A Zoya A Day - Giselle

Hey friends

Its another lovely day here in the UK, sunny and warm.

Today we have the lovely Giselle

Available on USA website - No

Available on the UK website - No
Brush used - original
Does it stamp - No

Name - Giselle

Year - 1990's

Number - 101A

Coats - 3

Finish - Creme

Collection - Spa Essentials

Colour - Nude

Topcoat - None

Giselle is a soft milky beige, this is a discontinued polish and its in their old style font and bottle cap. I picked this, Camile and Tosca from ebay a few years ago and I paid less than ten pounds for them, I asked the seller if they were still liquid as I knew they were very old, they confirmed they were and I bought them. The formula on Giselle is thin and sheer and as you can see it almost looks like I'm not wearing polish. There was no running or pooling though.  I did three thin coats. This is one of the Spa Essentials line and these were all nudes to be used in french manicures.  This is a your nails but better polish.

Zoya Z Wide Brush

Hey Guys

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.