These New Ballet-Inspired Nail Colors Are Right On Pointe
The colors: Satin Slippers, Lilac Fairy, and Ballet Barre. (Photo: Instagram.com/balletbeautful)
Mary Helen Bowers, the dancer and trainer behind Natalie Portman’s gorgeous moves in Black Swan — and Doutzen Kroes’s and Lily Aldridge’s runway-ready bodies — is making all our ballerina beauty dreams come true. She has teamed up with Sephora for a Formula X nail polish collaboration, releasing three colors that are so dancer-chic, we’re doing pirouettes of joy.
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“Nail polish is like the icing on the beauty cake,” the Ballet Beautiful founder tells Yahoo Beauty. “I love how it pulls a look together, and you can add on right before running out of the door.” Or, in Bowers’s world, hitting the ballet studio.
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But if you’re more comfortable at a bar than a barre, don’t fret: The colors — light pink Satin Slippers, Lilac Fairy, and gunmetal Ballet Barre — are the perfect way to bring out your inner ballerina, no practice needed. (I have Ballet Barre on my fingers right now, and I swear I’ve been typing more gracefully because of it.)
Bowers says she’s most likely to reach for Satin Slippers (she calls it a “peachy pink with a touch of sheen to dress up any outfit”), but it’s hard to go wrong with any of the three. Find the polishes, part of Sephora’s #ColorCurators line, online and in select stores soon.
