Nail Shapes To Elongate Fingers. From elongating your fingers to accentuating short nails, this is a guide to all of the different nail shapes. It looks best on fingernails that are short, narrow, and with long fingers.

Start by filing and following the natural shape of the fingertip.
It's similar to an almond shape but a tad more blunt. "Elongating the nails by making them rounder will flatter every shape nail and every size nail bed, whereas a flattened, square nail will always make your fingers look shorter and nails wider," they say.
Cropped squoval is a classic — as in royal family classic — that's simpatico with lifestyles in which you've gotta use your hands to get shit done, while almond-shaped nails signal grace, thanks to their ability to feign elongated fingers. What's more, in addition to being rounded at the tip, the sides of the nails are also filed flat to create the elongated shape. File it towards the center, keeping the side tilted to give it a more pointed top.