Black Cherry Hair for Spring? How Very Jenna Ortega

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Jenna Ortega doesn't exactly gravitate toward pastels. While she may not be as exaggeratedly goth as Wednesday Addams, the actor definitely has a real-life penchant for deep shades, often sporting dark ensembles and wearing her hair almost or actually black. For a second, we thought she might be softening up a bit when she showed up at the Vanity Fair Oscar After Party in a wispy, gold gown, a sheer taupe manicure, and a warm, subtly auburn hair color. But it seems that was short-lived.

On Tuesday, March 11, Ortega arrived at a special screening of her new movie, Death of a Unicorn, wearing a strapless, asymmetrical, black David Koma dress. Even if she'd skipped the beauty steps, that dress alone would have left onlookers in awe, but she took her glam-goth look to a truly stunning level with her hair and makeup, the latter of which featured a gorgeous graphic, black eyeliner look by Vincent Oquendo.

It seems Ortega's hair color has taken a cool turn—literally and figuratively—with a nearly black look. But when we say nearly black, we don't mean dark brown. When the light hits it just right, you can see that there are super dark glints of deep, garnet, made especially radiant by how straight and reflective Bobby Eliot styled it.

That beautiful black cherry hue carried over into a manicure by Thuy Nguyen, who gave her softly squared-off nails a classic yet vampy glossy finish.

It's not every day that you see someone damn near perfectly match their nails to their hair color, but few hair colors are better candidates for a manicure shade than black cherry. But whether or not we decide to dye our hair like Ortega's, a deep, dark, almost-black red—we love Essie Expressie Quick Dry Nail Color in Not So Low-Key and Olive & June Quick Dry Polish in Covet, for example—can definitely make it into our spring rotation.

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