Before nail artist Madeline Poole became a backstage regular at fashion shows like Stella McCartney, Phillip Lim, and DKNY, she was an art-school graduate working in a Baltimore poster restoration shop, repairing vintage Barnum & Bailey circus signs and navy recruitment bulletins. “I spent my days fixing artifacts with teeny, tiny paintbrushes and realized I loved small-scale painting,” Poole says. But it wasn’t until she moved to Hollywood and watched a manicurist at work on the set of a fashion shoot that she scrapped her plans to become a painter and enrolled in beauty school.
“It just clicked for me that I’d rather do miniature paintings on a live hand than on a lone, sad canvas,” says Poole. Two nail-art books, a crazy-popular Instagram feed (@mpnails, if you don’t already follow her), and a few thousand manicures later, Poole landed the role of global color ambassador for Sally Hansen. Her latest project for the company is fine-tuning shades for the new Color Therapy line, which launches in December and includes 38 nude, pink, and jewel-tone polishes infused with argan and evening- primrose oils that sink into nails to keep them flexible and strong. Also key: The colors look as saturated on your fingertips as they do on salon and store shelves. “It was so frustrating to buy nail polishes that looked bright and opaque in the bottle only to find they were completely sheer or dull when I painted them on,” says Poole. “With these polishes, what you see is what you get." And below, you can get a sneak peek at the 38 brand spankin' new new polish shades before they hit shelves in a month:
A hack for brighter-looking nails:
Our favorite metallics (L-R): Therapewter, Glow with the Flow, Shea Dream, Powder Room
Our picks for the perfect fall manicure (L-R): Good as Blue, Haute Stone, Unwine'd, Exotic Açai, Cool Cucumber
The nudes (L-R): Rosy Quartz, Chai on Life, Steely Serene, Blushed Petal, Mud Mask, Sheer Nirvana
All the new nail polish shades in the Color Therapy line:
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