{"id":82205,"date":"2026-09-04T19:26:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T11:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=82205"},"modified":"2026-09-04T19:26:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T11:26:00","slug":"what-is-nailmaxxing-natural-clean-trend-is-hot-right-now-but-its-not-easy-to-nail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=82205","title":{"rendered":"What is \u2018nailmaxxing\u2019? Natural, \u2018clean\u2019 trend is hot right now, but it\u2019s not easy to nail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/09\/02\/5a0a7e80-3977-4ce4-856c-4d5e23e3b8ac_83164911.jpg?itok=wvgD3ALp&amp;v=1788344315\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Chrome French tips and polka dots may have been huge last year, but nail artists say this year\u2019s trending manicures are more low-maintenance.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cThe reasoning is pretty much always some combo of \u2018I want my nails to look natural\u2019, and being over chipped polish and constant infills, work environments where loud nails feel like a lot, or just wanting that effortless low-maintenance style,\u201d says celebrity manicurist Iram Shelton.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">At Marc Jacobs\u2019 spring\/summer 2026 show, models walked the runway with short, bare-looking, deliberately unpolished nails.<\/p>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">The runway chimed with a wider trend known as \u201cnaked nails\u201d, where natural-looking nail beds, neat shapes and healthy shine replaced elaborate art and obvious colour \u2013 perhaps an extension of the \u201c<span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">clean girl make-up<\/span>\u201d look.<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Social media is taking the trend one step further with \u201cnailmaxxing\u201d \u2013 a term for maximising the appearance and health of your natural nails.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cIt\u2019s probably the biggest shift I\u2019ve seen in my chair this past year,\u201d Shelton says. \u201cPeople who used to come in begging for chrome or crazy nail art are now like \u2018make it look like I\u2019m not wearing anything\u2019, which is kind of funny because that look actually takes way more skill than people think.\u201d<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">If you want to master nailmaxxing, here is how to perfect a manicure so it looks like you barely have one at all.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/fashion-beauty\/article\/3366076\/what-nailmaxxing-natural-clean-trend-hot-right-now-its-not-easy-nail?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chrome French tips and polka dots may have been huge last year, but nail artists say this year\u2019s trending manicures are more low-maintenance. \u201cThe reasoning&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":82206,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[1206,3171,662,6613,29467,1447,7400],"class_list":["post-82205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-clean","tag-easy","tag-hot","tag-nail","tag-nailmaxxing","tag-natural","tag-trend","wpcat-33-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/82206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}