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We've all stood in front of a rack of brightly colored bottles of nail polish at the local salon and wondered, How do I choose? Imagine confronting hundreds of those bottles and you'll have a sense of the challenge facing Allure editors when it's time to determine the very best chip-resistant lacquers, as we did for the winners of our Nails category in the 2023 Allure Best of Beauty Awards.