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Thursday, August 18, 2011

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!
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13 comments

  1. thanks for the post beautiful colors

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  2. Those first two are MUST HAVES. *swoon* I didn't see them today, maybe by this weekend they'll have them out! I'm doing massive stalking.

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  3. Be Scene in Green looks like it might have some blue duochrome action going on. Is that just some weirdness from the flash, or is it really there??? I wanna see these!

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  4. Love these! She is SO right about the gray!!!! :)

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  5. could Purple Trend be a blue shimmer version of Vanishing Venus, which had green shimmer?

    I want it too, precioussssss is an apt description ;)

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  6. Yay! I picked up three of these before I saw your post and am going back for Purple Trend today! Posted three of the looks today: Cool Couture, Natural Beauty and Be Scene in Green... :) Nice collection from Maybelline.

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  7. Possible dupe between BleachBlack's Dickweed and Be Scene in Green? It's hard to tell, but Maybelline's version may have that duochrome effect that I covet. I've been meaning to buy Dickweed but it seems to be sold out!

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  8. nice work Kallie! hilarious notes too!

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  9. I picked up polish today at HEB!! ♥

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  10. Thanks bluemonday! I'm glad my crazy person antics at least entertain :) And they get me the prize, so it's a llllll good haha!

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  11. saw it today & passed on them. the pictures here look better because i wanted to pick someone of them up. but the bottles looked eh in real life..

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  12. I picked up purple trend and LOVE it. Wearing it now and it is divine with excellent pigmentation and formula. Now I need to get the grey-blue one...

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  13. Oh for shame! My being such a non-animal cruelty beauty buyer, I was irresistibly (and probably irresponsibly!) drawn to buy 4 polishes from this collection. I haven't even WANTED a Maybelline polish in YEARS! What's with these gorgeous colors all of a sudden? Needless to say, I'm head-over-heels for Purple Trend & may have to get a back-up! Wearing it now with accents of MAC Deep Sea on thumbs. LOVE! I have yet to try the other 3 I picked up - the grey/blue, dark blue & green/blue duochrome. There is duochrome in the bottle, but from swatches I've seen it doesn't translate much on the nail - for those curious.

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