It’s a delicious color, so comforting and warm. No wonder butter yellow nails are the trendiest shade for a chic and sophisticated look. Buttermilk yellow boosts the mood and blends with so many other hues. Celebs like Selena Gomez and FKA Twigs have shown us how good life is when they wear this creamy yellow hue. Now it’s your turn, too.
Butter Yellow Nail Ideas
Mood-Boosting Butter Nails
Style it anyway you like, and butter yellow will still feel optimistic. We have several variations on this polish theme from top brands like Lavis, OPI, and DND. Our selection includes gel, lacquer, dip powder, and acrylics in creamy yellow shades.
LDS Color Craze Gel Nail Polish - 651 Banana Split
Buttermilk French Tips
Dress up your next French manicure with a fresh dollop of butter yellow. It doesn’t need to be flashy to get attention. We guarantee you’ll get asked where you got your nails done when you wear a look like this.
How to get this glass window effect for the base? We have Après, Kiara Sky, Lavis, and LDS soft gel tips in the sizes and shapes you love most. Or you could lengthen and strengthen your natural nails with acrylics or poly extension gel.
DND DC Gel Nail Polish Duo - 2509 Gimmie’ Butter
Yellow Has a Unique Psychological Effect
Why do some shades catch on so fast? We turned to psychology to find out why butter yellow is trending lately.
First, yellow is the most visible color. It’s cheerful and bright, often used to express lightheartedness, hope, and joy. Moreover, it’s not just a mental effect created by culture. Physiologically, it actually affects the body. When your eyes focus on yellow, your body’s metabolism increases. You feel more energetic, and your brain feels more creative. It literally encourages positive feelings. Well, as long as you don’t overdose on it—too much yellow can make a person anxious. And that’s why many are turning to butter yellow, the soft and creamy shade (1).
Butter yellow is optimistic without being overpowering. It’s a cozy blanket of nostalgia with good vibes. Plus, it encourages relaxation with calm concentration. This is the color you need when you want inspiration to bloom on your nails!
Bursting with Bright Butter Yellow Fun
See how vibrant this yellow is? We’re not lying when we say we’ve seen real butter this color. But generally, we’d describe this shade as a lemony hue. It’s only here because we love the design! It’s ideal for a butter yellow nail design.
Start with soft gel tips and a matching nude base for your skin tone. Add swirls of creamy yellow decorated with tiny abstract flowers. Then finish with a glossy top coat for weeks of chip-free shine.
Lavis Gel Polish 146 - Yellow Colors - Butterfield
OPI Gel Nail Polish Duo - W56 Never a Dulles Moment - Yellow Colors
Butter Chrome Nails
What happens when you paint your nails butter yellow and polish them with chrome powder? You’ll get compliments! Kudos to Hailey Bieber for starting the glazed donut nail trend. Now we can customize buttermilk nails with it.
FYI, our chrome powders are compatible with brands across the board, so feel free to glaze all your favorite yellow shades and more. We suggest Aurora chrome powder for a glazed finish that lets the buttery hue shine through.
Wait—you haven’t tried chrome powder yet? It’s easy! Before you apply it, make sure you’ve used alcohol to wipe off the sticky inhibition layer from the gel polish. Better yet, brush on gel chrome base or a non-wipe top coat and cure that.
Next, pick up a bit of powder and rub it onto the nail. Polish it, adding more when necessary. Once you’ve achieved a mirror finish, add another layer of top coat and cure it. Ta-da!
DND DC Gel Nail Polish Duo - 290 Yellow Colors - U Shine, I Shine
Chrome Powder
Daisies and Butter
These soft yellow nails with rounded tips are blossoming with bas-relief blooms. They feel so relaxed and happy!
How can you give the white petals this raised texture? As you know, regular polish tends to self-level and spread out. But thick painting gel will stay in the shape you create. You can use a brush or a dotting pen to shape the flowers, then cure the polish in a nail lamp.
Lavis Gel Polish 161 - Yellow Colors - Daisy
LDS Painting Gel Nail Art - 0.5oz White 03
What Shades Compliment Butter Yellow?
The fashion experts suggest treating butter yellow like a neutral color because it’s a gentle, soft shade. It brings out the best in neutrals, pastels, and earth tones in a way that true yellow cannot.
For example, you can place butter yellow alongside mint green, blush pink, or baby blue. The design below illustrates this with a pastel rainbow on a soft yellow base. We love how it makes the white stars feel more whimsical.
Soft yellow looks lovely next to dove grey, mocha, slate gray, and sand, but not so nice next to black. True neutral and warm tones suit it better than cool ones when the companion color is darker. Plus, you can use buttermilk hues alongside more vibrant yellow tones like lemon, mustard, and goldenrod.
LAVIS 3 in 1 - 185 Lemon Twist - Acrylic & Dip Powder, Gel & Lacquer
Butter Ombre
There are so many fun ways to play with butter yellow on your nails! Here is a milky white mani that transitions to creamy yellow tips. We love the coppery glitter with the lively sparkles around the lunulas.
DND DC Gel Nail Polish Duo - 259 Yellow Colors - Glossy Stars
Butter Yellow in Fashion
If you go back to the Victorian era around the mid to late 1800s (that’s after Bridgerton), you’ll find that butter yellow was a fashionable color. We don’t have photos, obviously, but we have paintings and descriptions of the time’s fashion trends. Ladies loved flattering yellow shades that brightened brunette’s complexions. They wore butter yellow in everything from daywear to ball gowns.
Almost two hundred years later, Rhianna, Selena Gomez, and Sydney Sweeney carry on the butter yellow trend right down to their nail art!
Conclusion
We hope you find butter yellow nails an uplifting choice for your next manicure masterpiece. You’ll find many delightful yellow hues in our store whether you prefer lacquer, gel, dip powder, or acrylic nails. And if trendy shades and styles are your thing, visit our Hot Buys for stunning deals!
Source:https://www.colorpsychology.org/yellow/