CHANEL Black Satin Nail Polish

[Ianastar]

$140-$150 on Ebay? Some people have too much money.

CRAZY, right???!!

 

[lmelanie]

I just got 2 bottles off Ebay for a deal and a half for 30$ a bottle! Its the one from France but I prefer my black polish shiny instead of glittery...

and just keep your eyes open on ebay..cause a good deal will come up sometimes..!!

 

[Missivtec22]

Just go to the drug store and get some wet and wild black, its pathetic... honestly when it goes back to $17 a bottle, thats when Ill get it... Not now because Lohans wearing it... its obserd!

 

[Ianastar]

I know..............the Chanel one (at counter) is like $18???


And the Wet & Wild one is like 99 cents??? Maybe it dont' last as long...........but Im sure it looks the same???

 

[DosViolines]

source: nytimes.com

October 12, 2006
Nails Meet Midnight: Nothing Witchy About It

By LESLEY JANE SEYMOUR

DEPARTMENT stores say they have waiting lists with hundreds of names. Dealers on eBay price it at $50, even though it normally sells for $18. Even a Hollywood star has said she committed a petty crime to get her hands on a bottle.

“My publicist just ratted me out for being the thief that I actually am,” Sarah Michelle Gellar told The Daily News last month after Leslie Sloane Zelnik, her publicist, said that Ms. Gellar had lifted Chanel’s Black Satin polish from an unnamed someone. “But when you’re talking about black Chanel nail polish, what are you going to do?”

Whether by the manufacturer’s design, or in a rare instance of an organically spawned consumer run, Chanel’s black nail polish has been as scarce in stores and other beauty outlets as a Chloé Paddington bag.

Chanel, which introduced Black Satin in department stores in late July, says it has gone back into production and plans to ship a new batch on Monday. Meanwhile, scarcity has seemed to drive up demand.

And the interest goes beyond Chanel’s new black. There is also OPI’s Lincoln Park After Dark ($7.50) and shu uemura’s ME083, a gun-metal black ($16). Mac has a new color, Nocturnelle, due Oct. 19 that is a pure creamy black, with no undertones ($10). In salons, OPI’s Black Onyx ($7.50) and Essie’s Wicked ($7) are popular. And Chanel is creating a black with blue marine tones that it plans to release in the spring.

The company says interest in Black Satin grew after Jessica Alba and other young celebrities were spotted wearing it this summer. Soon, Chanel executives said, it was selling a thousand bottles a week.

“I was surprised myself,” said Dominique Moncourtois, Chanel’s international director of makeup creation. He was in Paris in the third week of August, he said, when he was told that it had sold out in four weeks in the United States.

“Don’t ask me why,” he added. “I don’t have a crystal ball. I didn’t know it would be so fashionable.”

In the past, manufacturers have driven up demand for products by deliberately holding them back, but Chanel denies it did any such thing. Mr. Moncourtois said initial shipments of Black Satin were the same as for other colors and that it hardly anticipated such high interest.

Chanel, employing technology inspired by the luxury-car industry, developed Black Satin to replicate the depth and shine of satin ribbons used by the original Coco Chanel. With its silver undertones, it is a shade different from Vamp, the other big Chanel black nail polish, which took off in 1994 after Karl Lagerfeld showed models sporting black nails on the runway.

“Vamp was a surprise as well,” Mr. Moncourtois said, noting that Vamp, which is black with deep red undertones, remains the 9th or 10th best seller of Chanel’s 30 colors.

Whether interest in the new blacks can increase overall sales of nail polish remains to be seen. The NPD Group, a market research firm in Port Washington, N.Y., says dollar sales of nail products were down 22 percent in 2005 from 2004. Nail products, whose average price is $14.36, make up less than 1 percent of total makeup dollars, NPD says.

The black nail polish that is selling so well today is hardly the dark enamel worn by the freaky girl at the back of your English lit class. Unlike the Goth look, which resembles fingers dipped in soot, the new black is shinier, richer and deeper, with undertones of purple, silver or red.

The new blacks appear to be growing in popularity with young professional women who are daring enough to wear it to work, and it is the epitome of chic for night events.

“It used to be tall thin girls wearing black nail polish,” said Suzi Weiss-Fischmann, executive vice president and creative director for OPI, whose Lincoln Park After Dark, created in 2005, is selling four times the average of its other colors. “Today I see women in the Beverly Hills bookstore with it on.”

Dashing Diva, which has six nail salons nationwide and manufactures its own colors, said it had expected its darkest color, Black Jack-e Daniels, to catch on with only their hippest customers. “We thought it would be very extreme,” said Robert Cleary, director of product development. “Popular, but not for everyone.”

Instead, he said, it is selling to all types. “On the Upper West Side, moms and kids are getting matching black manicures,” he said. “On the East Side, it’s high-income businesswomen. Downtown, it’s the SoHo/Village N.Y.U. student. And in Brooklyn, it’s the hip crowd.”

In Brooklyn and in Pasadena, Calif., he said, women are getting “tips with really dark color and clear acrylic on the rest of the nail.”

Jamie Ahn, president and owner of Townhouse Spa in Midtown Manhattan and Acqua Beauty Bar in Union Square, said one client requested matching black manicures for herself and her dog. And men are asking for black pedicures, too. “Straight men,” Ms. Ahn added.

Many in the fashion world see black as the antidote to boring beige, the color of the summer. “Black nail polish is like the French manicure of last season,” Mara Taskin, manicurist for the Rita Hazan Salon in Manhattan, wrote in an e-mail message.

Some said black is the perfect finisher for all the basic black clothes that are a standard part of wardrobes this fall. “The black leggings or tights and trapeze dresses look so good with black polish,” said Ms. Weiss-Fischmann, who sees the trend continuing into spring and summer. Ms. Ahn agreed: “I think it’s not a trend. It’s here, like Ballet Slippers pink. Black is the new neutral.”

Black is not for everyone. “Black polish should only be used on short, well-groomed nails,” Ms. Taskin said in her e-mail message. “And it looks best if it’s professionally done — not sloppy or messy.”

Even then, many people consider it over the top. “I try to tone down how I look,” said Diane Iagulli, the chief executive of Delta Projects, a nonprofit human service company in Needham, Mass., who said she wears black clothes all the time but intends to stay away from black nail polish. “I’m flamboyant enough in my personality.”

 

[ambidextrous]

Black Satin made in USA has a different finish than the bottles sold in Europe and Asia. The latter don't have the shimmer and it's actually plain black. You're better off getting some drugstore black polish (Maybelline Colorama) and get a good quality Top/Basecoat (OPI Start to Finish).

But I must admit that new black with marine undertones for spring sounds nice... if it's what I'm thinking of (Black with blue shimmer)

 

[thewannabe]

Because it's so popular and trendy/overhyped... It's a reason NOT to wear it, wouldn't you think? I mean, why copy and look like everyone else?

 

[vanilla fairy]

yeah but if u really like it and it looks good on u, why not?

 

[Uchina]

I got a cheap bottle from New York Color. Works good for me.

 

[*AndoraStar*]

I've been wearing my black nail polish for a while.. and it's not Chanel.. lol!

But I love it regardless..

 

[vanilla fairy]

i dont think any black polish has to be Chanel, they just made so it would be offcially a "trend"..

 

[parangami]

currently i am in seoul, south korea.
I went to lotte department store today and i got the chanel black satin!!!!
i guess ppl here dont like this color >_< but good for me!
I love its texture, it's really 'black satin'.

 

[Organic]

I've been wearing my black nail polish for a while.. and it's not Chanel.. lol!

But I love it regardless..

i've been wearing urban decay's perversion forever....but i was in saks recently and decided to try my luck...went to chanel and figured it was worth a try, and i got on a very short waiting list for some black satin. it's already on it's way to my house. free shipping too. i don't know if the counter guy was just blowing smoke or not, but apparently, the new york saks was the *only* place getting another shipment of black satin. at least that's the line he was giving me.

 

[virginia]

lol. I had a live chat with saks customer service; they called the NY store who said it was still sold out. No waiting list. The NY store said it was "on ebay."

 

[KaraDanielle11]

I got mine today!! I had put my name down on a waiting list at the Chanel store here in Boston and they got a shipment of FOUR bottles this week. That's it...only four. I guess I was the third girl on the waiting list and they had called me and I had to give them TWO credit card numbers for them to hold it for me! A little ridiculous but I picked it up this afternoon and it was the very last bottle. A girl actually offered me a hundred dollars for it when I was leaving the store but I said, "NO!!!!!" and ran away before she tried to grab my bag, haha. When I told my mom that she said I shouldn't open it and sell it for three hundred dollars on ebay but I said that she was crazy. It's really pretty. I'm so happy. My roommate said that I'm friviolous but obviously the craze it's started means that I'm not alone

 

[silk skin paws]

I like the look and it's nice and simple. I might try it. I haven't worn black nail polish or color nail polish for ages. I usually wear clear/nail harderns. Right now my nails are short so I can do this look, I think.

 

[ambidextrous]

hundred dollars, the world is getting crazier every day... FYI: the Version sold in Europe and Asia is different from the US Version. The first one actually has no shimmer, plain ordinary black, so people there do yourself a favor and get OPI Onyx instead or a drugstore black and a decent topcoat...

 

[missbliss]

I got mine today!! I had put my name down on a waiting list at the Chanel store here in Boston and they got a shipment of FOUR bottles this week. That's it...only four. I guess I was the third girl on the waiting list and they had called me and I had to give them TWO credit card numbers for them to hold it for me! A little ridiculous but I picked it up this afternoon and it was the very last bottle. A girl actually offered me a hundred dollars for it when I was leaving the store but I said, "NO!!!!!" and ran away before she tried to grab my bag, haha. When I told my mom that she said I shouldn't open it and sell it for three hundred dollars on ebay but I said that she was crazy. It's really pretty. I'm so happy. My roommate said that I'm friviolous but obviously the craze it's started means that I'm not alone

I'm sorry, but I find that so hard to believe. Not that I think your lieing at all, but I would've done completely the opposite...taken the money and ran before she had a chance to change her mind, but then again I could've used the money cause I'm a college student & all my life been po'

 

[taperjeangirl]

Why pay so much money for a nail varnish?? So what if it is hard to get hold of now just wait a few months. I would rather buy a pair of jeans for £150 then a nail varnish.

 

[Hebden]

I recently bought the Black Satin nail varnish by Rimmel and I'm very happy with it. I'd like to try the Chanel but the hysteria is putting me off...$150 for a bottle