Spring Is (Almost) Here! Zoya Marley

Today I'm wearing Zoya Marley, a warm light lilac creme base with the tiniest silvery shimmers. For some reason, it's coming off cooler in the photos than in real life. Maybe it's my skin tone? The shimmers are completely invisible from a normal viewing distance, but they do make Marley slightly pearly-looking. I was hoping this would be more different from Essie Lilacism, though it's still pretty!

I used two coats for full opacity. The formula was good and dried fast. The bumpiness in the photos is due to my nail beds...

Yuna This Is a Cool Color

I'm so good at puns. Not really. Anyway, this is Zoya Yuna, which I literally received yesterday in the mail for my Zoya "New Year New Hue" promotion. I decided this was the first one to try on my nails. Yuna is an interesting color. The base is a dark teal bluish gray, and it has yellow-y (almost greenish?) golden shimmers dispersed throughout. As always with Zoya, the formula was quite nice and took only two coats to reach full opacity. To be honest, this looks more subtle in real life than I expected, though the fluorescent lights on campus probably don't bring out the true color and shimmer very well. Nevertheless, this is something right up my alley (blue, dark, shimmery, lol) and I still really enjoy Yuna.

Cool Sunshine

It's been a long time since the last post, but winter break is going on, meaning I have some time to waste on nail polish. I only brought back a few bottles since my collection has grown to the point where it is immobile. My most recent manicure stars Zoya Sunshine, a medium blue PixieDust formula with little bits of silver glitter. I actually got this from an Ulta discount bin haha. I used two coats, although it was quite opaque with one (I just wanted to fix some bald spots). This is my first time ever wearing a textured polish, and it was definitely weird at first. It feels like a layer of sugar crystals. I keep rubbing it with the tips of my fingers lol. Also why is it called Sunshine? If anything, it looks like night time to me.

Close up of the texture

Sally Hansen Blues

It's been soooooo long since my last post. Senior year of college is starting soon, which is just crazy. Tonight, I did a purely Sally Hansen manicure, minus my base coat. I am wearing Sally Hansen Insta-Dri In Prompt Blue, a bright cobalt blue color reminiscent of Nails Inc. Baker Street or Essie Butler Please. I bought this one since it was cheaper than the other two brands (and probably better quality). In Prompt Blue went on smooth and opaque. It could have been a thick one-coater, but I decided to do two thinner coats. The color is a bit darker and a tad more muted in real life. On my ring finger, I have on a coat of Sally Hansen Triple Shine Sparks Fly, a silver glitter with a sheer bluish base. I got it as a birthday gift from my friend! This reminds me of the Essie Luxeffect polish in Set in Stones, which is the same type of silver glitter but in a clear base. The glitter is composed of larger hexagonal pieces with smaller silver bits thrown in. And to top it all off, I used my classic Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Topcoat. Weirdly enough, these two were my first ever Sally Hansen nail colors after 2+ years of collecting nail polish.

The color is coming off really weird on Blogger for some reason

A Nice Basic Taupe: Ulta Smoke and Mirrors

Vivs and I went to Ulta over break (of course), and I picked up a few new polishes (of course). Among them was Ulta Professional Smoke and Mirrors, a cool-toned taupe creme. I'm not quite sure what's different about their "Professional" line versus the regular line with the cylindrical bottles, but it was equally on sale for 2 for $4. Smoke and Mirrors was smooth and problem-free and went on opaque in two coats. The coolness doesn't clash with my yellow skin tone, surprisingly. In fact, in some lights the polish looks like a washed out light purple. Me gusta. Read more after the jump.