Thursday, January 23, 2020

Zoya Haul- Twinkling Winter/ Holiday 2019 Collection

Hello everyone! Today we have a long over due review that we will be going over, the Zoya Twinkling Winter/ Holiday collection from 2019. It is still winter so I thought I would sill share some of the polishes from this collection with all of you. As with most nail polish collections I rarely will purcahse the whole collection, in the case of this collection I purchased four of the twelve polishes, and one not from the collection.       

Zoya Twinkling Winter/ Holiday 2019 Collection 
Zoya Twinkling Winter/ Holiday 2019 Collection

Zoya Alessia
 Zoya Alessia 

Alessia is a icy blue metallic polish with some silver shimmer in it. This polish was fully opaque for me in two coats. 


Zoya Alessia  
Zoya Alessia
 Zoya Alessia
 Zoya Alessia 

I really enjoined Alessia, blue is my favorite color so really any blue I am going to like. This polish wore really well, all Zoya polishes that I have prchased have no matter what color they are. 

This shimmer blue is great for winter and the holidays or really anytime of year. 

 Zoya Jen   
  Zoya Jen
Zoya Jen  

Next we have Jen, this is a dark royal/ sapphire shimmery blue polish. This polish was also opaque for me in two coats. 

 Zoya Jen     
  Zoya Jen
  Zoya Jen  

I also really enjoyed Jen as well because of this once again being a blue polish. This polish is once again great for winter or anytime of the year. 


Zoya Jett, matte and glossy

This polish I unfortunately don't have photos of this on my nails, I did take some photos of this on my nails, but I accidentally deleted the photos off of my SD card. So all of have is photos of the polish on a swatch wheel.

Anyways Jett is a dark silver matte polish that has shard glitter pieces in it. This polish again was opqaue in two coats.

Zoya Jett, matte and glossy 
 Zoya Jett, matte and glossy 

As for Jett I didn't really care for this polish because of it having the matte finish to it and the glitter in it kind of made it thick. I did wear this on my nails with a glossy top coat and it made it a little bit better. I personally would have liked this more if the finish was glossy coming out of the bottle. 


Zoya Kaede (glitter topper) over Ziv
Zoya Kaede (glitter topper) over Ziv 
Zoya Kaede (glitter topper) over Ziv

Kaede is a gold glitter topper that has metallic gold fleck in it along with holographic shard glitters. I wore this as a topper over Ziv, I only applied one coat of this polish. 


Zoya Kaede (glitter topper) over Ziv
Zoya Kaede (glitter topper) over Ziv
Zoya Kaede (glitter topper) over Ziv
Zoya Kaede (glitter topper) over Ziv

I also enjoyed Kaede as well, this polish was very pretty, although it might actually look better over a black polish. This polish is really good for the holiday's.

I did not wear this on it own, I did apply is to a swatch wheel in three coat, this polish just seems better as a topper because even in three coats it was still a little patchy.

   
Zoya Kaede (glitter topper) and Ziv a gold polish

Zoya Ziv and Kaede on the ring finger nail
 Zoya Ziv and Kaede on the ring finger nail 
Zoya Ziv and Kaede on the ring finger nail

Lastly we have Ziv, this polish was not a part of thier holiday/ winter colection, this was just a polish that I wanted to get.

Anyways Ziv is a yellow toned gold with silver and a little bit draker gold glitter throught out the polish. This polsih did take me three coats to be opqaue, it was a little on the sheer side.

Zoya Ziv and Kaede on the ring finger nail
Zoya Ziv and Kaede on the ring finger nail 
Zoya Ziv and Kaede on the ring finger nail

I also like Ziv as well, the only thing was this polish was a little sheer, but still looked very pretty. 

 All of these polsihes can be found on the Zoya website ad retail for $10 each.

They also have four trios that reatil for $30.
Along with two sets (Sampler A and B) for $60.



Hope all of you enjoied this review, even though it is a little late.

See you next time for more polish fun! 

Thursday, January 16, 2020

Starry Night Sky- Star Nail Design

Hello everyone! Hope everyone is having a good new year so far! Today we will be creating a starry night sky inspired nail design, just because. Sometimes I don't really have a reason to do a design, I just decide sometimes that when I look for inspiration that would be cool to do, and today it the day that that happened.

Star Nail Design
Star Nail Design 

Here are the polishes and tool used to crate this starry night nail design:  

 

Top and base coat- CND Stickey Base Coat and Revlon Extra Life No Chip top coat.

Polishes- Color Club- Black Magic- holo, Color Club- Mini- Silver Glitter, Cover Girl- Boundless color- Disco dazzle (very old polish). 

Other option for base color- Zoya Dream.

Arcylic paint- white.

Nail art tools- thin stripper brush, small and medium dotting tools.

Cup of water to clean off you nail art brushes. 

Star Nail Design  
Star Nail Design
 Star Nail Design 

Apply base coat, let dry.

Polish all of your nail with a black holographic polish, or a creme black polish if for some reason you don't have a holo polish. 

Thumb nail- add a silver glitter near the tip of the nail.
Index nail- make a thick line of glitter going across the nail.
Middle finger nail- no glitter. 
Ring and pink nail- add a larger glitter polish near the tips of the nails.

Another option that I will show later on is to use a blue scattered holo polish as your base color.   

Let that dry. 

Star Nail Design
Star Nail Design  
Star Nail Design 

For this star nail design it is very similar to making snowflakes, just less lines depending on what kind of snowflakes you make.


For making the stars on all the nails-
Just take a dotting tool with white paint on it and place a dot on the nail. Then with a thin stripper brush with white paint on it as well make four or two long lines from the circle. (depending on how you want to make your stars)


On the index nail we will make a large star and a actual star shape, then make different size dots with a dotting tool.

On the middle finger nail, make three stars that only have two lines, and then place random dots around your big stars. Also focus this near the tip of the nail. 

Star Nail Design  
 Star Nail Design
 Star Nail Design 

On the ring finger nail make three large stars going down the nail, kind of near the tip of the nail, once again add random small dots with a dotting tool. Also on these stars make the line in the center longer then the other lines. 

On the pinky finger nail make one large star and a few dots near the large star.

Star Nail Design
Star Nail Design  
Star Nail Design 

Lastly on the thumb nail, make your star just like the one on the ring finger with a longer line down the middle, and only two stars, and then add a few dots near the tip of the nail.

Star Nail Design
Star Nail Design
 Star Nail Design 

Once you have your starry night sky looking just right, apply a top coat to seal in your design and to help it to last.

Star Nail Design
Star Nail Design
  Star Nail Design
 Star Nail Design
 Star Nail Design, Blue Polish

Above is another option, using blue polish as your base color and just doing the design on two nails. Lately on my right hand,(If I do nail art on that hand) I have just been doing a design on two nails. 

 Practice version of My Star Nail Design 

I originally was going to polish all of my nails with Zoya's Dream (as you can see from the practice version), but then when I showed my hubby, he said maybe I should use a black polish for the sky because this look to similar to a design that I have done before. So that is why I went with Color Club's Black Magic.   

Hope all of you enjoyed this starry night sky nail design! 

See you next time for more nail fun!