Nail glossary

Jelly nails

A translucent colour finish — your nail stays faintly visible through the polish, like sea glass. Also called: Glass nails, syrup gel.

Jelly nails use sheer-pigment polish or gel so light passes through the colour and back out, giving a candy-glass depth an opaque cream can't produce. Because your own nail tone participates, the colour self-adjusts to your skin and grow-out arrives as a soft fade rather than a hard line.

The signature shades are fruit-flavoured — cherry, watermelon, lime, sea-glass blue — and the finish pairs naturally with encapsulated 3D charms. Ask for 'sheer, not opaque — like sea glass' to keep a generous tech from building it solid.

Now on the App Store

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Vocabulary is the map; a real set is the territory. Design your exact nails in Nailly and send them to an artist who can make them — live on the App Store for the US and Canada.