Monday, March 22, 2010

Zoya Sparkle Collection Summer 2010



I am so happy to see this collection. All glitter. All of it! GLITTER!!!

And thankfully I had a little sunlight to capture the sparkle. My pictures don't totally capture the iridescent, glittery, fish-scaly sparkliness of these, so please just use them as an approximation.

Alegra. For some reason, this color kept messing up my camera! It's not quite so red, it's more of a bright magenta. Bright magenta jelly-ish base with a mixture of pink iridescent and clear/white 'fish scale' like iridescent flecks. Bright... richly colored... SPARKLY. This is a pink I can wear.

Charla. A mermaid in a bottle? This is a blue-turquoise sheer base with tons of silvery, golden, blue-ish, greenish iridescent glitter. This is more traditional glitter- circular metallic particles. Lots of pretty green/blue/gold duochrome that didn't quite come through in this picture. You can see some of the turquoise/green flip and the gold flecks in the left side of the picture, though. Better in real life.


Gilda. Another pink I would totally wear! It's not as deep/dark as it seems in this picture (I think it's my pasty white fingers throwing the color off LOL) but it is a bright, cheerful, girly hot pink with the iridescent 'fish scale' type shimmer like Alegra has. It's not as bright as Kiki. It is definitely loud, though. Kinda 80's awesome.

Ivanka. Is this the color of money for a reason? Heh. But seriously, this is awesome. It's mainly green with a little bit of a blue duochrome and lots of golden speckles. Another mermaid-type polish. It's GREEN. Enough said.


Mimi. Okay, you know the drill. It's purple. Picture it being less blue-toned and more red-toned. To give you an idea of how this looks in real life, it's not bright like Nubar Violet Sparkle but it is a lot like Milani Totally Cool but with less duochrome. That being said, Totally Cool was probably my favorite drugstore release last year so of course I'm going to adore this. It's purple. It's glitter. It's iridescent. It's basically screaming my name!


Nidhi. This is interesting. It's a variation on the red/glitter combo, but it's UNIQUE! I'm pleased. It's a light, warm red creme base with gold microglitter and little silvery iridescent flecks. This is the most opaque shade of the collection. Very dense base. Exotic looking, like gold jewelery with red stones.


The formula on these was great. No problems. Some of the shades are slightly sheer while others are completely opaque in two coats. I did three coats of all just for my own sanity. Three coats looks pretty great with all of these, too. Deepens the colors. Dry time was very fast, faster than the average Zoya polish. Removal was super easy. The glitter in these is really small so it doesn't take much effort to remove. The only downside I experienced was that Charla gave me major smurf-fingers when removed. It took a little extra remover and a hand-washing or two to fix, nothing permanent.

Overall, AWESOME!!! GLITTER!!!! It's like Zoya has been spying on all of us and seeing how excited we get about colorful glitters. I love seeing glitters in bold, vibrant colors. These definitely fit the bill for bold and vibrant! And they're uber-sparkly. I'd even say they're more sparkly than the winter Ultra-Glitters. I'm a happy camper. I'm actually feeling a little spoiled with the massive amount of awesome glitters coming out lately. Won't hear me complaining about that!

This is only part one of the Zoya Summer collection. Part two is the Flash collection- six colorful cremes. I'll have that review up as soon as I'm done editing the pictures.

Woohoo!!!

(These were sent to me for review.)

42 comments:

  1. Thanks for the great review, Scrangie! Looking forward to your Flash review. Next time Zoya has a promo code... these will be mine :D

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  2. Scrangie it is great to see swatches once again =P and with such an outstanding collection too... I'm happy!
    I think I am going to have to pick up the mayority of these, although I am not much of a glitter fan.
    Are they a PAIN to remove as is regular glitter?

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  3. Thanks so much for the swatches, Scrangie!! I am absolutely in love with Charla - it is stunning (and terming it "a mermaid in a bottle" describes it perfectly). Gilda and Mimi have just been added to my wishlist. Loving all the glitter. Gorgeous!

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  4. *must*have*mimi*.... you're not doing any good to my wallet :P

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  5. Well guess I am not as exited as you.. they don't really do anything for me :( Maybe Charla a teeny bit, but none of the others.. But as always great pictures :) It's a delight to read your new posts ;)

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  6. Wow, these are great! Thanks for swatching & I can hardly wait to see your Flash review =)

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  7. Wonderful swatches as always, thanks so much!

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  8. oh gotta love glitters! looks really nice :)

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  9. Nice glitters. Om nom nom nom.

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  10. I love your swatches. You make really beautiful photos. :)

    And the colors are interesting too. :)

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  11. These are so pretty, I'm especially drooling over Charla and Mimi.

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  12. I need these. (Well, all but the last, it's a little too warm toned for my skin.) But I NEED these. They look like summer!

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  13. thanks for posting im really lovin mimi, i had to see swatches b4 i broke down

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  14. Love these glitters! Zoya never fails to amaze us!

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  15. Wow. I'm not a glitter fan, I don't usually like warm coloured polishes but I think I will be purchasing all of these except Gilda.

    I'm super happy to hear these have easy removal too! That is one of the things I hate about glitters. The few glitters I have in my collection are all a pain to remove so I don't wear them often. (Ruby Pumps and Fortune Teller)

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  16. Alegra, Charla and Mimi need to come home to me.
    Love your swatches :)

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  17. I've literally been refreshing your blog hoping to see a swatch of Robyn (Flash collection) for the past week!. I held off preordering to make sure it's nothing like Misa Right Here Now, No More Later or the OPI dupe (Groovy-something?). :)

    Can't wait to see! Great job on these.. I'm loving Charla. The 'mermaid' description is perfect for it.

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  18. I WANT THEM ALL!!!!!! These look so amazing. I will gladly pay a fortune to get these sent over to New Zealand!

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  19. Oh mi God - I need em all :) Totally awesome shades!! Great swatches as usual :))

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  20. I love this whole collection. I want them all! But I think I need Charla...

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  21. Awww, shoot, I am disappointed...

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  22. Me want some Mimi! Before I screami.;)
    ~Sylvia

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  23. The colors together with the glitters look yummy!

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  24. I'm a glitter junkie. I'm going to be SO HAPPY this Summer :)

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  25. Oh my god.....
    *drool*
    I need them, neeeed them!

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  26. Great swatches, the collection looks awesome and I'll defenetly buy a couple of these :)

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  27. Great review, how was the texture on these glitters? smooth? or rough?

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  28. These are so FREAKIN cooollllllllll!!!!!!!!!
    I have a stalker-ly obsession with Zoya already and it totally just got a lot worse!

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  29. omg i have so many np but i think i neeedddd these!! especially that blue *fans self*

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  30. i really like those.. i like how the glitter is of the sparkly type, if that makes sense...they seem summery enough to me and a nice change from the typical neons (of course i happen to love neons, too but change is good)

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  31. I adore these shades and will hopefully be getting them soon!! FAB SWATCHES TOO! ♥

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  32. Wooooo! I need to get my hands on the blue and green ones! Even though Charla left you with Smurf fingers, I think it's worth it! Thanks for the pretty swatches, Scrangie!

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  33. Great swatches! I enjoy reading your posts!

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  34. Gilda, Mimi and Nidhi have been added to my "wants" list. I love glitter and sparkle.

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  35. Glitter is essential to life. This collection will be mine. <3

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  36. "It's (Mimi) basically screaming my name!" No it's RBL's Scrangie that's screaming your name and it seem it has not fallen on deaf ears. Congratulation on 2 sellouts of Scrangie and Hooray for it's return to the RBL line-up!

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  37. WANT!!!

    I am so into glitters right now, it is not funny....:)

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  38. Going by the preview I thought I was only going to want Ivanka and Charla, but after this I want them all. :P Thanks for the swatches!

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  39. gorgeous swatches! you have such pretty nails, too :) I suspected I would just have to buy the entire sampler, now that suspicion has been confirmed {G} I'm all about glitter-toes-but-better right now (I've heard glitter toes are a royal PITA to remove/change once you're over your glitter colour), so if these Sparkles really are even better than the ultra-glitter collection, I'm gonna have some very happy little piggies! thx! ~~T

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