A Zoya A Day - Blu and Emerson

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Today on the blog we meet Blu and Emerson, We completed stage one of my walk-in wardrobe, pics below.

Available on USA website - Yes
Available on the UK website - Yes
Brush used - Z Wide
Does it stamp - Yes
Name - Blu
Year - 2013
Number - ZP0653
Coats - 1/2
Finish - Cream
Collection - Lovely
Colour - Blue
Topcoat - No

Blu by Zoya can be best described as a full-coverage, soft and delicate pale baby blue with a glossy creme finish

Available on USA website - No

Available on the UK website - No
Brush used - Original
Does it stamp - Yes
Name - Emerson
Year - 2020
Number - ZP1026
Coats - 1

Finish - Cream
Collection - Calm

Colour - Blue

Topcoat - No

Emerson can best be described as a modern baby blue cream.

Blu is gorgeous, it has a couple of drops of green in it compared to Emerson, great formula, no running or pooling and opaque in one coat, Blu also stamps, I could have probably done two coats on my ring finger but only to sort out my ridged little finger. 

Emerson is a very light blue, great formula, no running or pooling and opaque in one coat, Emerson also stamps, I forgot I owned a coloured paper journal so I used it to show the light blues stamping.

Hopefully myt pics show you the difference in tones to these two. I did some snow flake stamping with winter deer on my thumbs, with added cat hair too! 

The last pics are of my new clothing rail, hubs 3D printed all the brackets, we got the rail from Ikea and we already had the bits of MDF, we still have 3 sets of Ikea Malm drawers to build and find a new light for in there, the middle pic shows my wedding dress in its protective bag, I am thrilled though!

Zoya Z Wide Brush

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Happy Monday

Today on the blog I thought I'd talk about the Zoya Zwide brush and why its not possible to pick the brush you want at checkout, at the moment.

Below from left to right is the evolution of the Zoya bottle and cap shape,

Tosca - Early 1990's original bottle shape
Giselle - Early 2000's bottle, note the change of bottle shape
Liza - The final change to the lettering and removal of the gold band
Blu - The white dot on the lid means I changed the brush to the Zwide one.

Zoya have their brushes and caps made by a company in Spain, that cap and brush hasn't changed very much in all the time Zoya has been around, the only  change in fact is the removal of that gold band

So now we come to the issue, you can see that the caps of the original brush and the Zwide brush are identical, so in the factory when they're making the polish and assembling the bottle and brush together, how do they tell the brushes apart?

The answer is they cant (at the moment), plus the expense of changing the cap design even slightly to differentiate between the Zwide and the original could likely be expensive.

Heres a very cool video of the polish being put into the bottles and the cap and brush assembly going together. If youre wondering about the colour its the stunning Rayne.

How do you then budget for who will want the Zwide brush and who will want the original? When Zoya did their own survey the results were pretty much split 50/50, I for one love the original brush because I have really small hands and nail beds. So I say they're doing the brush the best way for them at the moment, maybe one day they'll modify the Zwide cap to be slightly different and they'll run two production lines one for the original brush and one for the Zwide.

Below is a pic showing the size of my wedding ring next to a UK penny plus my ring finger nail. Tiny nails!.

The information on the box of the Zwide brush.