‘Clean girl’ minimalism has erased the rule on matchy-matchy varnish – now nail polish is all about milky nudes and glossy tones
When was the last time your tips’n’toes matched? For me it must have been when I was about 10 and working with whatever polish I had manage to pilfer from my mother. For all of recent beauty history, to be matchy-matchy with finger and toenail lacquer was to commit a fashion faux pas – the beauty equivalent of double denim.
Why choose, when I could do a bordeaux for one and navy blue for the other? Or racing green fingers and chocolate toes, perhaps. It would never have occurred to me to pull just one swatch from the salon colour wheel, or a single bottle from the chemist’s shelf. I’ve seldom seen a match on anyone else, either (there are several chat threads about whether a synchronised toe-and-hand scheme is even permissible in modern society).
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