Gardener’s nails: how to repeat the “dirty manicure” that has become a trend

Today you will not surprise anyone with the usual neat coating of nails. Manicure studios are ready to offer you the most popular types of nail design from social networks. 

But be careful: one of the new trends does not look equally advantageous on all hands!

We have no doubt that every time you come for a manicure, you are faced with a difficult choice: get off with a quick one-color coating or allocate another half an hour and a couple of hundred rubles for the master to conjure over your nails and make an interesting drawing. And often the second option wins: after all, the usual monochrome cannot but get bored.

Even some 10 years ago, manicurists could only offer you simple lines, butterflies, or flowers on the nails. But with the advent of social networks, nail design appeared in all its glory and turned into a real work of art. However, the classics have not been forgotten either. Who would have known that in our time the main trend would again be French manicure, which for a long time was considered almost bad manners and was said goodbye exclusively to brides? Of course, the time has changed the French manicure. Now the white edging of the nail is far from a prerequisite. All the colors of the rainbow are used. Or rather, an even more extensive palette of shades in the manicure salon.

Everything would be fine, but sometimes the masters (or the persistent clients themselves?) clearly miss the choice of color for this type of manicure. Such examples instantly become the subject of discussion among Internet users and even grow to the level of anti-trends.

This is the fate that the work of an ordinary manicurist Catherine from the UK deserved. Back in 2020, the girl published a French manicure with dark green edging on her blog. He became a “hit” of discussions by chance and a little later won the title of “Gardener’s Nails”.

“As if not after a manicure session, but after a couple of hours of digging in the garden.”
“Looks like dirt under fingernails. Dislike!”
“The effect turned out to be very sloppy,” they write on the Web.

Indeed, the shade of the edging is rather gloomy and does not match the skin tone of the hands. But to call “gardener’s nails” a single mistake of only one master from the UK would be wrong. We found similar works in RuNet. There is a demand for such a manicure, and quite impressive. See what you should and shouldn’t do!

Black is a timeless classic. But a black jacket is a dangerous choice, which without the right texture looks sloppy and dirty. Especially when the rest of the nail remains matte and does not support this gloomy edging at all. With gloss, things get better. And, most importantly, cleaner. But to be honest, it’s still far from the wow effect.

 dark blue tip and a matte bed are also controversial option, which is suitable only for “white hands” and will be lost on tanned skin. It’s good that summer is already far away, and you don’t have to worry about this!

But gloss also does not always effectively complement the picture. It’s about the intensity of the shade. Any dark color on the tip of the nail looks strange and requires additional accents.

adding a couple of lines to the base of the nail and even the dark green “garden” color becomes noble. And if the edging itself is made not round, but more curly, the manicure looks even more interesting, and of any shade.

Another winning variation of the color French manicure is neon. Such shades do not initially look natural, which means they will not raise doubts about what is wrong with your nails. And by the way, they can be combined with a “bare” nail or a matte finish. Here, on the contrary, you need to be careful with the main color of the nail plate: if it is too bright in relation to the skin tone and the neon color itself, the hands will look overloaded.

If you are still in love with both green and French manicures, the effect of “dirty gardener’s nails” can be avoided in another way. It will require a little more attention from you, but the result is definitely worth it. Ask the master to paint the tips of your nails in different shades of green: from light with a milky undertone to the most saturated of the palette, in the color of spring foliage. Personally, we have already saved this example for ourselves to show to our master on the next manicure! And you?

In this article, we have collected the best wedding manicure ideas. And here we looked at the fashionable nail design of Russian stars, which are worth repeating. Well, in this material you will find types of manicures that are irrevocably out of fashion.