Celebrities Are Getting Started On Fall’s Biggest Nail Trends Right Now

Though summer 2024 has simultaneously felt two seconds and 2,000 years long, its end is finally in sight. Considering the days of early-release Fridays, beach trips, and white espadrilles are officially over, you’d think celebrities — and everyone else, for that matter — would be desperate to wring out the final few drops of bright, colorful, ultra-cheerful trends. But it’s looking like Hollywood’s most stylish stars are thinking ahead, and their beauty looks are right there with them. Already, summery manicures and styles are being traded in by celebrities for fall nail colors. A-listers seem especially excited to skip straight to pumpkin spice season, and who could blame them?

Really, nail color choice is probably the easiest way to slowly start transitioning your looks to a more autumnal energy. Warmer beiges, grays, greens, reds, and shades of black are an ideal place to jump in. When in doubt, just take a summer color and swap it for its fall alternative: popsicle orange for burnt orange, slime green for a pale jade, and pool blue for a denim. Or, if you’re not quite there yet, just continue enjoying the final bit of warm weather while it’s still hanging around — soon enough, after just a few sub-zero days, everyone will be wishing for August again.

Get inspired early with these celebrity-approved fall nail moments.

Rihanna’s Rich Plum Nail Color

Purple might prove to be the sleeper hit color of fall 2024 — especially if it already has a Rihanna co-sign. Her take on the color is decidedly moodier, more of a rich, plum or boysenberry that features a deep undertone mix of both reds and blues. Topped with tons of gloss, it’s understated yet still statement-making.

Kourtney Kardashian’s Emerald Green Nails

Rejoice — the green color trend isn’t going anywhere for fall. But while the warmer months might have been all about electric shades inspired by Brat Summer, the autumnal counterparts embrace a darker, witchier vibe. Kardashian’s emerald-colored nails capture that specific energy perfectly.

Adele’s Cozy Velvet Nails

Nude nails are en vogue no matter the season, but there are a few moves that can make them even cooler. In Adele’s case, she opted for a sort of optical illusion using magnets to make her creamy beige-pink manicure look like it’s made of velvet. Also called a cat-eye manicure, it’s an innovative way to wear everyone’s favorite fall/winter fabric.

Cardi B’s Textured Chrome Nails

Speaking of texture — what good is a cool fall outfit without the right accessories? Cardi B decided to translate her favorite jewelry look — silvery Chrome Hearts-everything — into her manicure with this textured set full of hand-carved intricacies.

Vanessa Hudgen’s Monogram Manicure

Hudgens famously loves Halloween, and her fall manicures are always accordingly impressive. She often goes for a more elaborate look, but even her version of minimalism is still so bold and cool. Here, she took a simple French manicure and dressed it up with Gothic font lettering. Borrow the idea and use your nails to spell out a name, a monogram, or a favorite word or phrase.

Megan Fox’s Tattoo Nail Art

Nail art meets body art with this edgy, very on-brand manicure from Fox. Blending beautifully with the star’s elaborate finger tattoos, there are snakes, butterflies, sparkles, and more carefully painted over long, coffin-shaped extensions. Bonus points for the mani’s base color, a fall-friendly cherry.

Dua Lipa’s Dark Aura Nails

Lipa’s a master at swapping out her tropical-toned nail art for cold-weather alternatives, and her aura nails are a great example. She traded in her poolside-ready polish for deep, glacier-blue more suited for peaking out from a leather jacket sleeve than wrapping around a frosé.

Jennifer Lopez’s Versatile Greige Nails

Despite her summer birthday, Lopez’s looks always come alive in the autumn — especially her ever-changing manicures. While her chocolate-brown crystal pedicure was a close contender, nothing beats the versatility of this muted greige, topped with tons gloss.

Hailey Bieber’s Hot Cocoa Nail Color

Though a vocal nail art aficionado, some of Bieber’s best-ever manicures are monochrome. Cocoa-colored manicures exploded in 2022 and 2023, and the trend is expected to rage on through this fall and winter, too. Notably, Bieber went for a warmer, milk chocolate color rather than a dark, cool-toned brown.

Megan Thee Stallion’s Chocolate Split Tips

Now this manicure essentially sums up Meg’s entire aesthetic — she’ll join in on a trend, though not without adding her own distinct twist. She, too, is on board with the brown nail trend, but layered it against a bright white diagonal French tips for extra oomph.

Kendall Jenner’s Traditional Oxblood

It doesn’t get much more classically autumnal than an oxblood manicure. It’s the fall equivalent to those bright, nearly neon cherry-reds beloved by Jenner in the summertime.

Selena Gomez’s Martini-Ready Olive Nails

Other cocktails might have edged out the martini as the it-drink du jour, but we’ll always have olive manicures — Gomez will, too. The yellow-brown tint in the nail polish shade is the real story here, a warm-and-cozy color that immediate evokes the best parts of the season.

Kerry Washington’s Antique Gold Tips

Bronze and gold are two of fall’s most opulent color choices, perfect for big events and special occasions. Washington brilliantly decided to concentrate all the color at the tips, where the gilded shade looks like it’s dripping down the nail beds — the ideal low-key nail art.

Lana Condor’s Moody Gradient Nails

The only thing better than one trending fall color is combining two of them. Condor has some of the best manicures in the whole game, but she’s really outdone herself. The combination of dark denim blue with aubergine is great already, but blending them together into a faded gradient effect makes it feel all the more bespoke.