Wednesday 8 August 2012

Zoya Today Kelly is Grey

I am having a really bad day, so today's swatch is Zoya Kelly. I guess it's one of the 50 shades of Grey, just a wearable one...see my humor hasn't evaporated completely. Today after going to the doctors I did a bit of cheer-me-up shopping with some Essence makeup and staring at the pretty polishes. I did buy some Models Prefer Special FX mini set and, because of my dark mood, the Models Prefer Midnight Hours mini set. When I came home I just couldn't gather much enthusiasm to swatch the sets..so it's just a tease isn't it? Sorry! Onto Zoya Kelly, I got her in a blog sale along with a few others and have been dying to try Zoya..dying I tell you. I did Zoya Kelly over a base coat, and no top coat and got bubbles..as you will be able to see :(


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 Zoya Kelly without and with flash

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 Zoya Kelly is a lovely blue-ish toned grey :)

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 See the bubbles on the middle finger??

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 And bubbles on the little finger :(

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 Zoya Kelly without and with flash

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 Kelly with flash

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 Zoya Kelly doesn't look so bad at this distance

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Extreme close up to show the bubbles. Argh!

So, you can see there is some major bubble action going on. My base coat is Ulta3 which I use for ALL my other mani's. It can bubble a bit but I notice it right away at the base coat stage. Not so sure what is going here, but will have to give Kelly another go and see what happen with bubbling. I am about to order a few more so I hope this is a one off or I will be crying. If you take the bubbles away Kelly is a lovely blue grey which would go well with some flakies methinks!

Hope everyone elses day is going better than mine, do you have Zoya's and do they bubble??

6 comments:

  1. I own many Zoyas (I actually just ordered Kelly from a blog sale myself) and I have never had a problem with them bubbling! In fact, my Zoya cremes consistently have hands down the best formula of any I've tried. Judging by how much it bubbled it may be a bad bottle that has had excessive air exposure. :( Although I've never tried that base coat.

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    1. Thanks for the reply Rebecca :) I am definitively going to have to give Zoya a go over a different base coat, because I lurves the colors :)

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  2. I really love this color! I need to buy a Zoya one of these days! I hope your day gets better.

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    1. Thanks Maggy! My day did improve..I went to bed, LOL :)

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  3. I hope that you are okay and that you feel better soon!! It is such a shame that the polish is bubbling like that :(. I have some Zoya's but I haven't had that problem with them. I heard someone say once that humidity may be a factor in polishes doing that.

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    1. Thanks Ashesela for the reply :) It's currently winter in Australia so there isn't much humidity around..maybe the base coat is to blame after all, erk!

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