Fall Into Fashion - Day 1 of a Halloween Nail Art Challenge!

Happy Hump Day everyone! 

I am sure you have all seen the mega-awesome Halloween nail art  challenge on many blogs. I love seeing what they are all coming up with and I considered joining in myself. But after the 31 Day Challenge I didn't really feel like I had another long challenge in me. Plus I am going to be starting back to school in a couple of weeks so I didn't want to commit to a challenge since I am unsure if I will have the proper time to commit to it. Anyway, one of my friends, Danielle over at Polish, Glitter, Rock & Roll, came up with a nice, short Halloween nail art challenge so I decided to join in on that one!

I chopped off my nails last night. Like, really chopped off. I had 3 bad breaks on my right hand and couldn't stand my hands being different lengths. I do have some swatches saved from before I cut them so my nail length will be going back and forth in my posts. This drives me nuts but I don't have a choice right now. LOL Hopefully they grow quickly!

I wasn't sure what to do for today in the challenge so I went with the "Fall" aspect more than the fashion one. I used Zoya Monica as my base and stamped leaves using Nails Inc. Old Bond St and Bundle Monster BM04.

Fall Leaves Manicure

Fall Leaves Manicure

Make sure to check out the other amazing bloggers participating in this challenge!

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31 Day Challenge Day 30 - Inspired By A Tutorial

Happy Saturday!

I had several different tutorials in mind for the challenge today but life has been busy lately and I wound up with only an hour, right before time to post,  to do this mani. LOL So, I chose one that LOOKED fairly easy and didn't require tape (because tape manis take forever for me to do). 

I decided on this cloud tutorial from Nailside. This design ended up being more difficult than I anticipated. I think if I were to attempt this again I would use a large dotting tool for the design, I think it would make it easier (for me). 

I do love how these colors look together. I used La Femme Unica as my base, Zoya Monica as the middle color and Zoya Brie as the tip color.

Cloud Manicure

Cloud Manicure

Cloud Manicure

Don't forget to check out the other awesome bloggers participating in the challenge below! If you'd like to join the 30/31 Day Challenge, go here to grab the codes to embed in your posts for the next 30 days and add your post using the link below! 

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Zoya Designers Collection "Fishtail" Mani!

I am back for the second time today. I was going to save this post for tomorrow but I had some extra time on my hands and was excited to share so here it is.

Zoya Fishtail Mani with Evvie, Natty and Monica

I wanted to try the fishtail design again (if you missed my original post you can see it here - it includes links to the original post and tutorial) because I love the look of it so much. I still didn't manage to pull off the amazing original design so you may be seeing more of these attempts as I work on trying to perfect it. LOL

All of the colors I used are from the Zoya Designers Collection. I was really craving the cremes BUT I think it might have looked a little better if I had included a shimmer in the design. I think I should have used Suri from the Divas Collection instead of Monica for the purple. Oh well, hindsight is 20/20, right?

Zoya Fishtail Mani with Evvie, Natty and Monica

Zoya Fishtail Mani with Evvie, Natty and Monica

Zoya Fishtail Mani with Evvie, Natty and Monica

What do you think of this design? I think it's okay but could use improvement. I hope I can eventually perfect this design, I really like it.

The Designers Collection is available for purchase now at zoya.com for $8 each. Zoya is an amazing company that runs sales and promotions very often. Make sure to catch those by following them on Facebook and Twitter. Zoya is 5-Free and Cruelty-Free AND makes amazing polish! What more could you ask for?

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Zoya Designers and Divas Doticure!

I hope you all are enjoying Zoya Week! I have my first "nail art" post of the week and I think it turned out pretty cute! It reminds me a little of raindrops, which I happen to love and don't get to see nearly often enough.

For this mani I used polishes from the Zoya Divas Collection for my base colors and polishes from the Zoya Designers Collection for my dots or "raindrops." After applying the base colors I topped them with a matte top coat (which Zoya REALLY needs to make) and then applied the dots with dotting tools.

The colors I used are as follows:
Base colors - Suri (index), Ray (middle), Elisa (ring), Song (pinky)
Dot colors - Monica (index), Evvie (middle), Rehka (ring), Natty (pinky)

Zoya Doticure

Zoya Doticure

Zoya Doticure

What do you think of my "Raindrop Doticure?" I think it's pretty fun and it was super simple!

The Designers and Divas Collections are available for purchase now at zoya.com for $8 each. Zoya is an amazing company that runs sales and promotions very often. Make sure to catch those by following them on Facebook and Twitter. Zoya is 5-Free and Cruelty-Free AND makes amazing polish! What more could you ask for?

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Zoya Designers Collection for NYFW 2012 - Swatches and Review

Good morning everyone! Who's ready to start Zoya Week? I know I am!! I loved these colors when I started seeing swatches but I am even more impressed after using them. There is not one out of all of these collections that I don't like. I really shouldn't be surprised, I am ALWAYS impressed with Zoya.

Zoya Designers, Divas and Gloss Collections

I decided to start with my favorite of the 3 collections, The Designers Collection. This collection of 6 consists of all cremes, which is why it is my favorite. I ♥ my cremes and Zoya has amazing ones.

Zoya Noot, Natty, Evvie, Toni, Rekah, Monica

I am going to speak of formula and application here so I don't keep repeating myself. They all had the same application, which speaks volumes as to Zoya's consistency. They were a tad on the thin side but nothing problematic, just don't put too much on your brush and you will be good to go. They were all a little streaky on the first coat but the second evened everything out perfectly and made them opaque. The only one that was not completely opaque in 2 coats was Rekha and the nail line was only visible under intense lighting for that one. All dried to a shiny finish. All photos are 2 coats and no top coat. MOST photos were taken outside but some had to be taken inside, I will indicate which were inside.

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First up is one of the ones tied for my favorite of the collection (the other being Evvie). Noot is a dark greyish green, or maybe a greenish grey. LOL! In some lighting it looks more grey, some it looks more green. In my photos (all outside under overcast skies) it definitely looks more grey. I absolutely love it!

Zoya Noot

Zoya Noot

Zoya Noot

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Next up we have Evvie. Evvie was previously released in Zoya's Peter Som Designer Collection. She is another greyish green but lighter and definitely more green than Noot. There are also some slight blue tones in Evvie. 

Zoya Evvie

Zoya Evvie

Zoya Evvie

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And a quick comparison between Noot and Evvie....

Zoya Noot (index and ring fingers) vs. Zoya Evvie (middle finger and pinky)

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Natty is a dusty medium blue, not quite as bright as my photos are showing. My camera was not cooperating, this is the closest I could get. It is *almost* accurate, just picture it a bit more grey.

Zoya Natty

Zoya Natty

Zoya Natty

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Monica is a cool purple, Zoya definitely knows how to make an amazing purple. LOVE this one. 

*All of the Monica photos were taken inside under artificial lighting. Because of this they appear slightly darker than Monica actually is.*

Zoya Monica

Zoya Monica

Zoya Monica

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Next up we have Toni which is a lovely wine color. Kind of a reddish purple. Vampy and lovely.

Zoya Toni

Zoya Toni

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And to round out this collection we have Rekha. This one is a cool base red with blue undertones instead of orange. My camera does not like red so these are, again, *close* but not 100% accurate. They are slightly more orange here than in person. 

If you look closely you can see the VNL that I was referring to earlier. These pics are in direct sunlight.

Zoya Rekha

Zoya Rekha

Zoya Rekha

Well, there you have the Designers Collection. What are your thoughts? I love each and every one of them, there isn't one that I am "meh" about. 

The Designers Collection is available for purchase now at zoya.com for $8 each. Zoya is an amazing company that runs sales and promotions very often. Make sure to catch those by following them on Facebook and Twitter. Zoya is 5-Free and Cruelty-Free AND makes amazing polish! What more could you ask for?

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For more information, please visit my Disclosure Tab.

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