Selena Gomez is in her goth period. The actor has been feeling deep, darkish tones for pink carpet occasions up to now this yr, beginning with the shiny black patent leather-based mani she rocked on the 2024 Golden Globes and the black cherry set she selected for the 2024 Emmy Awards.

Gomez known as up her go-to nail artist, Tom Bachik, to make her manicure desires come true for the Emmys. Bachik used a combo of nail merchandise to show the star’s nails into shimmery, romantic, just-goth-enough black cherries, however it’s a must to see them within the mild — not on the pink carpet — to actually recognize all of the little particulars.

The manicure mimicked the sample of Gomez’s customized Oscar de la Renta robe in each shade and form. “The form of the nail was tremendous necessary at this time,” Bachik shared on Instagram. “We needed to pair her customized darkish shade with a robust oval formed nail to enrich the sample in her gown.”

As soon as her medium-length nails had been formed to perfection, Bachik combined up a customized combo beginning with a “tremendous skinny” layer of PLA’s Nail Liner in Black, adopted by a coat of PLA Professional Gel Polish in You Cannot Inform Anybody, a deep eggplant purple. “To create the deep cherry impact, I took a small gel brush dipped into pink chrome powder. Beginning down the middle of the nail, I combined the chrome into the moist gel polish and blended it out to the edges,” Bachik defined. He then utilized a high coat for shine and depth, leading to a “deep wealthy cherry pink that shimmers within the mild identical to automobile paint.” I might stare at these nails for hours, they’re so multidimensional.