Monday, 24 February 2025

Zoya Naturel 6 bottle and swatch stick comparisons

Hi Friends

Today I'm sharing my colour comparisons for the new Naturel 6 collection from Zoya, these will purely be colour comparisons as this finish is not something Zoya has done a lot of, infact the only other polishes are Opal and Inez.

As always if youre new, I take my photos in natural daylight, I dont colour correct, merely crop and add my watermark.

The new polish is always first left.  The new polishes are 

Avalon, Cleo, Dulcie, Nadine, Scotti and Winslet.

First up Scotti compared to April and Sutton, I would say April is the closet colour. Scotti is sheer to allow the flakies to show.


Left to right Scotti and Cleo, you can see Cleo is much brighter and more pink toned than Scotti but the flakies are the same.  Edit This is of course Opal compared to Scotti.

Left to right Avalon, Tweedy and Shelby, Avalon is slightly brighter than Tweedy and Shelby.

Left to right Cleo, Palmer and Shannon, Palmer is very close to the base of Cleo, these will make a great combo, wear one coat of Palmer with Cleo over to boost the opacity, or do accent nails of Cleo with Palmer or Shannon. I wore Cleo over the weekend, pics at the end.

Left ot right Dulcie, Carson and Kinsley, Carson has the closest base colour, either of these paired with Dulcie would make a gorgeous manicure.

Left to right Winslet, Joni and Remington, I would say the closest is Joni for base colour.

Lastly left to right Nadine, Maggie and Hera, this is slightly out of order because I could Not find Maggie, I spent over an hour going through polishes, I finally had to take down each row and go through them that way and finally I found her. I think probably Maggie is the closest to Nadines base colour.

There we go, I got these on Friday along with a Fancy Gloss order so I decided I would wear Cleo and Fancy Gloss Bubblegum Bliss together for the next few days and they paired beautifully, the cold state of Bubblegum Bliss is a similar tone to Cleo, I was warm when I took the photos. You can see the cold state in the bottle shot.




 


Thursday, 20 February 2025

A Zoya A Day - Kismet

Hi Friends

Today I'm sharing my swatch of the gorgeous Kismet.

Available on the website - Yes (February only)
Brush used - Z Wide.
Name - Kismet
Year - 2025
Number - ZP1250
Does it stamp - Yes
Coats - 1
Finish - Cream
Collection - Polish of the Month
Colour - Pink/Red
Topcoat - No

Kismet is a sophisticated, deep blushed berry, whispering of red, like the deepest blush of a rich, velvety rose petal. 

Oddly Zoya have this colour listed as in the red spectrum, I would say it has a red base but it is definitely a pink in my opinion.

Kismet has a fantastic formula, no running or pooling and opaque in one sweet coat, she also stamps nicely.

I also got my Naturel 6 order today, a quick note to say I will be doing swatch posts, however, I am not sure about doing a comparison post because these are not glitters as Zoya calls them, they are in fact teeny tiny little pink and gold flakies, so while I might have colours to compare Zoya does not have any other flakies polishes like these. Let me know if you want a colour comparison post.

I am going to test out the little extras from my order, they are the rescue serum and the repair base from the Gelli-Cure line, I have had a real issue with the middle nail on my left hand, I cannot get it to grow past the free edge without breaking, I'm wearing a false nail today for this swatch.