Zoya Urban Grunge Fall Winter 2016

Hello everyone! Today on the M.M.M blog we will be reviewing some new polishes from Zoya, the Urban Grunge collection for Fall and Winter 2016. These polishes have been out for a while now, but I just recently decided to order them from Zoya.com. I have been eyeing these beauties for a while, due to the collection have holographic polish in them, that automatically garbed my attention. 

  Zoya Urban Grunge Metallic Holos Collection Fall & Winter 2016

 

This collection has Holographic and Metallic polishes in it along with cream polishes as well (which I did not purchase). When it comes to swatching polishes, I do it different then most bloggers. I like to wear my polish for a week, not just long enough to swatch and take a photo. So for the six polishes in the collection I put all of the colors on my nails, that way I can wear them all at once. 

First we will start off with the holographic polishes, their are three holographic polishes in this collection. All of these holographic polishes are scattered holos. 

 

 Zoya Alicia 

First let's start off with Alicia, this is a silver holo with a touch of gold in it. According to the website this is a linear holo, which I don't see, to me this looks like a scattered holo.

The polish had a smooth application that applied for me in three thin coats. This polish was kind of sheer, but in three coats built up nicely. 

Link to Zoya.com if you would like to purchase:Zoya Alicia $10 

 

 Zoya Merida

Merida is a dark green/ evergreen scattered holo, this polish is a great Christmas tree green. This also had a smooth application, that cover for me in three thin coats. This polish you can probably get away with two coats, but I thought I would do three to make sure it was opaque enough.

Zoya Merida $10

 

Zoya Finley

Finley is a deep/ dark purple scattered holo. Purple is one of my favorite colors (along with blue) so I was really excited about this polish. This polish once again had a smooth application (this is a running theme), that cover the nail in three thin coats, you could also probably get away with two with this polish as well.

 Zoya Finley $10

    Zoya Urban Grunge Holographic Polishes

Final thoughts on the Holographic polishes, as all of you may have guessed I love them! They are all so beautiful, applied really well, and just look amazing in sunlight. I would say my favorite would be Finley the purple, then Alicia the silver, Merida I really like a lot to which I was surprised, I don't usually care for green, but this polish looks amazing! For all of these polishes I would highly recommend purchasing these.

Next we have the metallic polishes from the collection.

 

 Zoya Ash

Ash is described as a cherry red with gold metallic shimmer. The color of this polish seems to look different to me depending on the lighting, sometimes it looks red, sometime more of a burgundy. On the website and other people that have swatched this polish, it looks more red. So this polish is a little weird to me because of that. Ash applied smooth and covered in two thin coats.

Zoya Ash  $10

   Zoya Troy

Troy is described as a pewter with a touch of black and gold, with a foil finish. I would say this polish looks like a gunmetal gray with some sliver a black shimmer in it. Troy applied very smooth in two thin coats.

Zoya Troy $10 

 

  Zoya Britta 

Britta is described as a berry red and purple fuchsia. I would say this polish looks like berry purple or even burgundy too. In certain light Ash a Britta look like the same color polish or very close in color, at lest to me. This polish once again applied very smooth in two thin coats. 

Zoya Britta $10 

 

   Zoya Urban Grunge Metallic Polishes 

Final thought on the metallic polishes, I also really liked these as well. I would defiantly say that the holos in this collection where my favorite, but these where very beautiful as well. I did kind of have a hard time capture the metallic (the most) when I was trying to take photos, they wanted to be very reflective and kept on showing up blurry, but I think I final got the photos to look good. Hopefully I was able to show the true of these polishes. 

As for the Urban Grange polish collection as a whole. I would highly recommend these polishes both the holos and the metallic are very beautiful and applied very well. As I have said other times that I have purchased Zoya polishes, I love all of their polish and will continue to purchase them, I would go for a Zoya polish over OPI any day.    

These polishes would make a great gift for any polish lover (or your self) that love shimmer/ shinny polish, and who wouldn't? 

Like all the polishes in the collection?

Here is a link to purchase all of the polishes, they are full size polishes       

Urban Grunge- Metallic Holos Try Me $60 for the set

For some reason that you don't care for shimmer polishes here is a link to their creme polishes.

Urban Grunge- One Coat Creams Try Me $60 for the set

I know this collection is kind of pricey, Zoya also went up on their prices of polish I think over a year ago. But as always be on the look out for deal on their website, or sign up for their emails would be the best.

Hope all of you enjoyed this review of Zoya Urban Grange Holo and Metallic collection for Fall and Winter!

See you next time for more nail fun!  

        

Holoday's, Easiest Design Ever, Chevron

Hello everyone! A lot of times on this blog we create some kind of hard/ detailed designs, well today I have the easiest design ever! That anyone and everyone can create, a chevron design. If you have been checking out this blog for a while now, then you know that I am all about the hand painted designs. But today I cheating a little bit, yes I used nail vinyls. I know shame on me, but I wanted to do a chevron design and I have been having trouble creating this by hand, so what better and easy way then with nail vinyls.

 

Holographic Chevron Nail Design.

I love the black background, it make the nails in the photo look so elegant, 

don't know why I haven't done this sooner!   

Here are the polishes and tools that we will be using for this design:

 

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

Nail Polishes- Cirque- Madder, Zoya- Urban Grunge- Alicia, or Color Club Halo's- Harp on.

Nail tools- Twinkled T Chevron nail vinyls, and some twisters to to pick up and pill the nail vinyls (twisters not show in the photo above.)

That's all you need! 

 

Holographic Chevron Nail Design 

As always start off with a thin layer of base coat.

Then for your base polishes paint your thumb, index, and pinky finger nail with a red holographic polish (Cirque- Madder) and then your middle and ring finger nail with a silver holographic polish (Zoya- Urban Grunge- Alicia). 

Once your base color has dried, on just your ring finger nail apply a top coat, a fast drying one would be best. This is so the nail vinyl will not stick to you polish, that you have already put on your nail.

Then wait until that nail has fully dried.

Take some twisters and peel off your nail vinyl from the sheet, and then place it on your nail. Then press down on the vinyl making sure it is on the nail good and free of bubbles.

* For the photo above I used two vinyls, you can use two or three, or even one depending on the length of your nails. I kind of wished I used three. 

Paint the same color of red that you put on the other nails, over the entire nail covering the nail vinyl.

Very important! You need to peel off the nail vinyl right away with tweezers, do not wait for the polish to dry! This will unsure that your chevron lines look nice and clean. 

 

 Holographic Chevron Nail Design  

Once all of your nails have fully dried apply a top coat. Your ring finger nail with the chevron will have two layers of top coat on it. 

Their you go a very simple way of do some nail art, with out have to have skills in doing nail art, or if you just want to keep things simple. 

I was not planning on do a holiday design, but the red holographic polish that I really wanted to use and the silver ended up looking kind of Christmas like. These colors ended up looking so beautiful together and would be great for the holidays or holodays!     


 

  Holographic Chevron Nail Design, using Color Club's Harp On

Want a little bit more intense holo and doesn't ? Then you can always use a linear holo instead of a scattered holo.

Zoya's Alicia (left hand) that I used to show all of you this tutorial is a scattered holo, which means the holographic particles are larger and less dense, and will not show as much of an intense rainbow, but still looks very shimmery.

Color Club's Harp On (used my right hand) and Cirque- Madder are linear holos, which means the holographic particles are smaller and create a stronger rainbow effect. When you look at the polish on your nails in the sun, you can see a circle in the nail from the holo.

Hope all of you enjoyed this holographic chevron nail design!

See you next time for more nail fun!