Weird beauty math: Chanel nail polish vs oil and gasoline

Price of a gallon of Chanel nail polish: $7,680

(read my previous blog post "Weird beauty math: Chanel nail polish" )

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Chanel nail polish versus a barrel of crude oil

Number of gallons in a barrel of oil: 42

Which would make a barrel of Chanel nail polish worth: $322,560 (retail)

Value of a barrel of crude oil (today): $85.53

Chanel nail polish is 3771 times more expensive than crude oil.

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Chanel nail polish versus a gallon of gasoline

The price of a gallon of gas in Chicago (today) is approximately $3.70/gallon.

Chanel nail polish is 2076 times more expensive than gasoline.

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