From delicate florals to eye-catching patterns, find the perfect spring manicure to complement your unique style and brighten your mood.

Here is 10 Spring Nail Design Ideas for Your Next Manicure!

What Makes Spring Nails Stand Out?

Spring is the season of renewal and rejuvenation. Clean designs, fresh, bright and pastel colours, and nature inspired themes are the ideal way to wear Spring nails in 2024!

What are the Spring Nail Colours and Effects?

Think blooming flowers, blue skies, and fresh landscapes. Basically, colours that evoke the natural world in Springtime: blues, greens, pinks and yellows.

It’s no surprise that floral and fruit nail art is popular at this time of year. This look works especially well on one or two accent nails, but it can be repeated on every finger too.

Negative space nail art gives a simple and clean look to your Spring mani – perfect if you’re into a minimalist aesthetic, and abstract designs featuring wavy lines and bold colours work for the maximalist look!

How to Do the Perfect Spring Nails? - Tools and Accessories

These are our top nail art tools and accessories to achieve the perfect Spring nail art:

1.      Fine Nail Art Brush

This is the most essential tool: a fine nail art brush will help you create French manicures, abstract wavy lines, and virtually any other nail art design you can think of.

2.      Transfer Foil

If you’re creatively challenged, transfer foil is your new best friend to create gorgeous nail art at home. Just apply on top of a layer of cured gel polish, and finish with a top coat!

Check out our full collection of nail art effects here.

3.      Dotting Tool

With a dotting tool, you can create polka dots, flowers, and hearts designs!

4.      Nail Art Sponge

This will help you create ombre looks by easily blending colours together; for an easy French manicure, try painting a line of French white next to a line of your nude base shade onto your nail sponge, and repeatedly stipple onto the nail. Voila! An easy at-home French.

Spring Nails Ideas for 2024

Multicolour Blooms

First up we’ve got bright florals.

If you want to take it up a notch, you can even layer these delicate multi-colour florals over a base colour (think soft pinks, blues, and greens). Or go for a milky neutral base like Semilac 002 or 389 to make the bright colours pop!

Neon Patels

We’re tiptoeing into Summer, but the weather is still giving Spring. (Or Winter, if we’re honest…)

Neon pastels are perfect transitional tones from Spring to Summer; they have the brightness and vibrancy of a Summer day, with a muted look that makes them perfectly wearable in Spring.

If you can’t justify going full send on a highlighter yellow mani just yet, this is your sweet spot!

Apricot Crush

Allow us to introduce you to the colour of the season.

A sophisticated, muted apricot shade that’s perfect for Spring and Summer.

It looks grown up and classy as a block colour, but it’s super cute for fruity nail art too!

This shade looks great with a tan, but it’s gorgeous on the pale girlies too!

Blueberry Nails

This delicate blue shade was created by layering shade 386 Blue Cloud a colour of a bleached blue sky, over top of Semilac color base 819 Blue Sky. 

There’s a hint of purple in the base that peeks through the soft blue on top, giving the look of a perfect sun-bleached sky.

This look is so wearable for Spring!

Fruity Mani

The watermelon pink base makes this whimsical design such a wearable nail art look for Spring!

This is a fun take on a reverse French, with a thin line of colour around the cuticle instead of the tip of the nail.

Shades: 445 Tropical Flamingo, 447 Loco Lime and 300 Perfect Black. This black is strong pigmentation without curing problems even with a thicker layers. If the application of black color has been a challenge for you so far this time it will be different. Try it you will not regret ;)

Retro Abstract

No matter how clumsy you are, we’re confident you can recreate this one at home.

Choose two Spring-toned retro-style colours that contrast, get yourself a nail art brush, and don’t let it know you’re afraid. Seriously – with confident strokes, freehand a squiggly design and fill in the blank space.

If you want to show off, you can try a half French design like our inspo pic and freehand the other colour. If a French is beyond your capabilities (like me…), try the freehand squiggle on both sides of the nail, overlapping at the tip. It’ll still give you that retro abstract look!

Negative Space

Negative space is a bold colour’s best friend.

If the shade is a little too bold for you to try all-over, letting some negative space peek-through will instantly make it more wearable.

The key for this trend is a great base colour. Semilac 802 (multifunctional base) is a builder in a bottle style product which adds strength and length to your nails, along with a gorgeous nude-rose colour.

Colourful Micro French

Clean and simple: perfect to usher in the season of renewal. 

Don’t be shy of mixing Semilac gel polish colours either; the bolder the better for this mini mani!

Cherry Blossom

Sweet, delicate and feminine.

This cherry blossom inspired mani is DIY friendly too!

You’ll need Semilac shades 385, 002 and 491, a nail art sponge and a dotting tool.

With Semilac all time top seller shade 002 Delicate French as the base, stipple shade 491 Strawberry Ice a true spring awakening across the tip with a nail art sponge. Dip your dotting tool in shade 385 and lightly press into your nail in a small circle to create the flower petals.

Blue Monday

Semilac shades 602 and 603 from Spring Pastel-Neons collection are the ideal pairing to create a purple-blue toned mani.

These colours are fresh and light thanks to the blue undertone, and the violet hue makes them ideal for Spring.

Use them as block colours or incorporate them into your nail art designs!

Summary: Spring Nail Art Ideas for Your Spring Look!

Spring nails are all about vibrant colours, playful designs and patterns that capture the essence of the season. Bright pastels, floral motifs and fruit accents bring some freshness to your fingertips. Check out our full collection of gel polish colours here for more Spring inspo!

If you try out any of these trends, make sure to tag Semilac Ireland on Instagram!