Zoya "Wicked and Wonderful" Fall 2010

It's fall time!  Well, it's mid summer time, but in the polish world, all the fall collections are on their way out.  Zoya is bringing out six new metallics and creams (cremes) starting today.  Following in China Glaze's footsteps, Zoya has been previewing their Fall Collection via their personal blog as well as on their Facebook Fan Page. (China Glaze was using their Facebook Fan Page)


From looking at them, I must say, they look pretty awesome.  I'm still iffy on cremes, but Zoya has made some good ones (Flash collection anyone?).  Edyta looks AWESOME, as does Kym.  I was wondering why some of the names are so unique (Kym instead of Kim?), and why they don't have a Krystal (or even a Crystal) yet.  One day, Zoya... one day.



Zoya Wicked Collection
Edyta (ZP525) - fern green sparkling metallic
Julieanne (ZP526) - byzantium purple sparkling metallic
Cheryl (ZP527) - chocolate bronze sparkling metallic
Karina (ZP528) - garnet red sparkling metallic
Carrie Ann (ZP529) - venetian red sparkling metallic
Kym (ZP530) - cardinal mauve sparkling metallic


Zoya Wonderful Collection
Kelly (ZP519) - paynes grey cream
Stacy (ZP520) - mahogany red cream
Burke (ZP521) - sienna red cream
Kristi (ZP522) - crimson red cream
Cola (ZP523) - desert sand red cream
Shawn (ZP524) - myrtyl green cream


Zoya [official website] can be purchased on their website for $7/bottle.

China Glaze Hey Doll

When I first read the release of Vintage Vixen, China Glaze's 2010 Fall Collection, I was most excited about Hey Doll, which was listed as a rose frost with shimmer.  I adore rose colored nail polishes since that's what my Mom wore when I was a little girl.  Actually it may have been more of a rose gold, but it was just very classic, elegant, and hey, it was Mom.


I used Seche Natural for my base, 2 coats of Hey Doll and topped with Seche Vite.  Unfortunately, I did not fall in love with this polish.

Oddly enough, the shimmer is pretty muted and the rose was almost too brown for me.  I have a hard time calling this a "red" until I put it against the browns of the collection - then you can tell it's red.  But if I just picked this bottle up on its own, I'd be slightly confused.

More oddly still, in the indirect sun, there was almost a raisin purple brown showing.  This color just didn't win my heart, and that makes me a sad panda.

China Glaze [official website] can be found online through several etailers, including my favorite Head2Toe Beauty [official website], Sally's Beauty Supply [official website] as well asTransDesign [official website].

Disclosure: The product[s] in this post was [were] provided to me by the company for consideration.  For more information, please read this post.

China Glaze Ingrid

This is another one of those bottles from the Vintage Vixen collection that I kind of just looked at going "um"?  Thankfully Ingrid is not an "um" color!  Listed as "greige creme with copper microglitter."  Okay seriously, what is greige?  Merriam-Webster says that it's "being in an unbleached undyed state as taken from a loom - used of textiles".  Ohhh, it's a French word.  That explains it.


Okay back to reality - so I was really excited about the copper microglitter.  If you remember from the other day, Goin' My Way? had a copper shimmer... you know I'm not the biggest fan of gold (in jewelry especially) but copper is pretty neat.


I used Seche Retain for my base (had some nail issues), only one coat of Ingrid, and topped with some Seche Vite.  The formula on this was the same as the others but with more opacity, so I only needed one coat.

Look at this beautiful application!  It's just the right color of muddy brown and I love it.

I think this is one of those colors that is like Rescue Beauty Lounge "No More War".  I think you're either going to love it or hate it.

Heh you can see my camera and other hand in this indirect sun picture.  No shade - I kept getting green hands.


You really didn't see as much of the microglitter in this shade, but that was okay with me!  In the bottle, up close, you can see it suspended in the creme, but on the nail, not so much.  Overall, this is a definite keeper.

China Glaze [official website] can be found online through several etailers, including my favorite Head2Toe Beauty [official website], Sally's Beauty Supply [official website] as well asTransDesign [official website].

Disclosure: The product[s] in this post was [were] provided to me by the company for consideration.  For more information, please read this post.

Essie "Made In The Shade"

Do you see what I see?!  A glitterly blue?  Go Essie!  I may have to pick that one up even though I'm getting a small collection going of sparkly blues.

Essie can be purchased on their website [official website] or etailers like Head2ToeBeauty [official website] or TransDesign [official website].

China Glaze Swing Baby

Hey look - more Vintage Vixen!  Swing Baby is listed as a taupe frost with silver micro glitter.  Boy, they weren't kidding.  I'm not even going to mess with talk, just picture spam.


I used Seche Natural for my base, two coats of Swing Baby, and a top coat of Seche Vite.

Smell that frost.  It looks a little bit like a metallic in nature.  This next picture was by accident but shows off some bling in the frost.

The bottle is showing some rainbow in it, you see them?!


Then I turned my back and got an indirect sun picture.

Uh, whoa.

I mean, WHOA.

Bling!  I'm seriously at a loss for words on this color.  It was a complete surprise.  I'm feeling this frost thing, really.

China Glaze [official website] can be found online through several etailers, including my favorite Head2Toe Beauty [official website], Sally's Beauty Supply [official website] as well asTransDesign [official website].

Disclosure: The product[s] in this post was [were] provided to me by the company for consideration.  For more information, please read this post.