Many beauty trends have emerged this winter, but one of the biggest and easiest to buy into has to be super-dark nail polish.

Even the sweetest celebs, girls who don’t have a ‘rock chick’ or ‘goth’ bone in their body, (think Jessica Simpson and Gwyneth Paltrow) have been spotted wearing blue or black polish on their usually French-manicured fingers.

It all started when Chanel launched an oh-so-expensive, pearly midnight blue polish called Blue Satin. The fashion pack went wild and bottles sold out just about everywhere. Now, however, your nails don’t have to be dark blue if you’re to follow the trend. All dark, mysterious shades, be it deep gunmetal, pearly eggplant or a simple, glossy black, are your ticket to instant ‘It-girl’ status.

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