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Complete Your Mermaid Transformation With These 25 Ocean-Inspired Nails

By Laura Davis | July 6, 2022 | Leave a Comment
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Ocean Nails
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Ocean Nails

If your summer plans include lounging at the beach every weekend or finding a way to escape the sea without infuriating your local sea witch, these are the nail designs you’ll need. These ocean-inspired nails and sea-themed manicures will match that vibe.

Even if that vibe is “I’d rather be at Sea World than at my cousin’s underwater birthday party.” Oh, look, another shell bikini!

These nautical nails include nail art featuring sharks, waves, and sand. Since that’s likely to get everywhere anyway, you might as well lean into it.
Ocean Nails

25 Ocean Nails For Aspiring Mermaids

1. Nautical Sea Nails

If Great White sharks looked like this little guy, we definitely would have tried cage diving. Maybe ours skipped breakfast.

Ocean Nails - shark and boat
Photo Credit: @home_of_deva

 

2. By the Ocean Press-On Nails

Not a wanna-be nail tech? Try these press-ons instead. Glue is way easier to come by than determination and skill.
Ocean Nails - shoreline press ons
Available on Etsy.

 

3. Whale Tale Seascape Nails

Just get this manicure done before you go whale watching next time, and you just point to your nails when everyone says they didn’t see anything.

Ocean Nails - whale tails
Photo Credit: @nailsbykimmiexo

 

4. Jaws Press-On Nails

At the beach, the only thing scarier than blood in the water is forgetting the snacks.
Ocean Nails - Jaws press on set
Available on Etsy.

 

5. Realistic Ocean Nails

We would totally get these nails if we weren’t deathly afraid of becoming shark bait. It’s the same reason we don’t wear seal costumes to the beach. Well, not in the water, anyway.

Ocean Nails - water
Photo Credit: @naildbydani

 

6. Press-On Ocean Nails in Marine Dream

Make it to the beach before noon by using press-on nails instead of spending four hours DIY.
Ocean Nails - marbled
Available on Amazon.

 

7. Lighthouse Nails

Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum…that we would promptly throw up if we were on that boat.

Ocean Nails - lighthouse
Photo Credit: @gemaalc

 

8. Abstract French Tip Wave Nails

Hop aboard the colorful french tip wave with these press-on nails. They’re perfect for when you want the essence of ocean nails, without all the sand and salt in your hair.
Ocean Nails - wave french tips
Available on Etsy.

 

9. 3D Ocean Nails

Weirdly, gluing seaweed to our nails didn’t give quite the same effect as this 3D nail art. These smell better, too.

Ocean Nails - long coffin nails
Photo Credit: @ashley085nailz

 

10. Aerial Shark Nails

Dangerous. Beautiful. Well, at least they meet our Tinder criteria.

Ocean Nails - sharks
Photo Credit: @the_nailguru

 

11. Ocean Nails

These nails remind us of when a wave pulls you under and we end up swirling around for a while unsure of which way is up. A flash of palm trees! More shells! Sand in the mouth!

Ocean Nails - palm trees
Photo Credit: @glamournailsharkerheights

 

12. Minimalist Fish Nail Art

Don’t be coy. No, really. They’ll die in salt water.

Ocean Nails - Koi fish
Photo Credit: @natmaloneynailartist

 

13. Sunset Dolphin Nails

This dolphin looks like us doing jumping jacks at Barry’s. Except they are way more graceful.

Ocean Nails - dolphin sunset
Photo Credit: @nailsbykimmiexo

 

14. Colorful Jellyfish Nails

We usually just see the translucent blobby ones, but these are much cooler. And probably more painful. C’mere little guy!

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15. Killer Whale Nails

These nails are killer. Come back after we’ve had our second cup of coffee for something more creative.

Ocean Nails - killer whale
Photo Credit: @b_dazzledbeauty

 

16. Shipwreck Manicure

If you’re not superstitious, get this mani before a big cruise. Who cares if the boat is named the Titanic II?

Ocean Nails - shipwreck
Photo Credit: @misashton

 

17. Save the Sharks Ocean Nails

The hefty bite taken out of the heart doesn’t exactly inspire confidence, but we are friends, not food. Right? Right?!

Ocean Nails - save the sharks
Photo Credit: @notgreatbutstillokay

 

18. Ocean Wave Nails

We’re losing our marbles over these ocean nails.

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19. Speckled Sandy Nails

These nails are not ideal for putting in contacts. At least according to our cornea.

Ocean Nails - seashells
Photo Credit: @nailsbyswayz

 

20. Ocean Floor Nails

That mermaid accent nail really makes a splash. Someone please tell her to stop doing cannonballs.

Ocean Nails - 3D mermaid and shell
Photo Credit: @eric_basicacrylic

 

21. Finding Nemo Nails

Nobody nails dad jokes quite like Marlin. Too bad he gets a C- in childcare.

Ocean Nails - Finding Nemo
Photo Credit: @gelnailsbyjessie

 

22. Scale Nails

If mermaids aren’t real, why do we all know what their tails look like? Inquiring minds want to know.

Ocean Nails - mixed patterns
Photo Credit: @gelnailsroc

 

23. Ocean French Tip Nails

Have the ocean at your fingertips, without moving to California.

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24. Glittery Bedazzled Beach Nails

Collecting seashells is so 2008. Gluing them onto your fingernails? Innovation.

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25. Fish Nails

There’s nothing fishy about these nails. Aside from the level of sheer skill that went into the design. We have a healthy level of distrust regarding talented people.

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Laura Davis
Laura is the Boston-based Assistant Editor at Let's Eat Cake. She currently writes about products, entertainment news, beauty trends, and food, and has contributed to a variety of lifestyle publications, including Popular Science and Flixed. She is also the co-founder of Adultescence, a podcast and blog for post grads, where she writes about friendship and dating.
 
When she's not typing away on her laptop, you can find Laura working on her MBA at Boston College, listening to Taylor Swift, or sweating it out at an OrangeTheory class. Follow her on Instagram @LauraKristine21 and LinkedIn.
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