Zoya Trio Giveaway

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A while back, I promised that I would have a giveaway when I reached 600 Facebook Likes. *sigh* I will just skip the excuses and apologize. I'm extremely late with this, 300 FB Likes late. I'm very sorry and hope that this giveaway (and future giveaways) will make it up to you! 

I have been hanging on to three of my favorite Zoyas to give to one lucky winner. Up for grabs is Zoya Aurora, Blaze, and Storm. If you'd like to see my swatches of these polishes, here are the links:

Zoya Aurora, Zoya Blaze and Zoya Storm

Nope, you're not getting my bottles that I have been using. You get your very own. =)

From left to right: Zoya Aurora, Blaze, and Storm

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This giveaway ends on Monday, March 18th at midnight MST.

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Zoya London

This week I have Zoya's PixieDust Collection to show you. I went back and forth on whether or not I should do the whole collection in one post or have a post for each polish. Then I started editing the pictures and decided each polish just needed to have it's own post. I have too many pictures and it would just get out of control so welcome to Zoya PixieDust week! ;)

Before I get into Zoya London, I want to tell you about the fancy bottles Zoya used for this collection. As you can see, they printed PixieDust on the bottle with a few speckles around the word. I thought that was a nice touch. The caps are a little different as well. Instead of the smooth glossy plastic, it's a more rubbery texture. Moving on to the good stuff now!

Ok, first up is Zoya London. 

Without Top Coat

Zoya London is the color of wet concrete. Add texture and a ton of sparkle and you get this fabulous polish. 

 My pictures just don't show the sparkle which makes me sad. Each PixieDust shade is infused with silver micro glitter that makes these extra special. You can see the silver glitter in the bottle right above the words Professional Lacquer. 

 The texture is like a fine sandpaper. It isn't too rough in my opinion. It didn't snag on anything which I loved. I wore Zoya London for a few days before I put on top coat to see how it wore and because I liked it. It wears like iron. I got a teeny tiny little chip on the third day. 

With Top Coat

So far, I've preferred wearing textured polish with top coat. Yep, I know, that defeats the purpose of wearing a textured nail polish! I like my polish shiny and glossy, what can I say? With this particular polish, I liked it without top coat better. It's fun both ways, I just liked the texture this time. Maybe I'm just getting used to it. 

 Let's talk formula. The formulas in this collection were a bit inconsistent. For Zoya London, the formula was fabulous. It went on without a problem. I only needed two coats. All of the PixieDust polishes needed extra dry time (I'll restate that with each post). As for top coat, I needed two coats of Seche Vite to make it completely smooth. 

Something funny happened when I wore this polish. My husband noticed it. He is used to my polish shenanigans and usually doesn't pay any attention to it. One night, he grabbed my hand and started rubbing my nails with his fingers. He thought the texture was cool. Then, the stinker started trying to scratch it off to see what would happen. After I beat him nicely asked him to stop, I checked my nails and they were chip free. Men. ;p

What do you think of Zoya London? Have you tried any of the PixieDusts yet? Share your thoughts in the comments below. Comments are good. They give you good karma. Just sayin.

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-Mira

*Products provided for review. 

A England Holy Grail - New Edition

A England recently revamped Holy Grail which was a gold polish and limited edition and released this stunner. Unfortunately, I don't have the original version to show a comparison. From what I've seen online, version two is much more complex and green toned than version one. 

Holy Grail is such a complex polish, is hard to describe. It's in between gold and bronze with green tones. It has a gorgeous green shimmer that makes it extra special.

I love how this looks with my skin tone under regular lighting. For some reason, I have lobster hands in the pictures. Polishes that have gold or yellow tones do that to me but in person it's not as obvious. 

 

Just like the other A England polishes I've worn, Holy Grail has an amazing formula. It applies buttery smooth and dries quickly. I used Cult Nails Wicked Fast top coat. 

 See how complex and pretty this is? 

You can find A England polish on Llarowe and Ninja Polish if you're in the U.S. If not, head on over to the A England store! 

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A England Beauty Never Fails

This polish is so yummy.

Just look at it, olive green and gold shimmery goodness. *sigh*

I got this during a sale on the A England site and it took for-ev-er to arrive. There was a major issue with shipping polish from the U.K. to the U.S. that was resulting in packages getting destroyed by the Royal Mail. I don't remember the details but I was given the option of a refund or to wait while everything got sorted out. It was such a good deal I decided to wait. This beauty was worth waiting for. 

 A England - Beauty Never Fails is from the Heavenly Quotes collection. It is a gorgeous olive green with a heavy golden shimmer. I actually ventured out of the house when I had this on and I got a lot of compliments on it. 

I used two coats with one coat of Cult Nails Wicked Fast top coat. The formula was fantastic. It went on smoothly and evenly. 

It's just divine. 

I have another polish from A England to show you tomorrow. It's also green and fabulous. 

A England is sold on Llarowe and Ninja Polish in the U.S.  

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Cult Nails Fetish

This is the polish I was the most excited about from Cult Nails' anniversary set. I've been wanting a black nail polish with a waxy/rubbery finish for a while and had to get this. I took a lot of pictures at different angles to try to capture it's finish. 

 I used two coats of Fetish and didn't use a top coat. Using a top coat will make the finish glossy which defeats it's purpose!

 I didn't test wear time but I imagine it not being very long since you can't wear top coat. 

 I have so many ideas for nail art with this polish. I can't wait to try them! 

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Cult Nails Tempest

If you've used white nail polish before, you know what a pain it can be. I don't know why but white polish is really hard to work with. It can get goopy, drag, and streaky. If you're like me, you use a lot of white polish. I use it as a base for glitter polish or in nail art. I've tried a lot of brands and I think this one is my favorite white creme so far. 

What you're looking at is two effortless coats of Cult Nails Tempest. I almost got away with one coat. One coat people! One coat of white nail polish! I had a teeny bit of patchiness on two nails that required a second coat. Um, that's crazy. Cult Nails, you rocked this one. 

Do I really need to say more? White creme polish that is almost a one coater. I bet with practice I could make that one coat work. I know, right? Here's the linky link. 

Oh, I used Cult Nails Wicked Fast top coat to make it extra shiny. It didn't really need it. 

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Cult Nails Blaze

Have you tried Cult Nails yet? If the answer is no, you are missing out! Cult Nails recently celebrated their 2nd anniversary and released a set of three polishes to celebrate. They also came with cubic zirconia earrings with the chance to win real diamond earrings (while supplies lasted). That promotion is over but the polish is still available. I got the fakie earrings which I will probably give to someone someday. They are pretty, I just don't wear jewelry. I'd make an exception for diamonds of course.

One of the polishes in the anniversary set is Blaze. The other two (I will show you them soon) are a plain white creme and an amazing black with a rubbery finish.

Pardon my nails. They aren't getting along with winter and I'm trying to grow them back out and reshape them.

Alright, back to the good stuff...

Blaze is a glitter polish with gold, copper, and perhaps red micro glitter in a clear base. I used two coats to reach opacity and topped it off with Cult Nails Wicked Fast top coat.

Here it is with flash so you can see how sparkly it is. It's a lot more sparkly in person.

I used the cotton ball/foil method to remove the glitter. The glitter got all over my skin during removal which wasn't a big deal. It came off without too much difficulty.

Let's talk formula. I wore this twice. The first time, it applied beautifully. No problems with the formula at all. The second time I wore it, the formula was a nightmare. It was goopy and very difficult to apply. After a generous amount of polish thinner, it returned to it's fabulous self. This is very unlike Cult Nails so I'm a bit puzzled on what happened. I was able to fix it so I'm still happy with it.

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-Mira