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Lauren DeCarlo's Nails Look Like Calamine Lotion*

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... and I am fascinated. Because they look weirdly awesome: Not as clobber-you-bright as Pepto-Bismol, not as stark as a marshmallow white—just neat and clean and chalky-pink and totally opaque. I'm buying the polish today, after work. So I can look like a fashion news editor.

—Cristina Mueller, senior beauty editor

*As we went over the calamine lotion-ness of her nails, it hit us: Why doesn't someone make a perfume that smells like Calamine lotion? Unless I'm completely remembering it wrong, it's sweet and powdery and kind of good, and is associated with all sorts of positive, summer camp–ish memories. I mean, there are already perfumes that smell like sushi, cigarettes, and seashells ...

May 06, 2008

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