Maybelline Fashion Week Fall 2011: the nail polishes

Once again, a huge, whopping thank-you is in order for my dear reader Kallie, who is creating lemmings all over the country tonight with these pics (ok, maybe that's an exaggeration but if you're a polish lover, I pretty much guarantee you're going to want at least ONE of the polishes in this post).

A few days ago, beautifulmonday showed us the displays for the Maybelline Fall 2011 Fashion Week collection, and today Kallie has some close-ups of the polishes. Sit down and get ready, polish lovers!

image credit for all of the following photos: Kallie for Nouveau Cheap

Let me get the two show-stoppers out of the way right off the bat. There's a gray and a deep plum in this collection that don't look like much at first:

Cool Couture

Purple Trend

But then Kallie took them out into the sunlight and HOLY HIDDEN BLUE SHIMMER!

 (click this image for a much better view)

You've got to read Kallie's email about these two shades--it's hysterical! 

Kalllie writes: 

"...I decided to pick up the grey [Cool Couture] and check it out. Meh, a pretty blue toned grey, again, nothing I didn't already have. I was about to put it back, but as I turned the bottle, the light caught the side and that gorgeous blue and turquoise shimmer came out to play. I think if I had one of those helmet cams strapped to my head, you would have died laughing to see my face go from meh to ZOMG!!!!!!!!!!!! Suddenly there was this life I hadn't really seen in greys! I didn't have a basket with me since I was really just browsing and I felt like suddenly everyone wanted to grab this polish from me. I turned into a semi Gollum type person and hunched over the display so no one else could see it and steal my preciouses before I had a chance to give them all a good look."

And here's what happened when Kallie saw Purple Trend:

"Then came the bruise [Purple Trend]. Again, back in the dark corner of the shelf, that's what it looked like to me. Rescue Beauty Lounge Bruised. I pulled it into the light and saw that it too had that pretty blue turquoise shimmer, which instantly reminded me of my favorite MAC pigment ever, Blue Brown, so I hoarded it too."

Haha! She's so right though. Purple Trend is like the nail polish equivalent to MAC Blue Brown! 

In fact, when I was talking to my pal Niki about this last night, she said the same thing. I just have never seen another polish like it--especially at the drugstore.

Here are the rest of the shades in the display (descriptions by Kallie):

Notorious Navy (blue frost shimmer)

 Gold Accessory (gold frost shimmer)

 Mauve Accents (muave creme)

  Be Scene in Green (green frost shimmer)

 Another huge thank-you to Kallie for not only the great pics, but for the informative (and hilarious) commentary! 

So...any must-haves here? I need Cool Couture and Purple Trend STAT!