Italian nail artist Alessandra Ceccaroni Il Baio frequently creates various french manicure designs for her clients in Spoleto, Italy. Here, she’s paired a trendy oval nail shape with a polish that’s more nude than nude-pink.

Another creation from Allessandra, this french manicure has a more traditional shape, but still feels fresh due to its brighter pink color and subdued thin white tips.

In London, Nails by Mets's Metta Francis creates a lot of modern french manicure designs for clients. This summery look combines a barely there nude base with lime-green and white tips.

With this french manicure nail art, also by Metta, pastel tips replace white. Look closesly and you can see that the tips are asymmetric. It's a small detail, but a fun way to update a french mani. 

Yes, this is pretty close to a classic french manicure. Even so, this Metta creation feels contemporary due to the short, round nail shape and pearlescent sheen from the Shellac polish. 

We like an ombre french manicure, but if you really can’t get on board with the pink-and-white, try Metta's colorful french-manicure-adjacent ombre look.