Hailey Bieber Used Coachella To Launch The Next Big Manicure Craze

Some people wait all year for a major holiday or their birthdays — others tear away at calendar pages dreaming of Hailey Bieber’s Coachella manicure. The beauty brand founder never arrives at the desert without a custom-designed style, often featuring a bold twist that lands them among her best manis of all time. The 2024 festival’s weekend one look was certainly no exception. Bieber’s neon green nails might, at first glance, appear to be a simple coat of bright, electric polish. But when the lights go down? They transform into a glow-in-the-dark masterpiece — get ready for the luminous effect to be absolutely everywhere this summer.

It was actually a pretty major weekend for Bieber for several aesthetic reasons. After a few months experimenting with bicep-sweeping extensions, the star went back to her now-signature short hair, unveiling the freshly-trimmed shoulder-length bob in an Instagram photo dump. Her bright green nails, which change colors in different lighting levels, perfectly matched the silky soccer jersey she wore with a pair of white shorts in one look, and acting as the perfect spring-friendly pop of color against another black-on-black ensemble. In direct sunlight, Bieber’s manicure reads like a sunlit shade of grass. When she pulls her hand into the dark sleeves of her jacket, though, they light up into a glowing blue-green.

The bold look is a far cry from the more demure, springtime shades Bieber’s been gravitating toward lately — and it’s certainly different compared her usual chrome-dusted nails — but this manicure isn’t totally new territory for the model-mogul. At last year’s Coachella, Bieber also had a green glow-in-the-dark look created by her go-to celebrity nail artist, Zola Ganzorigt. That set featured a more yellow-toned green, accented by veins of gleaming gold polish that made Bieber’s nails feel like cracked-open geodes.

It’s still unclear exactly what polish Ganzorigt used this time around, but fans are already clamoring for answers in her Instagram comment section. Based on the fervor — reminiscent of the chrome trend fever pitch through the early 2020s — expect glow-in-the-dark nails to be the most sought-after look of summer.