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Christian Louboutin Classic Red Rouge Louboutin Nail Colour Pre-Order

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Christian Louboutin Rouge Louboutin Nail Colour

Rouge Louboutin Nail Colour ($50.00)

This long-wearing, chip resistant formula is highly pigmented with luxe, glossy color and UV protection to keep the color true. Two coats give the effect of 20 layers of traditional lacquer, with a brilliant shine. A custom-designed, patented triangular brush ensures precise application, while shorter bristles pick up the right amount of product, preventing air bubbles and ensuring flawless coverage. Formulated without Toluene, Formaldehyde, or DBP. 0.4 oz. Made in USA.

  • Rouge Louboutin Classic red

Availability: Pre-order at NordstromSaks or Neiman Marcus; August 6th for official launch, also at Bergdorf Goodman, Sephora (listed + can sign up to be notified when in stock but yet net available).  Full range of 30 shades will release on August 31st (per WWD)

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Christian Louboutin Rouge Louboutin Nail Colour
Christian Louboutin Rouge Louboutin Nail Colour

Christian Louboutin Rouge Louboutin Nail Colour
Christian Louboutin Rouge Louboutin Nail Colour

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Jane Avatar

I am embarrassed to admit I will absolutely check this out despite its price tag. I am curious what the colors will look like given the outré bottle.

The fetishwear in the ad is…

Haley Avatar

I cannot justify spending $50 on a nail polish no matter how cool the bottle is, especially considering it’s just a classic red color. I have too many red polishes to count already.

Emily Avatar

My first reaction was, “you’ve got to be kidding me.”

But then I realized…dang. Smart marketing. So hopefully the polish will be as beautiful as the bottle, and worthy of its price tag.

Chynna Avatar

“Two coats give the effect of 20 layers of traditional lacquer…”

I don’t even know what that means and I can’t figure out how anyone would wear that shoe.

Pink Provocateur Avatar

I believe those shoes (if they were, indeed, made for sale (and not merely for the advertising)) would be worn during fetish scenes. Probably, the wearer would be bound, so extraordinary strength would not be necessary. Very little (if any) walking would be done.

amy Avatar

same here…what are they even trying to say? the most layers of polish i’ve ever worn is 5 (base + 3 color + top) trying to achieve less opacity with a streaky thin polish and it always ends up looking weird on me. i’m sure they weren’t being literal but then that just seems insulting to write something so nonsensical and then try to charge $50 for it.

Quinctia Avatar

Oh, I can imagine the effects of that many layers. Never drying, bubbling, edges peeling up…. Sounds fantastic and I want to spend $50 for it!

Maybe the brand known for shoes should’ve gotten someone who knew a bit about polish to read their adcopy.

Debra Avatar

Oh, gosh!

I sent a link to my friend (who needs your website!) cause she covets Louboutin!

Love the bottle design. And for $50, 2 coats should = 20 of mere mortal nail polish.

Mariella Avatar

The price is totally off putting an I daresay $30 of that is simply because of the name, not because the polish is either a unique and unbeatable formula or colour that can’t be found it polishes costing $20 or even $15. Part of me gets a bit annoyed by stuff like this – suckering women into spending 50 bucks for a nail polish – gets me thinking of “the Emperor has no clothes”.

Jules Avatar

More like $45 of that cost is the name! Even fancy makeup costs pennies to produce. Packaging is the biggest cost but even that isn’t much. Luxury stuff… I just don’t get it…

fuji Avatar

Just want to say, OMG. My mind is blown.
$50 for nail lacquer?! Sounds crazy. But! that would be the cheapest thing you can own from Christian Louboutin, right? What a STEAL!
When the blood is back to my brain, I realize I’m still on the fence, if I’m given a gift card, I’ll definitely get one.

Jules Avatar

Eh, at least with Louboutin shoes, people see the red sole and know they’re Louboutins. With this, people will look at red fingernails and think it’s any old red nail polish you can get at the drugstore!

Shelley Avatar

Oh heck no!!! $50 for a small bottle of nail polish!!!??? I love high-end cosmetics but I draw the line when it comes to nail color.

Alexis Avatar

This looks really cool and all, but the price is more than I can handle. I would love to see if the claims are true though. And, I mean, some people spend $40+ on tom ford lipstick so what’s a $50 nail polish?

RS Avatar

I WANT THOSE SHOES. They speak to the former ballerina in me. 😀

The bottle of polish is gorgeous, but the price tag is far too much.

amy Avatar

the $50 price tag isn’t nearly as silly to me as the line from the PR “two coats give the effect of 20 layers of traditional lacquer…” even as a marketing professional i give epic eye rolls at language like this…if i tried to put 20 layers of traditional lacquer on my nails, the effect would be weirdly thick and unattractive, not exactly an effect i want to achieve, especially not for $50.

/silly marketing copy rant =]

Quinctia Avatar

You don’t want 50 coats of lacquer on your furniture, either. They make specifically thick stuff for tabletops, but everything else? 2-3 coats, fine buffing in between.

Christine Avatar

Just think: When the nail polish is all done you have a sweet display item/conversation piece. It’a pretty vial for your poiso—I mean potions. Yeah. Potions ;D

I know it’s stupid expensive for nail polish (or most things), but it’s way more affordable than most of Louboutin’s shoes. Yet I still want them :sigh:

Sylirael Avatar

I like the bottle design (looks suitably wicked). The price is inflated (not like we don’t pay $46 per bottle of Chanel polish here anyway, LOL), but the shoe kind of annoys me. It would have been cooler if it were an actual pointe shoe with a 1/2 patent leather box/vamp and a little bow! None of this pointless spindly heel business (although i get how it’s supposed to tie into the bottle design). You don’t want to be on your heel in a pointe shoe anyway!

#balletrage LOL 😉

koolchicken Avatar

I agree, they should have just made a real pointe shoe. That’d attract just as many people, maybe more. And we know he has made them, Dita Von Teese wears them. So why not feature them?

I just look at these and think leaning on your heels would be a welcome relief to the pain of the sinking you’d surely do in these shoes. I cringe just thinking about it. :'(

Natalie Avatar

Those shoes are insane! I actually really like the packaging! However, $50 for a nail polish? No just no. And what’s with the 20 layers of regular polish? Even with the cheapest, lowest quality polish, I don’t have to do more than 3 coats. 20 coats would look like thick, peeling, armor for the nails HAHA

Ess Avatar

Wait… 20 layers of traditional lacquer!? Either I’m not understanding what is meant by “traditional lacquer” or that doesn’t sound like something I would want at all :/

Nevertheless, the bottle is certainly attractive. Although the price tag makes me want to wait for a swatch or something first…

aditi Avatar

i was looking at their marketing on the sephora website and wow is it a bit overboard. I consider myself easy to tempt with luxury makeup but this I will not fall for. its a nailpolish stop trying to convince us its molten gold

Sue Avatar

Marc Jacobs also had the marketing spiel about multiple coats of lacquer. I think they both compare it to lacquer on furniture, not on your nails. I see the bottle more as an object d’art than anything else. I also find it interesting that the fetish shoe, from a collaboration with David Lynch, is used to promote the polish. The original images with the shoe are striking, but pretty NSFW.

Jules Avatar

LOL, marketing-speak! How can they say two coats of their stuff equals 20 coats of other nail polish when nobody ever puts on 20 coats? I bet 20 coats looks identical to 4 coats of just about anything! And $50 for a plain red from a shoe company that doesn’t have a track record in makeup…nah!

julia Avatar

This is the one time that I’ll ever be grateful for the sharp Australian cosmetic markup; for a high end polish this feels reasonable, but if the formula is any worse then the Dior or Illamasqua polishes I’ll have to pass.

Carly Avatar

Wow $50…I don’t know…for that much, I think I’d want a magic nail polish that paints itself (like Harry Potter levitation style LOL) That bottle looks dangerous. You can totally poke your eye out. Haha.

18thCenturyFox Avatar

So freaking gauche. Jezebel best described Louboutin IMHO as “the luxury shoe brand that’s a favorite among reality stars living beyond their means”. I was never a Sex and the City fan and part of it had to do with what felt like a desperate push to make these brands aspirational. Hey CL- you’re not punk. The NY Dolls want their nail polish bottle back. I’m really cranky right now but this just seems so lame.

Malia Avatar

Those claims sound a bit ridiculous but I get the appeal, especially for those who own the shoes, $50 isn’t that outrageous to those elite! Lol!

kellly Avatar

yeah, well for $50 a bottle, it better apply itself AND do the dishes for me so it won’t wear off!!! sorry, but that’s insane.

Helene Avatar

It would probably be the one thing Louboutin I could ever buy 🙂 I do think I’ll pass, though. I don’t really care for the bottle itself, but the handle is cool, and I think a longer handle on the brush is a good thing, makes it rest better in the hand. Of course, these days most handles/bottlecaps are short and wide.

Chi-Chi Avatar

lol smells like bullcrap to me.
Whatever they have in that bottle, it’s nothing that OPI, Zoya, China Glaze, Essie, and every other nail polish creator hasn’t made already.

The bottle is beautiful, but not $50 beautiful.
Pass.

kisha Avatar

welp guess if u cant afford the shoes u can afford the nail polish lol. yeeeea uuuum $50 for a RED nail polish at that…errr ummm i’ll take that amount to the nail shop n at least get a paraffin wax n massage wit the manicure!! good gawd!

Telesilla Avatar

So, that’s 5 bottles of Zoya, 9 (or so) bottles of OPI or China Glaze and 16 bottles of Sinful Colors (which are surprisingly good for drugstore). The only reason I’d buy it was for decor purposes, sort of like the antique perfume bottles I have on top of my dresser.

Smidge Avatar

OR you could just use the nail polish he originally painted his first red sole with and save some cash. I think it was a Dior shade they still carry to this day.

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