Terracotta Nails
A warm clay red-brown, the colour of unglazed pottery, sitting between rust orange and cocoa with no pink or grey in it. It reads earthy and grounded rather than vampy, which is why it functions as a daytime alternative to a fall red.
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Key fact
Handora's twelve-shade fall 2026 colour report ranks terracotta fourth and describes it as 'the daytime alternative to red'; celebrity nail artist Gina Edwards told Who What Wear that clay and terracotta tones would displace butter yellow as 2026's dominant warm colour family.
