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.

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).

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.

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.

I’m not all that interested in fame, but if I had to come back as a celebrity, it would be Dua Lipa. It’s not just the fact that she’s a Grammy Award-winning artist, runs the coolest book club, Service 95, and practices yoga on a paddleboard in Ibiza — though, that is a huge part of it — but I’m such a fan of her approach to style and beauty. The 30-year-old isn’t afraid to do her own thing and follow her own aesthetic compass, regardless of what’s trending. In a beauty world where minimalist trends, like soap nails and “clean girl” makeup, are more popular than ever, Lipa is a breath of fresh air. This isn’t only the case for her hair and makeup looks — her manicures are bold, vibrant, and fun, too. If you follow the pop star on Instagram, you’ll know that she loves to share photos of her nails. The vibes are more is more: think chrome accents, multicolored designs, and eye-catching patterns that demand attention.

Lipa definitely views her nails as a canvas and her manicures as a form of creative expression. Nail art is her way of showcasing her unique individuality. Whether you’re all about bold nails or just looking for some eye candy, keep scrolling. Ahead, a round up of Lipa’s best manicures.

Snakeskin Tips

Lipa loves a French manicure, but she always adds a twist. One way she does this is by adding a pattern, like the one in this design. Her medium-length nails feature white tips overlaid with a black snakeskin pattern that gives the classic look an edgy vibe.

Crystal Flower Design

Speaking of French manis, nail artist Michelle Humphrey created this design for Dua’s Radical Optimism tour. The playful manicure pairs crisp white tips with multicolored rhinestones for a Y2K-inspired look.

Chrome French Manicure

These bright green tips take the classic French mani design to the next level, and the chrome finish gives the whole look a modern, futuristic edge.

Aura Nails

Lipa’s aura nails feature soft pink and purple shades that blend seamlessly into one another. The dreamy color combo gives off a mystical vibe, while the glossy finish keeps the look fresh and modern.

3D Tortoise Manicure

While on vacation this summer, Lipa went all out with a multicolored manicure. Green, red, and blue polishes served as bold base colors, each topped with a three-dimensional geometric design and rhinestones for an ultra-maximalist look.

Negative Space Nails

While posting snapshots from a recent tour stop in Toronto, Lipa showed off a striking manicure. Her negative space nails featured a nude base paired with bold black starburst designs.

Chrome Accents

This manicure features a bold swirl of fiery red, orange, and yellow tones blended with silver chrome accents for a molten, lava-lamp-like effect. The glossy top coat enhances the abstract design, giving each nail a striking, high-shine finish.

Tie-Dye Swirls

These nails are painted with a swirl of pastel colors for a whimsical look that’s both playful and eye-catching.

Neon Chain Link

Lipa’s black manicure is elevated with vibrant neon green chains, transforming the nails into a bold, attention-grabbing statement.

Polka Dot Nail Art

Lipa’s rounded almond nails have a pretty pinky-nude base with black French tips dotted in white. On a couple of nails, the polka dots don’t just stop at the tips — they go all the way down to the cuticles, covering the whole nail in the fun pattern.

There are angels among us. ABBA said it—”I believe in angels, something good in everything I see”—so it has to be true.

If you’re having trouble seeing them, though, there are a couple of ways to tell when you’ve met an angel in real life. Some of them will give you advice out of the blue or say something to you that you know you needed to hear. Some of them will give you a present (a free pastry with your morning matcha, maybe?) or do something that reminds you of someone you love. And some of them will just look angelic.

Selena Gomez is an angel. Actually, she’s the perfect example here. And though you couldn’t physically see her halo on her wedding day, a simple glance at her nails was all it took to tell she’s an ethereal being.

The Angel Mani Trend

Nude manicures with a little extra something special have been *the* most popular form of nail art for the past few years. We’ve seen soap nails, glazed nails, naked French tips, and nude jellies. But angel nails are the most heaven-sent version of the trend yet.

The look comes from Gomez’s go-to nail artist, Tom Bachik, who called her wedding nails an “angel mani” when breaking down the products he used to get the look in a recent Instagram post. In another photo, he called it an “angel worthy wedding mani,” and the whole world agreed.

At its most basic, an Angel Mani is a soft nude manicure with just a touch of chrome powder and glossy top coat. There’s not enough chrome happening to call these nails glazed, and there’s not enough pink to the hue to go lip gloss. Instead, you’ll find a simple but unmistakable glow going on.

To add to their mystique, this is also a look you’d see on a Victoria’s Secret angel making her way down the runway.

“We wanted to keep all the girls chic, beautiful, and glossy,” lead nail artist Dawn Sterling told Harper’s Bazaar about her vision for the 2024 show. “Our team is doing a natural sheer manicure, not too pink, not too white, that illuminates with the lighting and their wings. There’s so much going on with the colors and diamonds, so we just wanted to do a minimal-yet-fabulous nail moment.”

It just happens to be easier to carry around than a giant pair of wings.

Get the Look

Bachik started the manicure with his signature set of Tweezerman nail tools. To get that divine soft-almond shape, he custom fit some of Aprés Nail’s Gel-X Medium Length Coffin Tips. Then, he painted the nails with Aprés Nail’s buildable sheer gel polish in When It Hits and finished things off with his own Shop Tom Bachik Cosmic Chrome powder in Angel, an “icy clear that gleams like frosted glass,” and Click Colors nail polish in Super Clear.

The truth of the matter is that angels come in all shapes and sizes, so you can be a little choosy when it comes to your Angel Mani shape. If you like short nails, go for it. Stilettos will do the trick, too. This is a look that any salon would happily replicate, or you could pick up some similar press-ons like Glamnetic’s Los Angeles pack (it’s the city of angels, baby!) and tackle it at home.

When your fingernails hit the light just right, I swear they’ll each have a tiny halo of their own. Oh yeah! You might be an angel, too.

Ever since Hilary Duff announced earlier this month that she’d be releasing new music for the first time in a decade, all eyes have been on the former Disney darling turned multi-hyphenate mom. And Duff clearly knows everyone’s watching. Not that she even needed a glow-up—the woman is chronically gorgeous—but her front-row-seat sighting at the Fendi show at Milan Fashion Week has everyone talking about how next-level stunning she looks. It’s nearly impossible to narrow down the look to one favorite feature, but perhaps the most fun and copyable element is her amazing manicure.

Duff attended the Fendi Spring/Summer 2026 show on Tuesday, September 24, along with a number of other fashion-loving celebrities like Naomi Watts and Shailene Woodley, both of whom wore muted colors and barely-there nail polishes. Duff, on the other hand, seems to have said, “French manicure, please, and don’t do any of the usual stuff,” to her as-yet-unidentified nail artist.

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Each one of the Duff’s ballerina-shaped nails has a different unexpected color combo with an especially thick tip: shimmering gold with a terracotta tip, silver with a white tip, rosy rust with a darker burgundy tip, the palest of silvery lavenders with a pastel green tip, and so on. The manicure is complemented by a big, blue Fendi statement ring.

In no community is “to each their own” more true than the beauty coterie. I know that if you don’t get a bob right after I get bob, it’s not because you don’t like my bob—it’s because you just prefer longer hair for yourself. And while I know plenty of people who insist on a squared-off nail shape, it’s just never been for me. I prefer the softer look of an oval or almond shape, especially if there’s a French manicure involved. But Demi Lovato might have just recruited me to the square side with what her nail tech is calling the “micro straight French.”

Lovato is getting the word out about her upcoming ninth studio album, It’s Not That Deep, and that includes bopping around New York City during New York Fashion Week. The singer was spotted in a variety of devastatingly cool outfits, like a red long-sleeve top and low-slung black pants, and a belted, ribbed, burgundy catsuit. But just in case you couldn’t quite zoom in enough to get a close-up of her equally awesome nails, her go-to nail artist, Natalie Minerva, is happy to oblige.

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – SEPTEMBER 16: Demi Lovato is seen in Midtown on September 16, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by TheStewartofNY/GC Images)Michael Stewart

When in France, do as the French do and get a French manicure. When in Italy, maybe also do as the French do and get a French manicure?

Or forget all that and take the evergreen greatest advice, which is to follow whatever path Kaia Gerber is on. It just so happens that she’s also embracing Frenchies. In Italy, no less!

Kaia Gerber’s Micro-French Manicure

Over the weekend, Gerber showed up at the Venice International Film Festival with a simple manicure that featured the teeniest stripe of white paint on each tip. We call that a baby French or micro-French manicure.

This set in particular was kept long and almond-shaped. Though not completely invisible, the New Moon-worthy sliver of polish was set against a nude background for an even more timeless look.

Holding hands with Lewis Pullman everywhere she went, Gerber was first spotted on August 31 in a plunging polka dot top. The next day, she changed into a sheer black lace dress for the premiere of The Testament Of Ann Lee. Then, she wore a white top with white skirt with black heeled flip flops while arriving at Lido on September 2. The micro French came with her everywhere, and looked perfect in every setting.

How to Get the Look

Though I’m certain the model had a professional paint her famous fingernails, this is a look you could conceivably get at home. Byrdie has a guide to DIY’ing a flawless French manicure here.

If getting the tip that thin and even sounds overwhelming, you can also go the press-on route. If you’re fine with a square shape, Glamnetic has a pretty set.

Then, grab your current book club read and hit the canals. Or the Eiffel tower. Or the red carpet. Or nowhere at all! From hard launches to casual late summer day dates, this look is a go-to for a reason.

If you’ve ever gotten your nails done, you’re likely familiar with acrylics. They have long been one of the most popular types of nail enhancements. They’re also referred to as L+P (liquid and powder) because, as nail artist Lauren Denney points out, liquid and powder are key to their creation.

“Acrylic nails are a combination of liquid monomer and acrylic powder (polymer),” she explains. “When you mix the liquid with the powder, a polymerization process takes place and hardens, which sets the acrylic.” 

Like polygel nails, acrylic nails are sculpted onto the nail with a form, Denney says. Or, a tip is glued to the nail, and acrylic is then overlaid to boost the nail’s shape, length, and strength. 

As for how acrylic nails come to life, Bellacures nail artist Hayley Dang let us in on the process. “We take a brush and dip it into an acrylic liquid—we use this to make a moldable acrylic bead by dipping the wet brush into our acrylic powder,” she explains. “Once we have our bead, we place it into the nail bed, spreading it until it is even across the length of your natural nail and the plastic tip.”

It’s this step, she says, that makes or breaks an acrylic mani, as it’s what creates a natural-looking nail surface that’s smooth and uniform.  

“After giving the powder time to harden, we begin filing the nail into whichever shape you’d like, whether it be coffin, stiletto, almond, round, or square,” Dang says. “[Acrylic nails] truly are a stunning look for those who like their nails to be a bit longer in length, or like the look of an elongated finger.”

Now that you’re up to speed on the acrylic process, let’s dive into shapes. Ahead, learn more about the top five acrylic nail shapes.`And if you’re here because of a certain nail shape debate? Remember that acrylic nail shapes can’t really be ranked, as their popularity depends on personal preference. “There is no ‘one size fits all’ when picking the perfect nail shape for you,” Dang adds. “It just depends on the individual’s personal preference and style.”

Somehow, someway, August is upon us. And while summer feels bound to slip away at any moment, we’re all for finding ways to savor the vibes while they last. So, before you go all in on your fall aesthetic, may we interest you in the most gorgeous sun-kissed mani trend to close out summer 2025? Enter: bronze nails.

This popular manicure is characterized by its rich, golden glow that perfectly encapsulates that summer-to-fall transitional aesthetic. From French tips and minimalist accents to bold details and 3D designs, explore 18 bronze nail ideas to inspire your next look.