Sometimes even after a shade or product has proven to be popular just the way it is, brands get excited about the possibilities of making shades or items more innovative or bigger. Kindra did a compare and contrast of two bottles of “Mint Candy Apple” and the one on the left, in the photo provided, definitely carried bluer than the other bottle of “Mint” that is more seafoam. In November 2015, the Essie fan site, Essie Envy, published an expose on whether the brand had reformulated the popular mint hue since its original launch. Hello, ol’ friend and winner of an Allure Magazine Best of Beauty recognition in 2011. It had been some time since I wore it and the last one dried up after much use.
I recently bought it at a Wal-Mart near Northampton, MA.
#MINT CANDY APPLE COLOR PROFESSIONAL#
It’s gorgeous and again, funky enough to be different but you can get away with it if worn as a part of a professional or understated ensemble. The Essie website describes it even more perfectly: “a creme de menthe mint.” You know, the same shade as the cool filling in those easily eat the whole box of chocolate thins named Andes. Now how would I describe “Mint Candy Apple”? It is a milkshake smooth mixed hue of granny smith apple green and muted lime. Similar to when Hard Candy’s “Sky” and Chanel’s “Vamp” ruled. As an undergrad, black nail polish, no matter the brand, became a zeitgeist in the makeup industry. Liquid gold I suppose considering I hadn’t been this eager for a nail polish shade since freshmen and sophomore year of college. Getting my hands on one felt like I found gold. Wherever I bought my bottle from, it was after weeks of searching for it because from drugstores to Bronx beauty supply stores, it was sold out.
Classy yet unexpected, it was unequivocally the “it” shade.
There was no denying how pretty the color was. It seemed that Essie quietly released “Mint Candy Apple” in stores and while I can’t confirm whether it was a re-release or not–there’s been so many shades since the brand’s 1981 debut–it was either the nascent of online blogs or classic word of mouth that got it hot. My first two years in New York, there was only one nail polish color that mattered and it was Essie’s “Mint Candy Apple.” When I finally got my hands on a bottle of it, I was still working at Topshop in Soho and I recall so well how a coworker (her name was Margeaux) stopped me after I dropped off clothes for the second floor fitting room, and with a shriek and a charge towards me, asked where I found “Mint Candy Apple.”
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