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What nail polish color do you gravitate towards?
What nail polish color do you gravitate towards? Share!
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Purples!! A significant proportion of my polishes are in that range…
Yes! I want every shade of purple in nail polish form. =]
I second this haha!
colours with sparkle/glitter!
Immediately, I want to say anything NOT red, but I guess the truth would be blue. Now I want to sort them to figure it out.
All. If I like it, I buy it, I wear it. 🙂
Pink and sparkly!
Nudes, vamps and greens
Reds! From cremes to glitter, I love them all 🙂
Anything holo.. i guess thats not a color but thats exactly what im always gravitating towards :p Or.. purples. A purple Holo would be my most used nailpolish if i had one :p
You should get Color Club’s Wild At Heart. It’s a super pretty purple holo.
Milani also has a purple holo called Hi-Res 🙂
Blues and turquoises and cool greens are my favourites!
reds.
Grey! I know it’s weird, but I loveee them.
I don’t gravitate towards certain colors so much as really unique colors and finishes. But I guess if I had to choose I would say green.
Purples make up most of my collection. Overall I like saturated brights, like jewel tones but my face new color is grey 🙂
Pink. I like pale pink on my fingernails and neon pink for my toenails.
Im with you there! OPI’s second honeymoon is a beauiful pale pink for finger nails
Pastels and nudes!
Pinks!
Coral reds or sheer pinks.
Anything. O_O I have an enormous nail polish collection.
Blue/turquoise are by far and wide my favorites in every makeup category, haha.
Taupes! And dark colors with shimmer!
Glitter. Purples, teals, greens. Super bright/shiny colours, but I don’t love neons that much.
black!!! 🙂
Petroleum blue! <3 <3 <3 (and without glitters!)
dark jewel tones, “unusual” colors like creme greens, & i’ve been trying to look for the “perfect red” for my fingernails!
Sparkly RED!!
Purples and blues!
Lately it’s reds! But I kinda love them all 🙂
purples and greens are my favorites
Pastels !!! <3
pinks and reds are my most reached to, also oranges 🙂
reds and darks 😀
Colors like For Audrey and Mint Candy Apple. So, I guess those gorgeous minty greens.
Cremes! Also I have a weakness for whatever is the rage at the moment… I really want to buy yellows right now for instance…
Taupes, purples and also anything with a nice gold shimmer.
Blue shades or anything black with a hint of something (like Chanel Vendetta)
Ah! Chanel vendetta is my absolute favorite nail polish, that darkeggplant color… And when it catches the sunlight, it’s gorgeous! :3
I love the versatility of the Chanel shades. Paradoxal is wonderful for that! Greys, taupes and browns don’t work on my skin (they immediately look drab and dull) but this one is just perfect for me, and the shimmers in the sunlight are so unusual,mmmmh
Blues, Golds, Silvers, and anything Glittery!
Corals and deep reds for my toes. When I paint my fingernails, it’s usually in a sheer or pastel shade. I prefer a more bare look for my fingers.
Beige, khaki, grey and all the shades in between. You can never have too many shades of grey…!
reds, vamps and nudes! 🙂
at the moment, lilacs! or any variation of pale purple.
Blues.. & not just w. polishes, in my clothes & everything else.! I usually just try to stay away from pink, thanks to my lil’ sis.. she’s a little Barbie & super pink obsessed.! Ugh.. I don’t own a single pink np.. is that wrong.? ;P ok, I rambled.. lol sorry
blacks and silvers… better if they are holos
Purples, lilacs en mauves.
Nudes, beiges and an occasional red
Reds
any of the muted colors…. though Greys, Teals, Greens, and Purples are my favorite and make up most of my collection. Which just got boosted thanks to Zoya’s Earth day! 🙂
mints!!!
Lately, my go to combo are nudes on my toes and a french manicure.
Holographic!
Anything bold, really. I love really bright neon colors and really dark, saturated colors. And anything with glitter, really.
I love reds and corals !
I thought it would be purple, but it turns out I have the most blues! I can’t resist an awesome blue.
I almost never wear nail polish, but when I do it’s usually black or vampy dark red. I’m thinking of getting something fun for spring, but I dislike the yellows that seem to be so trendy, and most pastels just don’t suit my hands for some reason!
Baby pinks – I love the way they look on my skin!
Also, neon pinks give me the look of a little tan :).
Reds!! Have dozens of red polishes….
Corals, peach, lilac and pink 😀 Like spring colors!
YEPPPPP except the lilac. I wanna wear like neon pink even in winter!
Mostly it’s reds – pinky reds or more brown toned reds in autumn. Those are my standbys but I’m up for just about anything, barring brown/grey – especially on my toes!
Purples, corals and mints all the way! 🙂
Definitely nudes and pinks. My two favorites are OPI’s Samoan Sand, which matches my skin tone almost exactly, and Pistol Packin’ Pink, which is a really pretty light pink/peachy color. I like to wear bright colors in my clothes and sometimes I feel like I’m clashing if I have say, bright red nails and a purple shirt on.
pastels and unusual colors in cream finish on fingernails, classic reds on toenails.
Greens, vamps, and glass-fleck/flaky finshes!
Black
Blues and Monty colors. I don’t know why exactly. But I’ve also been gravitating towards non-traditional pink colors.
Creme blue-reds and berry
Blues, specific cobalt blues with sparkles.
in general i go for nudes on my fingers and anything on my toes. but even within those categories, i go through phases. i was obsessed with the taupy purples that were all the rage a couple of years ago. currently im loving pink on mr fingers and tourquoise on my toes. havent touched black nor metallics yet.
reds and no glitter or shimmer
Greens,and tealish kind of blues.
Anything Glitters !!! and Pink !!! <3
Depends on the season: corals, orange and copper for summer; rust, amber and chocolate for fall.
Blues and greens, it’s so annoying though because I like to have a different colour on my nails each week! So I have to make an extra effort to look for a different colour without accepting the first blue/green I pick up!
Silvers and Greens <3
Blue. I definitely do that in clothing too!
not necessarily a colour, but I love cream finishes!!! sparkly and glittery colours just seem tacky to me… I don’t know, I’m weird, but I guess I like blues and weird purples like Houston We Have a Purple (OPI)
Greys – all shades and finishes
All colours! But for some reason i have more pinks than any other colour in my collection!
Blue
Pinks, glitter, holo, and violets!!
Hot pinks! I have sooooooo many
Duochromes!
Greens!
Pastals!
Reds, blues, purples and greens, in that order.
Taupes!
Coral
periwinkle blues <3
all kinds of blue, from light to teal and navy, i love blue!
I gravitate towards The Strange Colours. Examples include RBL No More War, MAC In the Buff and China Glaze Below Deck.
blues and pinks. Usually I go for colors that stand out instead of pastels or muted colors. Especially here in the Summer.
In the Fall/Winter time, I still go for the blues and pinks, but also greens and purples and warmer and darker colors.
Hot pinks! I wear a classic slightly shimmery hot pink on my nails and a deeper, more shimmery hot pink on my toenails. I’ve experimented with other color but always come back to bright pinks.
my fingernails are for to most part are clear because of my job. But for my toes I almost always have a coral, orange or pink, but an orangy pink lol
during this spring i gravitate towards pastels…. blues yellows and pinks or nudes
I never really thought that I tended to choose one color but almost all my polishes are bright pinks and purples.
lately it’s been bright greens with glitter.
True Reds – shimmer, glitter & satin finishes (in the fall & winter mostly, but year ’round too).
Brights & Neons (any color).
Muted smoky neutrals (in the fall & winter mostly, but year ’round too).
And GREENS OF ALL HUES, FINISHES
Couldn’t pick just one, as I switch my nail polish a LOT. And these are what I gravitate towards.
classic creme red on toes and pretty nudes on fingers. Vampy burgundies too!
glitters and holos!
pinks and reds!
nudes… and really darks! 🙂
Cool Purples/Lavenders/Lilacs atm, Pamplona Purple 🙂
Coral !
pinks or purples usually, but for the last month i’ve been purchasing more blues.
Pinks and Corals! I have a ton of Pinks and Corals! Right now I am wearing Essie Van D’Go which is such a pretty pink peach color 🙂
Purples!
Those dusky blue/grays. Apparently I have a mission in life to collect them all.
Reds, Pinks and Purples:)
i loveee light pinks and pastel pinks 🙂
gray and taupe
Greens!
I gravitate mostly to nudes, beiges, peaches, light pinks,and for those shades i like sheers. & also pastel/muted colors such as sage green, mint green, gray, yellow toned pink, and white. I like subtle nail colors on fingers and toes.
On my toes I always look for a nice pink or coral/almost red color.
For my fingernails, blues (any shade, really) and purples (medium-dark).
Blues, especially baby and sky blues!
All nuances of purple! Plum, black-plum, violet, lavender, mauve etc. But I’m especially drawn to the really dark ones like Lincoln Park After Midnight.
Ditto on if I like it, I want to buy it. But over all, usually will reach for fuchsias, the ‘right’ reds for me, peachy corals of late, purples.[, & in winter I go for the blue/blacks or deep browns to deep black with cherry hints in them. I like cream,sparkles, duochrome, holos (on sparkles the ones with sparkle in the formula so I don’t have the top crunchy thing. Look in my boxes of polishes and you will find a zillion reds in all shades among the older ones – now more fuchisias and purples with some out of the box shades (for me) like a teal, bright blue. I won’t go over-board buying color ranges that are out of my normal box as I know I will tire of them and give them away.
Greens, greys and nudes in creme finishes.
Blues!
Shiny neon creams. The brightest, loudest, most unusual shades are my absolute favorites. That being said, I tend to gravitate away from glitter and sparkles… it’s easy to find pretty sparkly shades, a lot tougher to find great, unusual brights.
Definitely blues. They are my weakness.
Bright, creamy blues, and shimmery pinky purples!
Greens!
Fuschia, hot pink, magenta…you get the picture!
Basically all nudes and neutrals!
I own so many bright colors but never seem to wear them! Always grabbing the nudes like OPI dulce de leche or OPI tickle my france-y
I also love bright corals like OPI Cajun Shrimp and OPI Hot & Spicy
Anything with a touch of purple…. lavender pink, pinkish purple, purplish pink, plummish red…
greens.
I am a “classic” girl so I used to wear pinks, corals dark reds etc.
But lately I have been tempted by the new offerings (see Chanel & Diors) and I have bought greys, khaki, safari greens, mushroom shades (see Chanel Particuliere). Then yesterday I bought a bunch of fluo shades for summer (see the last launched Dior has made in the Aloha collection!!)
generally dark vampy colors, or really unique colors right now im wearing RBL jane
Pastels, Nudes and Rosé Golds!
orange!
Navy blues, duochromes, purples.
Red, always some variation of red.
Red! I love how it looks on my skintone 🙂
Purple, followed by Teal, and Raspberry.