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Take your cue from this low-key design, which features shades of creamy and pale brown with snowflakes, gingerbread, and trees. Swirl nails were one of the biggest 2023 mani trends, so creating them with a red, white, and silver color palette (evocative of peppermint candy canes) is a great idea as we head into the holidays. Of course, with such an intricate design, you'll likely need a pro artist's skill to recreate this manicure. Gold and white is another vintage-inspired color combo perfect for the holidays.
Put a Bow on It
Red and white candy stripes, gold glitter, deep green, and multi-colored lights make up this festive design. Apple-red nails will always feel festive for the holiday season, even if you use just one color like this OPI one. Chanel nail artist Betina Goldstein doesn’t just follow nail trends, she creates them.
Glossy Deep Green
29 Nail Designs That Scream Festive This Holiday Season - Glam
29 Nail Designs That Scream Festive This Holiday Season.
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Although we typically lean into silver and gold for holiday metallics, rose gold can give a similar celebratory effect. This design features a rose gold chrome alongside a soft pale pink. Each nail in this design gets transformed into a glittery present in shades of purple, blue, green gold, and pink.
White Christmas dove nails
You can stick to a couple of colors or add a third Christmas color in the mix, like dark green. This type of manicure looks great on fake nails because it gives you space to get creative with your drawings. There are so many decals to choose from, but we particularly love candy canes (of course), bows, gingerbread men, and snowflakes. Set aside one nail for a big highlight such as a Christmas tree.
You can stop there, or to take it a step further, draw on white snowflakes with Essie's Blanc ($10). The only thing more Christmas-y than regular ornaments is glitter ornaments. These ornament (and reindeer!) accent nails are an elevated take on basic Christmas nail art, thanks to its sheer base and shimmery, dark-red polish.
Subtle Shine
Some nails get a solid coat of blue while others feature a marbled stream of white, blue, and silver running down the middle. Dive deep into holiday jewel tones with this manicure that features ornament stickers from Deco Miami ($10). To inspire your look, take a peek at the following 50 holiday nail ideas. Just one finger pays a nod to the holidays by incorporating a cute (and smiling!) santa.
Slightly raised, pointed silver starbursts sit against a creamy nude base. For dimension, the center of each has a tiny dot of sparkly gold. If you're more of a subtle neutrals person, but still want to dress things up a bit for the holidays, this minimalist Christmas mani has your name on it. It features shades of creamy gray, cream, and latte and features snowflake, bow, and sweater accents. This cute holiday manicure puts a snazzy spin on Old Saint Nick by decking him out in a golden suit with a black and silver buckle. The gold chrome nails featured on the rest of this mani brings it home.
This glittery green base with multi-colored confetti is like an ornament-filled tree—with a shining star on top, obviously. Recreate that mesmerizing moment you pour cream into your coffee (and watch the colors swirl together) with a café au lait-inspired mani. Whether you’re known for architecting epic houses or just there to snack on the decorations, get in on the sweet-and-spicy fun with gingerbread nails. A bronze base like CONTEXT SKIN Nail Lacquer in Shake Me will kick it up an extra notch. No matter your feelings on frozen precipitation, we can all agree the first blanket of snow is something special.
When it comes to the trending nail polish colors for winter 2024, nail experts recently told Bustle that icy pastel blues, glossy black, and shades of green are a few to watch. Just about every single manicure shade is getting a chromatic upgrade, too. This manicure is a more minimalist option, but it still deserves a worthy spot on our list.

To do this, capture the season's festive atmosphere with festive colors like red, green, and icy blue as the base, and then draw holiday doodles with white, silver, or gold nail polish. To update the look for summer, Koon loves the idea of adding dainty bows—another of 2024’s biggest beauty trends—to her blush nails. “Bows are everywhere right now and I feel like looking through [the recent] spring/summer shows, there was a lot of whimsy,” says Koon, a vibe she was eager to experiment with. Koon painted on the bows using a liner brush and black gel polish and then layering silver chrome powder on top. If you’re doing this at home, she notes the easiest way is to use an acrylic nail art pen.
Create a design that feels like wandering past a candy cane lane by incorporating candy canes and peppermint lollies on one nail. You can adorn all your nails with this imagery or just keep it to a nail or two. If you choose to go with the latter, finish the rest of your nails with a red French manicure topped with a glittery white top coat. When imagining the perfect holiday party nails, we envision sparkles, shimmer, and time-honored color combos—red and green, green and gold, blue and silver, and so on. There’s a reason deep black cherry nails are always a go-to choice starting in autumn and trending well into the holiday season. “Red has been the color of fall, so continuing the red into winter only makes sense!