Fanatic Feedback – Matching Nail Colors to Clothes?
With Easter coming up this weekend, I started thinking about what I’ll wear to dinner with the folks on Sunday and, of course, what nail polish to choose. I was surfing the web as I was pondering when I happened upon the pic below of Emmy Rossum and Zach Braff at “The Darker Side of Green” Debate and I couldn’t help but notice Emmy’s scarlet dress and matching nails. It got me thinking about the whole matchy-matchy thing.
Typically, if I plan my outfit, I tend to wear polish colors to compliment, not match, though most days I’m running around with something that just plain clashes. I’ve noticed that a lot of celebs tend to go neutral or play the matching game and even in my area I see a lot of nude, French or matching nails. So am I alone in my ways?
What about you? When you plan out an ensemble do you tend to choose a nail color that matches or coordinates with your outfit? Or do you go the nude/sheer route?
90% of the time I am just wearing a color that I love, no real rhyme or reason… nail polish is an accessory to me and therefore should stand out, BUT if I am going out for a special evening, I will change to a color that compliments my outfit or compliments me…..matchy-matchy is soo 80′s??
I like to match my clothes and nailpolish but most of the time I just try not to wear clashing colors. I have a cardy that’s exactly the same color as OPI’s We’ll always have Paris suede so I match these two all the time.
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I usually chose complementary colour of polish for an outfit. I come from a visual art background so it’s really hard for me to do anything all one colour, I guess that feels like cheating! lol
I don’t match my polish to my clothes! The only time that I choose a color like OPI’s Sand in my Suit or Happy Anniversary is when I go on vacation and I can’t change my polish for awhile
I almost always go the matchy, matchy route and I love it! I go neutral, usually OPI Bubble Bath, if my outfit has a lot going on but most of the time I do a super match-up. It’s actually my favourite part of planning an outfit.
I bet there’s a lot of banana yellow, soft purple, mint green and peach nails this weekend for Easter. So happy it’s finally spring!
Does anyone know anything about the OPI Shrek collection that’s supposed to be coming out? Thanks.
I never match my nails to my clothes. I wear what I want whenever, so I guess it usually clashes. I think matching them is kinda lame, even if it is a special occasion. Sure you’re not going to have neon yellow, but if you’re wearing red with purple nails, honestly, who gives a damn.
I never match my nails to my clothes, well not intentionally. I paint my nails whatever color I feel like painting them at the time. Sometimes, they’ll compliment my clothes and most times, they clash. I just don’t have the time to change my nail color more than once or twice a week.
I try to match/compliment my clothes to my nails. it’s a fun challenge sometimes and forces me to make use of different items in my waredrobe
I never match my outfit to my nail polish! It’s a fine look, it’s just not for me. I like to clash I guess!
I also don’t like a neutral nail, I want to wear a color that is bold and shiny!
I don’t see the point of having a lot of polishes if the colour I’m wearing clashes with my outfit. I own nearly 60 different shades of polish from different trademarks. I take your blog and some others as a guide to picture real colour on the nail, and appreciate so much your reviews about quality and application! It’s so wonderful to know what to buy, to be also aware of ingredients and everything! But honestly, even if I take a lot of pleasure at watching the collections swatches, I only buy polishes that “go with” my wardrobe in a certain way. It’s very difficult to “match” exactly, but truth is that If I see It’s going to clash with my polish, I simply choose another outfit. As I read in your blog, manicure is a part of the total look. That’s the way I live it. I’m not fan of a “polish shade” in particular, but of the global effect and the plus it adds to my look. Everyone knows that a good look avoid matchy-matchy things. Polish choice goes for me as the choice of shoes, scarves, purses, jewellery or other accessories I would never go with “matchy” either with “clashy”. Does it make any sense?
I almost *always* match my clothes. People often comment on it, and seem to enjoy it. I have even had people say that they wish they could be as coordinated and “together” and ask how I always seem to be able to do it. I just treat my nails like any other accessorie. LOL
For event’s I will chose a complimenting color, so with Red I tend to go with soft shimmery golds or champagnes, navy leads me to silver nails, etc.
I do my nails between 4 – 7 days normally so everyday clothes sometimes clash, but its not a big deal.
I’m indian so when we have big events and have to wear outfits in bright colors, I go with matching my nails to the outfit. In the day to day world, no way!
Most of the time my nailpolish doesn’t match my clothes. I usually just pick my polish by what color I feel like wearing for the week. Also, I usually wear different, but complimentary, colors on my fingers and my toes. Mabye I am a weirdo but I don’t like to be too matchy. It feels dated to me, mabye because it reminds me of my grandmother who will wear a pink dress with pink polish, pink lipstick, pink shoes, and a pink purse, lol.
Depends. If its a special event or formal occasion I will do a nude or something that compliments the outfit. Most of the time if the polish isn’t chipping or peeling I just rock with what I already have on.
in all honesty i never even think about my nails with my clothes. ill wear whatever nail color i want [and any clothes i want] and if it ends up matching? awesome. if not? whatever! still looks fine to me.
a fun matching coincidence i had the other day though was when my rainboots matched my china glaze turned up turquoise. (: great way to brighten up a rainy day, right?
If I’m going somewhere special I’ll coordinate my nail polish with my outfit but on an everyday bases I’ll wear whatever. I never wear the same color like the picture though.
I just wear whatever polish strikes my fancy most of the time. There are rare occasions I try to make sure it doesn’t cash usually a nude to prevent any accidental chips from being obvious, but I’m never matchy-matchy.
I try to match my polish with the weather. lol.
Usually if it’s cold I’ll try to wear darker colors, and if it’s hot/warm I’ll wear my lighter/fun colors. haha
I don’t like to be matchy-matchy. I like to wear a polish that just “goes” with everything else. I like to wear opposite colors a lot. For example, blue dress, orange nails. Or grey, drab colors with yellow. I find that dark blue or green looks great with everything.
i’m a makeup artist, and when customers tell me they want to match their eyeshadow or lip color to their outfit, i always try to lead them to picking colors that compliment what they’re wearing or their eye/hair/skin color. when you are so matchy matchy it makes everything blend in & how boring is that! picking complimentary colors make you more visually interesting & appealing, in my opinion. its like mixing textures or print in a outfit, makeup & nails should be thought of in the same way!
i NEVER match my nail polish to anything i wear. I don’t even think about that. I wear whatever color i feel like and could frankly careless if it matches or not
I’m pretty much like you. 90% of the time, my nails don’t match, coordinate or compliment my outfit as I neither change my manicure often enough to coordinate my nails with my daily outfit or generally know what I plan to wear the next day as I tend to polish at night. When I *do* take wardrobe into account when choosing a nail color (this generally only happens for a big event I know about in advance like a big party or a wedding), I choose a color that looks good with the colors of my outfit but does not match it. Like when I wore black and turquoise to my brother’s wedding last fall, I chose the smoky purple/gold of Hard Candy’s Mr. Wrong. I think complimentary colors look more chic than deliberately matching nails.
On special occasions I will wear a color that will accessorize my outfit (since I tend to wear alot of dark clothing). I like to have the focus on anything with color that I’m wearing from makeup to nails and shoes so to “match” my particular wardrobe would be too boring. However when you are wearing a red dress like Emmy Rossum the focus is already on her outfit, but I noticed she had a big dark bracelet so she brought some extra attention to her nails as well to kinda balance out her ensemble.
I don’t match my nails to my clothes and actually take steps to avoid it. I might wear a lilac/lavendar polish with a deep purple sweater, but I wouldn’t wear a purple. I did wear a green sweater and green polish for St. Patrick’s day, but they were also not the same shade.
I tend to coordinate my polish with my accessories or my makeup, but a lot of the time I just wear whatever mood strikes me.
I’ve discovered that I own a few nail polish and T-shirt combos that match almost exactly. That’s kind of funny.
i was going to say “no, i never match my nails to my clothes!” but then i realized that my tank top and my nails are the exact same color. oops. (im sporting Chanel’s Nouvelle Vague and a turquoise tank)
Only at special events would I coordinate but I never match. I do not think I usually clash though, to be honest. My nails reflect the season (summer, winter, fall, spring) and my clothes tend to do the same so I guess i always match (for example in the winter i wear a lot of vampy reds, greys, navys, blacks, etc. on my nails and it matches the darker clothing i tend to wear)
I’m from the Deep South so it may be different here, but I do try to match/ coordinate my polish to my clothes. In college, I even painted my nails daily to match the outfit I’d be wearing the next day! I don’t have time to do that now! Certainly on special occasions though. I think Emmy Rossum is the most beautiful person on the planet!
i was going to say “no, i never match my nails to my clothes!” but then i realized that my tank top and my nails are the exact same color. oops. (im sporting Chanel’s Nouvelle Vague and a turquoise tank)
Picking my clothes to compliment my nails is more likely, match? Never. I will sometimes pick something that coordinates for a special occasion but really, since I tend to favor the same colors in clothes that I do in cosmetics it would be pretty hard to actually clash. I suppose if I really worked at it I could get a red/pink combo that would be gaudy, but I wouldn’t really care. As far as matching toes and tips, uh uh. I change my toes about every two weeks but my tips nearly every night. Besides, it would be like wearing a matched set of jewelry where your earrings, necklace and bracelet all had to be the same. Booooooring.
I’m VERY anal, therefore if I’m wearing an orange-red shirt I have to either have orange-red nail polish on in the exact same shade as the shirt or if not that, nude/classic french manicure so that it won’t clash. If I know I won’t have time to repaint throughout the week, I just paint my nails a french manicure so it matches everything I wear as the week goes on. But if I were wearing yellow nail polish for example, I’d have to wear a yellow top (same shade). It’s just something that would bug me majorly if it didn’t match, lol. Honestly no clue why but when I see someone with like orange nail polish and a blue shirt or something, it’s all I can think about.
Yes. I wear fingernail and toenail color to match each outfit that I wear. Everyday.