If you hated #TheDress, then you might want to stop reading right now.
There's a new illusion that's sweeping Twitter that compares two different nail polishes to a pair of high heeled pinkish purple shoes - and as it turns out, you can use Photoshop to definitively determine which one matches best.
WHICH COLOR MATCHES THE SHOES THE BEST pic.twitter.com/Qv3mpOOf8w
- a (@totallymendes) July 8, 2015
At the time of this post, the original tweet has gotten over 6,300 favorites and has been retweeted 5,000 times. Publications such as BuzzFeed, Mashable, and Cosmopolitan have all picked it up, too. They're calling it #TheShoe.
People can't agree which color of nail polish best matches the shoes. Is it the right?
@totallymendes it's obviously the right pic.twitter.com/lnNtqzm2aV
- amy (@InfinityBTR) July 9, 2015@totallymendes right
- Sonia (@SassyKinston) July 9, 2015@totallymendes RIGHT, THE OTHER ONE IS WAY TOO BLUE/PURPLE
- layla (@HummingbirdHues) July 9, 2015
Or is it the left?
@totallymendes @rllyshawn the one thats the same color of the shoe! the one on the left
- Jadis//July 13th (@JadisSMendes) July 9, 2015@rllyshawn @totallymendes i just took a wuick glance at both and thought the left one. I'll look at both of them more
- Jadis//July 13th (@JadisSMendes) July 9, 2015@totallymendes the one on the left!
- was pladmendes (@chiefmendes) July 8, 2015
Do you just mix both polishes together?
@totallymendes just mix the two nail polishes haha
- Hailey (@Xbasicallyshawn) July 8, 2015@totallymendes both?
- elizabeth :( (@shamrockmendes) July 8, 2015@totallymendes mix them
- cam (@camxdaisy) July 8, 2015
Mostly, people were freaking out that #thedress was happening all over again.
OMG NOT AGAIN #theshoe pic.twitter.com/ZOxrFCTX9y
- Kardashian Reactions (@KardashianReact) July 9, 2015@totallymendes @woahdursnickers HISTORY'S REPEATING ITSELF JUST NO STOP
- erica ? (@AllTheHateH) July 9, 2015
The Twitter user who started it all, @totallymendes, still can't believe the reaction he was getting.
@totallymendes I almost didn't tweet this OMG
- a (@totallymendes) July 8, 2015@totallymendes I'm going to bed because it's 1:25am but I wonder how many RTs this will have when I wake up
- a (@totallymendes) July 9, 2015@totallymendes HAHAHH I STILL CANT BELIEVE THAT I STARTED THIS #theshoe
- a (@totallymendes) July 9, 2015
But to solve this once and for all, we turned to Photoshop where you can see where the colors of the shoe and the nail polishes fall on the spectrum.
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Though at first I was in the right polish camp, now I have to admit that the left polish would be the better match since the shoe falls more on the purple scale than the pink color scale.
To prove my point, here's what the nail polish color looks like side-by-side with the lightest and the darkest colors on the shoe:
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And here's what the left nail polish looks like next to the brightest and darkest colors in the shoe. As you can see, these are a much closer match than the bright pink polish:
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So if anyone asks, it's the left polish.