ZOYA Lovely Spring Collection 2013 On the Nail Swatches & Review!

Okay, so earlier, I had a post about the swatches and bottles of the new ZOYA Lovely Spring 2013 Collection, but this is the real deal. What they look like ON the nail. This is super important because sometimes you don't get the same payoff on the plastic wheel that you do in real life. So without further ado (P.S. these photos were taken BEFORE I had my lightbox fixed, all will be taken in there now):

2 coats of Piaf. Something about all of ZOYA's polishes is that they all go on smooth as can be. I'm very impressed with the quality of their products. I know you can't tell in the picture, but this is a shimmery polish. It has some silver shimmer into it. One thing I don't like about this, GieGie and Julie is that the shimmeryness (once again...not a valid word in the dictionary, but in mine it is ;)) stays on after taking the polish off. I really don't like that, because my fingers are all shimmery and shiny afterwards, not just my nails.

2 coats of Gie Gie. This is another one of the shimmery polishes. I expected this color to be a little brighter, like in the bottle, instead it came out a very pale, nude color. It's still gorgeous nonetheless :)  This polish was actually a little thinner than the others in the collection, if I would have worn this out, I would have done 3 coats just to be on the safe side.

2 coats of Julie. What a beautiful shade of purple, huh? I can't get over this color, and I'm so excited to actually wear it and not just swatch it. It being the last shimmer polish in the collection, I'd have to say that the added shine and shimmer works very well in it's favor. This is without a top coat by the way. The formula was good, but if I were wearing it out, I might do 3 coats just to be on the safe side.

2 coats of Jacqueline. Okay, so this was the polish I was very confused about, and actually still am. However, I'm infatuated with it...it's such a gorgeous, pale color. I'm still not sure the actual color, because on here it looks pale pale green. I just don't know...it's still a good creme, spring color :) I did do 2 coats, but really could have gotten away with 1.



 

2 coats of Blu. Such a gorgeous, gorgeous creme blue color. I'm so in love with creme polishes, but with light blue and mint green colors as well. I know this will be one of my go-to's for spring. The formula was awesome as usual, and although I did 2 coats, I could have gotten away with 1.  That's one thing I like about ZOYA's creme polishes, the opacity is fantastic.

2 coats of Neely. This is my baby, my signature color. Any mint green polish, I must own. I think I have about 6 or 7 different brands of mint green polish. The color is just beautiful. The formula is perfect, I used 2 coats but could have used 1. This is a color that I wear all year long, I'm just so obsessed with it. It's gorgeous. I can't say that enough, and the creamy factor reminds me of Mint Chocolate Chip ice cream...maybe I'll add some Zebra Kisses by Laquerlicious to it... hmm ;)

 

 

 

 

 

ZOYA Lovely Spring Season 2013 SWATCHES and bottles!

I quickly received my ZOYA Lovely Spring collection the other day and just got to taking pictures of them all. I have to say, these are my FAVORITE colors so far from Zoya (besides their Ornate collection, holographic glitters are GORGEOUS). Anyways, today is Christmas Eve and I'm waiting to go to my Aunts house for a party, so what better time to update my blog?

WARNING: THESE PHOTOS AREN'T THE BEST QUALITY! I'm figuring out how to use my mom's Camera (shh...don't tell her.)

The above picture is the whole Lovely (get it? because it's lovely and that's it's name?...I'm funny) collection, and boy they named it right.

From Left to Right- Piaf, GeiGei, Julie, Blu, Neely, Jacqueline



This is Piaf, it's a fresh forsythia soft yellow metallic. The subtle silver shimmer in this polish, GeiGei and Julie makes it that much better.

This is GeiGei, it's a blushing cherry blossom soft pink metallic. This is the perfect baby pink color as you can see in the photo!



This is Julie, it's a soft wisteria purple metallic.



This is Blu and this is where my camera gets crappy. This looks as if it's a smokey blue, but alas, it's not. This is actually a creamy bright baby blue. The description given by Zoya is that it's a lucky hyacinth blue cream. I tried to lighten it as much as I could without distorting the color to something that it's not, and this is as close as I could get...



This is Neely, again the camera did a crappy job picking up the color. This again looks like a smokey light green, but it's not, it is a mint green color. Zoya describes it as the earliest spring green creme. I know they're trying to keep with the whole spring theme, but calling it a mint green would have worked all the same...and lastly we have:



Jacqueline...which is a very confusing color. In bottle it looks like a pale mustardy color, but on swatch it almost seems off white. Zoya describes it as the perfect magnolia nude creme. I'm very excited to wear this one as weird as it seems to me :)

Here is the swatch of all the colors:



This is in backwards order: Jacqueline, Neely, Blu, Julie, GeiGei, Piaf.

 

I will be doing real life swatches (as in on my fingernails) and reviews of these colors (how many coats, how thin or thick the formula is, ect...) AFTER the holidays! I hope everyone has a merry Christmas :)

 

 

*These polishes were provided for reviewing purposes.