There’s something wonderful about berry nails. They can be dark and moody, bright, and playful, or even sculpted like actual fruit. Moreover, the juicy colors feel fresh any time of year. Check out these berry nails ideas to make your next manicure extra delicious!
Berry Nails Ideas
Berry Jam Chrome Nails
Just as sugar glazes sweets, chrome powder gives polish a sweet rainbow shine. Make your berry nails idea even more delicious with a coat of chrome.
If you’re into real jam for the next time you make toast, try this recipe. It’s ready in just half an hour:
- 3 cups of fruit like blackberries, raspberries, or blueberries (cut large berries in chunks if needed)
- 1 cup of white table sugar
- 1 tablespoon of freshly squeezed lemon juice
First, place three or four metal spoons in the freezer to chill.
Then use a saucepan to combine the sugar, fruit, and lemon juice—no preheating needed. Stir the ingredients over medium-high heat and bring them to a boil. Lower the heat to medium and continue with a soft boil for twenty minutes, stirring often, until the jam thickens.
Pull a cooled spoon from the freezer to test the jam’s thickness. Use the stirring spoon to drop a dab of jam on the back and see if it sets. If it's still too thin, keep cooking and try again in 5 minutes.
Once it sets, let the jam cool down to spread on your toast and enjoy!
Strawberry Milk Nails
Take advantage of the current aura nails trend for your favorite berry polish colors. Gradients are a stylish and simple way to liven up a manicure. You won’t need an airbrush setup if you have makeup sponges and patience. Pro tip: instead of holding the sponge bits with your fingers, try tweezers for less mess and better control.
Strawberries Aren’t Berries and Neither Are Cherries
We feel obligated to be honest with you. It’s downright tricky to lead you on saying that strawberries, blackberries, and raspberries are berries. That’s only partly true.
If you’re cooking with blackberries, raspberries, or strawberries, you’re actually working with “aggregate fruits”. Botanically speaking, actual berries come from a single flower and have only one ovary even though they may have many seeds. That means that the berry family includes blueberries, cranberries, cucumbers, watermelon, bananas, tomatoes, lemons, and oranges. You can even toss in pears, apples, pumpkins, zucchini, and olives. However, peaches, plums, cherries, and apricots are stone fruits, not berries. But let’s keep this just between us because, honestly, cherries are a beautiful berry color!
Berry Textured
Remember those gummy candies that have the little sugary beads on the outside? We wonder if that’s what inspired the nail artist here. This set looks good enough to eat with this beautiful range of textures. We see matte, glossy, and bumpy in a gorgeous berry wine color. The accent nails are even multi-colored as if they were a blend of raspberries and blackberries.
Berry Marbled
Speaking of blending colors, have you tried the Lavis Blooming Gel? It’s ideal for marbled nails like these. Once you apply and cure the base coat and color, brush on the blooming gel and leave it wet. Place a drop of polish and watch as the pigment begins to disperse. Guide it with a brush, then cure it when you’re pleased with how it looks. Alternatively, swirl multiple colors together in the same layer, then cure. It works like magic!
LAVIS Blooming Gel
Fizzy Berry
Enrich your berry nails with fizzy shimmer from cat eye polish. The glitter catches the light every time you move your fingers. It makes an ordinary manicure into one that gets second glances from everyone. Imagine how beautiful this berry nail idea would be to wear during the winter holidays. Now, someone just needs to invent rosé champagne!
LAVIS Cat Eye CE11- 10 - Gel Polish 0.5 oz - Enchanted Spell Collection
Banana Nails
Bananas are berries even if they aren’t red. They fully deserve their nail art moment especially when it’s a sculpted masterpiece like this. These sculpted, peeling bananas are weird, wonderful, and definitely unforgettable. It makes us think about what happens when fruit salad meets fashion week.
Could you create a similar look with acrylic? Or would you reach for hard gel or poly gel to have more time to perfect the design?
Watermelon Nails
Go ahead, blow people’s minds when you tell them that watermelons are berries. They are doubtlessly some of the biggest berries on the planet! (Then, tell the doubters that pumpkins are, too!)
Therefore, it’s perfectly legitimate to create watermelon nails for a berry nails manicure. Here we’ve got spring green French tips capping blushing aura nails. There may not be a single seed in sight, but the color scheme is undeniably inspired by watermelons.
DND Gel Nail Polish - 785 Voodoo
Cool as a Cucumber Nails
While you have your green polish handy, remember that cucumbers are also berries. Here the artist included the seeds on the tips. A non-discerning viewer might mistake these for shell nails, but the dark green “rind” line makes it clear that these are fruit nails after all.
More Berry Nails Ideas for Every Time of Year
Berry nails are versatile because you can dress them up, dial them down, and make them feel right for any time of year or occasion. You can literally find a berry polish color that flatters every skin tone (especially now that you know that so many different fruits are berries).
For instance, sheer jelly polish and soft colors suit the springtime with cute fruit nails and flowers. In summer, you can have fun with bright berry shades and bold designs. Come fall, go moodier with dark berry nails, or keep it lively with foliage colors (because pumpkins are berries). Winter is when cranberries shine, especially with metallics for festive parties. The good news is that in today’s nail art world, you have plenty of room to innovate!
Conclusion
Now you have the excuse you needed to expand your polish color collection. Berry nails come in nearly every color of the rainbow, from pink to purple, green, yellow, orange, and blue. There are so many berry nail ideas to explore. Come see what we have in store for you!
Sources:
https://www.britannica.com/science/berry-plant-reproductive-body
https://www.eatingwell.com/article/2058928/i-just-found-out-strawberries-arent-berries-but-cucumbers-are-and-my-mind-is-blown/