Yellow Nail Polish on Pale Skin

Pale hands are where a nude can vanish completely — too close to your own color to register at all. Anything saturated, though, does all the work for you.

Start with Pale citrine crème (BP73) — a citrine, and it stands well clear of your skin. Nine of the 14 will read as a real contrast on your hand, and two will blend almost all the way in if that’s what you’re after. If you’d rather go deeper, Rich citrine crème (SLA-B018) is more of a citrine.

Change the nail shape and length as you go — the same yellow is a different manicure short and round than it is long and stiletto.

The same yellows on another skin tone: Fair skin · Olive skin · Tan skin · Brown skin · Dark skin

Or start wider: all yellow shades · every color on pale skin