Zoya Ornate Collection

There are six polishes in the Holiday 2012 offering from Zoya, the Ornate Collection, and I was fortunate to be able to swatch them all.



At first I thought Ziv was just another gold foil, but upon closer inspection, I saw it has some very warm gold flakes in it that gives it a finish that sets it apart. I just wish I liked it better against my skintone.





Logan is a deep green with warm golden green mini-flakies shimmer. I thought this one was gorgeous.





Electra is the party polish in the group, a silver holographic bar glitter. According to the Zoya webiste, this also has "micro fine diamond holographic glitter", but the bar glitter dominates to the point where I didn't really notice any micro glitter. I layered it over Logan on most fingers and used it alone as an accent nail. (This is the only swatch in today's post where I used topcoat.)





The last three polishes in the collection are variations on the theme of holographic micro glitter. Aurora has a warm purple base color.





Aurora looks great in low light:



It also looks good blurry:



Blaze has a deep berry red base.





Storm has a black base.





Check out Storm in low light—so pretty:



All of these swatches are two coats, no topcoat, with the exception of Electra; in that case, I used three coats plus topcoat. My favorites are Storm, Aurora, and Electra Logan. Blaze is pretty; I just didn't see as many colors sparking off it as I did from its two close siblings. Ziv we've talked about; gold is not my favorite metal. Electra is certainly fun, but it's a little "hairy" for my taste; maybe if I used fewer coats or put it over a silver base it might be better for me.


The polishes shown in this entry were provided free for review purposes. The content of the entry was not dictated by the provider.