Zoya Jana Review and Comparison

I have said it before and I will say it again, I LOVE ZOYA!  Their cream finish polish has the best formula in my opinion.  Zoya describes Jana as "a medium nude putty creme with grey, mauve, and purple tones".  It is a beautiful shade that applied like a dream.

Zoya Jana

Then one of my muggle friends said it looked like a Wet N Wild polish that she had.  I knew immediately which one she meant so of course I had to check when I got home.  I removed the Zoya from my index and ring finger and applied the WnW (Wet Cement).  There is a very slight difference in the two but not much.  Muggles likely wouldn't be able to tell the difference.  That said, the formula and the brush (WnW brush is TERRIBLE) is better with the Zoya.

Index and Ring finger: WnW Wet Cement
Middle and Pinky Zoya Jana

 Then I was putting these two away and came across my bottle of essence Walk of Fame and thought it looked rather similar as well.  By that time I had already redone my nails so I swatched the three of them on a nail wheel.  Mind you it is like 2am by the time I get that done and the lighting in my little room isn't great but I think you get the drift here.  To my eyes the essence is slightly more brown (though not as dark as it looks here), the Zoya is a tad more purple and the WnW is a bit more gray.  All in all, three very similar but different shades.

Can you see the difference?  Do you own any of these?  Would you purchase the others if you do?

Hole Hearted Gone Gold

A couple of weeks ago I picked up a couple of the WnW Chrome polishes at Walgreens.  I had yet to try either of them so this seemed like the perfect chance to give one a try!  This is two coats of A Show at the Palladium.  It is a very pretty yellow-gold polish, easy to apply.  Somewhat sheer on the first coat, pictured here with two coats and no topcoat.  If you are going to wear it alone, you will likely want a topcoat as it is a bit "gritty" for lack of a better term.

My precious bottle of Hole Hearted has been staring me in the face for weeks now since it arrived on my doorstep; I have been trying to come up with something a little different to do with it.  Granted, this isn't really anything earth-shattering, but I had yet to see it layered over a gold so I thought "why not?".  Hole Hearted is a fun matte glitter polish by All That Glitters and can be found via her Etsy shop.  While it is currently out of stock, there are some other great polishes that are in stock and she generally restocks fairly often.  See my other posts featuring All That Glitters polishes here and here.

As always, feel free to tell me what you think!  

Going Green

With St. Patrick's Day coming up this weekend, I thought it would be fun to do a week of green/Irish themed nails. I'm not sure if I will be able to keep up with daily posting, but I will try to get one in every day. Up first is a fairly simple mani with a base of Wet N Wild's SaGreena The Teenage Witch. Very pretty color...very bad formula! I lost count of how many coats I had to do with this one but somewhere between 4 and 5 which really isn't worth it to me. At any rate, I then stamped the clover design with Sephora's Aluminum Gold on all but my index finger, on that one I applied one coat of China Glaze Blonde Bombshell. Stay tuned for more green!

Happy Pink Wednesday!

I'm going to keep this one short and sweet today, simple pic of my mani for today. Base of Revlon's Sublime Strawberry (from their scented line - YUMMY!), stamped with BM-209 using Wet N Wild's Black Creme polish and finished with a coat of Seche.

Post V-Day Epic Haul!!

So I have talked before about living in the middle of nowhere with really no beauty stores nearby. However, they have recently opened an Ulta about an hour away so today I decided to go. I found several deals and made it out with several new polishes and then stopped at a few drug stores along the way to see what I could find...

Top L-R : OPI Skull and Glossbones, Stranger Tides, Mermaids Tears, Revlon Coconut Crush and Sublime Strawberry (both scented) then Ulta Army of 1 and Maine Attraction and the one on the end is Sally Hansen Pumpkin Spice

Bottom L-R : Butter LONDON Knackered and Bossy Boots, Essence Luxury Secret, Where is the Party, High Spirits, Glamours Life, and You Belong to Me and a pack of the Vanilla polish remover pads

They also had a special going for a free gift with purchase of $17.50 worth of Ulta product (I also got one of their mascara) so this was what was in the gift bag. The polish is called Lav-ish.

Top L-R : Wet N Wild Wet Cement, I Need a Refresh-Mint, Undercover, Disturbia, L'Oreal Walk on the Beach and Eiffel For You, Sally Hansen Yellow Kitty and Lavender Cloud

Bottom L-R Sinful Colors Call You Later and Nicole by OPI It's Not Me, It's Blue

Top L-R : Sinful Colors Glass Pink, Nail Junkie, All About You, You Just Wait, Unicorn, Nirvana and Cinderella

Middle L-R : Sinful Colors Exotic Green, Tutu, Easy Going, Love Nails, Purple Diamond, Gorgeous, and Sally Hansen Night Flight

Bottom L-R : Revlon Plum Night, Ruby Ribbon, Emerald City, CQ Rustic Dream, Sonia Kashuk Taunting Teal, Blank Slate and L'Oreal Caught Red-Handed

This is probably the most polish I have gotten in one day, a good mix of textures, colors and finishes and everything from high-end to drug store brands...now if I just had enough hands to swatch them all ! :)

Pink Wednesday!

Ok guys, this is my very first Pink Wednesday! I had a few ideas on what I wanted to do, but for this one I just went sort of simple. I first applied my base coat (Bonder) and then 3 coats of Sally Hansen Heart of Stone. Once dry I topped it with two coats of Wet 'n' Wild Sparkled.

It was tough to get a good pic of this one but you can still (barely) see the pink under all that luscious glitter!