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

Ana Hickmann Pinot Blue and Nail Pattern Boldness Hades

 This is already the last week of November - the last week before we get swamped with Holiday preparations, Holiday dinners, Holiday shopping-frenzy - it's just plain autumn. I wanted to devote this week to some awesome autumn-fitting nail polish colours before heading into suggestions for festive manis, best of recollections and so on.

Let's start this week with a Brazilian nail polish: please meet Ana Hickmann Pinot Blue. This is one of those colours that I love the wear year-round but then I don't wear season specific colours in general. It is a gorgeous dusty navy blue -  Oh my I really should type something about this polish instead of staring at my nails ;-).  Well let's just get on to the picture:

These are two effortless coats of Ana Hickmann Pinot Blue over Essence XXL Nail Thickener. The formula is perfect, the polish nearly glides on the nail all by itself, it spreads evenly and dries very fast.


I regularly stalk Llarowe's Website since they offer many of my most coveted Indie Brands. One of the sections I so far never found stocked was Mystery Grab Bag. You get three polishes or polish related products for 20 Dollars. I was so happy to finally grab one since I just LOVE surprise buys!!!

One of the three polishes I got is Nail Pattern Boldness Hades. To be honest, I never considered buying it - HA how wrong could I possibly be - just have a look at this glitter packed blackened polish:

I applied one coat of Nail Pattern Boldness Hades over Ana Hickmann Pinot Blue. It is so packed with glitter that I just had to dab on one piece of glitter on one finger - make this the huge black hex glitter on my pinkie - of all the nails it could have decided to sit on, it of course it got to be the smallest ;-) 

 

The glitter lay nice and flat on the nail and one generous coat of Ciate Speed Coat was all it needed for a smooth surface.

I got Ana Hickmann Pinot Blue in my epic nail mail from my Brazilian friend - thank you so much for this year-round gorgeousness <3. Nail Pattern Boldness Hades was part of my Mystery Grab Bag I ordered from Llarowe.

Have you tried any Mystery Grab Bags? And if so - what were the gems found in yours?

I look forward to reading your comments!!!

Thanks for reading!!

Christine