I don’t know whether you were already aware, but for some years now, beauty brand Sally Hansen has had a relationship with designer label Tracy Reese. To wit: when Tracy Reese has a runway show, Sally Hansen designs custom nail polish for that show (always in her Salon formula). Well it’s now fall/winter 2010, which means you’re seeing the polishes that walked the runway last February.
The nails echoed the dresses: muted neutrals, overlaid with black lace (click on the model for a close-up of her nails). There were five different shades, ready to provide “mannequin hands” to models of all skintones: Evening Fog, Wet Clay, Fedora, Touch of Mink, and Bittersweet.
When you find the display in-store, it doesn’t mention anything special about these five shades. They’re just five new, limited edition colors in a display of maybe 14 new, limited edition colors. I had to drive around to nine different drugstores to find the unit, so when I finally tracked them down, I went a little crazy… and bought seven polishes (these five, plus another two from the fall collection). The situation may be different in your area, but I only found these at Walgreens (not CVS or Ulta).
I decided to forego the decorative lace, and swatched these in order from lightest to darkest, starting with Evening Fog. Evening Fog is perfectly named: a trenchcoat yellow-beige. I got a shocking number of compliments on this polish, which just goes to show: you don’t have to choose the shade that best matches your skintone.
Wet Clay was my “mannequin hands” shade: a putty color, pinker than Evening Fog.
Fedora is the only shade that’s not a creme: it has tiny little golden sparkles in it (click the image for a closer view).
Touch of Mink is a chocolate brown, which feels TOTALLY on trend with all the neutrals I’ve been loving lately.
My favorite was actually the deepest: dark, cool brown Bittersweet. It’s just the color of dark chocolate.
Thoughts? Favorites? Will you be driving around to drugstores like a crazy person over these?
I like the light ones the best - Wet Clay is my fave. Hopefully they will make it to Australia one day!
Already drove around like a whackadoodle, loved almost the whole collection. Mine were at the Ultas, though, but I got them in October and they are all gone from the all the Ultas now.
Strangely, they are still in my Walgreens. I think they got displaced by the Christmas displays, and that prevented them from being all shopped out.
The ways of Sally Hansen are….mysterious and fickle. I am just glad I found them during one of the weeks ulta had the 5 off 10 coupon.
Wow, they all look great! I haven’t noticed them in my Walgreens but will be sure to look for them.
This is gonna sound weird but you have such nice fingers and nails! So model like! I love Fedora. It reminds me of Under my Trench Coat by Sephora OPI.
as much as I love the polishes, I keep getting distracted by the background in your photos. I am ready for spring and some evening fog!
Evening Fog is gorgeous and probably the shade that most closely matches my skintone. Beautiful.
I found these at Ulta back in October and they’re gone now. Recently I’ve seen them at Rite Aid
Thanks for all your work. I know you live in Dallas, I do too. Where did you find these polishes?
I really like them,except for Fedora, which would probably look dreadful on my skintone.
I’ve been looking since last year and I still cannot find any of these polishes… :’(