News on Sparitual's Spring 2009 Cherish Collection

Bottle pictures from SpaRitual's Spring 2009 collection dubbed Cherish.

From Left to Right: Delight (aqua blue creme), Treasure (bright orange shimmer), Love (bright pink creme), Adore (light pink shimmer), Marvel (lavender pink shimmer) and Revere (orange and gold shimmer).

From these pictures, the only ones I feel are *must haves* for me are Delight and Marvel, which I already have. The oranges look gorgeous but unfortunately they usually don't work for my skin tone. I think it is the pink undertones that I have on my hands and fingers that just clash. 

For those of you that might have missed the post, I swatched Delight and Marvel for you the other day. Here is a link to the swatches.

SpaRitual Cherish Spring 2009 Color Collection

The new SpaRitual collection for Spring 2009, Cherish, features six shades that range from princess pink to baby blue. I have swatches of two of them to show to you today.

SpaRitual Marvel:

Lavender pink shimmer. Gorgeous color, fabulous application. I used three coats but you could really get away with two coats just fine. I love this color and look forward to wearing it often. 

SpaRitual Delight:

Stunning aqua blue creme. Before you ask, this is not a dupe for China Glaze For Audrey. Delight is a shade or two lighter than For Audrey. 

Oh Delight, you are a delight to look at but not a delight to apply. You see, this swatch isn't three coats of color, it's not even four coats. This swatch is a whopping FIVE , albeit thin, coats of nail polish. This color was just too streaky to look even with less than five coats. I have never encountered a five coater before, this is the first. I am shocked because I have never met a SpaRitual that I didn't like; usually their application is flawless. I don't know if it had something to do with my base coat or if somehow I got a dud of a bottle. Admittedly, I do not own SpaRitual's base coat. But I swatched this over my regular base coat and also a ridge filler. Neither was better than the other. I don't know if using SpaRitual's base coat might have improved the application of this color. I can only hope it would. Sigh... this is still such a pretty color. I don't know if I'll ever have the patience to actually do a manicure wearing it.

There are four other colors in SpaRitual's Cherish Spring 2009 color collection:

SpaRitual Love - bright pink creme

SpaRitual Adore - light pink shimmer

SpaRitual Treasure - bright orange shimmer

SpaRitual Revere - orange and gold shimmer 

I have not seen swatches or even bottle pictures yet of the other four colors but I am very curious to see Revere and Treasure. 

SpaRitual nail lacquers are available in fine salons and spas and online at skinstore.com

These new colors should be available any day now. 

Random Monday Giveaway!

Good morning, dear readers!

Happy Monday! I know that Mondays are kind of random, so I thought I would take a quick break from swatching the spring collections and do a totally random giveaway. One lucky e-mail subscriber has been picked at random to win a bottle of SpaRitual Nail Lacquer in Surreal. The winner is "jcjones23@..." (provider not published to ward off the spam). Check your e-mail inbox to see if you are the lucky winner! Please send me your mailing address as soon as possible so I can get this baby out to you. This is just the first of many random giveaways exclusively for those who subscribe to e-polishblog's e-mail updates. 

Here is a swatch of SpaRitual Surreal:

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SpaRitual Surreal, from their fall 2008 collection dubbed Inspired, is a gorgeous deep navy blue that is super glossy and shiny. It has just the faintest amount of shimmer when you look at it in direct sunlight. It certainly is surreal!

No, the bottle of SpaRitual Surreal that jcjones23 is being sent is not the one in the picture hahaha. I just happened to have an extra, un-opened bottle.

Wasn't that fun? I love a random giveaway! Like I said, this is just the first of many random giveaways that I will be doing for those that subscribe to my e-mail updates. Not a subscriber yet? Well enter your e-mail address in the box below to subscribe so you can be eligible for my next totally random giveaway. They happen without warning whenever I am feeling, well, random!

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That is all for now. Don't worry, I will be back soon with more swatches from the spring 2009 nail polish collections!

xoxo,
Katee

NOTD: Mood by SpaRitual

Good morning, dear readers!

I hope that your 2009 is off to a wonderful start. I found a few extra minutes this morning so I thought I would share with you the manicure that I did yesterday, Mood by SpaRitual.

For those of you that are not familiar with SpaRitual nail lacquers, they are Vegan and free of DBP, toluene and formaldehyde. I especially love the ruberized cap on all SpaRitual nail polishes. Not only are they easy to open, but the cap is especially easy to hold and use. SpaRitual nail polishes also have a very nice brush that is not too big and not too small. I find that the SpaRitual formula is always spot on, no clumps or goo. It always flows perfectly on to the nail. Now on to the swatches!

I could not pick one favorite picture, so I have a few for you.

SpaRitual Mood:

Direct sun:

Click on the photos to enlarge them, if you wish.

Indirect sun:

See how glossy this is! 

SpaRitual Mood is from their Fall/Winter 2008 color collection called Inspired. SpaRitual Mood is a wonderful, shimmery, smokey grey/charcoal color. It is similar to Zoya Freja but less silver and more grey. This color really reminds me of my cat, Vincent (LOL). He is a Russian Blue - grey fur with silver guard hairs. I will have more nail polishes from SpaRitual to share with you soon.

SpaRitual nail lacquers are available for $9.00 each (totally worth it) and can be purchased at www.skinstore.com.

That is all for today!

xoxo,

Katee