The unicorn horn manicure look features pointy nails painted with iridescent and sparkly polish. And the horn accent nail really brings the whole thing together.
Unicorn Nails is a magical topper that practically glows in the bottle! Packed with iridescent color shifting shimmer that shifts effortlessly through vivid hues of pink, amazing green, glowing gold and everything in between.
But the latest nail trend is here to brighten things up. This season it's all about cloud nails. First spotted on Instagram by Refinery29, the trend is exactly as it sounds: dreamy, whimsical swirls of white and blue that take inspiration from the sky on a vivid summer day.
Mermaid nails refer to any nail enhancement or gel service with a thin layer of an extra fine iridescent glitter over the top. The glitter changes the original nail color into an almost holographic shifting color experience – shimmery and show-stopping.
Aptly named the 'Skittles manicure', it involves painting each of your fingernails in a different shade of the rainbow. There are no rules, no right or wrong way to do it; you just pull out your nail polish kit, pick anywhere from three to 10 colours, and get swiping.
All it requires is a thin layer of a neutral shade, like OPI's Funny Bunny polish, topped with chrome powder for the shiny effect. Ganzorigt's personal fave is the OPI Tin Man Can Chrome Effects Mirror-Shine Nail Powder. Finish the look with a shiny top coat and a gel curing, and you're good to go.
The Queen wore the same shade for over 30 years...
She sure did - and the exact nail polish colour was Essie's Ballet Slippers. The late Queen Elizabeth II only let one shade of nail polish touch her finger tips and it was by none other than Essie.
Duchess Meghan Markle's Fave Nail Polish
According to British Vogue, she got her mani courtesy of DryBy London, who used one layer of CND Shellac's Unmasked, paired with two layers of CND Shellac's Negligee on top.
Most clients lean toward one of five basic nail shapes: square, round, oval, squoval, or pointed.
What is a Russian manicure? Unsurprisingly, the technique originated in Russia and is also known as a dry or e-file manicure. The process involves a trained nail technician using an electronic file to remove excess skin surrounding the nailbed to achieve a crisp, clean finish.
Fingernail moons are the rounded shadows at the base of your nails. A fingernail moon is also called a lunula, which is Latin for little moon. The place where each nail begins growing is known as the matrix. This is where the new cells are made that will make up the nail. The lunula is part of the matrix.
Your nails may take on a bruised appearance, turning various shades of black, brown, purple, blue and green. Blemishes, such as horizontal and vertical lines and small indentations, may develop on your nails in response to different cycles of chemotherapy. These marks will grow out along with the affected nails.
Acute: the nails are extremely curved and sharp-pointed, as in a woodpecker. Obtuse: the nails are less curved and have rather blunt points, as in a ruffed grouse. Lengthened: the nails are rather straight and elongated but sharp-pointed, as in the hallux nail of the Horned Lark.
Blue nails may indicate that the blood is not carrying enough oxygen to the fingertips. There are many possible causes, some of which are serious.
The end of every single long nail splits into two prongs, creating the look of a snake's forked tongue.