The square shape is summer’s hardest-working silhouette: flat, neat edges that show off colour beautifully and hold up far better than pointier shapes when you are typing, travelling or digging in the garden. It is also the perfect canvas for the season’s favourite artwork — florals, fruit and tropical prints all sit neatly inside those…
Leopard print never really leaves, but summer is when it has the most fun. Swap the classic neutrals for hot pink, neon lime, sky blue and sunset gold, and the familiar spots suddenly look like they were invented for beach days and warm nights. Here are 50 summer leopard print nail designs, running from soft…
Few designs say summer quite like watermelon nails. The combination of juicy pink, fresh green rind and tiny black seeds is instantly recognisable, endlessly adaptable and cheerful on every skin tone. These 50 summer watermelon nail designs range from classic French tips and minimal single-slice accents to neon melts, glitter finishes and full tropical gardens….
A summer holiday manicure should feel like the trip itself — warm, colourful and impossible to rush. Think hibiscus blooms and palm leaves, slices of watermelon and lemon, sunsets that melt from coral into gold, all shrunk down onto ten tiny canvases you get to take everywhere. This collection brings together 50 summer holiday nail…
Once the sandals come out, your pedicure stops being an afterthought and becomes part of the outfit. Toes are on show at the beach, the pool and every pavement café in between, so a good summer design earns its keep. This collection brings together 50 summer toe nail designs built around the season’s favourite motifs…
Gel polish and summer were made for each other: that glassy, long-lasting shine holds up through beach days, pool afternoons and everything else the season throws at it. Add the colours of the moment — neon brights, soft pastels, tropical corals and plenty of hand-painted flowers — and a gel set becomes the easiest summer…
Summer is the one season when nobody can accuse you of wearing too much colour, and rainbow nails make the most of the permission. A full spectrum suits every skin tone, works on short nails as happily as on long ones, and turns the simplest outfit into something deliberate. This collection gathers 40 summer rainbow…
Fruit on nails is summer at its sweetest — tiny strawberries, glossy watermelon slices and bright citrus segments can turn a simple manicure into the happiest part of an outfit. Whether you like your nail art miniature and delicate or bold enough to spot across a picnic blanket, there is a fruity design for every…
Plaid might be a pattern you associate with flannel shirts and autumn, but in its gingham and pastel summer forms it is one of the freshest things you can put on your nails. Checked lines suit every nail shape, scale from tiny and delicate to big and bold, and give plain summer outfits an instant…
The French manicure never really leaves, but summer is when it has the most fun — especially on an almond shape, whose soft tapered tip makes every coloured edge look longer and more elegant. Swapping the classic white for neon, glitter, pastels or chrome turns a familiar manicure into something that feels completely new. This…