orange - Lucy's Stash

Hello lovelies!

Last week I've reviewed two polishes from SpaRitual Gold collection (Conduit and Rusted Lux) for Summer 2012 and today I'll show you selection of shades from the second Summer collection, Pigment. The whole collection consists of six shades and I will show you four.

I've got Pigment mini kit, four shades which come with lovely straw paper cosmetic bag and here are the swatches:

Camellia - medium pink creme shade. It is still quite light pastel pink but not baby/powder pink. The formula wasn't as good as I'm used to with SpaRitual. Two coats would have been enough for full coverage but I had to apply third coat because the polish was quite patchy. I really don't know if it was because I have mini polishes with smaller brush or if this would have happened with full sized polish. On the other hand polish dried fast.

Indigo - bright sky blue creme. This shade is very similar to Ebb & Flow from the Water collection introduced for Spring 2012. It's a really beautiful bright blue with a good formula. It applied nicely and I needed just two coats for a full coverage.

Clay - burnt orange creme shade. I think I'd rather see colour like this in the Autumn collection to be honest. It's quite dark burnt orange shade leaning to brown. The first applied layer dried really fast which caused patches and I've had to use thick second coat to cover them up. The overall pigmentation of the polish is very good, two coats are enough for the full coverage.

Heliotrope - grape purple creme. This is a very lovely cool-toned grape purple shade I really enjoyed wearing. It applied well and the pigmentation was ok too. I'm wearing two thick coats but three thinner coats would do the same job. Polish dried reasonably fast and removal was without problems too.

Overall, I think this collection is quite inconsistent formula-wise as far as I can tell from these four polishes. Two of the applied nicely and without problems and two were patchy and problematic. However all of them are pigmented well. They all removed very well too.

I like the straw paper cosmetic bag that comes with the mini set, it is a good quality and it is a nice added value. Pigment collection has been introduced at the end of April and is available now for £8.50 per bottle. The mini set retails for £15.95. Read the whole press release here.

*These products were provided for a review

Hi everybody!

Yesterday I've reviewed the first part of Zoya Beach & Surf collection for Summer 2012. You can see the review of the Beach collection here. I was completely in love with the beach collection but I must say that there are some real gems in the Surf collection too!

Kimber - raspberry pink with gold glass flecks. In real life this colour is leaning more towards pink undertones, like raspberry shades. It reminds me China Glaze Strawberry Fields a lot. One coat was almost enough but in the end I needed the second coats for perfect coverage. I had one problem with this polish - it stained my nails quite a lot. I would recommend to use two coats of base coat or thicker base coat, something like OPI Ridge Filler, Essie Protein base coat and similar. Otherwise the formula was good, easy to apply and polish dried quite fast.

Rory - lotus pink foil metallic. Really great shade if you like pinks. It has quite cool undertones. The 'metallic foil' effect is quite visible on Rory and it looks good! It's shiny and it's sparkly! It has really good formula - it applied easily and I didn't experience any problems. I've applied two coats but one was almost enough for a full coverage.

Carly - deep metallic foil purple. I want my name to be Carly just so I can have this gem named after me!!! I absolutely adore this colour and it's my absolute favourite from the whole summer collection. I know it is not particularly spring or summer shade but I just love dark purples! I'm wearing one coat! The pigmentation is really great and Carly did not stain my nails. It also applied flawlessly..it was just love at first sight

Myrta - coral orange foil metallic. Myrta is in real life a bit more red, it is not as orange as it came out in the pictures. It also has great pigmentation, I'm wearing two coats but the first coat was almost fully opaque. It applied easily and dried reasonably fast.

Meg - mermaid green foil metallic. This is very sparkly foil green, almost like the pistachio Tracie from the Beach collection. I think I like Meg better just because it's so sparkly :) It is also very well pigmented, I'm wearing two coats but one coat was almost enough for full coverage. Meg also dried fast :)

Zuza - aquamarine foil metallic. Now this is the second polish in the collection that stands out for me straight after Carly. Beautiful sparkly blue with great formula! One coat was almost enough but I've applied two for full opacity. Zuza stained my nails a little bit so next time I'll use thicker base coat or two coats of base coat.

Surf collection has metallic foil finish as opposed to the creme Beach collection and really like it! But what is more important is the formula - absolutely flawless to apply across all the shades! The pigmentation is exceptional as well with all shades being almost one-coaters. If you have very short nails you can do with one thicker coat but if your nails are longer like min you will probably need two cats to hide the nail line. I've experienced staining with Kimber and Zuza so use thicker base coat to prevent it. Also when I was removing these polishes I had tiny foil particles stuck on my cuticles and skin so in the end I did something like foil method to prevent it - just hold cotton pad with nail polish remover on your nail for few minutes and then wipe of the polish with one stroke. Worked like magic :)

I love both Beach & Surf collection and I think that if you like colours, you'll be more than happy with these little gems.