15 Super Sweet Christmas Nail Designs Inspired By Candy Canes

This adorable nail set by @naileditbeauty incorporates colored French nails and a Christmas-y design. If you’re doing this at home, take a look at this sticker pack, which includes tiny reindeer stickers and little candy canes that can fit on your nails.

@Natalie_thedollshouse designed these nails, which are pretty simple to do on your own because two of them are just solid red. But, the design isn’t too hard either because you can paint the outline of the pinky nail with these thin nail brushes and then grab some candy cane nail stickers for the other.

These nails by @luxenailandbeautylounge have a neutral base and wavy, red and white design with a shiny finish. They’re not too hard easy to achieve if you have natural nails and don’t want them to be too long, and due to their organic shape, you don’t have to worry about being incredibly precise.

These nails by @heygreatnails have a bit of a twist on the French nail trend. One half is just a regular French nail, and the other half sparkly red. The red and white combination is perfect for the holidays and the sleekness of the design will have everyone at the office party complimenting your nails.

@Heluviee designed these nails that have a few elements to them. While two are French tips and one is solid red, there’s also one that has a candy cane stripe design using red and silver polish. But what makes them stand out is the pointer finger, which has teardrop shapes on each end of the nail that you can paint on with these brushes.

There is a lot going on with these nails by @nylove_nail. If you don’t have long enough nails to fit all of the stripes, snowflakes, and angled tips, you can try out these clear press-on almond shaped nails, and to make your life easier, paint the designs onto the press-on nails before you attach them to your nail beds.

These nails by @nails.by.iz_ swap the bright red for maroon, so if you’re more into jewel tones than primary colors, these are the ones for you.

Angled French tips are so cute, and these nails by @thehotblend are made even cuter with the angled design on the bottom of the nail as well. A thin, angled brush would be helpful for achieving this look.

Santa’s certainly one to indulge in candy canes, and these nails by @jodiesbeaute adorably reference that. Using the French tip as a Santa hat is genius.

This pinwheel design by @pop_polished is a reminder that you can always do a Christmas design using colors other than red and green. They may not be in classic red and white you’d expect of candy-cane nails, but there’s no mistaking the peppermint swirl.

These red and green striped French tips by @bylucyalana_x are so festive. She used sparkly red nail polish and sparkly green nail polish to really make these nails pop and feel festive for the holidays.

These nails by @kathryncollins_naillash_artist have both a red and white striped design as well as a Rudolph accent nail that your kids will love because, well, Rudolph is kind of the hero of Christmas.

Each of the long matte holiday nails by @pegi_nails are rocking a different design, but you can still stick to the same main colors and make your life super easy by grabbing a set of decals to pull off a smiliar look at home.

Another design your kids will love: these cute, smiling gingerbread cookies with candy canes by @gsbeautybase. These gingerbread man stickers would be perfect if you can’t paint them on yourself.

These red and green nails by @nailartbysofia_ feature peppermint swirls and polar bears with scarves — it really doesn’t get more wholesome than that.