Halloween Nail Biters

Pumpkin-hued polishes more sassy than sweet? Orly's Right Amount of Evil ($10) adds a hint of sparkle or an all-out disco ball of shine, depending how thick you coat your nails. R.I.P. ($10), also from Orly, leaves a midnight black coat underneath chunky orange glitter.

Just how dark do you want to go? For moms dashing out to a holiday party, one coat of Chanel's Le Vernis Black Satin ($26) will add smolder without the extra wait. For a slightly lighter black, try Butter London's Union Jack Black ($14). Feeling the glitter? Butter London's Gobsmacked ($14) adds a sparkly gray topcoat over any spooky shade. Layer it on thick for a wicked veil of metallic color.

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Adding some extra vamp to your Halloween duds is easy with these sanguineous shades. Inspired by HBO's vampire series True Blood, Deborah Lippmann's Let It Bleed ($25), from her Forsaken Lip & Nail Duet. Chanel's Malice and Butter London's La Moss ($14) will blend in with your glass of pinot noir.

If you'd rather ditch the dark stuff in favor of a whiter shade of pale or even flesh tone, Deborah Lippmann's limited-edition Fairydust (paired with the zombie-hued Human Nature in the Sookie Sookie pack, $30) is ghostly white with a flash of red shimmer. Lippmann's New Flesh (part of the above Bad Things Pack mini trio, $25) will have Halloween revelers wondering where skin ends and nails begin.

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