Photo: Sally Hanse via The Cut.
To call Madeline Poole a mani maven would be a complete understatement. The Insta-famous nail artist stepped into the spotlight on the platform, and it led to becoming Sally Hansen‘s global ambassador. Throughout her tenure, she’s not only shared her insight during the brand’s color curation process but has also crafted eye-catching manicures that have rocked the runways at New York Fashion Week. She’s even helped beauty editors (like myself) customize their own colors. But she’s never had a collection to call her own…until now.
The Complete Salon Manicure Madeline Poole Collection features six shades inspired from Poole’s own childhood during the late ’80s and early ’90s, with each bottle topped off with Poole’s MP Instagram logo wrapped around the silver cap. Color cues in the collection range from Say It Lycra You Mean It, pulled from the reddish-orange plush velvet interior of the family Dodge Aries to the metallic pink sheen of her mother’s aerobic leggings that to sparked the shade Material Pearl to even an electric lime, aptly called Slime Scene, inspired by the era’s obsession with the green-hued goo (which you can thank Ghostbusters and everything on Nickelodeon’s The Splat for). Plus, there are a few subtler shades you can rock no matter the atmosphere, including Vinyl Tap, a pale blue-gray; Mallratz, a hunter green hue, and Call Me On My Shellphone, a bisque with a mauve undertone (whose name goes well with this phone case from Valfré).
But regardless of which shades you decide to snap up, you won’t have to worry about your mani getting messed up. The Complete Salon Manicure boasts a wide brush for a streak-free application that won’t breed any air bubble and a formula that stays put for up to 10 days — as long most gel manicures but without the danger of UV lamps or the acetone-soaked removal process.
I’ve already got my eye on Mallratz, Say It Lycra Mean It, Slime Scene, and Vinyl Tap — all awesome shades as we (slowly but surely) transition to spring. Want to get a closer look at the colors? Check them all out below and let me know which ones are your faves in the comments!
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