zoya phoebe + nubar 2010 = robin's egg!

i have never purchased a matte nail polish. i have essie's "matte about you", but don't have a polish that starts off as matte. i have seen some beautiful swatches of matte zoya polishes, so when they did their buy three/get three free promo recently, i decided to take the plunge. boy, am i glad i did!

this is three coats of phoebe. i've read that it's common for matte polishes to dry quickly, and this one sure did!

look. how. beautiful! this color is so bright and fabulous. even my boyfriend said he really liked it!

and now...with flakies! i got nubar 2010 in the mail and was dying to try it out.

doesn't it look like a robin's egg?

outside, in natural light. as much as i love phoebe by herself, i like her even better shiny. even without flakies. she's just so bright and in your face!

overall consensus: buy it. do it now. you should have bought it five minutes ago. why are you still reading this when you should be buying that polish?

new zoya + finger paints flakie.

my trip to sally's was a minor success - they have one of the finger paint flakies [the main reason i went there], and i found "some like it haute" by china glaze for only 1.99! and then that same day i got my zoya package in the mail [from their valentine's promo], so i decided to combine the two for my mani today.

first i used two coats of zoya's "lotus", followed by one coat of "flashy" by finger paints. i own one of zoya's fleck effects, chloe, and i the only differences between that [and seemingly the rest of the fleck effects collection] is that the zoyas have a tinted base and i feel like the finger paints flakies are larger [see the second photo]. also, the price! unfortunately the finger paints flakies [there are five: flashy, motley, fleck, twisted, and asylum] aren't available online via the retailer, but you can buy them at sally's beauty supply for 4.99. the zoya fleck effects collection [chloe, opal, and maisie] are available at zoya.com for 8 dollars plus shipping.