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# Twitter Nail Polish Debate Goes Viral: Welcome To #TheShoe

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_Published 2015-07-10. Folks on Twitter are debating which nail polish a woman should use to match her shoes. Apparently, it's not as simple as it sounds._


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## Transcript

So there's this shoe. Get ready. The newest internet debate is here and it's mind blowing. Even Monroe, who uses the Twitter handle @ totallymendes, tweeted to her followers a simple question. Which nail polish fits her shoe better? That, it turns out, was a divisive question. Everyone, shield your precious internet eyes. It's hashtag the dress all over again. You ready? People couldn't decide. The one on the left. The one on the right. Maybe both. Before you knew it, hashtag the shoe was trending. The slew of responses certainly surprised Monroe who says she was just hoping for a few opinions.

Right. So let's figure out the colors here since that seems to be the crux of the issue. First the show itself. It's from BCBG and is listed as the color magenta on at least one retail outlets website. As for the polishes a photo provided by Monroe shows both are labeled as the dream on color. She also said both are from the nail polish company Sinful Colors. Checking out their website doesn't do us much good. They only have one product labeled Dream On, which they say is purple. Even more confusing, Kmart lists a reddish looking polish as the Dream On label. [ MUSIC ] The Walmart matches what's in full colors itself shows.

Both news outlets and the denizens of social medias have compared it to the whole hashtag the dress debacle that melted the internet in february. Well we kinda see where they're coming from we're not sure it's not that much of an optical illusion. I mean look, we're talking about deciding between two different colors of nail polish here and a magenta shoe. It's not the same optical science that Wired had to break down for everyone back in February. Though, hey, maybe it After more than 65 hundred retweets, there still doesn't seem to be a definitive consensus on which polish to use. Add to that the fact the internet was not helpful, and Monroe says she still hasn't decided what color to use.

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