Can you believe it's already August? Summer has been flying by at breakneck speed—and yet! It's not going fast enough, as far as I'm concerned. I'm in one of the many areas of the country that's been stuck in the 90s (the temperature, not the decade) for weeks on end, and I am over it. I was over it before it started, to be honest, and I am beyond ready for it to be fall. So ready, in fact, that I might take a cue from Selena Gomez and attempt to summon the new season with some traditionally autumn-esque nail polish.
Gomez posted a nailfie (are we still saying “nailfie”?) on Instagram on Thursday afternoon, and it's conjuring up all of the cooler-weather feels. Her left hand rests on a cream-colored, perhaps cashmere pair of sweater pants, giving us a perfect contrast to show off her pumpkin-spicy manicure.
The shape, somewhere between ballerina and oval, is perfect for her long but not unmanageably long nails—but wait. Let's get back to this color for a sec. Take a look at the fine print on Gomez's Instagram story.
“Took @tombachik 40 min to make this color,” she wrote.
That means, even though nail artist Tom Bachik has what I imagine is an endless supply of pre-bottled nail polish colors, he was willing and able to customize the exact color Gomez was feeling in the moment. Celebrities are not just like us, my friends.
As of writing this, he hasn't revealed what he used to make such a perfect autumnal hue—his own post on Instagram says, “A custom brick red for @selenagomez” and nothing more—but I'm not going to wait for the details to break out the similar ready-to-wear shades in my collection in hopes of manifesting some more October-like temps.
run her fingers through her now well-marketed hair.
More mani moments:
- Megan Fox's French Manicure Was Traditional Until...
- Jennifer Lopez Went Full Bridgerton for Her Birthday—Down to Her Dainty Nail Art
- Hailey Bieber's Farmers Market Nails Have Itty Bitty Fruits and Veggies All Over Them
Now watch Amy Poehler and Maya Hawke react to internet trends:
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