Zoya – Sometimes Yaya

BOGO Zoya

Y’all got a bit more than a day left to get two polishes for the price of one from Zoya (if you have an account on their website – tell me you do!).

Rules from the blog:

Do you have an account** on Zoya.com? If you do a special offer is waiting for you! A BOGO (Buy One, Get One) Offer* on the new Zoya summer collections!

As an ADDED BONUS for taking part in the exclusive account holders only BOGO Offer* standard shipping will be only $2! (Order more than $55 and shipping will be free!)

You can BOGO* any colors from our new Zoya Summertime, Sunshine and ModMatte collections! With 15 new colors to choose from you are bound to find plenty of BOGO offer options to love!

How it works:

SIGN IN – to your account** on Zoya.com
CLICK on MY ACCOUNT
Once you are in your account go to the left hand side of the page and CLICK on MY PROMOTIONS AND COUPONS
APPLY the code that reads ZOYA SUMMER BOGO*.
Then ADD – Any combination of polishes from the new summer collections to your shopping cart.
(This BOGO* you can buy up to 7 bottles and get 7 FREE(of the new summer collections)
ADD any additional items you would like to purchase
CHECK OUT (BOGO* applies to polish from Summertime, Sunshine and ModMatte collections ONLY!)
Please double check all information IS CORRECT and ALL FIELDS have been completely filled out PRIOR to submitting the order. There is NO WAY to issue a new code after the order has been processed.
SUBMIT – your order.

*Offer open only to those with active accounts** on Zoya.com, artofbeauty.com, Qtica.com and qticasmartspa.com as of 3/20/2011 at 5 PM ST. Offer open to consumers, Online promotion only. Continental US ONLY. BOGO Offer* is good on Open stock .5oz Polish ONLY from Summer 2011 collections. (Zoya Summertime, Sunshine and ModMatte) BOGO Offer good for up to 7 polishes. BOGO Offer* code is unique and non-transferable. One code per account. Code expires on 3/25/2011 at 11:59PM EST. Standard ground shipping is $2.00 and FREE for orders over $55. Upgraded shipping not available for this promotion. Please allow standard time for processing and shipping, however if volume is higher than expected please allow up to 4 weeks for shipping and processing. Please allow 2-6 weeks for delivery. Comments, videos and pictures posted about this Zoya.com BOGO Offer* outside of Zoya.com or zoyanailpolish.blogger.com are not representative of the opinions of Zoya Nail Polish, Art of Beauty, Inc., Qtica and Qtica Smart Spa and we do not confirm the accuracy of any postings..

**qualifying accounts are those with a valid username (email) and password that has been created and used in the last 3 years account must be made by 3/20/2011 at 5PM EST to qualify for the BOGO Offer. No purchase necessary to start an account. Customers are responsible for maintaining active accounts. If username or password have been lost we (Art of Beauty, Inc.) are not responsible for restoring accounts or giving out any account information.

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Zoya NOTD

I’ve been getting quite intimate with the Zoya Intimate Collection. The colors are a perfect segue from winter to spring – pastels, creams, shimmer, and subtle pops of color. Yes please!

My nails are in a state of attrocity. I don’t know if it’s a lack of vitamins, care, mixture of both, or if they’re just mad at me. Everytime I get to any resemblance of growth and legth, they all go through an apocalyptic fervor and snap, crackle, and pop down to nubs! Ugh!

I tried to salvage some nail shots in between, and think I will use falsies to swatch the other colors waiting to be photographed. Left with flash, right withoutGemma is such a smooth green. It’s mossy, and frosty, and has a blue-ish shimmer to it if you look in the right light. It makes me think of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter 4), where Fleur Delacour and her troupe arrive from Beauxbatons Academy, and everything is aflutter. The color is soft, dreamy, and interesting. It also helps that it applies without a worry with two coats flat.–>

Disclaimer: This productwas sent to the author for review by the manufacturer/PR. All reviews on MOJ remain unbiased and unpaid. For more info, feel free to contact the author.

What’s on your nails?

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A Zoya Halloween

Zoya, one of what I consider the “blue chip” nail polish companies is getting into the Halloween mood. Their video is polish having fun.

What color polish will you be sporting for Halloween, or are you more of a faux nail gal?

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Last of the Six

As promised, here are the last of the photos of the six NOTDs from the Zoya Flash color collection. The colors are bright summery shades that make me think ‘this is what the nail polish version of a bag of Skittles would look like.’ The shades just evoke happiness.

Dana is a grown up bubble gum pink. It’s safe enough for work and flashy enough for the bright color hungry fashionista inside of you.

Maura is a bright red that has two great features: it doesn’t stain your fingers and it goes on creamy with no streaks.

All of the polishes in this collection are amazingly smooth and need two coats to look exactly like the bottle promises it will. That’s really no surprise though, because Zoya is notorious for delivering on their promises.

Do you have a favorite from the Flash collection?

Disclaimer: This product was sent to the author for review by the manufacturer/PR. All reviews on MOJ remain unbiased and unpaid. For more info, feel free to contact the author.

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Another Zoya NOTD

As promised, here are some more images of the six NOTDs from the Zoya Flash color collection. Again, this was during a time of my nails requiring mending so I used falsies to swatch colors. I am loving these bright colors and have the six on quick rotate for summer manis and pedis.

Robyn is a bright light blue. Does that make sense? It’s a pumped up upgrade to Yummy.

Perrie is a sweet lavender, which again, is an amped up upgrade of a past Zoya polish. Want to take a wild guess which one? Malia! If you look at the photo on the right you will see that the colors inside the bottle were settling into a lava like effect. Made me giddy because the dark blue brings me back to my kindergarten days of figuring out that red and blue make purple. Just me then?

Do you have a favorite from the Flash collection?

Disclaimer: This product was sent to the author for review by the manufacturer/PR. All reviews on MOJ remain unbiased and unpaid. For more info, feel free to contact the author.

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Zoya Flash NOTD

As promised, here are two of six NOTDs from the Zoya Flash color collection. This was during a time of my nails requiring mending so I used falsies to swatch colors. I’m loving the collection as a whole. My only qualm being that a top coat is necessary to maintain the shine. It doesn’t dry matte, but it doesn’t dry shiny either. Then again, almost everyone uses top coats anyhoo, so what’s the problem, right?

Jancyn my favorite shade of tangerine orange. Creamy and mostly opaque in one coat, but optimally two coats are necessary. Flash on right and none on left.

Jolene is a cute bubble gum pink that is unlike any pink shade I’ve ever had. It’s also a darn good true to bottle color match.

Do you have a favorite from the Flash collection?

Disclaimer: This product was sent to the author for review by the manufacturer/PR. All reviews on MOJ remain unbiased and unpaid. For more info, feel free to contact the author.

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Zoya in a Flash

Summer is nothing without an appropriate amount of bright colors on your toes and fingers. Anyone too afraid to have a neon orange or a bold bright blue should be ashamed! The only times you may hide is on interviews. (Once you’re hired, rock those neons ;)!!)

I was holding out on my Zoya swatches. The flash collection is nothing short of my dream come true.

My favorite part of the packaging

I’m rocking Jancyn on my toes as I type this, and the NOTD shots will be arriving shortly. You should grab up these colors ASAP with the Zoya Nail Polish Exchange campaign. It’s like Back2MAC with nail polishes (*and a $3.50 shipping cost per bottle). Check out the details here. Hurry – it ends on June 30!

Disclaimer: This product was sent to the author for review by the manufacturer/PR. All reviews on MOJ remain unbiased and unpaid. For more info, feel free to contact the author.

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Tardy to the Party

Tardy is the kindest word that I can attach to my timing in regards to Mercedes Benz New York Fashion Week. Here’s the catch up (and if the following schedule of posts is too many too often for y’all, let me know!).

I got the ball rolling during the actual Fashion Week by doing a guest post for Miss Brittany over at Clumps of Mascara about the Vessel by Lois runway presentation, and trust me when I say that I could’ve went to just that first show and would have heard all the buzzwords and trends right away.

Image Credit: Style.com

With scheduling and location conflicts for many shows, you try to make one person act like as many clones at one time as possible. Want to know a true story? There were two shows going on within an hour of each other and next door to each other. I went to the first show to cover the backstage prepwork, snuck out through the side staircase (no one could leave because they were doing a test run of the show), ran around the block (with a camera, notepad, and no jacket), only to go into another show, cover the backstage prepwork there, only to return to the first show to catch the runway, and then back to the second. I probably would’ve attempted a lot more fashion herculean tasks similar to this if they were closer together, but that was not the case.

So of course, it is with great sadness that I admit to you that I only got to see Toni’s backstage prepwork and not the runway show. Too bad too, because the dresses were phenomenal. The collection was a bit broken in half with soft, sheer fabric in shades of gray, and some dark pieces, with black and gold. Check out all the runway photos from the show here.

For this show, MAC provided the cosmetic creations, Zoya for nails, and hair was styled by the peeps from Cutler Hair Salons.

The look? A feminine, ethereal, “all about gold” theme. Once you look at the line, you’ll notice that the makeup matches the collection well.

Head makeup artist for the show, Dhai Naidu (pictured above) was swearing up and down the prep area that the item to buy from the fall brand collection is called ‘Hang Loose.’ The artists used Studio Moisture Tint foundation to cover up blemishes, but still keep the girls looking real; showing their real skin, freckles and all.

The polish colors were berry much in tune with autumnal shades, breaking out the berries (did ya catch the berry before?), and of course some glitterin’ gold. The colors used were Sloane, Nova, Casey, and Richelle. Sunshine, the head nail artist for the team had some test swatches with various combinations of colors ready before each girl got set up with her color. Some gals rocked a single blinged out finger with berry on the rest. Nothing new for us beauty junkies, no? But I did love the pink glitter and the creamy gold. Such a switch for the colors, right?!

The hair was sleek and neat, usually arranged in buns with gold threads, sequins, and applique dipping in and out of strands. The hair team used Cutler Volumizer Spray, along with Redken Workforce ’09. I was most impressed with the closeups of the hair (tell me you’re not!).

My favorite images captured on my camera for the day were the box of hair sequins above, and this one here:

I’m sure anyone who had one person handling hair, nails, and makeup each, could get ready just as quickly as these gals! (And don’t we all wish for a round the clock entourage that would help?)

How did this show strike you? Any favorite pieces yet?

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Deals A-Brewin’

There are about five hundred million or so deals starting to brew in preparation for the holidays. I don’t know if I can keep up with all of them, but I will surely give you a heads up on the ones I find most important! Click through the links to see the deals from Zoya, Shu Uemura, and Urban Decay!

Become a Twitter follower of Zoya by 11/11 & they’ll give out a code for three free lippies, just like they previously did at the 6,000 mark with three free polishes.

Shu Uemura is on sale on Hautelook! Remember that you get a $10 credit when you sign up with this link!

Urban Decay is having a friends and family sale. Just go to their site and enter code FNFW1 to get 30% off your ENTIRE order – 11/9 – 11/20.

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Zoya NOTDs

Watch out now as I get ultra colorful to keep the rainy day gloom away. Actually, I’m a big fan of the rain. I find it to be quite calming, and just awesome. But the rest of y’all that like to scream about the sky falling each time raindrops fall? Pansies!

Here are some Zoya NOTDs to keep up with my nail-a-day challenge. I cheated a little for a couple of days by wearing the same polish for two days, but I’m back on the straight and narrow, I promise!

Paz

Ali

Ali and Paz were both weirdly a difficult time to photograph. The pictures kept coming out more “radioactive” than the color was in real life. The colors are both very bright, but in a yummy way. I couldn’t get enough of Ali.

Malia

Rea

Want a Zoya to yourself? You can get them at $7 a bottle here.

I adored all these colors. All the photos on the left are with flash, and on the right without. Every single cream applied like a dream and the colors were all equally unique and vibrant. Seriously? I can’t get enough of my Zoya fix.

Which was your fave? Know a color I MUST try?

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