32 Classy Short Nail Design Ideas That are Easy to Recreate

Nails, nail art, and long acrylic Nails are very much in fashion now! Do you know what else is trending? It’s classy short-nail designs. They can help give your nails a stylish vibe.

There are many shapes and design ideas that you can try in 2023 that can provide low-maintenance yet fashionable nails. You might think it's not that easy to achieve classy-looking nails whilst keeping them short and easy to maintain but this doesn't have to be the case.

I’m here to give you some of the best design ideas for classy short nail designs you should try today.

After a perfect manicure, you can paint your nails a maroon color with a glossy finish. With the help of a nail filer, you should do an oval shape to the nail as it gives you a vibrant match to the outfit you wear.

This is one of the elegant classy short nail designs that can be worn every day. Shape your beautiful nails in your desired shape; here, they did a round, oval shape. After that, start coating your nails with coral-red nail color.

To give it a glossy finish, you can put glossy transparent nail color on it or choose an already glossy coral red color. There you go, glossy coral-red nails that match every outfit!

If you have medium-sized nails — not too short but not too long either — you should try this nail style. Start with a light mint green color on three of your choice and do cute nail art on two fingers, preferably two nails next to each other.

Using a nail art tool like a thin brush, give a borderline of white nail polish at the ends and leave the center part transparent. Lastly, finish it with a glossy top coat. Voila! Elegant, classy short nail designs for you!

Nude shades are the most on-trend now! You can try this nail style at home; the only thing you should have are different shades of nude nail paint.

To give a unique classy short nail design to your nails, take different shades of nude color and apply the lighter shade to your small finger, the next darker shade to your ring finger, and so on.

For the thumb finger, you can choose the darkest shade; here, they used a light black color. Here you go, shades of nude on your nails!

Here is a simple classy short nail design that is inexpensive. You can draw different types of smiley faces on the nails. First, you choose a bright color, say yellow, and then take black nail polish.

Using a thin brush tool, draw your preferred smiley faces on your nails. That’s it! Cute smiley face nails for the day!

Who loves their nails to be plain and boring? I have the cutest, classiest short nail design for you. First, top your nail with a base coat or transparent nail color.

Then draw cute little hearts with different colors of nail polish in the corners of each nail. Give a border to every heart you drew with black nail polish, and top it off with a matte top coat. Here’s a cute, simple classy short nail design for you!

I have a trendy nail design for you. These squared, short acrylic nails give you the best look for nails. For this look, take any random pastel nail paint shades and put them on random fingers.

Choose darker pastel shades too. I’ll promise it’ll give your nails a vibrant look. This is one of the unique classy short nail designs.

For these beautiful-looking matte short nails, you have to take two different families of colors, say yellow and brown, and do a cute little nail art 5 in the center of every nail.

Two lighter shades of yellow are coated on the small and ring fingers, and three very light brown shades are painted on the other three.

A very little heart is drawn in the center with white nail polish, and lastly, coated with a matte top coat. A simple, classy short nail design for your beautiful nails.

For these classy black and white gel nails, all you have to do is put black gel polish on one hand’s three fingers and white gel polish on the other hand’s three fingers.

You can do small nail art on the other two fingers, like a checkered design on one and transparent glitter polish on another. To make these look like elegant classy short nails, they stick a yellow stone in one finger with transparent glitter.

This is a pretty gel nail idea that you should try at home. Paint the base with olive gel nail polish, then design simple nail art.

Draw different styles on each finger. Here they drew a cow print, a dark borderline, etc. These types of nails are trending now.

This is the most trending marble nail idea for you! First, start with your base coat of brown gel polish, add black polish randomly in some places, and with the help of nail art tools, give a marble effect to the nails.

This is a unique classy short nail design that is trending now!

Coating different shades of the same color family is in style.

Start with a light base color and take two different shades of red and draw random designs on the nail, starting from the corner, and fill it in. It gives the nails a very cool look.

Who else loves marble nails? Marble nails will make your nails look pretty. The dark green marble idea is one of the simply classy short nail designs that will give a vibrant look to the nails.

To make these glittery square gel nails, coat a pastel-shade gel polish as a base, like light pink, and put a glittery shade on the small finger.

Apply some glitter polish on the ring finger from the start of the nail up to the center to make it look elegant and classy. Ta-da! Unique classy short nails for you.

The white and gold combination is a very classic one. Let me show you how to turn this classic combination into a trending design. It would help if you did this nail art on transparent nails.

With thin brushes, give random curvy lines with white nail polish and random curvy lines with gold gel polish next to the white. There it is! White and gold short nails for you.

As much as French tip nails are in trend, this reversed French tip is also in trend now! You can try this reversed French tip in the classic combination of white and gold short nails.

Start painting your nails with matte white polish and do the reversed French tip with gold. That’s it! Simple classy nail designs.

Here’s a classy short nail design for your next manicure! Apply white nail polish as a base and add stars, filling the stars with golden color.

Here I have a unique classy short nail design for your pretty nails!

To achieve this look, start with silver nail polish as a base and do the French tip method with extra glossy silver nail polish. This nail style will match every outfit.

The classic French tip method now has various types. Apply any base color of your choice and draw the French tip slightly differently, as shown in the picture.

This is also one of the types of French tips and a simple classy short nail design that you can try at home. 

Here’s a chic nail design idea! Start with a transparent base coat, do a shiny French tip with silver nail polish, and top it off with a glossy top coat. These elegant, classy short nail designs are easy and require minimal products. 

Another white and gold short nail design for you! Using a nail filer, shape the nails into squares.

Apply white nail paint as a base and do the classic French tip method on the nails with gold polish. A very thin line of gold color will make your nails look elegant. 

Striped nails are very fashionable right now! Let’s see how to do it. Start with white polish as the base coat and apply navy blue nail paint to half each nail.

In the center of the nail, draw a thin line with yellow polish. That’s it! Simple classy short nail designs for you! 

For this nail style, first, apply white polish as a base and top it off with any glittery nail paint. Choose any one of your fingers and draw musical notes. Ta-da! Cute music note nail designs for the day. 

Start with clear nail polish as a base. Choose any one finger and apply the darkest shade to it. On the other finger, draw different types of musical notes. This one is a very cool music note nail designs. 

Put silver glittery nail polish on two consecutive fingers and black on all other fingers. With black nail paint, draw a musical note on any one of the silver fingers. Yay! Music note nail designs for all music lovers.

This design is a unique classy short nail designs. Start with a nude base and draw yellow stripes in desired corners of the nails.

Choose any one finger and dot it with yellow nail paint. Draw thin strokes in black polish. It is a very complex one to try at home. Only professionals can do it. 

Have an oval-shaped nail? Here’s a very easy yet classy short nail design for you. Just apply any base coat.

After that, apply any glossy holographic effect nail paints on it. A perfect gold—chrome nail for your birthday!

The leaf design is an elegant, classy short nail design that can be achieved through a proper nail art class.

Paint any combination of nudes on your nails. Draw this leaf design on any one finger and top it off with a gel-based top coat. 

A unique classy short nail design is here! On the one hand, apply black nail paint to every finger and off-white nail paint to the other.

Draw random wavy lines in the off-white nails with shimmery gold nail paint. This is it! 

This stylish look can be achieved by applying yellow nail paint to three fingers and transparent white gel polish to any two consecutive fingers.

In the transparent nails, draw any floral design with black and yellow nail paints. It is a simple classy short nail designs.

This red heart nail design will look best on square-shaped nails. Coat the nails with red nail polish on the four fingers. Apply white nail paint to any one finger.

In that center, draw a cute heart shape in red nail paint. This will give your nails a gorgeous look and is an elegant classy short nail designs.

No color can beat black. As it always falls under the elegant category, here’s an elegant classy short nail design for winter.

Coat any two fingers with glittery black nail paint and apply transparent gel polish to the other two fingers. Draw a French tip on one finger and stars on the other with the same black glitter nail paints. That is the one! 

I have given you my favorite 32 ideas for classy short nails. Most suggested designs can be tried at home, but some should be done in a nail salon.

Try these unique classy short nail designs and leave your suggestions in the comment box. Happy nail art, guys!

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