Can you believe it’s already August? That’s not stopping Selena Gomez from defying the season with her new manicure.
Summer has been flying by at breakneck speed – and yet! It’s not going fast enough, as far as I’m concerned. We’ve been stuck in the late 20s (the temperature, not the decade) for weeks on end, and I am over it.
I was over it before it started, to be honest, and I am beyond ready for it to be autumn. So ready, in fact, that I might take a cue from Selena and attempt to summon the new season with some traditionally autumn-esque nail polish.
Selena posted a nailfie (are we still saying “nailfie”?) on Instagram on Thursday afternoon, and it’s conjuring up all of the cooler-weather feels. Her left hand rests on a cream-coloured – perhaps cashmere – pair of sweater pants, giving us a perfect contrast to show off her pumpkin-spicy manicure.
The shape, somewhere between ballerina and oval, is perfect for her long but not unmanageably long nails—but wait. Let’s get back to this colour for a sec. Take a look at the fine print on Selena Gomez’s Instagram story.
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“Took @tombachik 40 min to make this colour,” she wrote.
That means, even though nail artist Tom Bachik has what I imagine is an endless supply of pre-bottled nail polish colours, he was willing and able to customise the exact colour Selena was feeling in the moment. Celebrities are not just like us, my friends.
As of writing this, he hasn’t revealed what he used to make such a perfect autumnal hue — his own post on Instagram says, “A custom brick red for @selenagomez” and nothing more.
I’m not going to wait for the details to break out the similar ready-to-wear shades in my collection in hopes of manifesting some more October-like temperatures.
A version of this article originally appeared on Allure.