$2 dupe for Cult Nails Masquerade (Limited Edition)

Swatch of Love & Beauty in Emerald (dupe for Cult Nails Masquerade)
over Revlon Parfumerie in Wild Violets

This information will either be exciting or annoying. YOU DECIDE. Cult Nails has a new LE polish called Masquerade, which is a shimmery gold-purple-red duochrome in a fairly sheer green base. You can find photos here.

As it turns out, I already have what looks to me like an exact dupe of that polish, which I bought for $2 this summer. It's Love & Beauty (Forever 21's brand) in Emerald. It is also similar to Hard Candy Beetle (another discontinued polish), but that one didn't have a green base as far as I know, and the shimmer is a little more scattered or sparse here.

Here are two coats of it on a white swatch wheel, so you can see its green base.

Swatches of Love & Beauty in Emerald
(dupe for Cult Nails Masquerade)

Your Claws: Beautifully cheap greens from NYX

If you want to get with the Pantone Color of the Year thing (Emerald), here are a couple of fucking gorgeous options. They're NYX Girls Emerald Forest (left), which is a glass-fleck, shimmery green that shifts to gold. It's similar to Zoya Ivanka or Zoya Apple, but I don't own those, so I can't tell you which one it's a dupe for. Or try NYX Girls Mermaid Green (right), which is an unusual green that's slightly on the blue side, but not teal.