Nail polish to remove than regular nail polish. It is usually gently pushed off (often with a wooden stick) after soaking the nails in pure acetone (the solvent used in most nail polish removers) for eight to fifteen minutes. Matte polish is like regular polish, but has a purposely dull finish rather than a shine. It can be purchased as a regular base coat in ranges of different colors. Matte nail polish can also be found in a top coat. Matte top coat is most useful for painting over any dry base color, giving it a different appearance. The matte top coat
Vamp Nail Polish bottle and sold extremely well, with nationwide shortages for months after its introduction. It became Chanel's best selling product. By 1996 "Newsweek" was reporting that the color was "finally out of style," but even into 2000, it was the fifth best-selling nail polish in the world. Before Chanel introduced Vamp, dark, non-traditional polish colors were shunned by mainstream cosmetics companies and their customers. Vamp was responsible for setting "in motion a widespread trend that made nail polish in virtually any color acceptable." According to Melinda Davis, the "extraordinary phenomenon of Vamp" was the "fons et origo" of a late twentieth