A Zoya A Day - Thandie and Cora

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Today on the blog we meet Thandie and Cora

Available on USA website - Yes
Available on the UK website - No
Brush used - Original
Does it stamp - Yes
Name - Thandie
Year - 2013
Number - ZP0664
Coats - 2
Finish - Cream
Collection - Stunning
Colour - Orange
Topcoat - No

Thandie by Zoya can be best described as a full-coverage, citrus orange cream..

Available on USA website - Yes
Available on the UK website - Yes
Brush used - Original
Does it stamp - Yes
Name - Cora
Year - 2017
Number - ZP0896
Coats - 2
Finish - Cream
Collection - Wanderlust
Colour - Coral
Topcoat - No

Cora by Zoya can be best described as a muted coral cream.

These two are stunning! Gorgeous formula, no running or pooling and while I did two coats, if you did a thick enough first coat youd be good to go. 

These also stamp. I know these look similar in the photos but they are different, I hope you can see that in the bottle and swatch stick comparison.

Zoya Rica

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Happy Thursday

Oof, cannot wait for my botox, I gotta wait another 2 weeks, really struggling with lots of pain.

Anywho, today on the blog I have Miss Rica to share with you.


A Zoya a Day
Name - Rica
Year - 2011
Number - ZP550
Coats - 3 or 1
Finish - Shimmer
Collection - Sunshine
Colour - Orange
Topcoat - None


Zoya describe her as a warm light coral with pink and orange tones and heavy gold metallic sparkle.

I would have said this is more a mid toned orange with gold sparkle, I wore this first as 3 coats on its own, but it took ages to dry, it could have been that my coats were too thick. I dented the polish after an hour, so the next day I took it off and decided to try one coat over Zoya Cora and this worked out beautifully. The formula was really good, it didnt run or pool, I think when I wear it again I'll do thinner coats or one or two coats over a base colour.

This is also from the original Sunshine collection Zoya did in 2011, not the 2018 one.

Nail Artisan by Alex Nail Art Challange

Today on the blog I have a fantastic challenge from the lovely Alex over at Nail Artisan by Alex facebook group.

The theme was a day at the beach and the only rule was to use 5 fingers and include pink glitter!

So here we are

The base is the following

I started with Unt peel off basecoat as I'm wearing glitter, then 2 coats of Zoya Anchor basecoat.

Thumb 2 coats of Zoya Nova, the flesh colour is Zoya Taylor
Index and middle fingers 1 coat of Zoya Brighton
Ring and little fingers 1 coat of Remy with 1 coat of Maisie over that
Then I stamped some shells using Zoya Nina and a crab using Zoya Cora

The plates I used were Bundle Monster plate BP-33 and El Corazon plate EC-s 571 and Lina Summer 01 plate. My stamper of choice is the Clear Jelly Stamper.

I decided to go with as simple a design as possible as I am not the greatest at drawing on my nails and who knew drawing a body on your nail was so hard!

I then used Love Angelina topcoat as it doesnt smear stamping then when that was dry I mattified everything with Zoya Matte topcoat so you could see all the detail and the flakies in Maisie really shine as water :)