The Body Shop Crushes Their New Nail Polish Formula (Beautezine)

The Body Shop has become notorious for its use of Community Fair Trade ingredients, providing skin-quenching cult favourite products (hello Coconut Body Butter and Satsuma Body Wash) and has even perfected their beauty products when they launched their Colour Crush Eyeshadows and Lipsticks last summer. But one thing they haven’t quite dabbled in yet is nail polish—that is until now.

Adding to the already impressive lineup of products are the new The Body Shop Colour Crush Nail Colours ($6, October 2014)—complete with 24 shades to cater to even the most advanced nail art mavens (including, of course, the quintessential The Body Shop Green—a woodsy kelly green that will pair perfectly with your fall wardrobe). Furthering their no-animal-testing mantra with these new lacquers, each of the 24 cool hues is also free of the bad stuff (like dibutyl phthalate, formaldehyde, formaldehyde resin and camphor) and are also completely vegan. The Body Shop Colour Crush Nail Colours uses Community Fair Trade marula oil from Namibia as an alternative to the chemical preservatives, so you know that by purchasing The Body Shop Colour Crush Nail Colours you’re both benefitting the Namibian economy, as well as keeping harsh chemical preservatives out of your system.

Often times when common ingredients such as these are removed, coverage and quality are compromised, but after being tried and tested by yours truly, these puppies offer an impressive amount of coverage in your regular two-coat polish (even the pale shades) and dry quickly to a high-shine finish. The brush is at a happy medium size—neither too wide or too narrow to get nice, seamless coverage in less coats, giving you some serious bang for your polish buck. And with each of these pretty coloured polishes ringing in at $6 each, you can snag a couple to get you through the the impending cold weather season.

Check out our top 10 favorite shades and let us know which ones you’ll be stocking up on this October!