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NARS Vintage Nail Polishes

By Marta Walsh · 2010-10-01

Introducing the NARS Vintage Nail Polish Collection! Five shades, resurrected by popular demand, with NARS’ signature longwearing formula. Imparting an initial high gloss luster that is water and detergent resistant, these vintage polishes are being brought out from the archives for a limited time. With classic cinema as their common theme, here are the shades (with original launch dates), and the movies that inspired them.

NARS Vintage Nail Polishes

King Kong

(1996)

Midnight Express

(1996)

Zulu

(1996)

Full Metal Jacket

(1998)

<!--more-->Mash (1996)

Army green infused with gold

The comedy about the staff of a Korean War field hospital using humor to keep their sanity in the face of war. The film inspired the TV series M*A*S*H.

Copper brown infused with gold

A classic movie about the infamous giant ape who becomes smitten with beauty

Deep navy

The 1970s film for an inmate’s opportunity to escape from prison

Forest green

A British war movie starring Stanley Baker and Michael Caine, directed by Cy Endfield in 1964

Gunmetal grey

An epic Vietnam War movie directed by Stanley Kubrick in 1987

Quintessential for fall, the seasonal height of the fashion year, the Vintage Nail Polishes will be available as of October 1st, 2010, for $16 each at narscosmetics.com.

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