Monday, 14 January 2013

Tuning week with Zoya: Shawn


I think I have mentionned before that Zoya is one of my favorite nailpolish brands. Since about two weeks swatches of Zoya's lovely Spring Collection started to pop-up all over the nailpolish world. I anxiously await their availability for us European fans. AND I hollered excitedly when I learnt that Pshiiit Boutique could include Zoya into their product range. What better reasons than the aforementioned are needed to call this a Zoya week?!?!?!? And because of the lack of the new colors, let's dip our nails into former collections: Zoya Shawn from their Wicked and Wonderful Collections for Fall 2010.


Picture above taken in daylight, picture below in artificial light


I applied two coats of Shawn over Essence XXL Nail Thickener. Shawn is so shiny that I did not need to apply a Top Coat.

In my opinion this is a timeless shade of green and while having been released as part of a Fall Collection I love to wear this polish throughout the year.

As I have stated before my skills in nailart are on toddler-level but I still want to sometimes add a little twist to a mani if I wear it for more than a day or two. I will start with the simplest of them all: doing an accent nail. To tune-up Shawn I picked Ana Hickmann Sugar for my ring finger. Ana Hickmann is a nearly-neon pink leaning jelly. Application is absolutely easy - you look here at two coats of Sugar WITHOUT Top Coat - so absolutely non-neon behaviour.


IRL Sugar was not all THAT overwhelming but just adding a bright fleck of color and more coral. In my picture (as a matter of fact in all pictures I took) it looks like a true pink. Looking at the picture now it nearly knocks out my eyes.

Do you also like to do a accent nail with a contrasting color?

I order my Zoya polishes with Nailcare Club and since last week European fans of Zoya can also order these gems with Pshiiit Boutique .

I look forward to reading your comments - thanks for visiting!!!
Christine
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10 comments:

  1. Liesl14 January 2013 at 20:02

    LOVE Shawn! What a remarkable shade! Nice contrasting pop of pink, too. Accent nails are great. I like to check out nail art on others, but the accent is as adventurous as I'm willing to get for a few reasons, lol. It is fun to subtlely mix it up sometimes ♥

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    1. Polished Marvels14 January 2013 at 23:24

      Hi Liesl, thank you xxx!!! I also love to see nailart on others and I am practicing stamping but with nubs (as I currently wear) this brings no joy ;-)!!!

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    2. Liesl15 January 2013 at 05:04

      I know it ;) I've attempted it and it seems a larger area to work with is key, lol.

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    3. Polished Marvels15 January 2013 at 23:03

      I found some tiny stamps from Essence but their plates are crap (there is no other word for it). They come dented, irregularly craved and what have you. I tried my best with them but only get blurrs and blotches. I have read about Bundle Monster doing smaller stamping plates - I might dip my nails into trying one of them ;-)

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  2. Little Miss Nailpolish14 January 2013 at 20:15

    WOW! A Zoya week!!! I love Zoya even though I don't own that many - yet ;) Thanks for the tip on where to buy them! :D I'll be poor soon... ;)
    I love this kind of dark forrest/military green shade!
    It looks great on you!
    xxx

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    1. Polished Marvels14 January 2013 at 23:26

      Thank you lovey!!!! I also like this kind of green and Shawn has less yellow than others which is a true advantage with my skin tone!!! If you order any tell me which ones you got :-)

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  3. Unknown15 January 2013 at 05:41

    What a nice shade of green !! I don't have Shawn for some odd reason !?!?!?!? lol :)

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    1. Polished Marvels15 January 2013 at 08:55

      Hi Vicky, thank you xxx!!!! I thought about you a lot during the Tuning Sessions - maybe you would have used the pink for stamping? However you would have done some boombastic Magic :-) <3

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  4. Natalia A15 January 2013 at 11:59

    Hi Chrisitne! You always come up with such great ideas! Zoya week! yay! and you couldn't have chosen a better way to start, I absolutely adore this shade, It's one of my all time faves!
    the accent nail is a great way of having some nail art! I like the combo green and pink, though you said irl is more coral, I like it either way!
    (big thanks for your gift, I wrote you this morning <3)
    love

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    1. Polished Marvels15 January 2013 at 21:46

      Hi Nati, thank you lovey for your sweet comment!!! Work was overwhelming and I did not get around to reply to your comments and I also want to send a proper reply to your lovely mail xxx!!!! You are right a "proper" pink would also be very pretty. I wonder - where do you get your Zoya's from?

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