A matching manicure and pedicure are in style – once again | Sali Hugues
When was the last time your toes matched? For me, it must have been when I was about 10 years old and working with whatever polish I had managed to steal from my mother. For all of recent beauty history, to be matchy-matchy with finger and toe hairspray was to commit a fashion faux pas - the beauty equivalent of double denim.
Why choose, when I could make a burgundy for one and a navy blue for the other? Or the race of green fingers and chocolate toes, perhaps. It would never have occurred to me to pull a single sample from the living room color wheel, or a single bottle from the chemist's shelf. I've rarely seen a match with anyone else either (there are several threads on whether a toe and hand sync pattern is even allowed in modern society).
>But beauty is a temperamental mistress and the matching pointe shoes and feet are, London's coolest performers inform me, extremely sexy for the first time in decades.
The very talented Julia Diogo, aka @paintedbyjools from Instagram and artist-in-residence at Corinthia spa in central London, has recently seen a surge in requests for a single shade in both ends.
"The matching manicure and pedicure are back," she says, and it seems to be largely thanks to the "clean girl" minimalism movement. in fashion and beauty, in which women cut out bright colors, prints and stories for a simpler style that is easier in appearance.
Diogo thinks it stands to reason that women who dress from a limited color palette will want to keep extra nail tints to a minimum. “Everyone seems to be stripping down to a neutral wardrobe. People want to look classic and well put together. A matching manicure and pedicure really adds to that chic aesthetic,” she says.
According to Diogo, the color chosen is invariably frost-free and shimmer-free. His clients - myself among them - check their diaries and most often choose milky nude pinks, bright scarlet or deep blood red tones (Diogo swears by Bio Sculpture's Pinotage, but Nailberry's Noirberry, £15, and Vinylux from CND in Oxblood or Bloodline, both £8.95, can provide a similar look at home) for their ability to match any event, outfit or dress code, and ensure there is no has no misalignment with surrounding colors or patterns. It's truly a 1970s mom style paint job, only shorter in length - and without the smoldering silk cut.
When was the last time your toes matched? For me, it must have been when I was about 10 years old and working with whatever polish I had managed to steal from my mother. For all of recent beauty history, to be matchy-matchy with finger and toe hairspray was to commit a fashion faux pas - the beauty equivalent of double denim.
Why choose, when I could make a burgundy for one and a navy blue for the other? Or the race of green fingers and chocolate toes, perhaps. It would never have occurred to me to pull a single sample from the living room color wheel, or a single bottle from the chemist's shelf. I've rarely seen a match with anyone else either (there are several threads on whether a toe and hand sync pattern is even allowed in modern society).
>But beauty is a temperamental mistress and the matching pointe shoes and feet are, London's coolest performers inform me, extremely sexy for the first time in decades.
The very talented Julia Diogo, aka @paintedbyjools from Instagram and artist-in-residence at Corinthia spa in central London, has recently seen a surge in requests for a single shade in both ends.
"The matching manicure and pedicure are back," she says, and it seems to be largely thanks to the "clean girl" minimalism movement. in fashion and beauty, in which women cut out bright colors, prints and stories for a simpler style that is easier in appearance.
Diogo thinks it stands to reason that women who dress from a limited color palette will want to keep extra nail tints to a minimum. “Everyone seems to be stripping down to a neutral wardrobe. People want to look classic and well put together. A matching manicure and pedicure really adds to that chic aesthetic,” she says.
According to Diogo, the color chosen is invariably frost-free and shimmer-free. His clients - myself among them - check their diaries and most often choose milky nude pinks, bright scarlet or deep blood red tones (Diogo swears by Bio Sculpture's Pinotage, but Nailberry's Noirberry, £15, and Vinylux from CND in Oxblood or Bloodline, both £8.95, can provide a similar look at home) for their ability to match any event, outfit or dress code, and ensure there is no has no misalignment with surrounding colors or patterns. It's truly a 1970s mom style paint job, only shorter in length - and without the smoldering silk cut.
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