So, last week I was wearing Zoya's Crystal nail polish. After day four, there was some almost unnoticeable tip wear. Although I loved that the blue of Crystal reminded me of water and sand, it was a bit dark for a summertime manicure, in my opinion.
Zoya's Crystal is a metallic blue with flakes of metallic gold in it, giving it this really interesting foil-like finish with a lot of character. I'll admit that I wasn't as fond of the formula in this one as I have been in most of Zoya's polishes. It wasn't streaky or anything, but it didn't hide my sometimes less-than-perfect nails. I had a slightly uneven nail where a layer of my nail had sort of... peeled off. I'm sure someone else out there has had that happen to you. When it next happens, I'll try Zoya's Get Even ridge filler, even though it's not really a ridge. It's the closest thing to ridges that I really get, anyways. Since I don't have that yet, I just used Zoya Anchor as a base coat, and then put Crystal on. It didn't really hide my slightly wonky nail.
After four days, I did what I do best: I got bored. It wasn't that Crystal wasn't pretty. It was a truly stunning color. But it was a bit dark for summer, and I do have the attention span of a goldfish, so I needed a change.
I didn't, however, want to waste any perfectly good polish...so I got a bit creative. I looked at my stash, and had a light bulb moment. Zoya's Godiva was staring me in the face, and I followed my urge to play. Godiva is one of Zoya's Pixie Dust polishes from their first collection. It's a textured matte sparkle formula. Their website describes it as a "soft nude with sugared sparkle." It's quite accurate. When I first tried Godiva, I noticed that it's a bit less opaque than the other Pixie Dusts I've tried... which led to me layering a coat of Godiva over Crystal.
*THUD*
It was so incredibly beautiful I couldn't even stand it. I felt like such a genius, you cannot believe. I think there may have been a happy dance thrown in somewhere. After I did this, I got tons of compliments on it. Only a few of them were from myself. Seriously. It lightened Crystal in a really neat way, while keeping the water-like quality alive. It went from looking like water in the deep ocean to something like a sandbar. I don't really know how to describe it, but I was so thrilled with the result that I took pictures. I'm not even kidding. It possibly looks a little like Zoya's Nyx, which is their periwinkle Pixie Dust, but with more gold and no purple. Sometimes, since it was a blue polish with a layer of a beige-like color, it almost looked a little green. Doesn't the ocean do that, too? It wasn't as green as Zoya's Vespa, though. It was definitely distinctive, and incredible. It was super sparkly and lovely in the sun, too.
Here are a couple of the pics I took:
This lasted three extra days, which I view as seriously impressive. Zoya suggests to not put a base coat or top coat over the Pixie Dust polishes. I didn't add a top coat, but I had put Zoya's Armor on when I applied Crystal, so I had a base coat, two coats of polish, and a top coat on UNDER the polish that doesn't need a base coat. Zoya polishes just last and last.
Also, I hope you realize that although I fangirl about Zoya, I don't work for them. Not even a little bit. If I did, I wouldn't have spent upwards of $150 on their polishes and Color Lock system in the last month. Well... I may would have, but I would have been paying with a paycheck from them, which I promise I don't get.
As always, if you love what you see, and don't have a Zoya account, you can follow the link below to their site where you can create an account, and then get a promo code for a free bottle of polish. If you buy two more, you get free shipping.
This is that promised link.
My advice to you? Play with your polish. Sometimes the results are just incredible.
Until next time,
Emily, the Manic Paintress
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