Tortoiseshell Nails Are About to Be Everywhere This Fall 2025

Starbucks has already given pumpkin spice slats on the menu, which can only mean one thing: fall is here. Although you can picked up your bikini in favor of big wickers, do not yet make your sunglasses for the season. Your favorite summer accessory can live to the fall – at least on your nails – with the new trendiest nails trend.

The torture nails appear on the left and right on Instagram. While summer has brought light and minimalist Manis such as soap nails, glass nails and lavender milk nails, fall is coming to be nuances of bad mood and neutral. Of course, the mute colors are not as catchy as neon, but the textured motif on this manicure is what distinguishes it. The recall of the turtle sunglasses gives it a little retro sensation, but the neutral palette and the high shine give it a modern rotation.

In front, we asked Nail Pros to share everything you need to know about the turtle nails, as well as photos of inspiration to bring to your next living room meeting.

What are the tortoi nails?

As its name suggests, the turtle nails have the same brown and marble -yellow colors found in fashionable material, which is commonly used for sunglasses and jewelry. “What is great in this look is that it is quite easy to try at home, because there is room for error and it will always look good,” explains Rita Pinto, founder of The Cong Salon Vanity Projects in New York and Miami. She adds that the key to this look is to ensure that the varnish remains transparent to obtain a more realistic texture. “In the living room, we would freeze it to encapsulate the colored layers to capture the translucidity of the turtle-form-form and finish with a shiny finish layer.”

How to get turtle nails

Sigourney Nunez, Director of North American education at OPI and nail artist, says: “It can be easily confused for different animal printing” if you keep the shades that are too opaque. In order to obtain the transparent look, NUNEZ recommends create a personalized shade by trying your basic coat with a yellow varnish (try OPI Sun, SEA and Sand in my pants) and applying two layers to prepared nails. Then create another shade by mixing your finish layer with a Greige as OPI you do not know Jacques. Using an art nail brush, apply this lightened color in Blob type legs.