When we asked nail pros to share their top spring nail color trends, they all mentioned color—but not your typical bright pinks and purples. Instead, they were all about clay reds, butter yellows, and earthy greens, with no baby pinks in sight. But if Rihanna’s mani is any indication, we better make room for the classic milky manicure on that list too.
For her latest FENTY X PUMA shoot in Barbados, Rihanna let her outfit and accessories do the color heavy lifting and stuck to her go-to neutral nails instead. In the images, which you can see on her Instagram, she relaxes on a boat wearing her footwear brand’s lemon-lime Cat Cleat Jelly sandals with a white pedicure. (Actually, the shoe color is perfectly on-trend for nails too, just saying!) On her fingers, she wears a sheer, barely there milky pink color, with her nails shaped into a soft square by manicurist Kimmie Keyes. (Rihanna previously told Allure that square is her preferred nail shape—which is something she and I have in common!)
Rihanna may not be dabbling in spring’s biggest nail color trends (yet), but that doesn’t mean she eschewed color entirely in her boat-day glam. Makeup artist Priscilla Ono painted on the perfect bright red lip, probably Fenty Beauty’s now-legendary Stunna Lip Paint or Icon Velvet Liquid Lipstick. “Face card one in a billion,” Ono wrote, and truer words have never been spoken.
Dennis Leupold