![]() "It was the only one of them that I repurchased. "I received it as a gift in a set of other polishes when I was a teenager," she says. ![]() For Zoe, 25, a lawyer in Ann Arbor, Michigan, it's one of only five nail polishes she owns. She’s nice! She’s not trying to find ways to take Serena down a notch! It was a simpler, sweeter time, which is totally in keeping with the ethos of Ballet Slippers.Īs with Blair, Ballet Slippers was like a rite of passage for many women. In this context, the polish represents a time when Blair wasn’t quite so conniving and competitive. " remembered how much fun they used to have playing dress-up when they were little, trying on clothes in her room all afternoon and drinking Campari and sodas with lime, giggling together in the bathroom mirror as Serena expertly painted Blair’s nails with black liner, or lacquered her nails with ballet slipper pink Essie polish," wrote Gossip Girl author Cecily Von Ziegesar. Then, in 2008’s Don't You Forget About Me (the eleventh book in the Gossip Girl series), Blair Waldorf got nostalgic about her best friend, Serena van der Woodsen, painting her nails with Essie’s Ballet Slippers. (She reportedly considers it vulgar, and it's the reason you won't see Duchess Kate or Duchess-to-be Meghan wearing a bright shade.) Her disdain for colorful nail polish, on the other hand, is well-known by now. The story is akin to legend at this point: Back in 1989 Queen Elizabeth’s hairdresser requested a bottle of the pale, nearly translucent pink polish be sent to Buckingham Palace-giving it the ultimate "safe" stamp of approval. It wouldn’t be the first time a royal wore it. Now, 36 years later, Ballet Slippers is as popular as ever, to the point that the masses are speculating Markle may wear the shade for the royal wedding. In a nod to the delicate femininity of ballet (and, of course, ballet slippers), Weingarten created an equally delicate, feminine polish to match. ![]() ![]() Every Saturday, if Weingarten-a budding ballerina-had done well in her ballet class, her mom would take her to the local beauty party and let her get her nails done. The next year, she created Ballet Slippers to pay homage to her girlhood ritual of getting manicures with her mother. Essie Weingarten launched her eponymous line of nail colors back in 1981 (to put it into perspective, that's the same year Markle graced the planet with her presence).
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