Once we requested nail execs to share their prime spring nail coloration tendencies, all of them talked about coloration—however not your typical brilliant pinks and purples. As a substitute, they have been all about clay reds, butter yellows, and earthy greens, with no child pinks in sight. But when Rihanna’s mani is any indication, we higher make room for the traditional milky manicure on that listing too—for each suggestions and toes.
For her newest FENTY X PUMA shoot in Barbados, Rihanna let her outfit and equipment do the colour heavy lifting and caught to her go-to impartial nails as an alternative, choosing less complicated shades on her arms and ft. Within the pics, she relaxes on a ship sporting her footwear model’s lemon-lime Cat Cleat Jelly sandals with a white pedicure. (Truly, the shoe coloration is completely on-trend for nails too, simply saying!) The pedi shade is not a brilliant, chalky white, however moderately a softer, creamier ivory tone, which units off the colour of her sandals and feels so springy and recent. And hey, we have got numerous time to experiment with extra colourful shades this season, so why not transition to spring Rihanna-style?
On her fingers, she wears a sheer, barely there milky pink coloration, along with her nails formed right into a tender sq. by manicurist Kimmie Keyes. (You have gotta scroll over a number of photographs on her Instagram to see them.) Rihanna beforehand informed Attract that sq. is her most well-liked nail form—which is one thing she and I’ve in widespread!
Rihanna is probably not dabbling in spring’s greatest nail coloration tendencies (but), however that does not imply she eschewed coloration fully in her boat-day glam. Make-up artist Priscilla Ono painted on the proper brilliant crimson lip, in all probability Fenty Magnificence’s now-legendary Stunna Lip Paint or Icon Velvet Liquid Lipstick. “Face card one in a billion,” Ono wrote, and more true phrases have by no means been spoken.
Dennis Leupold