I've amassed quite the Zoya haul in the past couple of months, and I've decided to add them all in one collective haul post. Most of these are from the holiday sale, but some I've picked up here and there. You can tell I've put this blog off for a while by the differences in my nail length!
I'm going to try to put them in chronological order by collection and release date to try to keep them a little more organized.
The first polish is a serious throwback, but I knew that I had to pick it up. Aurora is from the Ornate collection back from 2012. It has the fabled holographic scattered glitter - similar to Dream and Storm. This polish is a medium purple packed with the holo glitter. The formula is great with really good coverage.
Aurora with bottle shot in indoor lighting.
Aurora bottle shot with flash
More flash goodness of Aurora
Next up is the beautiful Kerry. This polish comes from the Irresistible collection back in 2013. I remember picking up a few polishes from that collection, but I passed on this one. I saw swatches of this on Instagram some time in the fall and it made me stop in my tracks! I had to add it to my list to grab!
Kerry is a bright yellow gold foil. It lays on the nail so nicely with no brush strokes. It literally looks like liquid gold on your nails.
Here is another shot with flash - I think. The formula is awesome, you can get full coverage with 2-3 coats.
Last shot of Kerry in all her golden shimmery glory. The perfect glitzy polish for parties or celebrations!
This is Zoya Wyatt from the Urban Grunge Fall 2016 collection. One half of the collection are cremes under claims of them having one coat coverage.
Wyatt is a bright springy green. the formula goes on thick, but very smooth. I think with more careful application I could have gotten away with one coat, but I went back and covered some bald patches in two.
Zoya Wyatt up-close with bottle shot in indoor lighting.
Zoya Wyatt under indoor lighting.
Zoya Wyatt up-close with bottle shot with flash.
Zoya Wyatt with flash.
From the other half of the Urban Grunge collection, we have Alicia. I bought this polish on recommendation of Jessface90 on Youtube. I think this polish was part of her 2016 favorites. This is a beautiful silver holographic polish with a slight gold shimmer. This is such a delicate polish, but it really packs a punch on the nails.
Macro shot of Zoya Alicia. You can really get a good glimpse of the holo and gold shimmer in this shot.
Bottle shot of Alicia. Gold shimmer is shining through in indoor lighting!
Shot of Alicia from a further angle. The holo at the base mixed with the delicate gold shimmers just makes me so happy.
Bottle shot of Alicia with flash.
Last shot with flash.
Merida rounds out the Urban Grunge collection. This is a beautiful deep emerald green with a slightly black base with scattered holographic glitters. The same make-up as the classics Storm, Dream, and Aurora.
This is such a rich, deep polish. Zoya is so good at capturing depth and dimension with these scattered holographic polishes. And the color selection with the green was an excellent addition!
Here is Merida again with flash.
Another shot again with flash. Look at the depth of that polish! It's like a green galaxy!
Next up we have the eye-catching Olivera from the Enchanted collection for Holiday 2016. This polish was used in the promo shots and what really peaked my interest for this beautiful collection.
Olivera is a really deep indigo with a green to blue flash. Without flash or daylight, it makes it really hard to make out the flash of green. The polish ends up looking like a blackened teal color, but beautiful nonetheless.
This bottle shot is used with indoor lighting. The green/teal flash is super strong here.
Here is a far away shot. The shimmer is less pronounced and now it just looks like a shimmery blackened teal.
Here is a close bottle shot with flash. The green and indigo really stand out here.
And from far away, it looks so glowy! Almost like the northern lights!
Here is another shot with indoor lighting and no flash from another angle. Trying to capture all the different hues in this polish.
I did get inspired with this polish's glowy-ness and try to do some kind of galaxy dry marble topped with some holo glitter. But the polish is just way too dark and kind of blended with the black. It didn't turn out as I had planned, but the color still manages to stand out with flash.
Next up from the Enchanted collection is Alice. This is a beautiful periwinkle with the Pixie Dust formula. It also has some slight silver shimmers in the polish as well.
Here is a close up bottle shot with indoor lighting. You can get this opaque in 1-2 coats, depending on application. The Pixie Dust formulas tend to be more on the thicker side.
Here is Alice with flash - featuring my acetone dried cuticles (sorry!) With the flash, it is sort of reminiscent of Alice's dress color in Alice in Wonderland, right?
Lastly, here is Alice with a couple of coats of topcoat to get it smooth and shiny. It looks spectacular and the silver and blue shimmers really shine through! It gets another layer of depth with the help of some topcoat!
Next is Zoya Saint, also from the Enchanted collection. This is a light blue base with a flash of pink shimmer.
Here is a bottle shot of Saint in lower indoor lighting.
This polish went on very smooth with a slight brush strokes. You can get opaque within 2-3 coats.
Zoya Alice with flash. The pink shimmer is absolutely beautiful!
Another close shot with flash.
Zoya Elphie is also from the Pixie Dust side of the Enchanted collection. This is also a deep foresty green with silver glitters. It also seems to have a blackened base to it as well. It is very very similar to Zoya Merida in color, although this polish does not have the holographic glitter.
Here is Elphie once more with flash.
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