Every now and then a trend comes along that is so fun it just makes life seem more joyous. And yes, often they're the nostalgic ones, butterfly clips and glitter gloss anyone? Beauty has been getting steadily more playful in the last few years, partly thanks to all the 00s revivals. Kylie Jenner's new nails are straight up there with all of that, cementing our eye on the return of playground 'nostalgia nails' trend.
Kylie just got glow-in-the-dark nails in the prettiest aquamarine blue and she basically just won mermaidcore. Just imagine these babies in the depths of the deep dark ocean. She shared the nails on her Insta stories writing: "These glow in the dark nails make me really happy," us too K#6, us too.
They were created by celeb nail artist Zola Ganzorigt, who was also the mastermind behind Hailey Bieber's recent glow-in-the-dark Goose Bumps-esque wonders, revealing they tried 50 colours to land on that sci-fi green.
Sharing them to her Insta page Zola wrote: "Glowing in the dark @haileybieber 💚After trying 50 different colors, we came up with the perfect shade for Coachella 🔫 Always enjoy our scientific experiment 🫶🏻".
Hard relate to that level of indecision and perfectionism. I can't be the only one who goes to every nail appointment half an hour early to choose a colour from the same box I've looked through twice a month for three years, before falling back on a peachy nude every time?
Maybe this summer I'll finally break out of my comfort zone and try some of these glowing mermaid talons 🧜🏼♀️🐠🫧.
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Elena Chabo is Cosmopolitan UK's former beauty writer, working on everything from buzzy celeb news and trending beauty, to sincere first-person reviews and engaging video content for social media. She also creates meatier features and expert-led how-to guides, for print and online. Her passion for Black beauty, textured hair, and the ways beauty interacts with culture, society, identity and relationships, quickly took over her writing career and led her into beauty journalism. Following an MA in Magazine Journalism in 2017, she cut her teeth across various roles at Stylist Magazine, before taking on a Digital Writer role at Good Housekeeping. It was here that beauty took centre stage and she launched and ran the site's first stand-alone beauty section. Remaining at Hearst, she joined the Cosmo beauty team in 2022. Find her on LinkedIn.
