SpaRitual Optical Illusion Nail Polish

Good morning, Dear Reader!

This morning I have SpaRitual's Optical Illusion nail polish from the Kaleidoscope Collection for you.  I showed it to you with my picks from that collection not too long ago, but this one's good enough to show you again.  That, and I got up early, did some housework then the Optical Illusion Mani, and shortly after a nice cup of coffee I saw the sun pop out for just a minute.  I ran outside like a fool to get sunlight pictures of this one!

So, to remind you, Optical Illusion is a seaweed green/gold/blue glittery polish.  Even looking at it right now, it's hard to describe - it really shifts colors like an illusion.  It's a three coater, but takes very thin coats, making the drying time completely reasonable.

Here it is as some clouds interfered with my light a bit...  This one's representative of how the color looks walking around.

SpaRitual Optical Illusion Nail Polish, Three Coats, Partially Shaded

Then my full light came back.  This one shows the individual glitter bits and colors more.

SpaRitual Optical Illusion Nail Polish, Three Coats, Full Sunlight

See how the colors blend together in the glitter?  I think it's pretty cool.  It's definitely one to play with in the light whilst wearing.

So that's all for this morning, Dear Reader.  Until next time, love and nail polish to you!  

SpaRitual Kaleidoscope Collection for Summer 2010

Good evening, Dear Reader!

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!