10 Matte Nail Designs You'll Want to Try This Fall

Matte gets a bad reputation for, well, being a boring, stick-in-the-mud nail finish. But the new wave of blank space nails and the chrome mani trend have ushered in a whole new way to dress up matte finishes with festive accoutrements and less-is-more designs. Here, see 10 of our favorite ways to matte-ify our nails, just in time for fall—glove and sock season be damned.

• Matte + Chrome

 

• Fine Points

• Water Droplets

 

• The Halo Effect 

• Minimalist Blocking

 

• Modern Art

• Ombre

• Glitter Talons

• Chrome Swoops

 

• Harlequin Stripes