It’s time to get polished for fall. All you need is one colorful coat.

One hot hue is blue. Just like jeans, you can pick a blue bottle and make it your staple this season. Or (just like in my closest) you don’t have to be true to just one blue, pick a a polish in every wash (take a cue from trendsetter Les Jeans de Chanel) and change it up depending on your mood!

If you are not feeling blue, Karie L. Frost, executive editor of Beauty Etc. & fashion/beauty editor for Nailpro says polish manufacturers are still going green this season too and showing everything from creamy mints to inky forest greens. Frost’s green-thumbs up goes to olive greens, which are either gold-flecked (Butter London Wallis) or beautifully opaque (Zoya Dree)

Say goodbye to greige (finally) and go nude! If you have stubby fingers- go ahead and get naked (polish)! Nudes lengthen the finger to give you that piano player look you’ve always wished for (think about how nude pumps lengthen the leg). If your fingers are a normal length, be sure to pick a polish at least two shades darker than your skin (to prevent freakishly long fingers). Try Sally Hansen Complete Salon Manicure in Nude Now, Deborah Lippmann’s Naked or Dior Vernis in Safari Beige. If you want to cover up or punch it up a bit, add a black moon tip.

If you aren’t bold enough to go nude, and you just can’t nail the blues and green trend, just be sure to crown a jewel tone as your fall nail color. Speaking of jewels, this season, you don’t need a ring to add some heavy metal bling to your fingers. Metallics shine once again! But this time, Frost says, the elemental metallics, such as gold and silver, are given extreme depth (check out MAC Nail Lacquer in Immortal Gold and Chanel Le Vernis Nail Color in Graphite). Blue gets around and goes metallic too. Frost’s blues clues- find either SpaRitual Rhythm of Life or Orly Stone Cold, the latter of which she says is formulated with mica, glass particles and crystals to create “dizzying dimension”.

Crackle’s out (with the exception of OPI’s new Pink Shatter: Pink of Hearts Nail Lacquer to support Susan G. Komen for the Cure- saving lives and ending breast cancer forever is the best trend there is). We are now attracted to “magnetic” polish with full force.

If you liked the Wooly Willy Magnetic Face as a kid, this trend will pull you right in! Frost explains that these new polishes contain metal particles that drift into designs (typically lines or stars) when you hold a specially designed magnet over top your freshly lacquered up nails. (Note to self: Frost warns you have to create your magnetic design while polish is wet, and be careful not to bump the magnet against the wet polish!) Frost’s fav: LCN Magnetic Nail Polish. It masters the magnetic mission with eight metallic hues to choose from and not one, but two design magnets! Fun!

If your fine motor skills aren’t up to par (Frost warns it could take many tries and smudges before your get the magnetic technique down), but your creative juices are flowing, get stuck on nail adhesives. You’ve probably heard of Beyonce and Gaga’s fav Minx. Frost suggests getting your hands on Dashing Diva’s new Design FX (think Katy Perry’s Smurf nails at the movie’s premiere). It skips the whole heat application and comes in 36 different designs that Frost calls “fashion-forward and fun”. If you don’t want to decorate your whole nail, you can just do the tips! Sticky fingers have never been more fab.

Frost says that this past year is the first time she has seen nail art embraced by the masses (and she’s worked at pro Nail Mag Nailpro for 11 years). So go ahead, get on trend, fall in love with DIY and let the mani-mania begin!