August 21, 2013

Zoya Satins Fall 2013, Part One!


Are you ready for swatches of three of the polishes from my current favorite Zoya collection?? The Zoya Satins are all so pretty!


Base: one coat Nicole by OPI Base Coat Plus
Color: two coats Zoya Channing
Top: one coat Essie Good to Go
Application: excellent (out of poor, average, good, excellent)
The Zoya Satins collection was sent for review. All opinions are my own honest thoughts.


Zoya Channing is a GORGEOUS coppery rust metallic. It has a hint of pink in some lights that helps to make it more unique. Channing is a really glowy shade, it looks like it's burning in the sun! I love all copper polishes, and I honestly think this may be my new favorite copper. Some coppers can look too brown, but Channing is all glowing orange-y glory. Also, I don't know if there are any girls named Channing, so I immediately just think of Channing Tatum (drool).


I only needed two coats of Channing, it's very nicely pigmented. The formula is lovely, not too thick or thin, just perfect and easy to apply.



Base: one coat Nicole by OPI Base Coat Plus
Color: three coats Zoya Mason
Top: one coat Essie Good to Go
Application: good (out of poor, average, good, excellent)
The Zoya Satins collection was sent for review. All opinions are my own honest thoughts.


Zoya Mason is a bright shimmering fuchsia. Zoya describes it as "an exciting red violet or "Fandango Pink" metallic". I don't know about "exciting", but Mason is really pretty! I googled Fandango Pink and it seems appropriate to describe Mason. "Fandango" was first used to describe this shade of fuchsia in 1925, by the way.


I used three coats of Mason for these photos. The formula was good, my only complaint was that it was slightly less pigmented than the likes of Channing and some of the other Satins.



Base: one coat Nicole by OPI Base Coat Plus
Color: one coat Zoya Maria Luisa over three coats Zoya Mason
Top: one coat Essie Good to Go
Application: excellent (out of poor, average, good, excellent)
The Zoya Satins collection was sent for review. All opinions are my own honest thoughts.


Zoya Maria Luisa is a REALLY cool gold glitter topper. According to Zoya's description, it's gold cellophane and was originally designed for the Rafael Cennamo/AW13 show at Fashion Week.  Maria Luisa is really unique in my collection, and that's saying something because I have a ton of gold glitter toppers. The "glitter" in this is not regular glitter, it's very flat and smooth. It's also irregularly shaped, more like flakies than glitter. I will be using this over everything!!



Base: one coat Nicole by OPI Base Coat Plus
Color: one coat Zoya Maria Luisa over two coats Zoya Louise
Top: one coat KnockOut Cosmetics Flatte Top
Application: excellent (out of poor, average, good, excellent)
The Zoya Satins collection was sent for review. All opinions are my own honest thoughts.


 I had to try Maria Luisa over the deep brown from the Zoya Cashmeres, Zoya Louise. I also was dying to trying it with a matte top coat! My pictures do not do this combo justice!! I couldn't get good pictures in the sun because Maria Luisa is so reflective. My nails just looked like a shimmery blur. But these pictures in low light aren't great either. If you like gold glitters or flakies, you should definitely get this one!

The Zoya Satins are available now at Zoya.com.

The Zoya Satins collection was sent for review. This review also contains my Zoya Share the Love link. All opinions are my own honest thoughts.

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