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Can you believe October is next month already? Time is pasing by so quickly lately, it’s spooky!

We all know by now that October is national breast cancer awareness month, and SpaRitual has partnered with the Living in Pink organization, which was founded by Michele Conley, a two time breast cancer survivor. This organization helps to fund research and bring awareness about breast cancer in the hopes of one day finding the cure.

SpaRitual is a very responsible company to humans, animals and the earth. They are big-three free, Vegan and use recycled glass for their bottles. I wish ALL cosmetics companies would get a clue and follow suit!

Obviously this collection is of pink colors, but they aren’t boring cremes, they have fabulous finishes! Each bottle comes with a tiny metal pink ribbon charm attached, which is representative of the cause.

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SpaRitual has a wonderful new collection for fall 2010 called Imagine.

“The six new inspiring shades represent a life filled with prosperity, wisdom, and creativity”.

• Living in the Moment – Cashmere mauve creme
• Endless Possibilities – Midnight plum creme
• Unconditional Love - Peach shimmer
• Health, Wealth & Happiness – Huey blue shimmer
• A World of Compassion – Dusty periwinkle creme
• Dreams Becoming Reality – Cool blue turquoise

One of my favorite things about SpaRitual is how environmentally friendly they are. Their polishes are Vegan, big-3 free and packaged in recycled bottles. I also love the rubberized caps, it really helps when you’ve got slippery lotion on your hands!

I love that this collection isn’t a bunch of colors you would expect in a fall collection. In fact quite a few of them seem more like spring colors. But they totally work anyway.

The formula cannot be overlooked here, these are really amazing, as most of their polishes are. They are so smooth, creamy and perfect! All of these covered completely in two coats.

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Recently at a local drugstore I saw a new-ish looking nail collection from Milani called Nail Flash. It’s comprised of four glittery, duochrome colors, so I had to check them out!

The formula on all of these is really good. They all covered in two coats and I had zero issues. The duochrome effect is more of a strong glittery flash of various colors rather than a true duochrome.

Flash Light

Flash Light is a bright orange with a strong yellow and pink flash. This is a really pretty and opaque orange though, and I liked it more than I thought I would.

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First things first: I am trying to not purchase or write about companies that test on animals anymore. This is something I have mentioned on Twitter a few times, but many of you might not be aware of it. Sally Hansen is one of those companies that is widely believed to test on animals. However these were bought and swatched before I made this decision so I thought I would show them anyway. I am planning a whole article about this subject soon, so stay tuned!

Waaaaaay back in spring (doesn’t that seem so far away now?) Sally Hansen came out with a new line from their HD Hi-Definition collection. I saw them in stores and decided to pick up a few.

The formula was nice, but too thin in my opinion. I wound up being disappointed that some of them weren’t more opaque. I used three coats for all but one, and some could have even used four (or more!)

I was also a little sad that these looked so amazing and duo-chrome-y in the bottles, but they didn’t translate as nicely onto the nail.

Byte

Byte is a bright fuchsia pink with purple/blue shimmer. Gorgeous pink, I really like this one. This was one of the slightly more opaque ones, but I still needed three coats to get even coverage.

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Duri is introducing us to twelve new shades this fall and winter in a two-part collection called Angels & Demons. Angels features lighter, sweeter colors and Demons features mysterious and deeper colors.

First thing I noticed is Duri’s new bottles, they rock! I love the new bottle shape, and especially the logo which is now etched into the glass, rather than printed on. Very classy I think.

The formula is really pretty nice with all of these. I had only minor streaking with one of them and that was really the only issue. Great coverage on all of these, they were all just two coats.

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