SpaRitual Solstice

With the holiday season coming, a good gold polish can be a staple to wear alone or with nail art. Today I have SpaRitual Solstice to show you! I'm not sure on the availability of this polish, seeing as it is the only SpaRitual polish I own (received it from a blog sale) and I'm not entirely families with the company. I do, however, love my mini bottle of Solstice. It really makes me want to try more SpaRitual polishes.

I don't have very many golds in my collection, but Solstice is a 2-coat metallic yellow-gold with a foil finish. I really love this one. It's a bit more yellow than the new OPI Goldeneye, but I will try to remember to compare the two when I finally get around to wearing Goldeneye!

I never used to wear golds because a friend once told me that it looked like my nails were yellow and gross, but I'm slowly trying to get over that. Solstice was also featured as the base color for my LOTR themed nails in September. Check it out here.

SpaRitual Solstice

SpaRitual Solstice

SpaRitual Solstice

Is there any color that you won't wear because of something someone said?

Metallic Ruffian

Today's post is going to be a quick one since I've got less than an hour before midnight!

This is a ruffian manicure with OPI Designer De Better (the silvery color near the cuticles that was my base color) and SpaRitual Solstice (the gorgeous gold). I freehanded Solstice on top of Designer De Better, and it turned out great. I needed two coats of each polish, and I love the way this looked. I've seen ruffian manicures before and always considered it one of those sort of 'strange' looks, but it was fun to try and I think ruffians might grow on me!

Ruffian Manicure - OPI Designer De Better and SpaRitual Solstice

Ruffian Manicure - OPI Designer De Better and SpaRitual Solstice 

Ruffian Manicure - OPI Designer De Better and SpaRitual Solstice