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The blue manicure is vibrant, cheery, and fun without even a hint of sadness in sight.
It’s the perfect hue for spring days and summer nights.
Nail lacquer, especially vibrant shades with more pigment, can stain your nails.
The base coat provides a protective layer, not to mention a smooth surface for your nail art.
Are you ready to drop your blue period, Picasso?
Paint three nails with a solid blue polish, and allow them to dry.
Then paint two more nails with a creamy peach hue and let that dry.
Top everything with a shiny top coat.
Electric blue
To borrow the words of Danny Zuko in “Grease” this manicure?
Dab the glittered sponge onto nails.
This manicure starts with applying two coats of a mild blue shade, allowing it to dry thoroughly.
Let dry and apply a gloss top coat.
Try a few well-placed streaks of glitter polish.
On two nails, dip a thin liner brush in white glitter polish and paint on two diagonal stripes.
Apply atop coatto seal in the glitter, and you’ve got a new mani in seconds.
In this case, choose your blue try turquoise or perhaps a bright, medium blue.
Use a flesh-tone base coat, or try one with a pink tint, to set up the look.
If you’ve got a steady hand, go ahead and paint on your half-moon shapes.
Double-paint the tips on most nails, but save one for some curved detail.
Using the edge of the polish brush, paint a curved shape from cuticle to tip and let dry.
Using the second blue hue, follow the curve from the base, stopping halfway up the nail bed.
Two shades of blue, as well as white, are the color palette.
Flowers and hearts, checks and waves, and even twinkling stars make up the artistic renderings.
And, yes, blue looks fab on both square and almond nails.
Out of the blue
Out of the blue come sparkling, twinkling stars.
Blue blazes
Blue is the new neutral you never knew about.
It goes great with so many other colors and does spectacular work holding its own against metallic accents.
Set your nails on fire by combining cobalt-blue polish with either silver or gold glitter polish.
Now add the sparkle in the form of diagonal stripes or arrows.
Blue moon
Once in a blue moon?
Try twice, as in two moons at once in this double French manicure.
Go ahead and create a traditional Frenchie with a neutral base and white tips.
Luckily, blue nails are the perfect background for sweet, painted daisies.
To really make the florals stand out, just do a few nails with the petals.
Bolt of blue
What’s better than a bolt of blue?
Twenty bolts of blue.
Apply aneutral nail color, and let dry completely.
