End of Months of Zoyas Giveaway!

I forgot my giveaway for the end of my two months of Zoyas! Well anyway I remembered it so let's get to it!

Email me your name at polishmayhem@gmail.com to win a new unused bottle of Shivon, to celebrate the successful completion of two months of daily Zoya posts. I hope you enjoyed them as much as I did! Entry is open until next Monday, July 20, and winner will be posted that evening. Good luck and thanks for reading Polish Mayhem!!


Zoya Shivon:

Another Month of Zoyas! - Zoya Jade

Well today is our last day in the two month daily Zoya-Fest I have been throwing. I only have two more Zoyas you haven't seen, Jade and Jo, and Jo isn't swatched. So that's it my dears! For now. Thoughts on Zoya - good formula. Pretty much universally all of their polishes have a good formula, not too runny, not too thick, and their thinner, Renew, works in a jiff for any thickness. It's easy to apply and while I'd like a thicker OPI type brush, the brush is just fine, basically.

I'd love to see more glitters in the future, more of their stunning mattes, more color exploration (they definitely seem to be going that way so I expect a super future). I'd LOVE more large grain shimmer polishes like the Truth Collection! And I would die for a glass fleck collection from them. Maybe a couple holographics in their hottest colors, like Paris, imagine a hot VAMPY HOLO. And a blue glitter like Roxy but medium blue, like say China Glaze Blue Sparrow-ish?

Anyway it's been a hell of a ride. I still have to review their Color Lock System, I already have about 4 paragraphs written but I need to do the wear test over a few days and I have a lot of swatching. I'll try to get to that within a week.

Tomorrow sees the start of July, and a new daily polish! Every Day an Essie starts tomorrow, so join me!

As for my last daily Zoya, I picked a real beauty, a sumptuous red jelly stuffed with red glitter. Jade is delumpscious.

Zoya Jade:

Another Month of Zoyas! - Zoya Hope

Zoya Hope is what Mac's new Violet Fire should have been. Big, juicy, shimmery and full of spark. A favorite.

Zoya Hope:

Another Month of Zoyas! - Zoya Beyonnce

Zoya Beyonnce is a kind of rose/bronze duochrome with gold shimmer. It's very pretty and fun. I love polishes with something special in them like this. I don't see any reason Beyonnce couldn't be worn at work as well as be super hot out on the town. My picture does not do it justice.

Zoya Beyonnce:

Another Month of Zoyas! - Zoya Faith

Faith is a dark rose with blurple shimmer. It's quite pretty.

Zoya Faith:

Another Month of Zoyas! - Zoya Mikka

Mikka is a deep burgundy-purple with, for a nice change, a silver shimmer. Very sophisticated and classy!

Zoya Mikka:

Another Month of Zoyas! - Zoya Renee

Renee is another one of those hot pink neons my camera just cannot cope with. It has a decent formula, easily thinned down so you don't get that nasty neon clumpage, and packs a lot of color. It's one of the Summer 2009 La Di Da Collection, and one of the prettiest in that Collection, I think!

Zoya Renee:

Another Month of Zoyas! Zoya Emanuelle

Emanuelle is a reddish rose color with gold shimmer. Very understated.

Zoya Emanuelle:

Another Month of Zoyas! - Zoya Sloane

I'm not quite sure I have to do anything about Zoya Sloane but show you the picture. It speaks for itself.


Zoya Sloane:

Another Month of Zoyas! - Zoya Anthea

Anthea is a red with gold shimmer. Zoya calls it a duochrome copper rose, but I don't get that. It is pretty though.

Zoya Anthea:

Another Month of Zoyas! - Zoya Jacy, Zoya Eve and Zoya

I posted so much past few days I didn't want falling by the wayside that I didn't do my daily Zoyas! So today you get three!

Zoya Jacy is REALLY nice. I liked this one especially. It's a slick dark berry creme with purple shimmer:


Zoya Eve is a hot bright red with a HUGE amount of purple shimmer:


Ah, too bad Paris didn't get her own post. A beautiful shiny vampy red jelly. Utterly chic and soooooo sexy:

Another Month of Zoyas! - Zoya Valentina

Valentina is a simple, medium red shimmer. It's a lovely shade, if maybe not a slap in the face.

Zoya Valentina:

Another Month of Zoyas! - Zoya Juicy

I really like Juicy. It's a jelly, a sort of dark fuchsia, and it has that neat color difference you sometimes get with jellies on the thinner coated edge of the nails. It truly does look juicy. Just don't suck on my fingers. Okay don't suck on my fingers unless you're Gerard Butler.

Zoya Juicy:

Another Month of Zoyas! - Zoya Jasmine

Jasmine is a medium raspberry with a soft silver and slightly blurple shimmer. It looks a bit messy but I don't think it is any different than Zoya's formula, I think I was probably a bit sloppy.

Zoya Jasmine:

Another Month of Zoyas! - Zoya Isabel

Isabel is a medium red with subtle shimmer. It is a lot like Cyma, but with less blue. It's pretty, if not one of the more attention grabbing shades. It is a nice sort of ripe strawberry color (real strawberries are rich red, not the candy pink which we always see labeled as strawberry for some reason).

Zoya Isabel:

Another Month of Zoyas! - Zoya Kotori

Oooh yeah, all you other girls stand back, Kotori's here! While everyone else was busy making the same name polish over and over - black jelly with red glitter in it, Zoya hung back and said NUH UH We're doing BLUE, baby! And they took some microfine blue glitter and mixed it with a black jelly, and BAM. Kotori just blew your socks off.

Zoya Kotori:

Another Month of Zoyas! - Zoya Divincia

Zoya Divincia is a smooth burgundy. It has a silvery fine shimmer for an almost metallic look, but it is not a metallic. It's a smooth shine. It's lovely!


Zoya Divincia:

Another Month of Zoyas! - Zoya Sirena

Zoya Sirena is medium pink shimmer with a bit of juicy coral thrown in. It's good for days and anytime you want a nice feminine polish acceptable for work/play/family/whatever. It has enough coral that it appears juicy and not too girly-wirly.

Zoya Sirena:

Another Month of Zoyas! - Zoya Elke

Elke is a hot medium red with subtle gold shimmer. It makes a statement. It isn't a fave of mine, but that's a color opinion, the formula is the same as all the others and if you like brighter reds this will very very pleasing and sexy.

Zoya Elke:

Another Month of Zoyas! - Zoya Venus

Oh yeah! A shiny, happy pinky-purple lilac shimmer. A first kiss kind of nail polish. Sweet!

Zoya Venus: