ZOYA NATUREL SATINS


The next generation of Zoya Naturel is almost here! Introducing, Zoya Naturel Satins, a collection of six new, neutral nail polish colors in an ultra-wearable, low-sheen, chic satin finish. A hybrid between matte and glossy polishes, the new Zoya Satin* formula provides opaque coverage and is longer lasting than traditional matte shades. The flawlessly smooth finish hides imperfections and creates a luxurious, satin finish nail look.

ZP782/Leah: Lavender tinged taupe, exclusive Zoya Satin* finish.

ZP779/Rowan: Creamy suede taupe, exclusive Zoya Satin* finish.

ZP781/Sage: Mossy sage green, exclusive Zoya Satin* finish.

ZP778/Tove: Misty slate grey, exclusive Zoya Satin* finish.

ZP780/Brittany: Rose mauve cream, exclusive Zoya Satin* finish. 

ZP783/Ana: Light toasted almond, exclusive Zoya Satin* finish. 






COMING SOON -  Zoya Satin Seal Topcoat!
Turn any color into an elegant Satin finish beauty with just one coat!

Press Sample It's Christmas and I've been absent from this blog for 2 months. Due in part to having a web designer give it a complete overhaul, but mostly because this past semester of school has been a lot of hard work.

But anyway, in honor of Christmas Day, I have one part of the China Glaze Twinkle Collection.

Let's kick things off with December To Remember
It's described as a dark blue with iridescent shimmer and it reached the above opacity in 2 coats.

Define Good...
Define Good... is a deep cranberry shimmer with a smooth formula that is fully opaque in 2 coats.
Admittedly this wasn't my favorite color from the group (y'all know I'm not a red fan) but the formula is on point with this shade.

Tip Your Hat
My camera had a problem capture the true hue of Tip Your Hat. In the above photo it almost looks like a bright cherry red, but in reality it falls somewhere between cranberry and brick red.
I'm not a fan of red polishes but in this polishes' defense, it's a créme and it has a smooth formula that is opaque in 2 coats.

Out Like A Light
Ah yes! Another créme with a A1, top notch formula! Out Like A Light is a dark gray créme that I reached full opacity in one coat. It was a little thick, but it very easy to work with. I like this shade, but I definitely don't think "dark gray  créme" when I think Christmas nail polish.

I'd Melt For You
I'd Melt For You is a silver chrome shade that requires a bit of finessing in the application process.
It was patchy in some spots on the first coat, some nails were fine after the second coat, but a few nails needed a third to level everything out.

No Peeking
No Peeking is an eggplant shimmer that reaches full opacity in 2 coats. Not, my favorite color of the group, but it does have a redeeming formula.

Overall my favorite shade from this group is Out Like A Light, but my favorite polish name is Define Good...

What are your picks from part 1 of this collection?
Let's chat in the comments! Also, merry Christmas lovers!
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What could be better than Dirty, Sexy, Money? $100 bills y'all! Hence today's mani.

DSM is a two-coat, dusty, turquoise créme and I'm pretty sure I couldn't love it more for this fall/winter season.


For my accent nails I used some left over $100 bill water decals because... well it only makes perfect sense to pair money with even more money!


And just for funsies, here's my right thumb. You know, in case you thought I didn't have one.


See that nasty looking gash in the corner of my poor little thumb? My friend and I were drinking at her place and for some odd reason I had to pick up the cardboard box in her living room. And then it cut me. *sad face* You know what's even worse? I had to have another friend put a bandage on my thumb for me.



Nothing To Disclose Let that be a lesson for you kids. Don't drink and pick up random ass boxes in a living room.

Do you have any weird drunken stories? Or do you wanna talk Benjamin Franklin nail art?

Let's exchange stories/talk all about the Benjamins in the comments!
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Wishes really do come true with this magical new nail polish collection for Winter/Holiday 2014! Zoya Wishes** is a densely pigmented assortment featuring both traditional and Magical PixieDust formulas in coordinating color combinations that can be worn alone or combined into stunning combinations, no matter how you wear them, this collection delivers a fanciful way to celebrate the season!


Available in top salons, spas and on zoya.com

Press Sample It's Monday again and I finally have a post ready for you guys! In between going back to school and working full time, I haven't had a ton of time to talk polish/nail art with you guys but I'm def trying.

Anyway today's swatch and review about for Zoya Entice (créme) & Ignite (shimmer) Collections is probably the largest swatch and review I've ever done in one post here on Nail A College Drop Out so let's get to it!

Teigen & Veronica
Teigen is a describe by Zoya as a  violet plum with copper shimmer, but to me, it's a deep raspberry shade with copper shimmer. Either way it goes, Teigen is fully opaque in 2 smooth coats.
Veronica is a berry tone that I wasn't too thrilled with color-wise, but it does have an impressive formula. Being a two coat, full coverage créme isn't anything to scoff at honey.

Remy & Ryan
Remy. Guuurrl let me tell you about Remy. Its a 1 coater! Yes a one coater! You need this in your collection. I can promise you that. In real life one coat is perfect but under a camera lens and bright lights you can see slight VNL (visible nail line), so for blogging purposes, swatched above is two coats.
Ryan is an indigo créme that, unlike its shimmer counterpart, becomes opaque in two coats. I think this would be great for some nautical themed nail art.

Sansa & Margo
Before I even get into the details on these lacquers, I have to say that they are my fav combination. I love me some purple nail polish!
Sansa an eggplant with gold shimmer. Much like the rest of the E&I lacquers, it is opaque in in two coats.
Margo looks kind of meh on its on but I def pops next to Sansa! This is the only shade that required three coats.

Yuna & Genevieve
Yuna is gray with copper and gold shimmer. Reaches full opacity in two coats.
Genevieve is an elephant gray créme with a streaky first coat, but evens out just fine after the second.

Autumn & Nyssa
Autumn is a brassy orange with gold shimmer. It becomes fully opaque in two coats.
Nyssa is described as a milk chocolate brown that becomes fully opaque in two coats.


Overall the Entice & Ignite collections are full coverage, and with the exception of Margo & Remy, all the shades obtain  full coverage in two smooth coats.
If you have to choose only two lacquers from the ones posted today--you know, if you were trapped in some sad parallel universe that only allows you to choose two bottles of nail polish out of a twelve piece set--you should definitely make it Remy and Sansa.

Before I end this post, I do want to say the Ignite Collection reminds me of a fall alternative to the Irresistible Collection for Summer 2013. Don't believe me? Peep Lakeisha's swatches over on her blog RefindandPolished.com

Remy, Sansa, and every other lacquer shown above retails for $9 each on Zoya.com.

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What's your favorite combination of créme and shimmer? Let's talk polish in the comments!
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Amanda Loves Polish reached 2,500 Facebook so to celebrate, she's having a giveaway! How does this get better? Amanda, myself, and two other contributors have added prizes to her already awesome giveaway!

What I am putting forth? A $25 gift card to Llarowe!


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Run for your life this Halloween as China Glaze unleashes the Apocalypse of Colour.  Design an immortal manicure fit for the undead with this mix of scary shimmers, ghoulish glitters and terrifying top coats.  Create a spine-chilling look with the six-piece limited edition collection, all the way down to your fingertips and toes.  Apocalypse of Colour features 5 new shimmers and glitters, and the re-release of Ghoulish Glow glow-in-the-dark top coat.  

• Rest in Pieces: Festive fall glitter combination of copper, gold and black
• I Love Your Guts: Blood red with specks of black
• Ghoulish Glow: Glow-in-the-dark top coat
• But Of Corpse: Gruesome green with specks of black
• Don’t Let the Dead Bite: Nude base with sporadic red glitter pieces to look like blood splatter across your finger tips
• Getting to Gnaw You: Dark black polish with hints of orange glitter

Nothing To Disclose Yesterday was the end of September and the Proud Beauty Bloggers of Color prompt of the month was black & white. I should've had this post up yesterday but, let's just face it, I suck at time management and I completely forgot yesterday was the 30th.


Just gonna address the elephant in the room for a moment here. Yes my nails a re nubbins again. After a series of breaks to my left index finger and my right thumb, I got tired of constantly having to repatch them so I just decided to cut them off completely.

Okay, now back to the mani.

I started with a gradient of OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls and Wet n Wild Wild Shine Black Créme--I can't stop telling you that this has been my go-to black nail polish for years! Then, because I had to break a monochromatic theme and throw in a lil bit of neon somewhere, I splattered on Dare To Wear Violetta. And to bring it home I added a layer of  Nanacoco White Witch.


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GET BACK IN MATTE! RE-RELEASE!!!
All of the color, none of the shine! Meet your perfect matte with MATTEVELVET* **, Zoya’s exclusive shine-free formula. Choose from six best-selling matte nail polish shades with a luxurious crushed velvet finish and subtle shimmer.



 Right on trend, these exclusive shades are being reintroduced for a limited time only!
ZP499 - DOVIMA: Shimmering Black MatteVelvet*.
Zoya MATTEVELVET* colors are available exclusively on Zoya.com and in ULTA beauty stores (ask for them).

Press Sample Happy Mani Monday folks! Today I've got a swatch and review of Zoya's latest addition to their PixieDust line. That's right, it's Ultra PixieDust time.




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Press SampleEarlier this month I reviewed a couple of Silcare's cuticle oils and today I've got a bottle of scented acetone from Silcare's Acetone Fragrant Garden of Colour line.


What I like about it:

• A soft, sweet artificial strawberry candy scent
• The bottle itself is made of a plastic malleable enough to gently squeeze product out.
• After you unscrew the cap, the bottle has a small hole the acetone comes out of.

• Before I even used the product, I assumed that the whatever chemical is used to add fragrance would dilute the acetone. But I was pleasantly surprised to find out that this worked just as well as my regular unscented acetone.
• This just might be the best part, when the lid was screwed on properly, I had no problem with the bottle leaking when it wasn't in the upright position. (I can be a bit of a butterfingers and I frequently knock over nail polish, remover, acetone pumps, etc and hope I haven't ruined my carpet.)

What I didn't like:

• It's not refillable. So once it's empty, that's it, time to buy a new one.

Silcare's scented acetone comes in four different scents, Strawberry Pink (shown today), Melon Orange, Vanilla Blue, and Green Apple; and each size has a different price point, 150mL (shown today) is $2.56, 300mL is $3.33, and 600mL is $5.19.

I've actually never used scented acetone before because I always assumed it wasn't as strong as 100% pure acetone, but I'm glad I was wrong.

What's your experience been with scented acetone? Know of any brands I should be on the hunt for? Let's chat in the comments.
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Press Sample Saturday afternoon I was having a conversation with a co-worker about, what else, nail polish. My co-worker was telling me about how often she has to buy bottles of nail polish remover, then I told her to quit playin' and just buy it by the gallon.

Now, if you're like me and you've stopped buying little 10oz and 12oz bottles of acetone and nail polish remover, and started buying gallons of it instead, you're going to need an easy way to actually use this large amount of necessary liquid.

Queue acetone & nail polish remover pump!

I bought two on eBay over a year ago and my problem with those were that after you've gotten more than half way through the acetone it wouldn't pump anymore; oddly enough this problem didn't arise when just plain nail polish remover was used. *shrugs*

Acetone being a staple product for me, I had to find a pump that worked just as well with acetone as it did with nail polish remover. So when I found this nail polish remover pump on Born Pretty, I immediately knew I had to try it out and see if it would work well with acetone.

I've had this pump for a few months and I can attest that it pumps acetone almost down to the last drops. There have been a few times when it didn't work, but overall it performs better than the ones I bought on eBay.

This nail polish remover pump is available on BornPrettyStore.com for $3.18.


And if you use promo code NCL91 at checkout, you'll get an additional 10% off your purchase of this item, nail art supplies, and everything else available on BornPrettyStore.com.

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Do you guys still buy regular sized bottles of nail polish remover? Wanna share advise on other things that people obsessed with nail polish should have? Let's chat in the comments!
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