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Haute Nails

Posted Apr 10th 2008 1:08PM by Esther Dixon
Filed under: Lifestyle, Style Spotter

As spring has sprung it's time for us ladies to regroup and re-groom. Legs must be waxed, underarm hair must be removed (oh for sure!) and nails have got to be done!

Pedis and manis are weekly rituals for most metropolitan ladies and a few metro-sexual men who feel naked without a fresh coat of nail polish glistening in the spring sun. So Style Spotter has spotted a few fab nail trends for 2008.

For more drama than MTV's, The Hills add 3 demensional appliques on nails.

Sakura Nail & Spa in New York City utilizes a Japanese system called Calgel, which is a UV Gel System used to strength nails. Instead of acrylic nails, which are so 90s, Calgel allows nails to stay healthy, while adding remarkable, quirky designs to nails.

Also spring nail trends are all about color. Pick colors that pop, colors that would belong on a cartoon character or colors that makes any earth tone outfit stand out!

Check out a few of our favorite celebs rocking this trend.

Rhianna's sky blue nails gave color to her black ensemble.

Dawn popped with neon green nails.

Beyonce's bright pink nails gave an extra oomph to her muted outfit.

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1. Cute

Deidre at 12:37AM on Apr 11th 2008

2. These are better: http://johndavidhead.blogspot.com/

Starfish711 at 2:53PM on Apr 13th 2008

3. i like my acrylics, thanks. and alot of nail techs are still torn between the two techniques - gel vs acrylics. i wouldn't run to gel before going over it with your nail tech first. depending up on how you treat your nails it may or may not work out for you. i do like nail tips with sparkles or color or art that POPS and a plain nail bed. but i live and work in a conservative environment that doesn't really allow for crazy nail art. anything for us type of girls?

Devynn at 11:39PM on Apr 13th 2008

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