieve This Look
Start with a pastel base coat and let it dry completely.
Using a fine nail art brush or a dotting tool, create small flower petals using white or contrasting pastel polishes.
Add tiny dots in yellow or gold for the flower centers.
For intricate designs, consider using floral nail stickers or stamping plates.
Seal the design with a glossy top coat for longevity and shine.
Why This Stands Out
Blooming Petals nails are a timeless spring classic.
They evoke a sense of freshness, romance, and delicate beauty.
This design is versatile enough for everyday wear yet special enough for occasions, perfectly capturing the light and airy feel of the season.
Dewdrop Gloss Nails – Sheer jelly nails with a high-shine finish.
Design Features
Characterized by a translucent, “jelly-like” appearance, this trend uses sheer polishes in shades like soft pink, nude, peach, or even light berry tones.
The key feature is the incredibly high-shine, almost wet-looking finish, mimicking morning dew on petals.
It’s a minimalist look that enhances the natural nail.
How To Achieve This Look
Apply 2-3 thin coats of a sheer or jelly nail polish, allowing each layer to dry slightly to build up the translucent color.
The goal isn’t full opacity but a wash of color.
Finish with a generous layer of a high-gloss, plumping top coat to achieve that signature “dewdrop” shine.
Ensure nails are well-manicured, as the sheerness highlights the natural nail bed.
Why This Stands Out
This trend is the epitome of understated elegance.
It’s clean, sophisticated, and gives nails a healthy, plump appearance.
It aligns with the “clean girl” aesthetic and is perfect for those who prefer a minimalist yet polished look.
The high gloss makes it eye-catching despite its subtlety.
Lavender Dream Nails – Milky lilac nails with subtle glitter.
Design Features
This design features a soft, milky lilac or lavender base color that offers a creamy, semi-opaque finish.
Embedded within the polish or added as a top layer is a fine, subtle glitter or shimmer, often iridescent or silver, that catches the light gently without being overwhelming.
How To Achieve This Look
Choose a milky lavender polish or mix a drop of white polish into a standard lavender shade to get the desired effect.
Apply two coats for even coverage.
While the second coat is slightly tacky, you can apply a sheer glitter polish on top, or mix fine glitter into your top coat before applying.
Alternatively, look for lavender polishes that already contain subtle shimmer.
Why This Stands Out
Lavender is a quintessential spring color, evoking calmness and whimsy.
The milky finish softens the hue, while the subtle glitter adds a touch of magic and dimension.
It’s dreamy, sophisticated, and offers a gentle sparkle that’s perfect for the season.
Cherry Blossom Whispers – Delicate pink florals with gold accents.
Design Features
Inspired by iconic cherry blossoms, this design uses a base of soft pink or nude.
Tiny, delicate cherry blossom flowers are painted on, typically using shades of pink and white.
What elevates this look are the subtle gold accents – perhaps fine gold lines for branches, tiny gold flakes, or gold centers in the flowers.
How To Achieve This Look
Apply your base color.
Use a fine brush to paint small, simple cherry blossom shapes – five small petals radiating from a center.
Use varying shades of pink and white for depth.
Once dry, add delicate gold details using a gold nail polish or foil glue and gold leaf flakes.
Seal everything with a top coat.
Nail decals are also a great option for achieving detailed blossoms easily.
Why This Stands Out
Cherry blossoms symbolize spring and renewal.
This design is incredibly elegant and refined, combining soft florals with a touch of luxury from the gold accents.
It’s romantic, detailed, and celebrates one of nature’s most beautiful spring displays.
Spring Sky Ombre – Gradient baby blue and white like a cloudy sky.
Design Features
This look mimics a soft, cloudy spring sky using a gradient effect.
It transitions smoothly from a baby blue shade at the cuticle or base of the nail to a soft white or very pale blue at the tip, or vice versa.
The blend is seamless and airy.
How To Achieve This Look
Apply a base coat (often white or pale blue).
On a makeup sponge, paint stripes of your baby blue and white polish right next to each other, slightly overlapping.
Dab the sponge onto the nail, moving slightly up and down to blend the colors.
Repeat for intensity.
Clean up the edges around the nail with a brush dipped in acetone.
Finish with a glossy top coat to smooth the gradient.
Why This Stands Out
The Spring Sky Ombre is fresh, calming, and visually appealing.
The soft gradient is eye-catching yet serene, perfectly capturing the feeling of a bright, clear day with fluffy clouds.
It’s a modern and refreshing take on seasonal colors.
Fresh Mint Serenity – Soft mint green with minimalist gold foil.
Design Features
A beautiful soft mint green polish serves as the base for this chic design.
The defining feature is the addition of minimalist gold foil accents.
These aren’t large or overwhelming but rather small, strategically placed flakes or thin strips of gold foil, often near the cuticle, along one side, or at the tip.
How To Achieve This Look
Apply two coats of your chosen soft mint green polish.
While the polish is still slightly tacky, or after applying a thin layer of foil glue and letting it become tacky, gently press small pieces of gold foil onto the nail using tweezers or a silicone tool.
Brush away any excess foil.
Seal carefully with a top coat, ensuring the foil edges are smooth.
Why This Stands Out
Mint green is a refreshing and trendy spring color.
Pairing it with minimalist gold foil adds a touch of unexpected luxury and sophistication.
The contrast between the cool mint and the warm gold is striking yet elegant, making it modern and chic.
Rose Quartz Glow – Marble pink and white swirls for a gemstone effect.
Design Features
This design emulates the look of natural rose quartz gemstone.
It involves soft pink and white polishes swirled together to create a gentle, blended marble effect.
Often, a touch of sheer glitter or shimmer is incorporated to mimic the stone’s natural inclusions and subtle glow.
How To Achieve This Look
Apply a base coat of soft pink or white.
While it’s still wet, drop small dots of the contrasting color (white or pink) onto the nail.
Use a fine brush, toothpick, or marbling tool to gently swirl the colors together.
Avoid over-blending.
Alternatively, use the water marbling technique or the blooming gel technique.
A sheer glitter top coat can enhance the gemstone effect.
Why This Stands Out
Rose Quartz nails are incredibly elegant and sophisticated.
The soft marbling effect is mesmerizing and unique to each nail, mimicking the natural beauty of the gemstone associated with love and healing.
It’s a subtle yet captivating design.
Butterfly Bliss Nails – Tiny, colorful butterfly decals on nude nails.
Design Features
This whimsical design features a neutral, nude, or sheer pink base, allowing the intricate butterfly details to take center stage.
Tiny, often colorful, butterfly decals or hand-painted butterflies are scattered across one or more nails, creating a playful and delicate look.
How To Achieve This Look
Apply your nude or sheer base color and let it dry completely.
Carefully apply tiny butterfly nail decals using tweezers.
Position them artfully, perhaps fluttering near the tips or cuticles.
If painting by hand, use a very fine brush and multiple colors.
Seal the design thoroughly with a clear top coat to protect the decals or artwork.
Why This Stands Out
Butterflies are symbols of transformation and the beauty of nature, making them perfect for spring and summer.
This design is playful, enchanting, and adds a touch of intricate detail to a clean base.
The contrast between the neutral background and colorful butterflies is eye-catching.
Garden Fairy Sparkle – Dainty green floral patterns with shimmer.
Design Features
Imagine a secret garden touched by magic.
This design uses a base of soft green (mint, sage, or moss) or a clear/nude base with green accents.
It features dainty, often white or pastel, floral or leafy patterns.
The “fairy” element comes from a subtle dusting of fine iridescent or silver shimmer over the design or incorporated into the base color.
How To Achieve This Look
Apply your base color.
Use a fine brush to paint delicate vines, leaves, or tiny floral sprigs in white, pastel pink, or a contrasting green.
Once dry, apply a thin layer of sheer shimmer top coat or a top coat mixed with fine glitter.
Focus the shimmer near the florals for a magical effect.
Why This Stands Out
This design combines the freshness of green florals with a touch of ethereal sparkle.
It’s whimsical, feminine, and evokes a sense of enchantment, like a hidden fairy garden on your fingertips.
The shimmer adds dimension and a magical quality.
Ethereal Pearl Nails – Pearly white nails with an iridescent glow.
Design Features
This look channels the lustrous beauty of pearls.
It uses a pearlescent white or off-white polish as the base, characterized by its subtle, multi-tonal shimmer and iridescent finish that shifts slightly in the light, often showing hints of pink, blue, or lavender.
How To Achieve This Look
Select a nail polish specifically labeled as “pearl,” “pearlescent,” or “oyster.” These polishes contain fine micro-shimmer that creates the signature glow.
Apply 2-3 thin coats for an even, luminous finish.
A glossy top coat enhances the iridescent effect.
This look is similar to the “glazed donut” trend but often uses a more opaque white base.
Why This Stands Out
Pearl nails are timelessly elegant and sophisticated.
The iridescent glow adds a touch of magic and luxury, catching the light beautifully.
It’s a clean, chic look that works for any occasion, from everyday wear to weddings.
Pastel French Tips – Classic French with soft pink, lilac, or baby blue tips.
Design Features
A modern twist on the classic French manicure.
Instead of the traditional white tip, this design features tips painted in soft pastel shades like baby pink, lilac, mint green, pale yellow, or baby blue.
The base remains sheer pink or nude, maintaining the clean French aesthetic.
How To Achieve This Look
Apply a sheer pink or nude base coat.
Once dry, carefully paint the tips of your nails with your chosen pastel color.
You can do this freehand with a steady hand, use French tip guide stickers, or use a nail stamper for a clean line.
Finish with a glossy top coat.
Why This Stands Out
This design offers a playful and seasonal update to a timeless classic.
It introduces soft color while maintaining the elegance and clean lines of the French manicure.
It’s subtle yet trendy, allowing for personalization with different pastel hues.
Matte Mauve Perfection – Chic and muted mauve with a matte finish.
Design Features
This look focuses on the color and finish.
It features a sophisticated, muted mauve shade – a blend of pink, purple, and gray – applied evenly across the nails.
The key element is the completely shine-free, velvety matte finish.
How To Achieve This Look
Apply two coats of your chosen mauve nail polish.
Let it dry thoroughly.
Then, apply a dedicated matte top coat.
This special top coat removes all shine, leaving a smooth, velvety finish.
Ensure the base color is perfectly smooth before applying the matte top coat, as matte finishes can highlight imperfections.
Why This Stands Out
Matte nails offer a modern, edgy, and sophisticated alternative to glossy finishes.
Mauve is a versatile, universally flattering color that feels elegant and understated.
Combining the two creates a look that is chic, contemporary, and effortlessly cool.
Daisy Chain Delight – Tiny daisy accents over a nude or clear base.
Design Features
Simple, sweet, and charming.
This design features a clear or nude base coat, allowing the natural nail to show through.
The focus is on tiny, delicate daisy flowers painted on one or more nails, often linked together to form a partial chain or scattered randomly.
How To Achieve This Look
Apply your clear or nude base.
Using a dotting tool, create the daisy center with a yellow dot.
Then, use a smaller dotting tool or a fine brush to create 5-6 white petals around the center dot.
Keep the daisies small and dainty.
You can place them near the cuticle, tip, or create a small cluster.
Seal with a glossy top coat.
Why This Stands Out
Daisies symbolize innocence and cheerfulness, making this a perfect spring design.
Its simplicity is key – the negative space created by the clear/nude base makes the tiny daisies pop.
It’s cute, fresh, and subtly playful.
Golden Hour Nails – Soft peach tones with gold chrome detailing.
Design Features
Inspired by the warm, soft light of the golden hour just before sunset.
This design uses soft peach, coral, or apricot polish as a base.
The defining element is the addition of sleek gold chrome detailing – perhaps a chrome French tip, a half-moon at the cuticle, or fine chrome lines.
How To Achieve This Look
Apply your soft peach base color.
For chrome effects, you typically need a gel system.
Apply a no-wipe gel top coat, cure it, and then firmly rub gold chrome powder onto the nail (or specific areas using guides/tape) with a silicone applicator or sponge.
Brush off excess powder and seal with another layer of gel top coat.
Alternatively, use metallic gold polish for simpler lines or tips.
Why This Stands Out
The combination of warm peach tones and reflective gold chrome creates a stunning, luxurious effect.
It captures the warmth and glow of the golden hour, feeling both romantic and modern.
The chrome adds a high-impact, reflective element.
Minimalist Line Art – Abstract black or white lines over nude nails.
Design Features
This trend is all about chic simplicity.
It features a nude or sheer base color, providing a clean canvas.
Fine, abstract lines are drawn onto the nails using black or white polish, creating minimalist patterns, geometric shapes, or single flowing lines.
How To Achieve This Look
Apply your nude base coat and let it dry completely.
Using a very thin nail art brush (a striper brush is ideal) dipped in black or white polish, draw your desired abstract lines.
Keep the lines crisp and deliberate.
Think swirls, straight lines, intersecting lines, or outlines.
Less is often more.
Seal with a top coat (glossy or matte).
Why This Stands Out
Minimalist line art is sophisticated, modern, and artistic.
It allows for personal expression through abstract design while maintaining a clean, understated look.
It’s versatile and pairs well with any style.
Soft Sage Aesthetic – Muted green with a hint of gold shimmer.
Design Features
This design utilizes a soft, muted sage green polish – a grayish-green that feels earthy and calming.
A subtle hint of fine gold shimmer is either incorporated into the polish itself or added as a sheer top layer, providing a gentle warmth and luminosity without being overtly glittery.
How To Achieve This Look
Apply two coats of your sage green polish.
If the polish doesn’t already contain shimmer, apply a sheer top coat that contains very fine gold glitter or micro-shimmer.
Alternatively, gently dust a tiny amount of loose gold pigment onto the tacky polish before sealing with a regular top coat.
Why This Stands Out
Sage green is a sophisticated and calming color, perfect for a grounded yet stylish look.
The addition of subtle gold shimmer elevates the shade, adding warmth and a touch of understated luxury.
It feels natural, chic, and serene.
Iridescent Shell Nails – Shiny, pearlescent shades with seashell textures.
Design Features
Inspired by the inside of seashells, this design features pearlescent polishes in shades of white, pink, light blue, or lavender.
It often incorporates subtle textures or raised details to mimic the ridges of a shell, or uses chrome powders to achieve a highly iridescent, multi-tonal finish reminiscent of mother-of-pearl.
How To Achieve This Look
Apply a pearlescent base color.
For texture, you can use a thicker gel polish to create subtle raised lines before curing and adding a top coat.
For the high-shine iridescent look, apply a no-wipe gel top coat, cure, and rub an iridescent or unicorn chrome powder over the nail.
Seal with another top coat.
Why This Stands Out
This trend captures the magical, shimmering beauty of the ocean.
The iridescent finish is captivating as it shifts colors in the light, and any added texture provides a unique tactile element.
It’s ethereal, beachy, and glamorous.
Bubble Glaze Nails – Milky, translucent nails with a soft shine.
Design Features
Similar to Dewdrop Gloss but often with a slightly milkier, more semi-opaque finish.
This look uses translucent white or pale pink jelly polishes to create a “glazed” effect that looks clean, healthy, and subtly polished.
The shine is typically glossy but soft, not as intensely wet-looking as Dewdrop Gloss.
How To Achieve This Look
Apply 2-3 coats of a milky white or pale pink sheer polish, building up the desired level of translucency.
The aim is a soft, clouded effect rather than full opacity.
Finish with a standard glossy top coat for a smooth, soft shine.
Why This Stands Out
Bubble Glaze offers a refined, “your nails but better” aesthetic.
It’s incredibly clean, versatile, and sophisticated.
The milky translucence gives a soft focus effect, making nails look healthy and well-groomed with minimal effort.
Muted Sunset Gradient – Blended hues of pink, orange, and lavender.
Design Features
This ombre design captures the soft, hazy colors of a sunset.
It features a seamless blend of muted or pastel shades of pink, orange, peach, and lavender.
The gradient can run vertically, horizontally, or diagonally across the nail, creating a dreamy, atmospheric effect.
How To Achieve This Look
Similar to the Spring Sky Ombre, use a makeup sponge.
Apply stripes of your chosen muted sunset colors (pink, orange, lavender) next to each other on the sponge.
Dab onto the nail, moving slightly to blend the colors.
Build up the intensity with a second layer.
Clean the edges and finish with a glossy top coat.
Why This Stands Out
The Muted Sunset Gradient is visually stunning and evokes a sense of calm and beauty.
The soft blending of warm and cool pastel tones is unique and eye-catching.
It’s artistic, dreamy, and perfect for capturing the magic of summer evenings.
Velvet Blush Nails – Matte dusty rose with a velvety effect.
Design Features
This trend combines a sophisticated dusty rose or blush pink color with a unique velvet-like finish.
It’s typically achieved using magnetic “cat-eye” polish under a matte top coat, which gives the color depth and a subtle shimmer that shifts like crushed velvet, without the high shine.
How To Achieve This Look
Apply a base coat and a layer of dusty rose polish if needed for opacity.
Apply a coat of dusty rose magnetic (cat-eye) polish.
Immediately hold the magnet over the wet polish according to the polish instructions (often diagonally or curved) for several seconds to create the velvet effect.
Cure if using gel.
Let dry completely if using regular polish.
Finish with a matte top coat to eliminate shine and enhance the velvety texture.
Why This Stands Out
Velvet nails offer a unique and luxurious texture that’s different from standard matte or glitter finishes.
The dusty rose color is timeless and elegant, and the velvet effect adds depth and intrigue.
It’s sophisticated, tactile, and very trendy.
Candy Swirl Nails – Pastel swirl patterns like taffy candy.
Design Features
Playful and sweet, this design features abstract swirl patterns using multiple pastel colors like pink, blue, yellow, and lavender, reminiscent of saltwater taffy or candy canes.
The swirls are typically blended slightly where the colors meet, creating a soft, marbled effect on a clear or pastel base.
How To Achieve This Look
Apply a base coat (clear or pastel).
While wet, place dots or lines of different pastel polishes onto the nail.
Use a fine brush or marbling tool to gently swirl the colors together, creating flowing patterns.
Don’t overmix.
Alternatively, use the blooming gel technique: apply blooming gel, add dots of pastel colors, and let them spread and swirl before curing.
Finish with a glossy top coat.
Why This Stands Out
This design is fun, whimsical, and perfect for summer.
The pastel swirls are eye-catching and evoke a sense of sweetness and playfulness.
Each nail can have a unique swirl pattern, making it a creative and customizable look.
Watercolor Fantasy – Dreamy watercolor-inspired nail art.
Design Features
This artistic look mimics the translucent, blended effect of watercolor paints.
It often features soft washes of color (pastels or brighter hues) that bleed into each other subtly, sometimes forming abstract shapes or delicate floral motifs.
The edges are soft and diffused.
How To Achieve This Look
Apply a base coat (often white or nude).
Use sheer polishes or regular polishes diluted with a bit of polish thinner or acetone.
Dab small amounts of different colors onto the nail, allowing them to touch and blend slightly.
Use a small brush dipped in acetone to further diffuse the edges and create a washed effect.
Build layers for depth.
Seal with a top coat.
Blooming gel can also achieve a similar effect.
Why This Stands Out
Watercolor nails are ethereal, artistic, and unique.
The soft blending and translucent colors create a dreamy, delicate effect that feels light and painterly.
It’s a sophisticated way to play with color and abstract design.
Lucky Clover Nails – Subtle green hues with tiny clover accents for St. Patrick’s Day.
Design Features
Perfect for St.
Patrick’s Day or just a touch of luck, this design typically uses various shades of green as a base – from mint to emerald.
The key feature is the addition of tiny, hand-painted or decal four-leaf clovers on one or two accent nails.
Gold glitter accents can also be incorporated.
How To Achieve This Look
Apply your chosen green base color(s).
On an accent nail, use a small dotting tool or fine brush to create four small heart shapes joined at the points to form a clover, typically in a contrasting green, white, or gold.
Add a tiny stem if desired.
Alternatively, use clover nail stickers or decals.
Finish with a top coat.
Why This Stands Out
While themed, this design can be subtle and chic.
The clover adds a touch of charm and symbolism.
Using muted greens or focusing the design on just one accent nail keeps it wearable beyond the holiday.
It’s festive yet potentially elegant.
Rainbow Sparkle Tips – Clear nails with multicolored glitter tips.
Design Features
Fun and festive, this look features a clear or nude base, keeping the nail bed natural.
The tips of the nails are adorned with a dense application of multicolored glitter, creating a sparkling French tip or a glitter gradient that fades towards the cuticle.
How To Achieve This Look
Apply a clear or nude base coat.
Apply a glitter adhesive or a clear polish to the tips of the nails.
While wet, dip the tips into multicolored glitter or use a sponge to dab the glitter onto the tips, concentrating the sparkle at the very edge and fading it slightly downwards.
Seal thoroughly with one or two layers of top coat to smooth the glitter.
Why This Stands Out
This design is pure fun and celebration.
The clear base keeps it relatively clean, while the rainbow glitter tips add a vibrant pop of color and sparkle.
It’s playful, eye-catching, and perfect for parties or adding a bit of joy to your look.
Cloud 9 Nails – Soft blue with fluffy white cloud designs.
Design Features
Dreamy and serene, this design uses a soft baby blue or sky blue polish as the base, mimicking the sky.
Simple, fluffy white cloud shapes are painted onto one or more nails, creating a peaceful and whimsical look.
How To Achieve This Look
Apply your soft blue base color and let it dry.
Using a dotting tool or a small brush, create cloud shapes with white polish.
Make irregular, puffy outlines – think several connected dots or soft, uneven shapes.
You can vary the size and placement of the clouds.
Seal with a glossy top coat.
Why This Stands Out
Cloud nails are incredibly charming and calming.
The combination of soft blue and fluffy white is aesthetically pleasing and evokes a sense of peace and daydreaming.
It’s a simple yet effective design that’s cute and trendy.
Pastel Cow Print – A modern twist on cow prints in pastel shades.
Design Features
This design takes the popular black and white cow print trend and gives it a soft, spring/summer update.
Instead of black spots on white, it features irregular “cow spots” in pastel colors (like lilac, pink, mint, or baby blue) over a white or nude base.
How To Achieve This Look
Apply a white or nude base coat.
Using a dotting tool or small brush, create irregular, rounded blob shapes with your chosen pastel polish(es).
Vary the size and placement of the spots, mimicking the organic look of cow print.
Ensure the spots are distinct and not too uniform.
Seal with a top coat (glossy or matte).
Why This Stands Out
Pastel cow print is a fun, quirky, and unexpected twist on a popular pattern.
It retains the boldness of the print but softens it with pastel hues, making it more suitable for spring and summer aesthetics.
It’s playful, trendy, and unique.
Cotton Candy Marble – Pink and blue swirls for a sweet effect.
Design Features
Inspired by the sugary treat, this design features soft pastel pink and baby blue polishes swirled together in a gentle marble effect.
Often done on a white or clear base, the colors blend softly, evoking the airy texture of cotton candy.
Fine iridescent glitter can be added for extra sparkle.
How To Achieve This Look
Apply a white or clear base.
While wet, drop small dots of pastel pink and baby blue polish.
Use a marbling tool or toothpick to gently swirl the colors together, creating a soft, blended pattern.
Avoid overmixing.
Seal with a glossy top coat.
Adding a sheer iridescent glitter top coat enhances the sugary feel.
Why This Stands Out
This design is sweet, dreamy, and playful.
The combination of classic pastel pink and blue is nostalgic and visually appealing.
The soft marble effect is mesmerizing and perfectly captures the light, airy feel of cotton candy.
Neon Pop French – Classic French tips but with vibrant neon colors.
Design Features
A bold and energetic take on the French manicure.
This design uses the traditional sheer nude or pink base but replaces the classic white tip with a bright, vibrant neon color – think neon pink, orange, green, yellow, or blue.
How To Achieve This Look
Apply your sheer base color.
Carefully paint the nail tips with your chosen neon polish.
Neon polishes often require a white base underneath to truly pop, so you might paint the tip white first, let it dry, and then apply the neon color over it.
Use French tip guides or a stamper for precision.
Finish with a glossy top coat.
Why This Stands Out
Neon Pop French tips are a statement.
They combine the clean structure of the French manicure with the eye-catching vibrancy of neon colors.
It’s a perfect way to incorporate bold summer trends without committing to a full neon nail.
It’s fun, modern, and energetic.
Holographic Glow Nails – Iridescent shine that shifts colors in the light.
Design Features
This futuristic and mesmerizing look features a highly reflective, rainbow-like shine.
Achieved using holographic polishes or powders, the finish shifts through various colors depending on the angle and lighting, creating a dynamic, multi-dimensional effect.
How To Achieve This Look
Use a nail polish specifically labeled “holographic” or “holo,” which contains special pigments.
Apply 2-3 coats for full effect.
Alternatively, for a stronger effect (often using gel polish), apply a base color (black often makes holo pop more), cure, apply a no-wipe gel top coat, cure, and then firmly rub holographic powder onto the nail.
Brush off excess and seal with another top coat.
Why This Stands Out
Holographic nails are incredibly eye-catching and futuristic.
The way they shift colors is captivating and adds an element of magic to your look.
It’s bold, fun, and makes a strong statement, perfect for festivals or summer parties.
Starry Night Aesthetic – Tiny gold stars on a soft navy blue base.
Design Features
Inspired by a clear night sky, this design uses a deep, soft navy blue as the base color.
Tiny gold star decals, glitter, or hand-painted stars are scattered across the nails, mimicking a celestial scene.
Sometimes includes tiny dots for distant stars or a small crescent moon accent.
How To Achieve This Look
Apply two coats of navy blue polish.
Once dry, use a fine brush or dotting tool dipped in gold polish to create tiny stars (simple crosses or dots work well) or apply small gold star decals/glitter pieces using tweezers.
Scatter them randomly.
Seal with a glossy top coat.
Why This Stands Out
This design is elegant, mystical, and beautiful.
The contrast between the deep navy blue and the sparkling gold stars is classic and sophisticated.
It evokes a sense of wonder and cosmic beauty, perfect for evening events or adding a touch of magic to your look.
Rose Gold Foil Nails – Chic rose gold chrome with foil accents.
Design Features
Combining two luxurious trends, this look often features a full rose gold chrome finish on some nails, while others might have a neutral base (like nude or white) adorned with torn pieces of rose gold foil for a distressed metallic effect.
How To Achieve This Look
For full chrome nails (usually requires gel): Apply base color, cure, apply no-wipe top coat, cure, rub rose gold chrome powder firmly, brush off excess, seal with top coat.
For foil accents: Apply base color, let it become slightly tacky or use foil glue, press rose gold foil pieces onto the nail, and seal carefully with top coat.
Why This Stands Out
Rose gold is a hugely popular metallic that feels warm, modern, and luxurious.
Combining the high shine of chrome with the textured look of foil creates a multifaceted and sophisticated manicure.
It’s glamorous, chic, and very on-trend.
Glazed Honey Nails – Sheer amber glaze with golden highlights.
Design Features
Warm and inviting, this look uses a sheer, warm amber or honey-toned jelly polish to create a translucent glaze effect.
It’s often enhanced with subtle gold shimmer or fine gold glitter mixed in or layered on top, mimicking the glistening quality of honey.
How To Achieve This Look
Apply 2-3 coats of a sheer amber or honey-colored polish.
Build the color gradually.
Look for polishes with inherent gold shimmer, or apply a sheer gold shimmer top coat over the amber base.
Ensure a high-gloss finish with a good top coat to complete the “glazed” look.
Why This Stands Out
Glazed Honey nails offer a warm, rich alternative to the usual pink or white glazed looks.
The amber tone is sophisticated and unique, while the golden highlights add a touch of warmth and luxury.
It feels cozy yet chic, like captured sunlight.
Shimmering Amethyst – Deep purple with holographic glitter.
Design Features
Rich and jewel-toned, this design features a base of deep amethyst purple.
The key element is the addition of holographic glitter – either mixed into the purple polish itself or applied as a glitter top coat – which provides flashes of rainbow color against the deep purple background.
How To Achieve This Look
Apply two coats of deep purple polish.
Choose a purple polish that already contains holographic glitter, or apply a separate holographic glitter polish over the dry purple base.
Build up the glitter density as desired.
Finish with a glossy top coat to enhance the sparkle.
Why This Stands Out
This look combines the regal elegance of deep purple with the mesmerizing sparkle of holographic glitter.
It’s dramatic, luxurious, and eye-catching, reminiscent of a geode or precious gemstone.
Perfect for making a bold and glamorous statement.
Celestial Aura Nails – Moon and star designs on a galaxy base.
Design Features
Mystical and enchanting, this design often features a “galaxy” base created by sponging or swirling together deep blues, purples, and black, often with hints of white or silver shimmer.
Tiny moon (crescent or full) and star designs are then painted or applied as decals over the galactic background, typically in white, silver, or gold.
How To Achieve This Look
Create the galaxy base by sponging small amounts of dark blue, purple, and black polish onto the nail, blending slightly.
Add touches of silver or white shimmer.
Once dry, use a fine brush or decals to add celestial elements like moons and stars in a contrasting metallic or white color.
Seal with a glossy top coat.
Why This Stands Out
Celestial Aura nails are artistic and captivating, evoking the vastness and mystery of space.
The combination of the deep galaxy background and delicate celestial symbols is visually stunning and sparks the imagination.
It’s a complex, detailed look that’s truly out of this world.
Barbiecore Chic – Hot pink nails with rhinestone details.
Design Features
Embracing the vibrant and playful “Barbiecore” trend, this look features nails painted in a bold, unapologetic hot pink shade.
To enhance the glamour, tiny rhinestones or crystals are strategically placed, perhaps outlining the cuticle, creating an accent nail, or adding sparkle near the tips.
How To Achieve This Look
Apply two coats of a vibrant hot pink polish.
While the top coat is still slightly wet, or using a dab of nail glue, carefully place small rhinestones onto the nail using a wax pencil or tweezers in your desired pattern.
Gently press them into place.
Seal around the edges of the rhinestones with another layer of top coat for better adhesion (avoid covering the top of the stones if possible to maintain sparkle).
Why This Stands Out
This look is all about fun, confidence, and embracing vibrant femininity.
Hot pink is an energizing, statement-making color, and the addition of rhinestones adds instant glamour and sparkle.
It’s bold, playful, and undeniably chic in a fun, retro-inspired way.
Find Your Perfect Spring/Summer Manicure
With such a diverse array of styles, colors, and finishes trending this season, there’s a perfect nail look waiting for everyone.
Whether you prefer the understated elegance of Dewdrop Gloss, the playful charm of Daisy Chain Delight, or the bold statement of Neon Pop French, now is the time to experiment and express your personal style.
Don’t be afraid to try new techniques or combine elements from different trends to create a look that’s uniquely you.
Happy polishing!