Ask anyone for a nail salon recommendation in Los Angeles and you’ll inevitably end up at Olive and June. Founded in 2013 by Sarah Gibson Tuttle in Beverly Hills, the salon is named after two influential women in her life, her grandmother and great-grandmother. After building a name as the Instagram hot spot for mani-pedis, Tuttle is ready to bring the west coast salon experience to everyone at home.
Olive and June, the product line, launched earlier this year with six 7-free nail polish colors and the Poppy, a nail polish bottle attachment that reduces the amount of skill needed to paint with your non-dominant hand. 7-free nail polish is bringing transparency into the nail business, as consumers become more aware of what’s going into the products they love. 7-free nail polish does not contain dibutyl phthalate (DBP), toluene, formaldehyde, formaldehyde resin, camphor, ethyl tosylamide or xylene.
For a personal touch, each of the neutral shades is named after Tuttle’s own friends, similar to the name of the salon itself, and every hue is designed to look good on all skin tones. I also appreciate the diversity in hand models, which is imperative when buying nail polish online.
Tuttle didn’t stop there. She wanted to supply everything for home nail care, offering 4 kits with her next release, each more elaborate than the last. The starter set, is minimal, the essentials. It features the best-selling, barely there nude nail polish, EC, the Poppy, to help paint your other hand, and the Top Coat, to seal it all in. While the Everything Box is for maximalist efforts. It includes a whopping 14 pieces: Nail Polish Remover Pot, Clean-Up brush, Nail Clipper, Nail File, Buffer Cube, The Poppy, Top Coat, Cuticle Serum and all six 7-free polishes. Not to mention the box comes with a phone holder to take the perfect nail selfie. The Studio Box and Tool Box cover all the ranges in between, with nine and seven pieces respectively.
The most exciting piece from the launches these past few months, in my opinion, is The Poppy. The promise of my lazy left hand, finally catching up to paint my right hand properly is intriguing. It also means I can stop painting my nails clear because, really, that’s been no fun.
Written by Hannah Harris
Photography courtesy of Olive and June