2024 Manicure Trend: Soap Nails
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Fresh. Clean. Polished. Modern Minimalist.
The “no makeup, makeup” look for your nails, soap nails are the evolution of the “clean girl” and “lip gloss” nail trends of 2023.
What are soap nails?
Soap nails give your nails a glossy, wet, soapy nail appearance, like you just stepped out of the shower with perfectly polished and buffed nails.
They are intended to evoke a sense of sophisticated, effortless beauty.
Get the Soap Nails look by:
Neatly prepping your nails by filing and buffing them
Caring for your cuticles by pushing them back, trimming them if needed and applying moisturizer
Applying a sheer coverage nail color that matches the hue of your nail bed
Finish with cuticle oil applied on the cuticle line and moisturizing balm applied over the entire hand
To maintain the wet, soapy nails look: keep your cuticles neat and your nails smoothly filed, continue to use cuticle oils and balms
Soap nails take things one step beyond “your nails but better,” as the look applies to the entire manicured hand. You want your nails, cuticles and hands to look wet, glossy and clean.
The best nail colors for soap nails will depend on your skin tone, but in general, you’re looking for a sheer nude, sheer pink, or a blend in between, sometimes the color is milky, peachy, or mauve.
Looking for the right sheer, ultra glossy polish to give your hand and nails a radiant, soapy nail look?
Below are 6 nail colors that work for the soap nails trend:
Cirque Colors Chiffon swatch
Cirque Colors Chiffon
Sent to us by Beyond Polish, Chiffon is peachy pink shown in 2 coats. This is a personal favorite of mine.
essie hi maintenance swatch
essie hi maintenance
Shown in 3 coats, hi maintenance is a sheer, cool candy pink.
essie gel couture sheer fantasy swatch
essie gel couture sheer fantasy
Shown in 2 coats, sheer fantasy is a long wearing milky baby pink.
essie sugar daddy swatch
essie sugar daddy
Shown in 2 coats, sugar daddy is a sheer peachy pink.
OPI Baby, Take a Vow swatch
OPI Baby, Take a Vow
Shown in 2 coats, Baby, Take a Vow is a sheer milky pink that makes a great base for nail art.
OPI Passion swatch
OPI Passion
Shown in 2 coats, Passion is a sheer baby pink.
Soap Nail Color Ideas, L to R, Top to Bottom: Cirque Colors Chiffon, essie hi maintenance, essie gel couture sheer fantasy, essie sugar daddy, OPI Baby, Take A Vow, OPI Passion
All in all, soap nails are defined as a clean, wet look using glossy polish, neat trimming, oil and moisture. They’re your ideal fresh start, palette cleansing manicure.
When choosing a soapy nail shade, look for squeaky, glossy clean; envision your natural nails emerging from a bubble bath perfectly prepped, buffed, and filed.
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Photo of soapy bubbles on pink background by cottonbro studio on Pexels with text overlay SOAP NAILS: 6 clean, polished & minimalist nail colors
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