XOXO, "Gossip Girl" Season 2 Beauty Secrets You Should Know

A detail that you may miss at first glance but deserves your full attention is the nail looks sprinkled throughout the season. "We did a lot of fake nails on this show," Kornhaber says. As socialites, many of our main characters would never be caught without a manicure. They also had signature nail looks, too, as many of us do.

"For Shan (Grace Duah), she always wanted the coffin shape," Kornhaber says. Meanwhile, Monet most frequently wore Chillhouse Chill Tips Press-On Nails ($16) with french tips. Kornhaber describes it as "that very class, old-school, Upper East Side kind of manicure."