A Zoya A Day - Rumi and Vivi

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Today on the blog we meet Rumi and Vivi.

Available on USA website - Yes
Available on the UK website - Yes
Brush used - Original
Does it stamp - Yes
Name - Rumi
Year - 2021
Number - ZP1101
Coats - 1
Finish - Cream
Collection - Nostalgic
Colour - Red/Pink
Topcoat - No

Rumi can best be described as a muted terracotta cream.

Available on USA website - Yes

Available on the UK website - Yes
Brush used - Original
Does it stamp - Yes
Name - Vivi
Year - 2021
Number - ZP1104
Coats - 1

Finish - Cream
Collection - Nostalgic

Colour - Pink

Topcoat - No

Vivi can best be described as a dusty, cool-toned rose pink cream.

Rumi is gorgeous, but I would call her a brown toned pink not red, lovely dusty tone, great formula, no running or pooling and opaque in one sweet coat, Rumi also stamps. 

Vivi is the second use of the name, the first Vivi was a bright vivid pink with blue shimmer, this Vivi is a warm blue toned pink, great formula, no running or pooling and opaque in one sweet coat and Vivi also stamps.

I trimmed my nails down as well, I think this length is much better, I wish I could keep them long but they tend to break :(.

Autumn and Plaid Nails and my September Polish Pickup Haul

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Today I did some autumnal nails :) which I wasnt happy with so I changed them to plaid, which is why its taken so long to publish this post! 

Here in the UK its getting darker and colder by the day so I thought I'd do some autumnal nails before diving into Halloween nails.

I started with a base of Zoya Tasha and Lemming Lacquer The Worst Witch, both good formula, no running or pooling and opaque in two coats. The Lemming Lacquer is from Polish Pickup September, last pic shows my haul, I'm feeling plaid nails for tomoro :) 

I then stamped using Zoya Cooper on my left hand and Mel on my right hand, the pumpkins were stamped with Virago Varnish Pumpkin Everything. The colours I picked didnt quite owrk out so I changed my mani this afternoon.

The plates I used were Dixie Plates Halloween 2017 for the pumpkins and Uberchic Beauty Lovely leaves 2 for the leaves and words.

The plaid nails are a base of MJ Lacquers Pink A Boo, left hand and Fancy Gloss Spook-tacular also thermal.

The MJ is a deeper brown toned red when cold to a bright coral leaning pink when hot, jam packed with flakies. The Fancy Gloss is a very intriguing polish, its blue toned purple when cold, pink leaning purple when warm and clear when hot, it also has metallic flakies. Both good formula if a tiny bit sheer so I did three coats each. I then grabbed the Uber Chic Beauty Pretty in Plaid 3 plate and used Zoya Vivi and Zoya Mila over the MJ thermal and then Zoya Brie and Sally Hansen White On over the Fancy Gloss.

Zoya Nostalgic Swatch and Bottle Comparisons - Fall/Autumn 2021

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Today on the blog I have swatch and bottle comparisons of the Nostalgic collection for you.

This is a six piece collection for fall/autumn 2021.

As is usual the new polish is the first left and pics were taken in natural daylight.

These are gorgeous, great formula, they were all one coaters and they stamp very well.

Left to right we have 
Vivi, Flora, Mara and Zanna. no dupes, Vivi has a much pinker undertone than the others.

Left to right the new Vivi compared to the original Vivi, theyre totally different and of course the original Vivi is discontinued.

Left to right Rumi, Charity and Fawne, no dupes, Rumi is deeper in tone and is a cream compared to Charity and Fawne who have shimmer. Fawne is also discontinued.

Left to right are Mila, Courtney, Rachael and the other Milla with two ells, no dupes, Mila has a brown undertone. Milla is discontinued. Courtney is a crelly like formula so its a solid two if not three coater.

 

Left to right Becca, Leighton and Sloane, this is quite difficult to see but they arnt dupes, Leighton has a black undertone, Becca has a blue undertone and Sloane a red undertone, plus Leighton only looks purple in bright light.

Left to right Austin, Darby and Tommy, no dupes, this is one of Zoya's chameleon colours, by itself it looks blue but hold it beside Tommy and it looks grey, Darby has that blue shimmer.

Left to right, Cooper, Charli and Dree, no dupes, Cooper doesnt have the brown undertone of Charli or the yellow of Dree.

The stamping test of them all.

The Zoya wall, I think I'm going to have to put the top row into a helmer drawer, I'm running our of room again. Also once I've completed the purples I think I'll do swatch reviews for all of the new polishes from last year and this year before I move on to the blues and greens, I've been playing with so many other polishes at the weekends I have a lot of untried Zoya's.

A Zoya A Day - Gilda and Vivi

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Today on the blog we meet Gilda and Vivi

Available on USA website - Yes
Available on the UK website - Yes
Brush used - Original
Does it stamp - No
Name - Gilda
Year - 2010
Number - ZP0512
Coats - 2
Finish - Metallic
Collection - Sparkle
Colour - Pink
Topcoat - No

Gilda by Zoya can be best described as cool-toned, orange toned - magenta pink sparkling metallic.

Available on USA website - No
Available on the UK website - No
Brush used - Original
Does it stamp - No
Name - Vivi
Year - 2007
Number - ZP0413
Coats - 2
Finish - Shimmer
Collection - Smitten
Colour - Pink
Topcoat - No

Vivi is a discontinued polish and I would describe her as a red toned pink crelly base with a strong violet/blue flash.

Gilda's description is spot on, with added sparkles in blue, pink and gold. Good formula, no running or pooling and opaque in two coats.

Vivi I adore that flash so much, good formula, no running or pooling and opaque in two coats.

I was super privileged to have both cats crash out on me yesterday morning and they were there long enough for me to get a pic!