A Zoya A Day - Gigi and Lux

Hey Friends

Today on the blog we meet Gigi and Lux.  These are the last polishes I have to share with you until I pick up the Café Creams and the Metallic Dreams collections, probably next month. I picked up Lux from a destash a few months ago.

Available on USA website - Yes
Available on the UK website - Yes
Brush used - Original
Does it stamp - Yes
Name - Gigi
Year - 2022
Number - ZP1147
Coats - 2
Finish - Cream
Collection - Pink Palette
Colour - Pink
Topcoat - No

Gigi is described as a red azalea cream nail polish.

Available on USA website - Yes
Available on the UK website - Yes
Brush used - Original
Does it stamp - No
Name - Lux
Year - 2014
Number - ZP0719
Coats - 2
Finish - Pixie Dust
Collection - Spring Pixie Dusts
Colour - Pink
Topcoat - No

Lux by Zoya can be best described as a rose quartz sparkle textured PixieDust - Textured with mega hex iridescent particles.

Both of these are stunning, Gigi is a very deep pink with a red undertone, good formula, no running or pooling and opaque in two coats, Gigi also stamps.

Lux I picked up from a destash a while ago, I do keep an eye out for older Zoya I dont own but no-one seems to want to part with any of the lower ZP number, I have pretty much everything from about the 500 mark on.

Lux has a great formula, no running or pooling and I did two coats, maybe I could have done a third.....

The last pics are of my current manicure, I finally succumbed to the reflective glitter, I decided on Fancy Gloss Rainbow Stardust, this is such an interesting polish, I started with two coats of Unt Ready for Takeoff peel off basecoat because glitter, then I did two coats of RS, finally one coat of Barry M Plumpy Topcoat, interestingly this does remind me of a Pixie Dust or Liquid Sand polish, this looks like a dark grey polish in normal light or sunlight, its only when you hit it extremely bright light i.e. flash from my camera phone that bam out comes the sparkle.

A Zoya A Day - Joanie and Maddy

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Today on the blog we meet Joanie and Maddy.

Available on USA website - Yes
Available on the UK website - Yes
Brush used - Original
Does it stamp - No
Name - Angel
Year - 2022
Number - ZP1143
Coats - 2
Finish - Cream
Collection - Pink Palette
Colour - Pink
Topcoat - No

Joanie is described as a soft tulip pink cream nail polish.

Available on USA website - Yes
Available on the UK website - Yes
Brush used - Original
Does it stamp - No
Name - Elsa
Year - 2022
Number - ZP1144
Coats - 2
Finish - Cream
Collection - Pink Palette
Colour - Pink
Topcoat - No

Maddy is described as Ultra wearable flamingo pink cream nail polish.

Joanie is a pale pink with a slight blue undertone, great formula, no running or pooling and opaque in two coats, Joanie also stamps, likely better over a darker colour.

Maddy is really pretty, a pink with a hint of salmon undertone, great formula, no running or pooling and opaque in two coats, Maddy also stamps.

Zoya Pink Palette Bottle and Swatch Stick Comparisons.

Hey Friends 

Well wow, I had my second eye op on Monday 25th July and let me tell you, it has been amazing! I have no idea what he did (Ok I do but) but I have never! had this good a vision ever! Not even when I was 15 and first trying contact lenses for the first time. Of course there is one very strange to me thing, my focal length of course was extremely short, I was basically holding my hand about 10 centimetres from my face to see my nails, well now I have to hold my arm out to almost full stretch to see them in focus, its wild. We've been on a couple of walks and to be able to see the views crystal clear without needing binoculars or even glasses is life changing.

Anyhoo! You came for the polish so lets go!

As per usual, photos are taken in natural daylight, I dont colour correct my pics I only crop them, I use a Pixel 4a phone.

The polish names are as follows
Angel
Joanie
Maddy 
Shannon
Kay
Gigi

The new polish is always the first left.

First up Angel, Monet and Chloe, no dupes, I would descript Angel as a pink version of Eclipse.

Joanie, Gwen and Jodie, no dupes, Joanie is lighter than Gwen and Jodie has much more blue undertone.

Maddy, Tweedy, Sweet and Shelby, no dupes, Maddie is lighter than Tweedy and Sweet who are close, Shelby has a tiny hint more red undertone than Maddy.

Shannon, Micky and Polly, no dupes, Shannon is lighter than Micky and has a more orange undertone than Polly.

Kay, Jolene and Polly, no dupes, Kay has a more orange undertone than Jolene and Polly is darker.

Gigi, Desi and Ali, no dupes, Gigi is lighter than Desi who has a more red undertone and Ali is a neon.

Angel new with Angel original who is sadly discontinued.

Gigi new and Gigi original, who is discontinued.

Both reused names are from polishes originally in the French manicure collection.

Stamping test, all the creams stamped well. Joanie is likely best over a darker colour to show up.

I'm not thrilled with Zoya reusing names, there are literally thousands of names and alternate spellings if they wanted to reuse a name. What are your thoughts on name reuse? Are you a fan of all these pinks.