Hottest Winter Nail Shades to Transform Your Look 2025

Elevate your winter style with flawless winter nails. This guide helps you select the ideal colors, from festive glitter to rich, cozy shades.

Winter weather can be tough, particularly on your nails. They’re often tucked away in gloves, making them easy to neglect. However, this winter offers a stunning array of nail polish colors to explore, ensuring you’ll be spoiled for choice.

What Nail Colours are in This Winter?

Summer’s vibrant pinks and yellows have faded. Now, embrace winter’s cool tones and shimmering icy hues.

Go Dark

With the arrival of longer, darker evenings, nail trends are mirroring the shift with deeper, richer hues. However, this doesn’t equate to boring or lifeless nails. Expect to see a surge in popularity for intense, warm shades like deep reds, purples, midnight blues, and dark greens this winter. Burgundy reds, in particular, are poised to become a top choice.

Icy Colours

Elevate your winter style by embracing cool, icy tones. Trade warm shades for pale blues, grays, and crisp whites. These frosty hues remain a winter favorite year after year. After all, who wouldn’t want to channel their inner ice queen in 2025?

Opt for icy white nail polish shades with subtle blue undertones this winter. A touch of glitter will truly elevate your manicure and make your nails sparkle.

Glitter Metallic Nails

Sparkling, celebratory nails are trending as we approach the 2025 holiday season. Why wait for December? Embrace the shimmer now! Opt for complete glitter coverage or a delicate, shimmering topcoat. While gold remains a classic favorite, explore glitter nail polishes in all the latest winter shades.

Not ready for a full glitter manicure? Opt for a rich, dark base color and accent just one nail with a dazzling glitter top coat. For a shiny alternative, explore the season’s trendy metallic shades. Blues and browns are excellent choices. Customize your metallic look by blending them with white or black polish to achieve your desired depth and brightness.

Winter Manicure

Prefer a classic French manicure? You can easily infuse it with winter’s magic. A subtle touch of glitter or shimmer transforms your nails into stunning winter-ready accents. Or, replace the usual nude base with a trendy winter shade, such as the deep red showcased below.

Explore the latest winter manicure trends for fresh inspiration.

Nude Nails

Prefer a clean, natural aesthetic? You can still have trendy winter nails! For a subtle touch, replace your usual nude polish with a metallic version of the same shade. Alternatively, keep it simple with a barely-there glitter top coat.

Embrace vintage charm with half-moon nail art! It’s a fun twist on the classic French manicure, perfect for 2025. Opt for a rich, dark winter shade at the base of your nail, creating a striking contrast against a nude or lighter top coat (as seen below, left).

Top Nail Polish Brands

With the temperature dropping, nail polish brands are unveiling their autumn and winter lines. Here are three top picks we adore.

Essie

Seeking the perfect brand for the upcoming chilly months? Essie’s Fall 2016 collection, featuring six stunning shades, is your ideal choice. It will effortlessly guide you through autumn and into winter. As the playful names suggest, such as maki me happy and kimono over, this collection draws inspiration from the vibrant energy of Tokyo. The warm, earthy tones of burnt orange and crimson perfectly capture the essence of autumn. Conversely, the cool, crisp shades of icy grey and blue transport you to a winter wonderland.

Rimmel

Embrace the dazzling glitter nail trend with Rimmel’s Love Glitter collection. These polishes feature shimmering glitter shards, perfect for any celebration. Discover your ideal shade, from the opulent ‘Queen of Bling’ gold (centre) to the subtle ‘Mistletoe Mischief’ (bottom left). For vibrant winter toes, try ‘Tinsel Toes’ (top right) with its pink and blue glitter.

Rimmel’s Love Glitter nail polishes offer dazzling effects! Wear them as a top coat for added flair or directly on bare nails. For the most intense sparkle, apply two coats.

Zoya

Searching for the perfect Christmas nail polish? Look no further! Zoya’s Enchanted: The Xmas Collection offers six stunning shades. These colors are festive and sophisticated. Elphie is a rich, Christmas tree green with a hint of sparkle. Saint is a shimmering, icy blue nail polish with an iridescent finish.

Zoya’s Urban Grunge Metallics collection offers winter shades with subtle shimmer. It’s perfect if you prefer a touch of sparkle over bold glitter.