If there has been one major manicure trend of the last year-plus, it’s the cat-eye nail. The prismatic, shape-shifting manicure style, which is created with the help of a special magnet, is easily customizable and can be soft and subtle or bright and vivid. Demi Lovato’s latest set is the perfect example of how versatile the cat-eye manicure can be—and how it can make you look like you’re wearing luxurious velvet on your nails.
Lovato turned to her go-to manicurist, Natalie Minerva, for a pretty, romantic manicure that is absolutely going straight to the top of my spring nail inspo board. To start, Minerva shaped the musician’s nails into short, rounded almonds and applied a nude-mauve base color, then magnetized the mani to create that signature frosted aesthetic now synonymous with cat-eye nails. The base color is light and neutral, so it would easily work for any nail-related occasion, but the shimmer effect adds a hint of dreamy, velvety texture to each nail, as though they’d been dipped in the fabric itself.
The “subtle but elevated” manicure is a hallmark for Minerva and Lovato, who have crafted some of our fave manis of late. (Do the words “ghost jelly nails” or “dolphin skin nails” mean anything to you? They should!) At the Grammys, Minerva applied the classic neutral OPI Bare My Soul to Lovato’s nails but outlined each one with thin strokes of Black Onyx for just the right amount of edginess, and did the same with rhinestones for a glitzy, glam mani during the holidays.
The best part of Lovato’s mauve liquid velvet manicure isn’t the color or the texture, as delightful as they are; it’s that the singer and Minerva are “rockin the same vibes” with matching friendship manicures! Say it with us: Aww! Are friendship cat-eye manicures the new friendship bracelets? We’re obviously on board.
