The white color is associated with purity, cleanliness, innocence, new beginnings, and peacefulness in most parts of the world. These meanings might vary, depending on culture and what the color is assigned to, whether it is about clothes, home design, or traditions, but today we’re here to talk about white nail polish.
While nail polish has been around for centuries, modern-day nail polish has been around for a little over a hundred years, and the first color released was a pale cream color. Today we have what seems like an endless array of nail polish colors to choose from, from shiny to matte, from plain to sparkly. With so many choices to choose from, you might think that choosing white is pretty straightforward. Not quite. There are many hues of white nail polish out there. White might be a personal preference in color for some, and some others choose white nail polish for special occasions, like weddings, or to make a statement.
The most popular trend regarding white nails these past years has been related to relationship status. Namely, this trend that originated on TikTok a few years back is that having a white manicure means that you’re single, or that you’re “single and ready to mingle”, ready to move on from a past relationship. This might be the case for younger generations, but older generations would surely agree that they associate white with a sense of simplicity, and inner peace.
Whatever your thoughts on white nails might be, today we’ll show you some of the best white manicures on nails of all shapes and sizes adorned with some sparkly accents, to bring some pizazz to the plain white nails. Let’s begin.
White Leaves
Starting with an elegant and simple design. A pale pinkish base with just a small amount of sparkle, accented with milk-white leaves on two fingers, decorated with delicate silver and gold ball rhinestones on the sides, make these oval nails a thing of subtle beauty.
Coffin Nails With Crosses
If you’re doing coffin nails, you might as well stick to the theme. White base with black tips all around the edges to give the sense of a coffin lid and rhinestone black and white crosses on the base of the nail. Very cool manicure for Halloween that’s not your classic and boring black pointed nails.
Rojal V French Tip On Nude
White nail polish is great for accenting your nails without making them overbearing. A nice V French tip on the glossy nude nail is pretty on its own, but when you add a holographic teardrop rhinestone accent on one nail, and some a rhinestone line along the base on another, it becomes a manicure fit for a royal.
Shiny White And Blood Red
White is pure and innocent, red is bold and passionate, and when you combine these two you get a balanced beauty. So when you get your next white square nails, add some blood-red rhinestones to shake things up.
Dripping Bling
French manicure has evolved and is no longer only a small white line on the tip of the nail over a skin-tone base. You have a lot of fun variations to choose from, like this bubbly dripping French mani with some rhinestones sprinkled at the tip of the nail. Simple, yet fun.
Trailing Gems
The point of accent nails is to add a subtle diversity to an ordinary manicure to make it pop. Doing more than one accent nail defeats that purpose, but if you make the gems trail from one nail to another, they blend in a way, allowing you to have more bling without creating a modest bejeweled manicure.
White and Silver
A white manicure can have other colors added to it without losing that pure clean look. You could say that silver is the metallic equivalent to white, so by adding some silver accents with rhinestone framing, you have a glammed-up almond nail manicure.
Geometric With Gold
A little diversity is always welcomed to keep things interesting. Do every fingernail in similar geometric patterns at the tups the French manicure and enrich it with some small golden-leaf lines and small golden rhinestones strategically placed on the pattern.
Pearl Squares
Sometimes the shade of the nail polish and the nail shape is enough to give you a stunning mani, but it never hurts to highlight it. The sharpness of these medium square nails is softened by the white nail polish with pearly shine, framed with stark white lines at the tips and a single rainbow rhinestone on the edge of each nail.
Oozing Gold
These milk-white ballerina nails are adorned with comic-style lips spewing gold accompanied by a clear acrylic accent nail with gold glitter and rhinestones raining trickling down it. It’s always fun to add some sticker designs to your nails just to shake things up a bit every now and then.
Ice Almond
Here’s another accent nail that catches the eye in both its design and shape. While the white-colored nails are semi-matte with a tinge of baby blue ombre in ballerina shapes, the accented ring finger nail is covered with diamond rhinestones and on an almond-shaped nail. This is a great choice when you want to bring attention to the ring on your finger.
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Diamonds and Crystals
If you want an idea for an outstanding bridal manicure without being too flashy, this one is a good choice. Cream and white ombre coffin nails adorned with clear crystals and silver rhinestones on the ring finger, and a line of rhinestones on the base of the middle finger to crown a dazzling wedding mani.
Colorful Gold Framed Gems
As mentioned before, the point of having white nails is to give that clean and pure feeling, so different colors are out of the picture. Yet, you can add that colorful spark to the mani by adding a large gold-framed gem in different colors on each finger. A true white treasure trove.
Diamond Encrusted Stilleto Nails
Stiletto nails are fierce, yet beautifully, giving you both a sense of power and femininity. The downside is that they are quite gentle and prone to breakage, but these glittery white stilettos sure look tough as diamonds. The shape adds to the illusion of having diamonds on your fingertips and the big diamond accessories drive that point home even more.
Pretty Butterflies
You can do amazing things with nail design. These gentle square round nails with white glitter on two nails with butterfly stamps on the two fingers in between the frames the design gloriously, and the rhinestones along the base of the nail tops are the perfect tie-in.
Golden Spikes
When you feel golden, show it off. Gold and white work very well together, so you can flaunt your gold status with an accent gold studded nail while showing some humbleness in the white color surrounding it.
White Accent Nail
White nails can be added as accents on softer shades of colors and blinged up with delicate golden rhinestones. It looks amazing on glossy beige nails and you can even add clear acrylic on the index with a cute flower, just to soften the design.
Shining Love
This is another perfect example of how to expand your accent nails without feeling overbearing. Two lines on rhinestone on each finger that when connected form a heart. also, a great idea for a wedding manicure.
Short, But Sweet
Short nails are usually overlooked and don’t get the attention they deserve, which is just fine for those of us who love short nails. White color on short nails will make them more noticeable, and for that extra spark, add a single line of rhinestones going down the middle. You can’t deny that these white oval nails are the sweetest thing ever.
Red Rose In Winter
We finish off with one more stark contrast of red and white design. An accent rose design on a clear acrylic backdrop, cradled with rhinestones, pops out among the stark white color around it, showing off beauty among the clean background.
Whether you choose a white manicure because of the current trend, because of a special occasion, or simply because you like how it looks next to your skin tone, always be willing to try to jazz up your manicure with some glittery and sparkly additions. How would you do your “white nails with diamonds” design? Share your thoughts and ideas in the comments below.
