Essie Where's My Chauffeur? Swatch & Comparison

Hi guys! Today I'm showing you Essie Where's My Chauffeur from their holiday 2012 collection, I can never pass up a turquoise!

I used two fairly generous coats for essies small brush.

I then decided to do a quick comparison with a few popular turquoise shades you might have.

Left to Right:
China Glaze For Audrey, Orly Frisky, Essie Where's My Chauffeur?, Zoya Wednesday, Essie Turqouise & Caicos.

No 100% dupes here, the closest by far was Orly Frisky (In Real Life) While Frisky is more opaque it stains like a bitch which I didn't experience when removing Where's My Chauffeur?

Zoya Ornate 2012: Blaze Quick Swatch

Hi guys! Today I'm showing you Zoya Blaze from the 2012 Ornate collection. This is a berryish red shade with chunky holographic scattered particles without being a glitter lol. I used two coats for full coverage. It reminded me of OPI Ds Extravagance but this is a bit more on the red side but quite similar.

Zoya Logan Swatch & Comparison AND 18k Gold Flake Topcoat

Hi guys! Today I'm showing you Zoya Logan from the 2012 Ornate Holiday collection. Logan is a dark green with golden sheen which is quite similar to Ivanka. I used two coats for full coverage which I thought was impressive as other Zoyas with a similar finish always seem to need three +.

Top: Ivanka. Bottom: Logan

I then decided to layer the Zoya 18k gold topcoat over it as I didn't think it would be as good over the plain black andwhite that came with the kit.

Coewless Galaxy Drip Manicure

Hi guys! Today I'm showing you a manicure I did based off one I saw on the Coewless Nail Blog (aka. the girl with the most amazing nails in the world.) that I just HAD to re-create!

To do this manicure I used a base of Zoya Purity which came in the 18k gold set. I then used Charla on my ring finger and used a dotting tool to create the drips. I then grabbed Zuza on a sponge and sponged a bit of that on, and a tiny bit of Zoya Song. (Wow were a Zoya party today!) After that I went back to Purity on a detail brush and drew some eight spoke stars and some random dots. Then finally I used Nubar White Polka Dot (about 2-3 coats) over the drips and the ring finger.

I love how this turned out, lots of fun!

Zoya Ornate Collection 2012: Aurora

Hi guys! Today I'm showing you Zoya Aurora from their holiday Ornate collection. Aurora is a medium-dark purple base PACKED with holographic particles. It is actually more holographic in real life, and deffinately the most holographic of the collection. The holographic particles aren't chunky making this a glitter, it's a very smooth polish and was easy to remove. I used two coats.

This is the only one of the Zoya colours from this collection that made me say WOW out loud when I put it on my nails and stepped into the sun lol

Thanks for reading!

Zoya Ornate Collection 2012: Storm

Hi guys! Today I'm showing you a polish from the Zoya holiday collection. This is Storm. It is a black base with small prismatic particles throughout which look silver in the shade. It is a little more prismatic than in my photos but nothing incredibly special in my opinion unless you really like this look.

Thanks for reading guys!

Have you picked anything up from this collection?

A cute Halloween design ruined by my impatience: A Halloween Nail Fail

Hi guys! So I saw this really cute design on tumblr somewhere but I don't know who did it sorry! But I thought I'd try and recreate it today since it's Halloween!

I used a base of Zoya Jancyn and then used a black striper polish from Orly's Instant Artist line called Jet Black  and a bit of Liquid Vinyl by Orly and a dotting tool to create drips on my nails.

This looked all cute until....

The Liner by Orly dried to a matte finish and looked super weird and I wanted to take photos immidiately so I slapped on a top coat (Without Thinking) and smeared it!

It worked somewhat better on my middle fingers as I really glopped the topcoat on and moved it around and since it was so thick the brush wasn't dragging the design.

Oh well.

It still looks cool from a distance!

Quick Swatch: Zoya Kimmy

Hi guys! Today I dug up Zoya Kimmy out of my stash and was immidiately reminded why I purchased this polish in the first place! It is a red jelly base packed with golden flecky shimmer, it shines like there is no tomorrow!

I used three coats for full opacity but it also created brilliant intensity!

Quick Swatchn: Zoya Isla

Hi guys! Today I wanted to show you a beautiful red I've had in my collection for ages. This is Zoya Isla, it's extremely similar to OPI's Im not really a waitress.

I used two coats :)

Zoya Neeka

Hi guys! Today I wanted to show you one of my favourite Zoya polishes called Neeka. Neeka is a super dusty dark purple with gold micro glitter throughout. I use two coats for full coverage and it applies super easily. This came out in last years fall collection by Zoya called Smoke & Mirrors. It is fairly similar to Zoya Lotus but with gold sparkle instead of the pink/purple shimmer of Lotus.

Zoya Charla

Hi guys! Today I'm showing you one of my alltime favourite polishes! This is Zoya Charla, but I also own OPI Catch Me In Your Net & Orly Halleys Comet as backups lol which are all dead on dupes which I have a comparison post of from ages ago.

I used three coats of Charla to get full opacity and amazing deapth!

Thanks for Reading!

What's Your favourite polish!

Zoya Zuza

Hi guys! Today I'm showing you Zoya Zuza from the Surf collection released in Spring. I swatched this when I first got it when it came out but only just realised I never posted about it, So I've dug it back out of the helmer to show you today :)

Zuza is actually a very unique colour. You never see light turquoise foils like this!. It is pretty opaque, I used two coats for complete coverage, but the formula is also a bit thick.

I really love Zuza! Have you checked it out yet?

Zoya Rica over Black

Hi guys! Today I wanted to show you a layering combination I discovered a while back  but have never worn. This is one coat of Zoya Rica over black. I swatched Rica back a little while ago and you might know it's a light coral shimmery shade but over black it comes out like a dark gold with some olivey green flecks and it creates a dark brown base, It's a very fall-esque combo!

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Zoya Ivanka

Hi guys! Today I wanted to show you one of my favourite Zoya shades! This is Ivanka from their Sparkle collection and it's probably the most beautiful green ever!

I don't know what more I can say about this shade but if you don''t have it, you have to get it.

More beautiful than emeralds! lol

Zoya Kimber

Hi guys! Really short post today but I wanted to show you some pics of Zoya Kimber that was released in their Surf collection for Spring/Summer. It's a hot pink magenta with a gold shimmer throughout. It's a bit darker in real life than in these pictures but it is really beautiful.

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Zoya Rory

Hi guys, today I'm showing you Zoya Rory. This polish came out in Zoya's spring Surf line. Rory is a cool toned pink with dense silver shimmer and a frost finish. The formula is on the thicker side but it is opaque. I don't have much more to say about this colour, it's pretty, not something I'd really wanna wear though.

Sugarpill Burning Heart Palette: Swatches, Eye Look & Watermarble Inspired By.

Hi guys, This will be a fairly long post today showcasing my Sugar Pill Burning Heart Palette!

One of my bestfriends and I were going clubbing for the night so I decided to really go all out with my eyeshadows and Sugarpill Burning Heart was just the way to do it!

 I only wear lashes on the outer halves of my eyes because it's the only way they ever last.

I swear they didn't look as crap in real life lol

Sugarpill Burning Heart Palette

Keep Reading for Close ups, Swatches & Review as well as a Water Marble inspired by this palette!

Zoya Rica

Hi guys! Today I'm wearing Zoya Rica from their Sunshine collection a few years ago.

This polish is suprisingly super flattering on me in real life! I really love it. It's a pinky coral base with a TON of gold glassfleck shimmer Zoya is famous for which makes the over all colour of the polish appear much more orange than the base really is.

This is three easy coats.

Glitter Gradient: Candy Lacquer Black Ice & Zoya Sooki

Hi guys, today I'm showing you another Candy Lacquer polish! 

I thought I'd play with this one a bit, and I really like the result. I used a base of Zoya Sooki which looks a little too orange in this photo. I then used Candy Lacquer Black Ice and did a glittter gradient. If you're going to try this I'd do a black polish tip first, otherwise you'll end up with your nails looking really chunky like mine with too many coats of Black Ice lol

 PLEASE EXCUSE THE CRAPPY CELLPHONE PICTURE - CAMERA IS CURRENTLY ON THE FRITZ.

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Zoya Arizona

Hi guys! So today is officially the first day of Winter in Australia but the beautiful fall leaves are still lurking so today I was inspired to wear orange!

I slapped on Zoya Arizona from this years Beach collection. It's a super bright orange creme. The formula was on the thick side and opaque in two coats with no bubbles. What did annoy me about this polish is that even when you wipe excess polish off the brush when you pull it out, polish still drips down onto your nails halfway through painting them if you know what I mean..

Anyway, this is a gorgeous polish!

I don't know why this is sort of blurry.. it isn't on my computer until I upload it onto blogger -_-

Here are a couple of other shots from today!