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Key Takeaways
- A “Striped Sweater” manicure features a softly blended or airbrushed horizontal stripe design—just like your favorite cozy hand-knit sweater
- If you have a makeup sponge on hand, you can also easily get the look right at home.
Come fall (and really come summer too, if my AC is blasting), there is nothing I love more than a good sweater. And you know what a good sweater looks really cute with? A good manicure peeking out of its ideally oversized sleeves.
This particular fall, the perfect nail art to pair with your knitwear is matchy matchy—but not in the way you might think. Instead of the textured sweater manicures of yore, we’re going with an old-school horizontal stripe approach that both a beginning nail artist and knitter could tackle. Ahead, discover everything to know about the trend and how to get the look yourself.
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The Trend
The “Striped Sweater” nail trend is all about copying your favorite, you guessed it!, striped sweater. It can be a striped sweater you own or a striped sweater you want (like the rest of the world, I’m lusting over J.Crew’s rollnecks, specifically the men’s navy multi-stripe version).
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With your choice sweater in mind, you’ll paint your nails with stripes that correspond to the colors of the yarn. If I was going for that multi stripe, I might pick up a red, green, butter yellow, and navy. Any combination will do, and you can have as many colors as you want as long as you pick at least two.
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How to Get the Look
Though a professional might whip out the airbrush kit for this design, TikTok creator @nailbetch shared a nice at-home tutorial.
“I don’t know if these are actually called sweater nails but that’s what they look like to me,” she wrote in the post’s caption. And she’s right. They do.
Her method is easy to copy—and smart, too. After framing her nail with peel-off latex so her actual polish will stay within the lines, the artist paints stripes of her chosen colors across a makeup sponge. Then, she she presses the sponge onto her nail, repeating the process a couple of times to bump up the opacity.
Because the stripes don’t land in exactly the same place each time, the effect is slightly ombréd. The colors blend into each other just enough, like how the fibers meld at the point where you swap skeins of yarn while crocheting a sweater.
A glossy top coat is the last step to seal everything up, and there you have it—the perfect sweater mani that definitely won’t unravel.
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