Coffee Break – Mademoiselle
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I've always heard amazing things about Essie Mademoiselle, the color featured here. Best-seller! “A grown-up pink!” “The perfect nude!” But on me, it tends to be a bit too pinky.
So a friend taught me this trick a while ago: you layer different pinks to get a nude-for-you look.
I think a lot of New Yorkers do this — layering Mademoiselle and Sugar Daddy is popular; I'm a fan of a Mademoiselle/Starter Wife combo. Essie polishes are $8. Essie Nail Color: Mademoiselle
Readers, what is your favorite pink/nude nailpolish?
Sales of note for 5/29:
- Nordstrom – The Half-Yearly Sale has started! See our roundup here. Good deals on Veronica Beard, Vince, Reiss (esp. coats), as well as Wit & Wisdom and NYDJ
- Ann Taylor – 25% off + 30% off sale items
- Bare Necessities – Up to 40% off, including tons of bra-sized swimwear (also, 10 panties for $10)
- Boden – 15% off new women's wear styles with code
- Express – $29 dresses and matching sets, and everything else buy 1 get 1 50% off
- J.Crew – 20% off $200, including new styles
- J.Crew Factory – Extra 50% off clearance + 40-60% off everything else
- Loft – $35 jeans (5/29 only) + 60% off sale tops and dresses
- M.M.LaFleur – Up to 70% off this weekend only! (Try code CORPORETTE15 for 15% off)
- Nordstrom Rack – Clear the Rack! Nice selection of Vince, Veronica Beard, Reiss and Rag & Bone, a ton of affordable work basics from Calvin Klein and dresses from Maggy London, Eliza J, and Donna Morgan
- Talbots – $99 dresses and sandals
- Theory – 25% off sitewide (see our notes here)
And some of our latest threadjacks here at Corporette (reader questions and commentary) — see more here!
Some of our latest threadjacks include:
I don’t know why this never occurred to me to do. My go-to “safe” pink (because I have a weakness for ridiculous hot pinks) is Essie’s “Eternal Optimist,” which is almost perfect (especially in its opacity; I just can’t with sheer polish), except it’s slightly too cool for my skin tone. Now I just need to figure out the right pink to it up with.