The most stylish nail polish colours for 2022 – and they’re not what you’d expect
telegraph.co.ukjohnlewis.com), you can buy an Hermes nail polish in its signature ‘Orange Boite’ - about as grown-up as bright colours come.Meanwhile, my colleague Lisa Armstrong has been garnering compliments this week on her pastel lilac manicure, and I loved the pale yellow I spotted on the Paul & Joe catwalk last month – now that my dark green mani has given me a little alternative colour confidence, I might try it in the summer when I have a bit of a tan.A post shared by RE:NEW Beauty (@biosculpturegelgb)“It used to be that our best sellers were red, pink, and dark colours,” says Claire Aggarwal of Biosculpture, the gel polish company which has partnered with Anya Hindmarch on the nail bar. “Now, bright greens and pastel colours are selling well – there's no one colour that is not popular.”And evidently, Lisa is on to something with her lilac nails: “We're just about to launch a new violet shade because there’s such demand for it,” Aggarwal says.So why are we all becoming bolder in our nail polish choices, all of a sudden?
It could be a version of the Lipstick Index, the term coined by Leonard Lauder, son of Estée Lauder and the beauty giant’s chairman, to describe the spike in lipstick sales during the early 2000s recession.
Nail polish and manicures are similarly inexpensive mood-boosters during tough times, like, say, a global pandemic, or war in Ukraine.A post shared by Anya Hindmarch (@anyahindmarch)“People are more willing to spend money on nails, hair and makeup and things like that because we do want to feel good [at times like this],” Aggarwal says. “And if I'm getting my nails done more regularly, I don't mind having blue for my next manicure, because I know in two weeks time, I can go back to my normal pink.
Read more on telegraph.co.uk
