There’s a specific moment every year when nail salons stop booking summer brights and start dominating with something moodier, and nail technicians say that shift has already happened this fall. Deeper nail polish shades, French pedicure updates, and nail art details are showing up in gel pedicure appointments across the beauty world, and people can’t stop requesting them. Nail technicians describe it with real kindness, too, the kind of attention that helps someone discover a pedicure design that actually fits who they are right now, not just what’s trending. Here are the top pedicure trends already taking over this fall, straight from the nail techs booking them.