Happy Groundhog Day! Has that movie been on TV nonstop for the past three days in your area as well?
I'm a little down today, so I'm gonna keep the incessant chatter to a minimum. I went out and hauled a bit the other day, and got some new pretties... even though there's still all that stuff I'm waiting on in the mail - urrgh. Today's mail brought me Maybelline Blazes Of Blue though - yay! Although is this a flaky? It looks like a plain ol' glitter to me, but I've been told it's a flaky....
So anyway, part of my haul yesterday was a new SpaRitual collection, called simply "Truth" (not to be confused with the Zoya collection of the same name.) I love SpaRitual polishes (made by the same company as Orly) - the formula is great and the wear is amazing, almost as good as Essie. Their cremes are amazing and this collection is all cremes :)
L-R: Circle of Life (oooh! pretty!), Face Of Destiny, Enlightened Soul, Eye Of the Beholder, Knowledge Is Power, and Reveal Yourself. The minis are pretty good - 5 mL isn't a bad size, and for some reason my beauty supply stocks more mini SRs than it does full-size :-/ so I make do with them.
This is an incomplete post for two reasons: one, I do not have pics of the rest of my haul, and two, I did not manage to swatch all of these SpaRituals :-/ I did get pics of Reveal Yourself; however, when I put it on I thought it looked so similar to a bunch of light pinks I already own that I had to do a comparison. And then the sun went down :( So this is all I have.
SpaRitual Reveal Yourself (indoors). A light baby pink creme, cool-toned and leaning blue.
Outdoors. It's pretty and I like it, but other than neons, opaque baby pinks like this are my favorite kind of pinks :) Application was awesome - SpaRituals apply really well, and this was very opaque. This is two coats here - one was a tad streaky, and two smoothed everything out. It may look a bit brushstrokey, but the marks disappear once dry. Drying time is better than average, I'd say - my SR hand was dry a few minutes before my comp hand.
It looks soooo similar to others I own (or so I thought). The first one that came to mind was OPI's Mod About You, but I think I gave this away to my sister (what is wrong with me...?) so I didn't have that one on hand to swatch (I always end up giving away polishes that I can easily obtain... I'll have to swap for this one or pick it up next time I'm at the beauty supply... I actually meant to pick it up when I hauled yesterday, but forgot..)
So these are the ones I used for the comparison:
L-R: Maybelline Bubble Pink, Color Club Vintage Couture, China Glaze Something Sweet, SR Reveal Yourself and NYC 108A (I got this in the US a looooong time ago - I dunno if it's even still available. I know that's lame. Sorry.)
I'm a little down today, so I'm gonna keep the incessant chatter to a minimum. I went out and hauled a bit the other day, and got some new pretties... even though there's still all that stuff I'm waiting on in the mail - urrgh. Today's mail brought me Maybelline Blazes Of Blue though - yay! Although is this a flaky? It looks like a plain ol' glitter to me, but I've been told it's a flaky....
So anyway, part of my haul yesterday was a new SpaRitual collection, called simply "Truth" (not to be confused with the Zoya collection of the same name.) I love SpaRitual polishes (made by the same company as Orly) - the formula is great and the wear is amazing, almost as good as Essie. Their cremes are amazing and this collection is all cremes :)
This is an incomplete post for two reasons: one, I do not have pics of the rest of my haul, and two, I did not manage to swatch all of these SpaRituals :-/ I did get pics of Reveal Yourself; however, when I put it on I thought it looked so similar to a bunch of light pinks I already own that I had to do a comparison. And then the sun went down :( So this is all I have.
It looks soooo similar to others I own (or so I thought). The first one that came to mind was OPI's Mod About You, but I think I gave this away to my sister (what is wrong with me...?) so I didn't have that one on hand to swatch (I always end up giving away polishes that I can easily obtain... I'll have to swap for this one or pick it up next time I'm at the beauty supply... I actually meant to pick it up when I hauled yesterday, but forgot..)
So these are the ones I used for the comparison:
Pinky to thumb: (I know they're reversed in order from the pic above but just ignore that - I wasn't gonna retake the pic :p) NYC 108A, SR Reveal Yourself, ChG Something Sweet, CC Vintage Couture and Maybelline Bubble Pink. The NYC isn't even close - too dark. Something Sweet is paler and more muted, and Bubble Pink is more yellow-toned, and both these two and Vintage Couture are all warmer in tone than RY - RY is the coolest out of the lot. Overall I'd have to say Vintage Couture is pretty close, although they're not exact dupes. And the SpaRitual had the best application and wear out of all of them :) I've had it on for more than 24 hours and there's no chips or visible tipwear at all.
Sorry I don't have Mod About You to compare... I promise I will do swatches of the rest of these, though. I really want to. Even if you just get crappy-lit, not-the-most-accurate indoor photos (I need an Ott light... soon... badly). I took nail wheel swatches. Wanna see my nail wheel swatches? Yeah, I thought not :p
So I'll be back later with more of these. Promise.
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