With so many excellent nail polish shades coming out this fall, my hands
have been both busy and heavily decorated. My favorite from Maybelline’s
new Color Show collection is a gray-aubergine mix called Silver Stunner
($4;
maybelline.com); Mac has more than tripled its shade range, from 8
to 30, including Screaming Bright, a shimmery opaque gold ($16;
maccosmetics.com); and Estée Lauder’s creative makeup director, Tom
Pecheux, has gone très subversive with some to-die-for dark colors like
the ones above, from left: Blue Blood, Caviar, Viper, and Bête Noir ($20
each;
esteelauder.com).