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Kate Hudson is feeling blue—in a good way! The actor is busy promoting her new movie Song Sung Blue and dressing the part in shades of cerulean, sky, and midnight, including a navy blue aura manicure that completely shifted my midweek-morning energy.
For the Berlin premiere of the film, where Hudson and Hugh Jackman play a pair of Neil Diamond impersonators, Hudson leaned all the way into the “blue” theme in a bright cobalt gown and a deeper blue manicure to ground and anchor her red carpet outfit. Her almond-shaped nails were a medium length with a cloudy pale blue aura in the center of each nail, surrounded by a deeper smoky navy blue. As usual, they were the work of Hudson's go-to manicurist, Brittney Boyce, who used a set of unreleased press-ons from her line Lost Angels with a diffused, soft texture that added a rock ‘n roll edge to Hudson’s Vera Wang dress.
While we don't know what color Hudson's personal aura is, it's worth noting that blue is the color of the throat chakra, which governs self-expression, truth, communication, and authenticity—all very prevalent themes in Song Sung Blue.
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Aura nails like Hudson's can be created in a few different ways, including with an airbrush to perfect that gradient color pattern or via “blooming” gel polish, which helps soften and spread out a color for that diffused effect. We've seen them on Megan Fox, Megan Thee Stallion, and even in a The Life of a Showgirl-esque aqua and orange palette. Stars have also been embracing similarly trippy patterns and nail art, like Cardi B's recent combination of stripes and swirls, Dua Lipa's molten bubble orb manicure, and Vanessa Hudgens's moonstone mani. But the aura nail is probably most closely related to the currently trending cat-eye nails, which have been all over our mani moodboards. The magic of aura and cat-eye nails is that they can be soft and subtle or ornate and over-the-top, so you can easily customize them for any occasion: a holiday party, a regular old workweek, or a fancy movie premiere, just in case you have one on the cal!
