BTW - Zoya Pictures and Status of Re-Adding Pics to Blog

If you google Zoya pictures to do the Polish Exchange, you should come upon plenty of my Flickr pics. I am MollyHell on Flickr. Of course. I am in the process of adding the pictures one by one back to my site, but all my pictures are available on Flickr. I only have 250 or so to add back to the blog. GAG.

Anyway enjoy. I should be done in, oh, 2012.

Hot Summer Days and Cool Denim Inspired Polishes

Got some more denim inspired polishes a while ago. These run the gamut between dark and light, some are better than others. The nice thing about the Maybelline formula for these is it is not only easy to apply, it's one coat.

Maybelline Boot Leg is a dark navy with a lot of purple in it and some larger size metallic shimmer. It's very pretty.


Maybelline Stone Washed is a faded denim frost. Also very nice.


Maybelline Blue Riders is another bran new denim looking shimmer. Looks a lot like brand new Levi's 501s.


Maybelline Hip Huggers is a nice creme, it has a large tinge of lavender to it though.


Maybelline Five Pocket is my favorite. A more faded denim blue, it has a soft shimmer to it. Almost a frost.


NYC Skin Tight Denim Creme is not a creme. Weirdos. It's a SHIMMER. I think this is more a regular navy than a denim inspired, but it's a nice polish.

Time for the Zoya Polish Exchange Again

If you have $3.50 per bottle and some crap you want to get rid of, it's time for the Zoya Polish Exchange!

http://www.artofbeauty.com/content/category/Nail_Polish_Exchange.html

Any bottle of polish (except Zoya Qtica or Nocti) can be sent in, with $3.50 per bottle you want to exchange, and you can pick a bottle of Zoya polish to be sent to you in return. It's not cheap per se, but it's a lot cheaper than their regular prices!! You must send in at least six bottles. It lasts until June 30, so you have a bit of time.

Coupla Ulta Yummers

Snapped these two up on a fast "grab as walk to the cashier". For two bucks who wouldn't? I think the green is a bit too dark, but I like it, and the blue metallic is a dupe for my beloved NDB Midnight I can't find anywhere. They are a whopping $2!! Buy some!!!

Ulta Envy:


Ulta Alter Ego:

Spa Ritual Contest!!

SpaRitual is running a fun sweepstakes to celebrate its Believe Nail Collection for Spring 2010 and we wanted to see if you’d be interested in entering and/or sharing with your readers?

Through April 21st, SpaRitual is asking fans to unleash their creativity and imagination and answer the evocative question, what do you believe? People can upload a video or record a video response on the SpaRitual Believe YouTube sweepstakes page expressing their unique take on what they believe. There are weekly winners and a grand prize of $500 worth of SpaRitual products!

More info:
http://www.pitchengine.com/free-release.php?id=53514
And contest rules and regulations: http://www.sparitual.com/WhatDoYouBelieve/

Participants go to the SpaRitual YouTube channel to enter and also email their real name, age, mailing address, and YouTube username to: TheSpaRitual@gmail.com

Zoya Flash and Sparkle Collections Summer 2010

Well well well what have we here!? Another double collection from Zoya, which to me seems like bright cremes for summer days and shimmery jellies for summer nights. Hot, just like the season! I like that they went with deeper colors for the season, not light shades or pastels. By making the Flash brights, they keep the summer feeling for the cremes, and by making the Sparkle shimmery they catch a "night out on the town" summery feeling. Hot days, hot nights, hot nails.

Let's start with the cremes - the Flash collection. These remind me of the OPIs of last year which were inspired by those dumb tight pants which make everyone look fat except supermodels and wimpy boys. The Zoya creme formula is nice, maybe a touch thick, thin it with Zoya Renew or another thinner like my favorite, Poshe Polish Reviver, which is like 2 bucks or something for a pretty big bottle.

The sky blue, Zoya Robyn, is very close to OPI No Room for the Blues and Creative Hot Pop Blue (which was my better/cheaper alternative to OPI No Room for the Blues), but it is actually a shade darker.


Zoya Jancyn is a smooth citrus orange, I like it even though I don't, as a rule, like orange. I know OPI had In My Back Pocket - very similar though I believe that was a shade darker than Jancyn.


Zoya Perrie is a medium purple with some red in it, so it isn't much like Zoya Malia or OPI A Grape Fit. It's like a lighter Creative Studio 54 or MAC For Fun.


Zoya Jolene is a pretty standard candy pink. Very very close to China Glaze summer offering, Sugar High, which is much cheaper. It's a lot like Black Phoenix Croquet also, but hotter pink.


Zoya Maura is your standard hot red. I actually kinda like it, even though it's not my style, and is that kind of red I always shreik at when I see it on people's lips. It's a tad bluer than Zoya America, but not so different I see the point, really.


Zoya Dana: fuchsia pink. What's more to say? Cute. It's the same fuchsia pink we see everywhere but it's mercifully free of the omnipresent blurple shimmer, which makes this a kind of relief.


Onto Sparkle Collection - the SHIMMERS!!! The size and style of shimmer reminds me very much of OPI's Winter 2009 Collection I loved so much. These are nice, easily applied shimmery jellies (except for Zoya Nidhi, which is a creme). DELUMPCIOUS!!! They loosely follow the color array of the Flash Collection, with a couple replacements, but in a darker shade. Love!

Zoya Gilda is probably Dana's match, and even though it adds that tired blurple back to the fuchsia, it manages, with the jelly and the shimmer grain size, to be fresh and yummy. I guess it could be Jolene's match if Zoya Alegra is Dana's match, but Gilda matches Dana better than Jolene (see below).


Zoya Mimi is a deep royal purple shimmer jelly. Sweet.


Zoya Alegra, Dana's match? Who knows. Anyway this is a magenta with blurple shimmer. I like it.


Zoya Charla is, in my opinion, the masterpiece. It's like looking at tropical waters. It's an absolutely stunning teal my camera could not do justice. I just stared and stared at this, it is so beautiful. It absolutely glows on the nail, with an almost metallic shine. An instant addition to my top 10 polishes of all time.


Zoya Ivanka is, thankfully, NOT dark green. I am fucking sick of dark greens. I don't think it's the greatest green ever, but it's nice, shimmery, and I love the jelly!


Last but not least Zoya Nidhi is a cream with large blue shimmer. I wish the shimmer showed up more because this counterpart to Zoya Maura is an absolute STUNNER because of the blue shimmer in it. It's hot and original and a must have. LOVE.


Enjoy them, you shouldn't be disappointed with any of them unless you already have a close dupe. But BUY CHARLA!!

Picture Problems? And Facebook!!!

If you cannot see my pictures, email me @ polishmayhem@gmail.com. I recently renewed my Flickr Pro account and I think the links are shut down, if they are not back up within 24 hours, I will talk to Flickr.

Also I am now on Facebook!! Friend PolishMayhem Nailpolish!!! Hope to see you there!

I have a few posts in the pipe, I will hopefully be more active the next two weeks, but after that is finals week, so I'll be down a week or two. Hugs!

Gettin' Warm! China Glaze Poolside Collection for Summer 2010!

They're bright, tight and dy-no-mite! Well, I love neons, so of course I am going to say that. These are probably not colors you don't already have something similar to, though maybe not exact. But they are a great, manageable formula, very bright, and semi- to fully-opaque. These are all three coats, a thin bottom coat, and two relatively thick coats, with, of course, a topcoat, as they dry matte. They dry pretty quickly, so they are easy to apply, and they are inexpensive, one of the reasons (with the fact their colors can't be beat and their whoppingly magnificent glass fleck) they are my favorite brand. I like this collection but I would added a purple to make a full rainbow!

China Glaze Pool Party is the bright hot pink. My favorite of the group. This is actually a bit different than most of the hot pink neons I have. I'm keeping it.


China Glaze Sun Worshipper is a great neon orange. A calmer neon orange than some, kinda like a neon clementine fruit. I was surprised to find the only neon orange I had other than this is Orly Orange Punch, and this is nothing like it. It's a true orange, not reddish orange.



China Glaze Yellow Polka Dot Bikini is greener than shown here, but is still too much like China Glaze Celtic Sun in color to be worth it - but - this is far more opaque than Celtic Sun, though it is not fully opaque. It may be worth it to spend the few bucks on this and throw away Celtic Sun.


China Glaze Kiwi Cool-Ada is a grassy green neon. And while I like it a lot, it is far overshadowed by China Glaze In the Limelight, which is far more opaque. But still what's not to like about this (providing you like neon, and if you don't you have probably already stopped reading)!


China Glaze Flip Flop Fantasy is that pink with a hint of orange my camera can NEVER capture, so sorry for the picture, but you can get a hint of the color. It's juicy and very bright. At first I thought I had a dupe for this - Essie Punchy Pink, but that is actually darker and pinker, this has a lot of orange in it, and nothing I have is a dupe for it. Claire's Fabulous is the closest I have, and that too is pinker.


China Glaze Towel Boy Toy is a summer sky blue with the lovely blue shimmer that my beloved Color Club Electro Candy neons of last year had. And in fact Color Club Pure Energy is an almost spot on exact dupe, but the Color Club has more shimmer in it.



Are you ready for summer yet? You better start!!