15 Thanksgiving Nail Colors To Wear This Season

As much as we’d like to think we’re in control, nothing can change the passing of time. So as we see the end of Halloween, we have our sights set on Thanksgiving. In preparation for this foodie festival, we’re filling our vanity with the hottest Thanksgiving nail colors of the year.

Someone else is prepping for the actual cooking part, we assume.

While technically any color can be worn at any time of the year (minus that high maintenance white), certain colors just work best for turkey day. We rounded up warm tones like reds, oranges, and yellows, along with cool tones including teal and mauve.

This provides a selection of nail polish for any mood. Particularly if that mood is “hungry.”

So deck the halls with gravy and your nail beds with these exciting shades of lacquer, and we’ll catch you over a plate of mashed potatoes. We said what we said.

15 Thanksgiving Nail Colors You’ll Love

1. Dark Brown Nail Polish

OPI Nail Lacquer in Squeaker of the House
Amazon

If you’re looking for a foolproof Thanksgiving nail color, you really can’t go wrong with brown. Plus, it’ll match all the food on your plate. Extra stuffing, hold the veggies.

2. Deep Burgundy Nail Color

Sally Hansen Miracle Gel Nail Polish in Beet, Pray, Love
Ulta, $10.99
Another classic color for Turkey Day is burgundy, and this gel nail polish is the perfect shade. It’s so strong that it won’t chip, no matter how hard you go on the appetizers.

3. Burnt Orange Nail Lacquer

OPI Nail Lacquer in Yank My Doodle
Amazon
Orange is a tried-and-true fall nail polish color, and for good reason. Nothing screams autumn like the official color of pumpkins. No, white pumpkins, you don’t count.

4. Muted Teal Blue Polish

Essie Fall 2022 Nail Polish Collection in Transcend the Trend
Ulta, $10.00
Maybe you want nails that are a little more creative than brown or orange. Enter: teal blue. It’s muted enough to work for the fall, but bold enough to make a statement. Bonus points if the statement is, “pass the pie!”

5. Sparkly Deep Red Color

Morgan Taylor Professional Nail Lacquer in Good Gossip
Ulta, $9.50
This nail polish color is called “Good Gossip,” but it should be called “Good Witch.” It’s giving us major flashbacks to the ruby red slippers in The Wizard of Oz. And we thought our sibling clothes rivalry was intense.

6. Mauve Cream Gel Polish

Deborah Lippmann Gel Lab Pro Nail Polish in Love Hangover
Sephora, $20.00
A lowkey mauve polish is perfect for the person who doesn’t want to draw too much attention to themselves. You know, the person who wants to be able to go for thirds under the radar. So weird that there were no leftovers this year!

7. Glittery Gold Polish

Zoya Nail Lacquer in Nahla
Ulta, $12.00
When all else fails, go for the emotional support gold glitter. Isn’t that what Harry Styles was singing about?

8. Dark Green Nail Polish

Essie Glossy Shine Finish Nail Polish in Off Tropic
Amazon
Dark green is a perfect Thanksgiving nail color because it transfers seamlessly into the Christmas season. As long as it doesn’t chip during the rush of Black Friday, you’ll be set for both holidays!

9. Neutral Blush Pink Nail Color

Gucci Glossy Nail Polish in Ellen Blush
Sephora, $33.00
Yeah, $33 for nail polish is a bit pricey. But the way that Gucci bottle will look on your nightstand? Priceless.*

*$33

10. Shimmery Cobalt Blue

ILNP in Midnight Kiss
Amazon
We’re dazzled by this deep blue sparkly nail polish shade. So dazzled that we forgot where we were going with that sentence. Insert joke here.

11. Cognac Brown Nail Color

Essie Winter Trend Collection in Midnight Delight
Ulta, $10.00
The highly anticipated “Fifty Shades of Brown” movie partially inspired this list. And with this coffee-like shade, we’ll say that it’s about a morning cup of Joe. Nothing else weird…

12. Sunflower Yellow Nail Color

OPI Nail Lacquer Nail Polish in Exotic Birds Do Not Tweet
Ulta, $11.49
If you’ve ever seen Colorado in the fall, you’ll understand why this polish makes this list of Thanksgiving nail colors. And, next time it snows you have a color guide for which patches to avoid eating. We had some really funky tasting smoothies last winter.

13. Plum Purple Nail Lacquer

Revlon SuperLustrous Nail Enamel in Passionate
Amazon
We’re passionate in our conviction that this nail polish would look good on legitimately anyone. For example, we just painted our pet squirrels nails and she is looking fabulous. Who’s next? Also, can anyone spare a Band-Aid?

14. Sage Green Color

Londontown Lakur Nail Polish in Jade Green
Amazon
Sage green is kinda having a moment right now. Ooh, let us know when it’s puce’s turn!

15. Color Shifting Chrome Red, Orange, and Bronze

ILNP in Abundance
Amazon
This nail polish color shifts in the light, so you get a red, orange, and bronze manicure all in one. So what this tells us is that we just learned how to do that whole skittles manicure trend for nothing.

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Laura Davis

Laura is the Boston-based Editor at Let's Eat Cake. She currently writes about products, entertainment news, beauty trends, and food, and has contributed to a variety of lifestyle publications, including Popular Science and Flixed. She is also the co-founder of Adultescence, a podcast and blog for post grads, where she writes about friendship and dating.

When she's not typing away on her laptop, you can find Laura working on her MBA at Boston College, listening to Taylor Swift, or sweating it out at an OrangeTheory class. Follow her on Instagram @LauraKristine21 and LinkedIn.