Nails are the easiest way to express yourself and keep up with the trends – when you don’t have the time or money to buy into trends like leopard print that can be done with your nails for no cost.  Apart from nudes like Estée Lauder‘s So Vain*, this summer I’ll be sporting some of my favourite trends from blue, the hottest colour this season to fun and vibrant corals.

The Pastels

Bourjois So Laque Nail Enamel in Amande Dèfilè

Essie Nail Lacquer in Nice is Nice*

Mavala Nail Color Cream in Via Veneto*

The Blues

Mavala Nail Color Cream in Blue Curaçao*

Barry M Gelly Hi-Shine Nail Paint in Blueberry

Bourjois So Lacque Nail Enamel in Bleu Fabulex

Sally Hansen Complete Salon Manicure in Calypso Blue*

The Corals

Bourjois Nail Enamel in Tangerine Fatal

Ciate Paint Pot in Play Date*

Revlon Nail Enamel in One Perfect Coral

Mavala Nail Color Cream in Night Club*

Get your notepads out ladies, it’s time to take note of a phrase you’re going to be hearing often – foundation for nails. It seems that the usual corals, emeralds and fruit hued lacquers we reach for during sunnier weather will have to take a backseat this season and let sophisticated nudes take all the glory.

Estée Lauder‘s main man and creative makeup director Tom Pecheux says this look is all about enhancing nails rather than making a big statement with colour. A nail polish that’s close in colour to your skin tone elongates and extends the fingers so it’s all about complementing what you already have. And as nude is never just one colour, it’s great to see that Estée Lauder has creamy cocoas, a milky beige and soft pink hues in their new Pure Colour Nail Lacquer French Nudes Collection*. The collection includes five gorgeous shades; Ballerina, Nudité, So Vain which I’m wearing pretty much daily, Diabolique and Bittersweet.

Safe enough to wear to the office yet makes a big impact, nude nails I think will be one of the definitive nail trends that we’ll look back on and not be embarrassed about in the slightest. Not to mention they’re season and chip proof I might add (four days strong!) – you can wear them all year long. Estée Lauder have really hit the nail on the head with this one – pun intended