<p style="text-align: left;">The other day, <a href="http://www.revlon.com/ProductCatalog/ProductDetails.aspx?CategoryID=4&amp;SubCategoryID=15&amp;ProductID=90" target="_blank">Revlon</a> hosted Toronto's beauty press at my favourite type of beauty event: the mani-pedi. Forget cocktail parties or elaborate fine dining. I'm happiest chit-chatting about products while some kind soul is scrubbing the dead stuff off the soles of my feet.</p>
Now I'll be the first to admit that Revlon isn't the sexiest of brands. (I'm a packaging fanatic and theirs definitely needs an upgrade. It's so '90s!) But product-wise, at least when it comes to NAILS, you can colour me impressed. Sometimes, you have to get over your inner beauty snob (or at least <em>I</em> do) and just try stuff out. And that's what I did.

<a href="http://beautyeditor.ca/wp-content/uploads/revlon_cherries-in-the-snow.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-3386" title="revlon_cherries in the snow" src="http://beautyeditor.ca/wp-content/uploads/revlon_cherries-in-the-snow.jpg" alt="revlon_cherries in the snow" width="200" height="200" /></a>Did you know that Cherries in the Snow—a gorgeous blue-red—is one of the brand's original shades, first released in the 1950s? It still looks amazing today. In fact, Revlon surprised me with a number of great reds (Revlon Red and Raven Red are two others) in flat tones—I find their shimmery shades a little tacky. I prefer my fingers neutral, so if you're looking for a go-with-anything pink, Sheer Petal is just the ticket.

<a href="http://beautyeditor.ca/wp-content/uploads/revlon_silver-screen.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-3389" title="revlon_silver screen" src="http://beautyeditor.ca/wp-content/uploads/revlon_silver-screen.jpg" alt="revlon_silver screen" width="215" height="215" /></a>Their new shades for fall are surprisingly pretty. I've blabbed about grey nail polish to death, so I'd wear Silver Screen, a gorgeous metallic grey. And for dark polish fans, there's Hot for Chocolate (a rich, deep, black-brown) and Midnight Affair (deep navy).

Bonus: all the polishes are DBP-, toluene- and formaldehyde-free. Now where else can you find that for $4.99?

Revlon Nail Enamel, $4.99 each. At <a href="http://well.ca/beauty/products/revlon-nail-enamel_4017.html?AFFID=BEAUTY" target="_blank">Well.ca</a> and drugstores across Canada.

UPDATE: This might just be the longest-lasting polish I've ever worn too. Sheer Petal has been on my fingernails EIGHT chip-free days and counting...