Selena Gomez’s Pink Mocha Nails Are the Perfect End of Summer, Start of Fall Set

Just when you thought we had our color set for the last of the summer nail tech appointments, along comes Selena Gomez and her mocha pink nails. It’s a sweet manicure, without being cloying, and with a natural touch.

According to Pantone, the official color of 2025 has been “Mocha Mousse.” (This followed 2024’s “Peach Fuzz,” and the previous year’s “Viva Magenta”). Mocha Mousse is a soft, warm shade that brings to mind creamy chocolate and coffee, a tone that connects to beauty and fashion’s ongoing love affair with brown. The Rare Beauty founder has long been a fan of elevating the classic and elegant, which is exactly what her latest nail shade—concocted with her nail artist of choice, Tom Bachik—does.

So why not add a few drops of pink to the Mocha Mousse equation? The result is a delicate, minimalist shade, a soft and sweet statement.

The pop star, actor, and beauty mogul wore the manicure for a recent night in L.A. celebrating her first Rare Beauty perfume, Rare Eau de Parfum. The gourmand offering features notes of caramel, vanilla, and sandalwood—“warm with just a touch of spice,” as she so recently told Vogue. She’s leaned into those sweet, delectable tones throughout the promo, on another day, hosting a perfume-themed baking class with fiancé Benny Blanco, where they made pistachio and caramel tiramisu. A similarly deliciously shaded manicure? A textbook Gomez detail.

To go with the nail shade, Gomez wore a shimmering, almost-bridal halter-neck dress by Cult Gaia, combined with a high, polished ponytail by Renato Campora, and a brown smoky eye with a pink-glossed caramel lip by makeup artist Hung Vanngo. Gomez kept her mocha pink nails in the on-trend, round and short shape—a failsafe elegant silhouette, too.