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Zoya Marley w/ Orly Winter Wonderland – kind of like Pizzicato?

Zoya Marley, Orly Winter Wonderland
Zoya Marley, Orly Winter Wonderland

I’m looking forward to the new Rescue Beauty fall polishes–lately I’ve been thinking about how great Pizzicato would be for this time of the year. Pizzicato is a whitish lavender color with white-silver shimmer.  So I started looking around and thought that Zoya’s Marley might help tide me over until Pizzicato comes out.

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OPI I Juggle…Men-the Ellipsis is Not Enough

OPI I Juggle...Men w/ Zoya Caitlin
OPI I Juggle...Men w/ Zoya Caitlin

I picked up a bottle of I Juggle…Men from OPI’s Femme de Cirque collection, since it’s so pretty in the bottle.  And I’m a sucker for the ellipsis in the name (I know it’s silly).  It’s a very sheer sparkle topcoat, that flashes blue, purple and pink in the bottle, so I was curious to see it over other polishes.

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Zoya Sunshine – Faye and Rica Swatches

Zoya Faye
Zoya Faye

Zoya’s new summer nail polishes are up on their website now, and they have three different collections!  They had a buy one get one free code for the first few days when the collections first went on sale, but I really only felt like I needed one from all of the collections.  So I bought two because of the code, from the glittery, sparkly collection-Faye and Rica.

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China Glaze Crackle Collection – Crushed Candy over Zoya Kelly

Zoya Kelly w/ China Glaze Crushed Candy
Zoya Kelly w/ China Glaze Crushed Candy

I’m still trying to work through the China Glaze Crackle Collection and try out all of the combinations that I’m curious about.  I’ve been impressed with Broken Hearted and Cracked Concrete, but then I had a fail on last Sunday when I tried to use Lightning Bolt (the white one) over a dark blue color.  I didn’t even take pictures because it was so nasty looking-the white didn’t actually crack apart except in a few spots, and it just mostly looked grey because of the dark blue underneath.  I’m not sure if there’s something wrong with my bottle, or if it just needed to be shaken up, or what.  So, I decided to just move along and try Crushed Candy over Zoya’s Kelly.

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Spring 2011 Mashup: Caitlin, Kisses and Bises, Broken Hearted

Zoya Caitlin w/ Kisses and Bises
Zoya Caitlin w/ Kisses and Bises

Here’s a combination of three different Spring 2011 collections: Zoya’s Caitlin, Essie’s Kisses and Bises and China Glaze’s Broken Hearted.  Caitlin is my favorite from Zoya’s Intimate Collection , and it’s a subtle color that is still office appropriate (see my reviews here: Zoya Intimate Part 1, Zoya Intimate Part 2).  So I started there.

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Zoya Spring 2011 Intimate Collection Part 2 – Gemma, Jules and Dannii

Zoya Danii, Jules and Gemma
Zoya Dannii, Jules and Gemma

The last three polishes from Zoya’s Intimate Collection are a little bit bolder than the first three I wrote about in Part 1, but still perfect for spring.  The finishes in this half of the collection are really nice–Dannii and Jules are metallic shimmers and Gemma has a duochrome flash of bluish purple.

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Zoya Spring 2011 Intimate Collection Part 1- Dove, Marley and Caitlin

Dove, Marley and Caitlin - Zoya Intimate Collection
Dove, Marley and Caitlin - Zoya Intimate Collection

I have never before bought an entire collection of nail polish, but Zoya’s Spring 2011 collection was so pretty, and full of colors that I knew I would wear, that I got the whole six bottle set.  If you buy the whole set of a Zoya collection there’s a small discount, so it’s even easier to justify.  Keep reading for the first set of swatches. (Ed: I’ve posted Part 2 now. Click through to read about the rest of the collection!) Continue reading Zoya Spring 2011 Intimate Collection Part 1- Dove, Marley and Caitlin

Valentine’s Day Nails with Nicole OPI Love Your Life and Step to the Beat of My Heart

Zoya Stacy w/ OPI Step to the Beat of My Heart
Zoya Stacy w/ OPI Step to the Beat of My Heart

Those Nicole OPI polishes with the big, heart-shaped glitter make me think of Valentine’s Day no matter what time of the year it is.  I’ve now bought two of them, thinking to myself “this would be nice for Valentine’s Day…”  So here are two Valentine’s Day looks.

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Foils from the Zoya Flame Collection – Crystal, Tiffany and Gloria

Crystal, Tiffany and Gloria - Zoya Flame Collection
Crystal, Tiffany and Gloria - Zoya Flame Collection

The Zoya Flame Collection came out for holiday 2010, and I’ve ended up collecting three of the six.  I was looking at pictures of all six together, and I realized that I’ve chosen all three that had the foil, metallic finish–Crystal, Tiffany and Gloria.

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