Dior Vernis Mango 438 (2013 Cruise Collection)
| January 7, 2013 | Posted by peach_ under Dior, Limited Edition |
With a lime green, bold pink, and this creamsicle Mango, the Dior 2013 Cruise Collection trio is loud, garish, and bold — the kind of shades that aren’t to everyone’s liking, but certainly grabbed my interest.
Dior’s official description of Mango is “a deliciously fruity and radiant yellow.” Yellow? Their stock photo shows a more yellow color, but to me (and to most others), this safely falls in the orange category. Still, I found that simply calling it “orange” is an insufficient description for this fun, bright Vernis.
Dior Mango is a milky, creamsicle orange with a semi-jelly finish. 3 coats are needed for evenness (due to its jelly formula) but the result is beautifully glossy and slightly darker than the bottle color. It’s daringly bright; a seemingly unlikely color to occur in nature, like a toned-down highlighter shade. I’m not completely satisfied with my photographs here as I tried to strive for color accuracy, but they’re close; imagine a pastel-like, near-neon orange.
I was expecting a straight tangerine orange color from the promotional photos and previews, but what I got was a milky, cantaloupe-orange. I’d lump it in the same category as Julep Hayden, which is lighter and peachier than Mango, but possesses a similar creamy-pastel look and brightness.
Just like Hayden, Mango clashes with my hands and makes my warm-toned skin look darker and somewhat duller on close inspection. Something about its in-your-face hue made me really like this odd color, though, and I don’t even particularly like orange! Its milkiness, compared to just another bright orange that I was expecting, was a great surprise as well.
What do you think of Mango? Did you pick one up? I know it’s not everyone’s cup of tea, but I love Dior for launching unique colors like this. 
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Availability: limited edition. USD $23 at Dior.com and Dior beauty boutiques.
I’m really interested in this collection but I haven’t gotten any yet. I really prefer to buy nail polish in person (although getting packages in the mail IS really fun!), so it’s always hard for me to take the plunge on an online-only release. The green one is the one I’m especially interested in.
On another note, I was browsing Chanel and I noticed prices went up another dollar
. Now $27 is the new base price. I guess at $25, $26, $27 per bottle the extra dollar doesn’t matter too much, but in my mind it’s the difference between “a little more than $25″ and “barely any change (after tax) from $30″. Ah well, so it goes.
Lime is the one I was most curious about, too. I’m eager to see how it compares to the green in our January Julep boxes (which I haven’t gotten yet but I know you have.) I try my best to take color-accurate photos to the best of my ability (though I suppose it’ll also depend on everyone’s monitor settings) so I hope I can help even a little bit.
And nooo! When will Chanel stop? I thought prices in Japan were high, but US is catching up fast! We can only hope they’re not trying to compete with Tom Ford, or *gulp* Serge Lutens.
EVERYTHING WENT UP arghhhh. I went to the Dior counter today and got Dior Gris Trianon from the Spring collection, as well as a Butter London…both went up $1 each (from $23 to $24 and $14 to $15 respectively). Bill was $42 w/ tax! Plus I heard OPI is going from $8.50 to $9, although they haven’t raised their prices since 2010 when I started being obsessed with polish, so that seems more reasonable. Nail polish is such a growth market, it’s SO much more popular than it was even a few years ago, so I guess it’s no surprise.
Enough money woes. In addition to the usual sales associate who works at the Dior counter, there was a makeup artist doing looks with the Spring collection and we were chatting about Mango and Lime…we all agreed that we were very interested! Unfortunately I found my green from Julep’s January box very thick…I have thinner but I’ve never used it before so hmm. I’m not sure what I’m going to do with the color. I do like the “nude” fairly well. Excited to see your swatches!
Oh no! I guess we can’t avoid inflation and increased demand. I agree with you that nail polishes have become so popular so quickly! I knew they had gotten mainstream when OPI started doing movie collaborations and other brands that hadn’t paid much attention to nails before (Bobbi Brown, Laura Mercier, etc.) started producing them.
Did you get a Spring makeover from the Dior MA?
The collection launches on Friday here. I’m not interested in most of the makeup since they’re pink/pastels, but I’m eyeing the blushes. I hope you were able to thin out the Julep!
Oh what a refreshing shade! If mangoes looked like that in real life, they would be very juicy and sweet indeed *salivating*. Mangoes are one of my favourite fruits. Yummmm!!
Not…not a peach?!
It really is a refreshing color! 
Such a happy color smack dab in the middle of winter.
I can hardly wait to try mine. It looks really great on you!
Did you get the other two out of the trio, too?
Lime is pretty great. I already wore mine.
Thanks, Keeper! I got the other 2 as well but haven’t worn them yet. Lime looks intense!