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In my neverending quest to keep you apprised of the latest fashion trends, I thought you'd want to know that chipped nails are now trendy.

"Before, when nail polish was chipped, you absolutely had to run and get it fixed," says Ji Baek, owner of Rescue Beauty Lounge salons in New York and a manicure doyenne who has noticed the Olsens and Lindsay Lohan with less-than-impeccable polish. Now, clients like hers are "wearing perfectly tailored clothes, they have $5,000 bags and equally fabulous shoes, but their nails are chipped and they're saying, 'I don't care.' They don't want to be too perfect."

But, she noted, their polish "is so perfectly chipped."

Unfortunately, of our family bloggers, only Kyla will be able to pull it off (if she can come up with the $5000 bag, of course).

Does this mean that we will be seeing a wave of moms and grandmas with punk rock nails? Not likely, says Deborah Lippman, a manicurist who has worked on the hands of Gwyneth Paltrow, Mary J. Blige and Madonna.

"I don't think you can get away with if you're a woman of a certain age," she says. What's a certain age?

"Anybody over 35," she replies.

I guess the rest of you will just look like you've been gardening or quilting too much.