SpaRitual - Can You Dig It?

Brown/burgundy shimmer  

New month, new brand - my first SpaRitual

Can You Dig It? is a warm brown/burgundy shimmer with lots of fine gold shimmer within.

The base colour is an interesting shade, sometimes a warm brown, sometimes leaning more burgundy and even heading towards purple.  Almost duo-chrome although I'd hesitate to call it so.

Swatches are 2 coats with no top coat.  This isn't necessarily a colour I'd be drawn to but it does look good on.

SpaRitual is a brand I've been aware of for a long time, it used to pop up regularly in the 'olden days' of nail blogging, but was never very easy to get hold of in the UK and pretty expensive with it.

CYDI is a classic shade that's been around since 2008 at least.

This polish came to me through the wonders of TKMaxx, I'm so much more likely to take a punt on a polish where I don't have to pay postage and it's massively reduced from RRP - pretty sure this one was £3 or £4

Sinful - Cabana

Rose pink creme  

My first Sinful on the blog!

This shows how out of control my unswatched stash is - I bought a number of Sinfuls in the USA when they weren't available in the UK.  I think at least 7 or 8 years ago, maybe when I spent 3 weeks in Boston writing a technical book.

I found a swatch of this polish from 2009 so it's at least that old - eeek!  But of course proof, as if any of you nail obsessives need it it, that you don't need to throw polish out after a year or two!

And of course now you can get Sinful easily in the UK from Boots and Superdrug!

Cabana is a pretty but not particularly unique rose pink creme.  It's slightly dusky and warmer, more coral looking in sunlight.

Application was good and swatches are 2 coats, no top coat.

Nails Inc November - Belgrave Square Gardens

Warm red with gold shimmer  

Belgrave Square Gardens was a QVC exclusive from the 4 Piece Party Toes Collection back in 2010.  

I didn't buy that collection so this must've come to me via one of the many Nails Inc 'Lucky Dip' offers where you get 6 or 7 random polishes for £15-22, depending on the offer.  

For someone with a nails inc collection as large as mine (over 500 unique colours) they can be a bit of a gamble but I've never received one where I had *all* the colours already, I've come close though!

Belgrave Square Gardens is a warm, slight rusty red shimmer with a fine gold shimmer running through.  A very Christmassy colour, if it's not too early to mention the 'c' word!

Application was good and the swatches shown are 2 coats, with topcoat.

And Belgrave Square Gardens themselves are beautiful, surrounded by Embassies with a statue of Christopher Columbus and a tennis court but sadly private.

Nails Inc - Haverstock Hill

Warm dark silver shimmer  

Haverstock Hill is a warm, dark silver shimmer.  I know warm silver is a strange description but I couldn't think of a better term, this isn't beige or brown or taupe but there's definitely a slight warm brown feeling to it.

This polish is from a QVC collection back in 2012, I think.

Swatch shown is 2 coats, with no top coat. It's a little thin, I probably should've done 3 coats and apologies for the slightly messy swatch, I didn't do cleanup on these for some reason!

Nails Inc November - Orchard Street

Warm red shimmer  

Orchard Street is a warm darkish red shimmer

The formula on this seemed pretty thin on the first coat but it was opaque in 2 coats so nothing to complain about!

This colour is definitely not unique, I think of this as a 'traditional' nail polish colour, ie one you could've bought 30 years ago and  for some reason I associate this kind of colour with OPI, maybe because the first OPI I bought was a red shimmer?

Nails Inc November - Chester Street

Grey mushroom pearl  

Nails inc - Chester Street is a warm grey pearl.  Nails inc describe it as a pearlescent mushroom which is about right...

This is one of those shades that varies in warmth depending on the light but I'd say the bottle shot and  final pic are most colour accurate.

It's also described as a metallic version of Porchester Square, in my book this is no metallic but it does look similar and could be a pearl version - I'll have to dig mine out to compare.

Swatch shown is 2 coats, no top coat.

Application was ok, as you'd expect for a pearl finish it's kinda brushstrokey but nothing too bad.

Chester Street isn't a current Nails Inc colour but you can pick it up from BeautyBay for only £8.91

Mavala - Dakar

Warm rose pink shimmer

Mavala Dakar is an warm deepish rose pearl/shimmer that leans a little brown.  This is a rather traditional, almost old-fashioned colour but I still think it looks nice

For their core colours Mavala label the bottle either Cream or Pearl, a fairly binary categorisation! although oddly not on the special edition colours like Cedar Green.

Mavala name their core colours after cities around the world, Dakar is the capital of Senegal in Africa and for me is most well known for the Paris-Dakar rally, an off-road endurance race.

Swatch shown is 3 coats with no top coat.  Application was good, the tiny Mavala bottles and brushes don't cause me any problems.

Ciaté - Sharp Tailoring

Warm grey with secret shimmer 

A blast from the past this one, I've shown a fair few of my Ciaté Paint Pots collection before but this one got missed for some reason

So here is Sharp Tailoring

Sharp Tailoring is a warm grey with a white gold secret shimmer.


It's an unusual colour/shimmer combination,  at first I thought it might be similar to Zoya Harley but as you can see from the comparison...

...Sharp Tailoring is much warmer and the shimmer is less pronounced.

Swatch shown is 2 coats, with no topcoat.

Application, brush and formula were all good.

I'm a fan of grey polish anyhow but this is a clever twist on regular grey, being warmer, with perhaps even a nod to the 'greige' trend of old (that was probably current when this was released) and an unusual secret shimmer.

Overall, a complete win for me, what you you gals think?