{"id":1062,"date":"2011-08-24T20:28:15","date_gmt":"2011-08-25T01:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gearbunny.net\/?p=1062"},"modified":"2011-08-24T20:29:26","modified_gmt":"2011-08-25T01:29:26","slug":"notd-maybelline-cool-couture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitalemily.com\/gearbunny\/makeup\/notd-maybelline-cool-couture\/","title":{"rendered":"Maybelline Cool Couture"},"content":{"rendered":"

The very first nail polish my mother allowed me to get, when I was 7 years old and begging her in the grocery store, was a bright candy pink Maybelline.\u00a0 (It was lots of fun until I spilled it all over my bedroom floor.\u00a0 Oopsie!)\u00a0 Tangents about childhood aside, I haven’t bought any Maybellines since because they seem to stick with pinks and reds – a color range I find snooze-worthy.\u00a0 Cool Couture is an exception!\u00a0 This is a limited edition shade from the Express Finish line.\u00a0 I find it hard to describe this chic fall color.\u00a0 The best I can do is call it a dark slate grey – appearing as an almost-black teal in low light – with a fine, hidden, yet electric turquoise shimmer.\u00a0 I couldn’t wait to see if that shimmer translated onto the nail!<\/p>\n

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The shimmer certainly visible in strong light.\u00a0 I took the picture above in direct sunlight.<\/p>\n

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In weaker light you can see how it seems more slate grey – and that turquoise shimmer is much more subdued.<\/p>\n

Now, the bottle proclaims this a “50 second” nail polish.\u00a0 I beg to differ.\u00a0 When I brushed it on a teeeeensy bit too thin it dragged horribly and started drying right away.\u00a0 Then the slightly thicker coats took several minutes to dry.\u00a0 A few minutes isn’t bad, but it’s not 50 seconds.\u00a0 This lacquer easily migrated into my cuticles so cleanup was not too successful, as you can see.\u00a0 I used 2 coats here which ended up providing good coverage.\u00a0 I got a small chip on my tip after 1 day.<\/p>\n

Methinks I will definitely hold on to Cool Couture and give it another try, because I think it’s too interesting of a color to give up.\u00a0 Can you think of any dupes?\u00a0 I’m at a loss…<\/p>\n

Have you had any luck with any of the Maybelline polishes?<\/p>\n

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~ Allison ~<\/p>\n

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The very first nail polish my mother allowed me to get, when I was 7 years old and begging her in the grocery store, was a bright candy pink Maybelline.\u00a0 (It was lots of fun until I spilled it all over my bedroom floor.\u00a0 Oopsie!)\u00a0 Tangents about childhood aside, I haven’t bought any Maybellines since […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[192,202,201,151,32],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalemily.com\/gearbunny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalemily.com\/gearbunny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalemily.com\/gearbunny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalemily.com\/gearbunny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalemily.com\/gearbunny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1062"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/digitalemily.com\/gearbunny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1068,"href":"https:\/\/digitalemily.com\/gearbunny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062\/revisions\/1068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalemily.com\/gearbunny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalemily.com\/gearbunny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalemily.com\/gearbunny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}