Nail Trends
How to make a manicure last ten days
The polish is rarely the problem. Six changes to the ninety seconds before it goes on.
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Plum Noir
Burgundy with a swirl of velvet brown — the deepest shade in this year’s palette, and the one that carries a hand from October to February.
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Burgundy with a swirl of velvet brown — the deepest shade in this year’s palette, and the one that carries a hand from October to February.
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How to make a manicure last ten days
The polish is rarely the problem. Six changes to the ninety seconds before it goes on.
The four nail colours defining this season
Warm oxblood, grey-lilac, butter yellow — and the sheer pink that still outsells all of them.
Retinol, explained without the panic
What the ingredient actually does, how long it takes, and why most people quit in week three.
Inside the workshop of a Parisian perfumer
Forty years, two rooms and a filing cabinet of formulas nobody else can read.
A ten-minute evening routine that people actually keep
Built around the three steps that survive a bad week.
The quiet return of the buffed nail
Colour forecasting is mostly listening. The shades that arrive in salons in spring were decided in a room eighteen months earlier, and
What salon owners are worried about this year
Rent, retention and the cost of a good technician.
Cuticle oil is doing more than you think
There is a particular kind of disappointment in a manicure that chips on day two. It is rarely the polish. More often
Sleep, stress and the skin barrier
The research is thinner than the marketing suggests, but it is not nothing.
A note on shorter nails
No feature image and no headings — the two fallbacks worth checking.
