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Sizzling Summer Nail Trends From the Runway

Beauty Jun 07, 2016

by Rosemina Nazarali

Must-try manicure inspiration from the Spring/Summer 16 runways.

As soon as the weather starts to get warm, our nails get a new personality. The season has always been about bright, fun colours, but this year we’re taking things up a notch. The SS16 runways featured nail designs that were all about showing off your personality — from the nude and subdued to the bright and colourful.

Get Graphic

^{Tanya Taylor Spring/Summer 2016

Photo credit: PopSugar}

Give your mani a graphic spruce by adding a solid black line to a neutral colour. This trend was seen all over the runways on the Spring/Summer 2016 runway, including a more minimalist version at Ji Oh’s New York Fashion Week show. This more structured look was created for Tanya Taylor. On the base, use a light nude like Sally Hansen’s Arm Candy ($7.99 CDN). Use a thin makeup brush to draw the dark lines using a colour like Sally Hansen’s Dark Hue-mor ($7.99 CDN). Try drawing lines off-centre or create a mismatched manicure with a combination of horizontal, diagonal and vertical lines to give your nails even more personality.

^{Sally Hansen Arm Candy

Photo credit: London Drugs}

Sally Hansen Dark Hue-mor
Photo credit: Sally Hansen/Twitter

Bedazzling Nails

Manish Arora Spring/Summer 2016
Photo credit: PopSugar

Go big or go home, right? That certainly seemed the idea behind the nail look at Manish Arora’s Spring/Summer 2016 runway show. The models donned bedazzled nails full of colour, with gold henna designs on their hands to top it off. Start with a pretty pastel colour for the base. Don’t worry about imperfections, because those can easily be covered up with nail art jewels. Grab a pack of Kiss Salon Secrets Luxe Accents Kit ($5.99 CDN) and use the included nail glue to place colourful jewels all over each of your nails.

^{Kiss Salon Secrets Luxe Accents

Photo credit: London Drugs}

Negative Space with a Pop of Colour

^{Mackage Spring/Summer 2016

Photo credit: Essie}

Negative space manicures are all the rage this season. It’s nail art, minus the actual art. This is a trend that let’s your nails do all the talking, and allows you to give your tips a fun look that’s still appropriate for the office. Rita Remark, lead nail artist for Essie Canada, created this look for Mackage’s Spring/Summer 2016 show in Toronto.

“The collection had a lot of black and white with pops of turquoise and orange, so I used turquoise to add a subtle pop of colour along the cuticle,” Remark said. “We wanted something that wasn't ladylike — a bit more contemporary and edgy . . . a real cool-girl nail art for spring."

On the base, Remark used Essie’s Master Plan ($7.99 CDN), a soft grey. On the tips is Essie’s Licorice ($7.99 CDN), a true black lacquer. The pop of turquoise colour near the cuticle is Essie’s Naughty Nautical ($7.99 CDN).

^{Essie Master Plan

Photo credit: Essie}

^{Essie Licorice

Photo credit: Essie}

Essie Naughty Nautical
Photo credit: Essie

Rosemina Nazarali

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Rosemina (@RoseminaN) is a writer and content strategist who has a special place in her heart for beauty. She’s always on the pulse of current trends and loves trying new products -- especially if they are brown-skin worthy! When she’s not playing with makeup, she’s travelling, going to concer...

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