Your friends will be green with envy over these cute nail designs🍀!
St. Patrick's Day has arrived🍀! This popular springtime holiday is packed with fun St. Patrick's Day things to do, like eating the best St. Patrick's Day recipes, drinking green beer, and donning your favorite green gear to avoid getting pinched. While you're dressed like a leprechaun (no judgment—you do you), dazzle your friends with the absolute cutest St. Patrick's Day nail ideas that will make them all green with envy.
In this festive collection of our favorite St. Patrick's Day nail design ideas, we've included a wide range of looks to help get you into the St. Paddy's Day spirit. Easy St. Patrick's Day nail ideas include gold glittery polish—consider this manicure your own personal pot of gold! We particularly love this solid, shimmery look for St. Patrick's Day nail ideas for short nails. Flowers and rainbow designs make for a more colorful approach to St. Patrick's Day nails. Like little lucky charms, jewels and even gold foil fancy up this otherwise light-hearted holiday. But above all in our roundup of St. Patrick's Day nail art, green rules. Think clovers, leprechaun-inspired motifs, stripes, polka dots, and all-over solid polish in every shade of green imaginable. We are obsessed with the eye-catching Irish takes on French manicures that incorporate green—so creative!
For more holiday manicure ideas, check out our other popular lists, like Easter nails, Halloween nail designs, and Christmas nail art ideas.
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Green and Gold St. Patrick's Day Nail Idea
Solid green nails get a bit of glamour with a solid gold glitter accent nail.
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Alternating Greens St. Patrick's Day Nail Idea
Pick two shades of green polish and alternate for a fun and super easy way to celebrate St. Patrick's Day.
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Green Bubbles St. Patrick's Day Nail Idea
The best word we could come up with to describe this design is effervescent! We love how the green and white dots go from big to tiny for a bubble-like appearance. Try using a dotting tool for polka dots with clean edges.
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Pot of Gold St. Patrick's Day Nail Idea
This is the manicure equivalent to a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow. Simple and sparkly, gold glitter polish is a subtle nod to the St. Patrick's Day holiday.
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Green and Glitter St. Patrick's Day Nail Idea
Mimic this look by using a neutral base coat, a glittery top coat, and one or two shades of green polish in between.
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Shades of Green St. Patrick's Day Nail Idea
Get creative with green nails by incorporating two or more shades into your design. Here, a simple light and dark green design allows the natural nail to show through.
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Leprechaun Hat St. Patrick's Day Nail Idea
We are absolutely obsessed with this leprechaun hat design, with its tiny buckle and shamrock details.
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Gold Squiggle St. Patrick's Day Nail Idea
This impressive design is actually pretty simple. Start with a light base coat, paint on green at a curved angle to cover about half of the nail, then come in with a gold squiggle on top.
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Leprechaun Jacket St. Patrick's Day Nail Idea
We're still swooning over this adorable leprechaun jacket-inspired nail art design. Tiny nail jewels dotted in a line mimic buttons.
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Shamrocks and Polka Dots St. Patrick's Day Nail Idea
We love this nail design for all ages, but we particularly like it for teens and tweens. Try nail jewels to adorn the shamrocks for a little extra sparkle.
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Sliver of Gold St. Patrick's Day Nail Idea
This design works for long and short nails. Paint nails in a solid green polish of your choice, then add a stripe of gold along the edge of nails. You could also sub in white for the gold for an equally festive St. Paddy's Day look.
Check out Bellacures for more manicure ideas.
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Over the Rainbow St. Patrick's Day Nail Idea
We are obsessed with the glittery pot of gold at the end of this rainbow. A mix of green and gold solids and patterns rounds out this colorful and charming motif.
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Forest Green Glitter St. Patrick's Day Nail Idea
Forest green glitter polish makes for a more sophisticated (and slightly sultry) St. Patrick's Day nail look.
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Lucky Charms St. Patrick's Day Nail Idea
Horseshoes and clovers, oh my! Consider yourself lucky this St. Patrick's Day with this fun patterned nail design.
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Minty Green St. Patrick's Day Nail Idea
Minty green polish, in a mix of solid and glitter, makes for a fresh approach to a St. Patrick's Day manicure.
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Jewelry-Inspired St. Patrick's Day Nail Idea
Glued-on nail rhinestones embellished with gold designs all around are reminiscent of vintage jewelry.
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Gold Tips St. Patrick's Day Nail Idea
Add St. Patrick's Day flavor to a classic French manicure concept. Here, green polish and gold tips make for a chic St. Patrick's Day design.
Check out Bellacures for more manicure ideas.
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Two Tone Shamrock St. Patrick's Day Nail Idea
With or without the shamrock art (but we 100 percent vote shamrock!), this moon manicure with two shades of green is a festive St. Patrick's nail design.
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Shimmery Rhinestones St. Patrick's Day Nail Idea
Make your whole look shimmer with these fancy rhinestone-studded nails. Start with a sparkly polish in a green shade (we love this darker hue!), then apply nail jewels at the base of an accent nail.
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Green with Envy French Manicure St. Patrick's Day Nail Idea
Try a French manicure, but make it Irish! Here, shades of green and gold make for an eye-catching St. Patrick's Day nail motif to be remembered.
Amy Mitchell
Managing Editor
Amy Mitchell is the managing editor at Country Living and VERANDA. She writes about a wide range of topics, including homes and lifestyle content.
