Here I am again with the something cool I mentioned, swatches of my picks from SpaRitual's Kaleidoscope Collection for Summer 2010. There are twelve shades, I left behind a two pinks, a white creme, and found there are a couple of dupes to existent Orly's.
I'll get straight to the pictures and give you some details as we go through them. This is just the order in which I swatched them, with the last being a full manicure. The pictures are in moderate natural light.
Crystal Eyes is a fabulous light medium blue creme, a two-coater.
 |
| SpaRitual Crystal Eyes Nail Polish, Two Coats |
Illume is one I was excited about, a somewhat jelly purple creme that took three coats, but I've seen a picture showing it's a dead-on dupe for Orly Charged Up. I don't have the Orly around to compare them, unfortunately. Still, Illume is a lovely color.
 |
| SpaRitual Illume Nail Polish, Three Coats |
Twinkle is a great just-lighter-than-navy blue shimmer, and was great in two coats.
 |
| SpaRitual Twinkle Nail Polish, Two Coats |
Solaris is a creme that's a great traffic cone shade of neon orange, with the bonus of being a two-coater.
 |
| SpaRitual Solaris Nail Polish, Two Coats |
Flashback is another orange, not quite neon, slightly darker and redder than Solaris. I used two coats and should have used three.
 |
| SpaRitual Flashback Nail Polish, Two Coats |
Color Trip is a neon purple creme with a slightly jelly finish, and is like Essie Perky Purple's older sister.
 |
| SpaRitual Color Trip Nail Polish, Two Coats |
Looking Glass is a silver metallic and a dead-on dupe for Orly Dazzle. They're a great silver, but they're the same. This is two coats.
 |
| SpaRitual Looking Glass Nail Polish, Two Coats |
Golden Gleam makes up for the dupe disappointment of Looking Glass - it's a butterscoth gold metallic base with gold and silver shimmer. It was almost good in one coat, I did two.
 |
| SpaRitual Golden Gleam Nail Polish, Two Coats |
The absolute standout of the collection is Optical Illusion, an odd shade of green with an almost flaky glitter and a slight duochrome effect. This is three coats.
 |
| SpaRitual Optical Illusion Nail Polish, Three Coats |
So those are my picks from SpaRitual's Kaleidoscope Collection. They applied beautifully, which is what I expect from SpaRitual, and my only complaint is the Orly dupes.
That's all for today, Dear Reader. Until tomorrow, love and nail polish to you! 
No comments:
Post a Comment