A Zoya A Day - Dory and Robyn

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Today on the blog we meet Dory and Robyn. I forgot about Talia being a minx to take off, hello smurf hands!  

Available on USA website - Yes
Available on the UK website - Yes
Brush used - Original
Does it stamp - Yes
Name - Dory
Year - 2016
Number - ZP0851
Coats - 1
Finish - Cream
Collection - Sunsets
Colour - Blue
Topcoat - No

Dory by Zoya can be best described as a vibrant cornflower blue with a densely saturated, buttery smooth application.

Available on USA website - Yes

Available on the UK website - No
Brush used - Original
Does it stamp - Yes
Name - Robyn
Year - 2010
Number - ZP0513
Coats - 1

Finish - Cream

Collection - Flash

Colour - Blue

Topcoat - No

Robyn by Zoya can be best described as the perfect blue cream.

Dory is a lush bright sky blue, great formula, no running or poling and opaque in one coat, Dory also stamps well, I love the turquoise undertone she has.

Robyn is stunning, close to Dory but with more white and a hint of green undertone, great formula, no running or pooling and opaque in one coat, Robyn also stamps.

Blue polish and me are not friends lol I forgot to take Talia off by holding the polish remover on for a good amount of time then pushing off the polish, rather than my usual which is press down then rub around in a circular motion, bad move with blues for me lol, thankfully the polish did not stain my nails just my skin and a hand wash or two will remove that.  I always wear two coats of basecoat for all manis.

Dory and Robyn both had separation issues while sitting on their shelf, a good shake and all was good again though :).

A Zoya A Day - Dana and Dawn

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Today on the blog we meet Dana and Dawn

Available on USA website - Yes
Available on the UK website - Yes
Brush used - Original
Does it stamp - Yes
Name - Dana
Year - 2010
Number - ZP0515
Coats - 2
Finish - Cream
Collection - Flash
Colour - Pink
Topcoat - No

Dana by Zoya can be best described as an All-American rose cream. Now this is a signature shade.

Available on USA website - No
Available on the UK website - No
Brush used - Original
Does it stamp - Yes
Name - Dawn
Year - 2000
Number - ZP0183
Coats - 2
Finish - Cream
Collection - Classic
Colour - Pink
Topcoat - No

Dawn is a discontinued polish and I would describe it as a medium pink with a slight red undertone.

Dana is one of my favourites, so pretty, great formula, no running or pooling and opaque in two coats, she also stamps.

Dawn is gorgeous, a deeper medium pink with a slight red undertone, good formula, no running or pooling and opaque in two coats, this also stamps. Hopefully you can see the red undertone in the stamping.

A rare pic of both cats on me on the bed, usually its just Ellie who sleeps on me at night, she loves to lean against my legs and she will not move if I move my legs. Obi comes to see me on the bed but usually hops down after 20-30 minutes, this moring he stayed for at least a couple of hours.

A Zoya A Day - Eden and Jolene

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Today on the blog we meet Eden and Jolene

Available on USA website - Yes
Available on the UK website - Yes
Brush used - Original
Does it stamp - Yes 
Name - Eden
Year - 2015
Number - ZP0777
Coats - 1
Finish - Cream
Collection - Delight
Colour - Pink
Topcoat - No

Eden by Zoya can be best described as a classic spring flower pink in a shiny cream finish.

Available on USA website - Yes
Available on the UK website - Yes
Brush used - Original
Does it stamp - Yes
Name - Jolene
Year - 2010
Number - ZP0516
Coats - 1
Finish - Cream
Collection - Flash
Colour - Pink
Topcoat - No

Jolene by Zoya can be best described as a summery and bold cool toned girly pink cream.

Eden is gorgeous, a pale but bright pink, perfect formula, no running or pooling and opaque in one sweet coat and stamps.

🎶 Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, your beauty is beyond compare 🎶, perfect formula, no running or pooling and opaque in one sweet coat and stamps, you can see in the side by side that Eden has much more white than Jolene.

I didnt post Monday as I was doing my nails for my botox for migraine nails, I started with a base of Fancy Gloss Neon Orange Yellow. then I stamped using PoP Polish in Spirit, Life and Love using plate Fun 23 by Fab Ur Nails and my Big Bling stamper from Clear Jelly Stamper, top coat is Plumpy from Barry M.

A Zoya A Day - Laney

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Its Friday again, almost the end of the month and F1 is back racing at Sochi too.

Today on the blog we meet Laney

Available on USA website - No
Available on the UK website - No
Brush used - Original
Does it stamp - No
Name - Laney
Year - 2010
Number - ZP0609
Coats - 2
Finish - Metallic
Collection - Reverie
Colour - Silver/Grey
Topcoat - No/Yes over stamping.

Laney is a discontinued polish from Zoya and described as a duo-chrome moonlit silver metallic.

I would not describe this as a duochrome, I would say this is a silver metallic with a strong green flash. Its an unusual colour.

Good formula, no running or pooling and opaque in two coats. This is a bit brush strokey too.

I then decided on a bit of nail art for the weekend and used one coat of OPI Nails The Runway, then stamped with OPI My Italian is a Little Rusty (dark orange) and OPI Have Your Panettone and Eat It Too (light orange). The stamping plate was Pretty in Plaid by Uberchic and I used Barry M Plumpy topcoat.  Third pic is an attempt to show the green flash, yeah that didnt work, pic four is the nail art and pic five is a close up of the two coats of Laney with one coat of OPI Nails The Runway which is a grey base with rainbow sparkles.

A Zoya A Day - Raine

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Happy Friday!

Today on the blog we meet Raine

Available on USA website - No
Available on the UK website - No
Brush used - Original
Does it stamp - No
Name - Raine
Year - 2006
Number - ZP0375
Coats - 2/3
Finish - Shimmer
Collection - Classic
Colour - Silver/Grey
Topcoat - No

Raine is a discontinued polish be Zoya, I'd describe her as a milky pale silvery grey with a pink/purple duochromey shimmer shift.

This maybe would get opaque if you did 4 coats but who has time for that?! Not me!

So I decided to do three coats on its own and two coats over a navy a pale purple and a pink. This has a great formula, no running or pooling.  This is one of those colours that is the perfect topper to lots of things. The swatch stick was painted with a black to show the shimmer.

Zoya Uma

Happy Thursday

Well I think I finally found my perfect mannequin hands nude!

Meet the stunningly gorgeous Miss Uma

A Zoya a Day

Name - Uma

Year - 2006
Number - ZP370
Coats - 2
Finish - Shimmer

Collection - Spa Essentials
Colour - Nude
Topcoat - None

Uma is a nude with a pinky/peach undertones and a very fine shimmer in silver and a golden flash.

Shes from Zoya's Spa Essentials line which is their french manicure and sheers line.

I have tried a vast amount of Zoya nudes looking for the perfect mannequin hands shade, its a shame that Zoya dont have a shop here in the UK where you can go and look at the colours in person.  I really really love this, the last two pictures were taken outside and look how different it looks in different lighting.

Second pic shows from left to right, Uma, Sally and Rue. You can see how much more peachy Uma is compared to Sally and Rue has much more pink.