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Wearing green on March 17th is lucky. Especially if you consider it “lucky” to not get pinched. So these St. Patrick’s Day nail designs really come in handy if your wardrobe is all-black like ours.
Whether you’re throwing back green beers or hunting for four-leaf clovers this St. Patty’s Day, these nail designs will help level things up. If you find a leprechaun named Randy, tell him we’re not mad, we just want our hat back.
From leprechauns to rainbows to bits of gold, any of these St. Patrick nail art ideas will have you ready for all the festivities of the day. Wake us up when the parade’s over, will ya?
15 St Patrick’s Day Nail Designs
1. Leprechaun Nails
Give yourself and your nails the leprechaun treatment this St. Patty’s Day. And by that, we mean wear the gaudiest belt you can find.
2. Neon St Patty’s Day Coffin Nails
If these coffin nails have to put you in the ground, at least you can look for a pot o’ gold on the way down.
3. Chrome Black and Green Shamrock Drip Press-Ons
These press-on nails are a bit more poison apple than St Patrick’s Day, but that just means they match our wardrobe better.
This glitter polish is called “Total Celt-Down,” which is exactly what we’re going to have if we can’t get our hands on it. Tantrums don’t have age limits. Unfortunately Chuck E. Cheese’s does.
Don’t stare too hard at these nails, or you’ll be hypnotized. Next thing you know, you’ve baked three dozen cupcakes and you wake up in a haze of flour and icing. :staring intensifies:
8. Pastel Lucky Charms Nails
We only had enough Lucky Charms to paint two nails because we ate the rest of them. Occupational hazard and all. Mmm, chemicals.
9. Celtic Nail Art
Take a bit more of a serious approach with this Celtic-themed manicure. Not that Lucky Charms aren’t completely serious. It’s just that we seem to have run out of those. Weird.
10. Diagonal Rainbow Stripes And Shimmery Green Almond Nails
These almond-shaped nails are perfect for pinching…more almonds out of the bag of trail mix we’re currently eating. Who are we kidding? We’re only in it for the M&Ms.
11. St. Patrick’s Day Press-On Set
Rainbows, gold, glitter… if you don’t wear these press-on nails for St. Pats, just bring them out for Pride.
This fun manicure is the French manicure’s cool and eccentric aunt. Bring your tarot deck over anytime, Ethel!
13. Shamrock Nail Stickers
Nail stickers are our friends because nail stickers allow us to spend more time drinking Jameson in style and less time drinking Jameson and wondering how to stop biting our nails.
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When in doubt, go green! From emerald to mint, there's a shade of green for every style and skin tone. Whether you choose a solid green manicure or incorporate green into a design, these nails are the perfect way to show off your St. Patrick's Day spirit.
According to Irish legend, if you find the leprechaun at the end of a rainbow with a pot of gold, you can have the gold if you catch him. That's why you'll find lots of plastic gold coins, pot-o-gold buckets, and coin-shaped candies around St. Patrick's Day.
Leprechauns are often associated with wealth due to their love of gold coins, they know when they are onto a good thing! Leprechauns as the mischievous creatures they are scour the earth for gold and when they find it, they store it in a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow.
Four-leaf clover – The four-leaf clover is the most prominent lucky item associated with St. Patrick's Day. Believed to be a Celtic charm, four-leaf clovers were used for magical protection from evil spirits and to repel bad luck.
The green stripe in the Irish flag also played a role. Traditionally, the green represents the Catholics of Ireland, the orange represents the Protestant population and the white in the middle symbolizes the peace between the two religions.
Dressing in green on St. Patrick's can trace its roots to leprechaun legends, as well as a sign of Irish defiance. Each year on St. Patrick's Day, tens of thousands of Americans add green to their outfits, even if they can't trace their ancestry back to the Emerald Isle.
the realization of all one's hopes and dreams; ultimate success, fulfillment, or happiness: to find the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. a sudden, huge windfall; sudden wealth: Your only chance for a pot of gold is to win the lottery.
Patrick's Day. However, according to legend, Patrick used a three-leaf clover, or shamrock, as part of his teachings. Even though it's possible for a shamrock to grow a fourth leaf, a four-leaf clover is just considered a symbol of good luck. Another legend says that Patrick chased all the snakes out of Ireland.
Patrick's Day observes of the death of St.Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland. The holiday has evolved into a celebration of Irish culture with parades, special foods, music, dancing, drinking and a whole lot of green.
The short answer is no. St Patrick and Ireland were actually both historically associated with the color blue. He reportedly wore it all the time and the knights in the Order of St. Patrick wore a light shade known as “St.
While no one can confirm with certainty why wearing so much green became popular, there is a very good reason, according to the Irish, not to do so, Haggerty said. According to superstition, the color green was thought to bring bad luck because it was the favorite color of the fairy folk.
You've almost certainly read this classic blessing before: May the road rise up to meet you. May the wind be always at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face, The rains fall soft upon your fields, And, until we meet again, May God hold you in the palm of his hand.
Sláinte to St. Patrick and to embracing all things Irish on March 17! As the classic Irish blessing says, may your troubles be less and your blessings be more, not just on this holiday but all through 2024.
They are said to deceive humans and serve as a warning against greed. Some even believe that they hide their gold simply in order to lure in the unsuspecting and when granting their captors three wishes, they often instead lead them astray.
Patrick banished snakes from the Emerald Isle. Legend has it that Patrick stood on an Irish hillside and delivered a sermon that drove the island's serpents into the sea. While it's true that the Emerald Isle is mercifully snake-free, chances are that's been the case throughout human history.
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