#Light purple nails skin#

If you have a fair complexion, Leavitt recommends leaving the pastel shades alone. For the perfect mix of lavender and gray, try SpaRitual’s shade Living in the Moment or Essie’s Merino.

#Light purple nails skin#

What purple is best for me? I know nail polish can come right off in case the shade isn’t right, but I can’t stand having a color I don’t like, especially when I’ve just dropped money on a manicure.ĭebbie Leavitt, celebrity manicurist and owner of the nail-polish line Sheswai, which is free of formaldehyde, toluene and DBP, advises that for my skin color, and for darker or olive skin tones in general, a pastel purple or muted grayish-purple looks the prettiest and most balanced. I like the look of the lighter lavender shades but also find them a little pasty on me.

Although I love the idea of wearing purple-colored nail lacquer (especially with all my gray fall clothes), I am fearful of looking too teeny-bopper or like I just stirred a vat of grape Kool-Aid with my bare hands. I am seeing various shades of purple nail polish in a lot of fall beauty collections. In this installment of “Your Stylist” I pose my own sartorial - or, in this case, beauty - dilemma and share with you the advice I received from a local expert. Resident Image stylist and market editor Melissa Magsaysay soothes your sartorial woes in the weekly Your Stylist blog column

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