Nails I Love - Zoya JACY & Deborah Lippmann HAPPY BIRTHDAY

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ZOYA – Jacy & DEBORAH LIPPMANN Happy Birthday

Hey girlies J

Sooooo it was my birthday this week and I decided that was enough of a half-excuse to buy DL’s lustful Happy Birthday.  And then someone also bought me it as a present – yay – so I can now make official Candy Shop and Forget You dupes J

I thought long and hard about what to wear her over, and after seeing a lot of pink in the blogosphere this last week, decided to go for the only Zoya Pulse Goddess I didn’t swatch last week – Jacy.

You can just about see the glass flecks if you can see past the "colouring outside the lines" lol - I hadn't cleaned up yet!

Jacy is a powerhouse.  She is ridicloulously complex and deep, and the photos really are lame in comparison to how she looks in person.  A deep raspberry magenta with flashes of blue and fuchsia shimmer, Jacy *also* rocks the glass flecks.  Teeny tiny ones.  Teeny tiny bright pink ones.  Sooooo pretty.  So flipping hard to photograph.  The only photo that comes close is one under bright light – the flecks were almost impossible to see in natural light, but I felt so smug knowing they were there J

I then layered the Happy Birthday on and – holy moly!  I was not prepared for quite how much glitterness was going to come out of that bottle!  We’re all so used to stroking a glitter on and having it sparse itself out across the nail, but this baby, I don’t know if it was breeding in the brush but it just kept on coming lol.   (Which is good.  We moan about the price of DL but I reckon this baby would last double due to the sheer abundance of glitter in there, making her a more reasonable price per use.)

A bit too much in my opinion.  I felt they were over blingy, and I will definitely use less next time.

And then I did something ….. amazing!  I crackled them.  Oh my sweet polishy goodness.  Suddenly, Happy Birthday looks like a firework, her colourful brightness peaking through the night sky.  Amazing!  So so happy with this look.

Look, I still can’t stop looking at it.

And more.  And more lol.

I get sooooooo excited, far more than other bloggers!  Good or bad, I'm not sure ha ha.

Have fun J

  

Top Tip – if you’re ever unsure what a nail colour looks like, go to Google images, which will give you plenty of contrasts and compares.

NAILS I LOVE - Zoya - PULSE Collection

Nails I Love

ZOYA – Pulse Collection

Zoya’s PULSE Collection came out a while ago and I have had it on backorder for 2 WHOLE MONTHS !!  It’s nearly killed me waiting for it to arrive.  It’s full of dark, deep, hypnotic colours with a little bit of metal and shimmer thrown in for good measure.  Sounds like heaven !

These colours are GLORIOUS. They are dark, they ARE hypnotic, they are mysterious, dramatic, perverse, subversive, evil – everything a classic dark polish should be!

Let’s start with the thumb – SLOANE.  Described as “black plum metallic” Sloane is going to be getting a lot of wear this winter.  I think she’s more like blackcurrant skin, and it wasn’t til a sunbeam hit us that I saw the teeny tiny sparks of metal glinting under her surface – she’s like a super spy keeping that secret!  I love this.  A lot.

Index finger = RIHANA, a “raspberry wine metallic”.  This is like burgundy without the brown – a nice dark shimmer, not unlike red wine.  I don’t know that I would call it raspberry – it’s a bit darker than that.  I think she will look a-may-zing with glitter.

On the middle finger, MIKKA, an “icy grape metallic”.  There is a lot of kinship between this one and Sloane.  They are both from the Grape family, but this is a little bit lighter and has a lot more going on as a result.  She sways and shimmers, bends and blinds you – this is pure dark beauty.

Ring finger is BLAIR, an “elderberry plum metallic” and this is the first one I didn’t love as much on the nail as I thought I would.  In the bottle, she’s a shimmering swirl of hot-headed rubiness, but veers towards maroon on the nail.  I don’t know where all the brown suddenly came from.  She’s not ugly, not by a long strange, but I would have liked the red to dominate a little more.

Finally on the pinkie, COLBIE, a “russet metallic” – perfect description.  This is a bit lighter and browner than Blair, giving an intense blackened copper look.  Again, these 2 are very close sisters, and given the choice I would probably keep Colbie as she looks like Autumn leaves.

Missing from the photo is JACY, a “mauve metallic purple” – imagine Demi with a bit of fuschia shimmer on top.  She’s a little bit the “odd one out” in terms of tone”, which is why she didn’t make it to the hand of glory J

So, Sloane, clear winner, then Mikka, possibly the unphotpgraphed Jacy, then Rihanna, Colbie and Blair.  All beautiful girls – bring on the dark skies and these girls will be good to go.

Have fun J

  

Top Tip – if you’re ever unsure what a nail colour looks like, go to Google images, which will give you plenty of contrasts and compares.