Everything You Need To Know About Lipstick Nails

The lipstick nail is perplexing to some, but they look incredibly cool when themed and actually done well. According to Suggest, the trend apparently started in South Korea and became popular after a professional nail artist with over 700,000 followers, Park Eun-kyung, posted about them on Instagram. Now, Eun-kyung, who owns and operates Unistella by E.K. Lab in Seoul, has taken the world by storm with her idea.

Eun-kyung began posting about them to showcase how this nail shape can transform even the simplest of nails. Suddenly, a simple black nail looks simultaneously more elegant and edgy, simply by it being filed down into the slanted lipstick shape. "As I was working at a photoshoot for cat eye-shaped sunglasses, I thought it would be interesting to shape my nails into that shape and gave it a try. It turned out like a lipstick shape, so I did it on my nails immediately," Eun-kyung explained to Byrdie about the shape's origin.

Now, people are finding more and more fun and creative ways to utilize this nail trend. People are turning their nails into festive lipstick designs or elevating simple looks like Eun-kyung. Others, as noted by Byrdie, are transforming this style further and creating iridescent lipstick nails, accent colors on the lipstick nails' tips, glittering the tips, and much more.