A Zoya A Day - Echo and Mateo

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Today on the blog we meet Echo and Mateo.

Available on USA website - Yes
Available on the UK website - Yes
Brush used - Z Wide
Does it stamp - No
Name - Echo
Year - 2021
Number - ZP1089
Coats - 3
Finish - Neon Jelly
Collection - Easy Neons
Colour - Blue
Topcoat - No/Yes

Echo can best be described as a deep lagoon blue neon.

Available on USA website - Yes

Available on the UK website - Yes
Brush used - Original
Does it stamp - Yes
Name - Mateo
Year - 2021
Number - ZP1096
Coats - 2

Finish - Cream

Collection - Dreamin

Colour - Blue

Topcoat - No

Mateo can best be described as a cool-toned pacific blue cream.

Both of these blues are stunning.

Echo is so bright, I changed out the cap on my polish to the standard black, I didnt like the white caps on the wall, they stuck out like sore thumbs, the formula on these wasnt great the first time I used them, they are a jelly/crelly formula, I then let my collection sit with their caps unscrewed to allow air in for a good few hours, which I think? has helped them a little, the formula is ok, no running or pooling but sheer, I did three coats for my mani. Echo is blue but she has a turquoise/green undertone to her. I also show her with topcoat on.

Mateo is stunning, it gives me Sally Hansen Pacific Blue vibes, I dont own the original Sally Hansen but I do have the Barry M Damson dupe,  and Damson is a more saturated blue, Mateo has a wee bit too much white to be a dupe, my two middle nails in the pics after the stamp test have Barry M Damson on the middle nails. Mateo has a fabulous formula, no running or pooling and opaque in two coats, I could have gotten away with one on my shorties, Mateo also stamps. One thing to note with Mateo, the smell, its got that funky blue smell, you dont smell it on your nails but as you are painting them you can.

A Zoya A Day - Jessica and Skipper

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Today on the blog we meet Jessica and Skipper. I had such a lovely week off, this post is going to have a lot of photos. 

Available on USA website - Yes
Available on the UK website - Yes
Brush used - Original
Does it stamp - Yes
Name - Jessica
Year - 2020
Number - ZP1038
Coats - 1
Finish - Cream
Collection - Splash
Colour - Purple
Topcoat - No

Jessica can best be described as an African violet cream.

Available on USA website - Yes

Available on the UK website - Yes
Brush used - Z Wide
Does it stamp - No
Name - Skipper
Year - 2021
Number - ZP1095
Coats - 2
Finish - Cream
Collection - Dreamin

Colour - Purple
Topcoat - No

Skipper can best be described as a milky purple neon.

Jessica is so gorgeous, great formula, no running or pooling and opaque in one coat, this stamps nicely as well.

Skipper is gorgeous, I love the tone of this, its a dusty neon if that makes sense, great formula, no running or pooling and opaque in two coats. Its not showing up as colour accurate, my phone camera couldnt cope with this, its not as blue toned or as bright as my pics show.

One of the trips we took was to Sutton On Sea were we parked up and then walked the boardwalk to Mablethorpe, had delicious fish and chips, then an icecream then walked back to Sutton On Sea, on the way there we didnt think the weather would pick up, thankfully it didnt rain and there was a tiny bit of sunshine.

A couple of the mani's I did while off, these are using the Electric Escape collection from Orly, these performed very well and complimented each other.

The red flower right at the end is a lobelia that we got two years ago and thought we had killed (accidently) it had gotten knocked over while we were away for a week so had no water in very warm weather, we repotted it when we got back but it didnt do much last year, we then repotted it this year and its come back to life! 

This years kinda casualty are my agapanthus flowers who havent bloomed at all :(