When you’re rocking nails with some length, you get to play around with the shape. Ballet nails are a shape that sits halfway between an almond nail (tapered with a round tip) and a coffin nail (tapered with a sharp tip). “Ballerina nails have a soft, tapered square shape that resembles the pointe shoes in ballet,” says expert Amy Oung. “As long as the sides are softly tapered in, and the free edge isn’t too sharp, it will give the delicate ballerina nail shape.”
While the shape can be a little confusing to achieve, Heather Reynosa, global education director of OPI, shares a tip: “For ballerina nails, think of a super pointed almond that’s had the point removed, and you have a ‘ballerina’ shape,” says Reynosa. And because ballerina is so similar to other shapes, it’s really versatile, emphasizes Galdina Jimenez, education manager for OPI North America. “I love this shape because if my client wants to switch things up, I can easily take her shape from almond or square to a ballerina,” says Jimenez.
