Your nails can be absolutely beautiful for autumn ’20

While I can spend a long time going through my skincare routine, when it comes to my makeup and beauty routine, I am lazy about 75% of the time. And right now, in quarantine, I’m lazy about 95% of the time, except for when I put on my beloved tinted lip balm on special occasions when I’ve got an important Zoom meeting or a virtual hangout with friends.

Call it laziness or call it low-maintenance tendencies (I prefer the latter), whatever the case, I have no shame in it. I like to have my glam moments with a full face of makeup and hair done, but that’s not happening every day or every weekend.

It translates to the state of my nails, too. As much as I love a spa mani and pedi, I’m not the type of person who has a standing appointment with her manicurist. I’m not one for painting my nails at home, either. Thanks to an unsteady hand and impatience, I think I’ve successfully painted my nails maybe 10 times in my 31 years of life.

So, yeah, while you can find me with bare nails most days, there has been a nail trend that I’ve been intrigued by and would actually embark on a DIY manicure for matte nails.

And in the meantime, I’m going to practice my patience and how to apply polish to my dominant hand. Take a look at some matte polishes I’m eyeing below, plus some at-home manicure tools…