These 4 Nail Trends Will Dominate 2025, According to the Runways

With nails, there’s always room to have some fun. At Meruert Tolegen, Naomi Yasuda started with a few layers of Addiction Tokyo’s Nail Polish in Bloody Merlot “because it’s that perfect dark red shade; it can be both sweet yet spicy,” she shared in a press release. But if you looked closely, you would see that some of the models’s fingernails were also accented with tiny pearls that added a playful touch.

Meanwhile, at Christian Cowan, nail artist Julie Kandalec attached feathers to the bottoms of models’s nails, which had been painted with the CND Shellac in Powder My Nose. “I attached the feather in reverse, almost as if the models were writing with a quill pen,” she said via a press release.

Yasuda also worked on the looks for Diotima; one of two designs for the show involved a graphic red line hand-drawn straight down the middle of the nail with the Addiction Tokyo The Nail Polish in Shanghai Romance.

It’s still winter, and many of us might already be fatigued by deeper nail colors. However, don’t forget how fresh and new these intense shades—including this dark brown seen at Anna Sui—always feel after a summer of white and nude mani-pedis.

Near-black black polish, just like nude or red, will never go out of style, especially when paired with this timeless short squoval nail shape.

“Known for his vibrant use of color, Christopher John Rogers returned to the runway after a two-year hiatus,” shared nail artist Jin Soon Choi in a press release. “While he typically embraces bold hues, this season, he explored the brown family for nails.” One of the colors he selected for his show was JINsoon’s Risqué, a deep blackberry red.

The models at Monse strutted down the runway wearing this deep terracotta on their nails. I don’t know if I’ll be able to wait until fall to replicate the look, which Choi accomplished by applying her nail polish in Fire Clay.

Many women seem to be returning to their natural hair colors, and perhaps our nails will follow suit. As always, there was plenty of nude polish on the runways, but many models also seemed to have nothing on their nails.

Kandalec also created this polka-dotted design for Christian Cowan, which involved painting one to two layers of a neutral CND Shellac onto the nails. Depending on the model’s skin tone, she used Bouquet, Powder My Nose, Bare Chemise, Wrapped In Linen, Field Fox, or Willow Talk.

At Lingua Franca, there didn’t seem to be a stitch of polish on some of the models’s nails, no matter how hard we looked. We forecast healthy bare nails to be at the forefront in autumn.

Nothing more than perhaps a slick of clear or sheer nude polish graced the fingertips at Altuzarra.

Jonathan Simkhai also kept things simple with short, natural nails and perfect cuticles.

But if you thought that was a little dull, don’t worry—all hope is not lost. Several nail artists decorated the manicures to the max with gemstones that shone like stars. The Alice + Olivia presentation featured stiletto chrome nails from Salon Perfect encrusted with rhinestones, which were dreamed up by celebrity nail artist Miss Pop. If you’re already accessorizing the rest of your body, why not give your nails the same treatment?

The Blonds models took it a step further with lengthy, head-turning nails studded with white rhinestones in various cuts and sizes.