This could also be called “50 shades of gray”, then, more than a dusty rose this is actually grey. After the first thin coat it almost looks kind of rosy-grey but with the second one it becomes definitively very much grey. Which it is not bad if you like it. But I don’t as it doesn’t suit my skin tone, so I have to layer a third coat of a sheer rosy polish, for instance my otherwise useless Essie Sugar Daddy, in order to achieve the original intended dusty shade of rose.