Squarehue: The 1950s – June 2015

As you may have noticed it’s been a little quite over here at Subscription Therapy. I had wonderful plans to get tons of posts and home projects done over the July 4^th holiday and guess what happened? I got sick. Yesterday, I stayed home from work and unless getting obsessed with the Covet fashion app counts as an accomplishment, I did diddly squat. (Although I did learn that I am highly skilled at styling outfits for French movie premieres, who knew?) In any case, I’m starting to recover from my latest plague and trying to catch up with my June stragglers plus all the fun new boxes popping up at my doorstep.

I thought I’d kick off my recovery with some retro fun and review the June Squarehue featuring the 1950s.

Our Itty bitty box:

1950s BOX

Perfectly packaged inside are our three lovely square bottles with a handy dandy swatch card.

Palm Springs 1950 (High Gloss Creme)
Description: Neon Palm Green Creme
Verdict: Like, but maybe a different year
I like this because I have no other polish remotely like it (even in my 300+ bottle collection) but I’m not feeling it for the 1950s. I get Palm Springs was a thing back then, but this color screams out 1960s to me rather than 1950s. But, again I don’t have anything like it so it’s a nice addition to my polish hoard.

Bel Air 1957 (High Gloss Creme)
Description: Powder Blue Crème
Verdict: Miss
I’m just not feeling this shade. I find it boring and just not quite 1950s either. I feel like the shade should be more aqua rather than blue.

Sock Hop 1958 (High Gloss Creme)
Description: Saturated Pink Crème
Verdict: Hit!
We’ve had a lot of pinks in this collection so far, but I think this one is my favorite. Personally I would have called it “Poodle Skirt” instead of Sock Hop, but since you wear a poodle skirt to a sock hop, it’s all just semantics. I thought this shade fit the decade the best.

OVERALL

Verdict: What does SquareHue have against red?
I know, I know I’ve been asking for a red for a while now, but it’s a hugely important color in most of the the 1920s, 30s, 40s and 50s and the closest we’ve come is “rust”. I don’t see how you could put this box together without a bright cherry red crème. I also don’t like that all three shades were the same finish. Variety is always more fun. I do like the pink polish but I feel like this one was a lost opportunity.

I paid $19.99 for the box, and while I’m disappointed that the shades don’t live up to the decade, the polishes are good quality and the green and pink will be nice additions to my collection.

When you think of the 1950s, what colors spring to your mind?

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Author: Writer Preziosi

Once upon a time, long, long ago, Lisa attended Syracuse University where she studied singing in a giant castle surrounded by ice and snow. After she earned her music degree, she headed to the island of Manhattan, down to the West Village, to a place called the New School. There, she earned another degree in the great art of writing stories for children. She currently works on that same island trying to help real people, while making up stories about imaginary ones. Her first book, “The Ice Maiden’s Tale,” a fairy tale adventure, was released on May 30, 2017 and is up for sale on Amazon. View all posts by Writer Preziosi