Sexy, moody and oh-so-perfect for winter.

The festive season is about to kick off, and with Christmas parties and outings with the gang/family/gals once more on the horizon, I think we all have started thinking about our beauty prep. But before you go booking yourself in for a manicure requesting your usual festive deep, dark red (a classic, I think we can all agree), you might want to hear about the colour that is topping the trend charts when it comes to nails this winter – dark green. Yep, dark green is this season's hottest nail colour – and you'll see why. Seriously chic, seriously sexy, deep, dark hunter green is going viral, with Pinterest reporting a 75 percent jump in searches lately. According to Glamour magazine, there is one shade, in particular, that seems to be everyone's favourite, and having seen it, we get it. Biosculpture's gel polish in Free Lovin in the most stunning, vampy dark green, it almost looks black, but when you look closely, you'll see it is not. Instagram alone has over 8000 pictures with the hashtag #darkgreennails and so fear not if you are looking for inspiration. The trend seems to work really well on shorter nail, and looks all sorts of chic, we think. If you are a fan of Essie nail polishes, the shade Off Tropic (No. 399) seems to be pretty perfect too: