Polish with a feeling

Good evening, ladies.
I have a quite special post today. This is my first Zoya polish ever.

Meet the incredible Zoya Jo.

Why is it special? My alter ego's name is Josephine and basically just my favourite female name, I guess. And that colour reminds of one very special thing from my childhood, I'll make another mani later on that features another colour that is dear to me.

This colour itself is so calm, it makes me happy just to look at it. Reminds me of a beautiful winter/spring sky, morning sea, beautiful forget-me-not's... My Mr. called it doll-like and unnatural though, but who said it makes the colour less beautiful..?

It also has that vintage feeling to me.

To the qualities. This was two coats I believe, if I messed up something, then three. Dry time is average, but I used a quick-dry topcoat anyway. I live fast pace :)
Still, I didn't wear it long enough, but it what just happens to the save-best-for-last things.
Mostly, I took it off because of this:

Ugh, that was painful. I'm not that kind of girl who will whine about breaking a beautiful long nail, it was just painful. Even bloody.
So now I'm short, as you might mention. :)

I hope you all are doing okay.  Have a nice day!

Some comparisons//pic heavy//

Hello tout le monde!*

Long time no post, since I have much less time, got school, so I fill in my free time with coffee cups and sleep. But who cares about me, anyways! :)
Let's get to the business. I promised to make some comparisons. This is actually my first time to do it, so all the recommendations are highly welcome.

This one was questioned by me long time ago, One of them was my favourite colour in 4th grade, so it's exxxtremely old. The other one was bought a little less than a year ago (not sure), because I'm a sucker for this kind of colours.
I found them dupes back then. Now look what I got:

1 thick coat Orly It's Up To Blue :index+ring
1 coat Avon Ocean Breeze: middle+pinkie

here you see the opacity. Avon is much more sheer, it needs about 3-4 coats.
And you definitely will be fine even with one thick orly coat.

this is still one coat orly versus 3 coats of avon. In real life, Avon is much lighter and less deep, I wish I could make more colour-accurate pics...

I love the depth of Orly. Anyway, that avon shade is long gone :)

2004! Haha!

I used Avon one over sephora's blue, which totally died by now. It was a quite long time ago...

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Next up: Rimmel Blue me away VS. SH Spark

 Rimmel: index+ring
SH: middle + pinkie
They seriously looked alike to me. But they are totally not! SH looks more purple-shimmered in the bottle, but that shimmer is not that visible. It's loads of blue shimmer mixed with slightly larger purple one. Or not larger. Not sure! Rimmel is packed with copper-violety shimmer. What they have in common is the base : both dark rich blue, both very pigmented, SH is more. 1 Coat SH, 2 coats Rimmel.

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SH Emerald City VS ChG Paper Chasing

These two looked a bit similar. But even in the bottle  the difference is obvious.

SH: Index+ring
ChG: Middle+pinkie

Paper Chase is sheer like hell. This is 4 coats.
Emerald city is pretty opaque, this is two coats.
PC is lighter and brighter, EC is deeper, forest green.

That's all for now. I'm extremely sorry for the mess.
Hope something helps!

Have a great day.
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*tout le monde - everyone (fr.)

The autumn is here!

Hello lovely ladies! Can you feel the autumn tonight? :)
In the continuation of the rainbow theme, there's another mani I found pretty interesting.
Straight to the pics!

Skychaser! :)
This was a semi-rainbow angled tips on matte black. This is day three, I guess.
Matte black is Orly Matte Vinyl, my pretty one-coater, if I'm not shaky.
Tips: Thumb - China Glaze Paper Chasing (will be posting this one later on alone!), Index - Orly It's Up To Blue, Middle - Sally Hansen - Blue It, Ring - Sally Hansen Cyber, Pinkie - Maybelline Colorama in magenta shimmer (unnamed). These all are 3-4 coats I believe. Paper Chasing is pretty known for its ridiculous sheerness.
I didn't take pics right after the mani was done and fresh, my bad, but I wanted to rejuvenate the actual look. You know mattes get satin pretty fast.
So here are the pics with one coat of Essie Matte About You + Orly Top2Bottom for tips compared to the "worn" look.

See the difference? It's pretty obvious. But I don't really mind the three-days-old look too.

The look on them really cheered me up when I was sad.

There was a City Day on 4.09. The photo kind of reminded me of it. Happy Birthday Moscow!

Have a great day!

Seize the rainbow!

Hello girls!
The summer is over. While painting my nails "1st Sept." special, I've decided to make a quick post. Ocassionally, it's the 13th post, which was kind of meant to be not like the most others. :)

This one was made by request. It's bright and cheering, but I did take it off because it doesn't actually look that fun on long nails IMO. But certainly the mani like that IS FUN!!!
Here you go!

| Orly - Matte Vinyl, ||| Rimmel - Ruby Me, | Sephora - ? , |||| Colorama - 82, || SH - Emerald City, |||| Orly - Green With Envy, || SH - Blue It, || SH - Cyber, || Orly - Soul Mate, | Colorama - 51
(| - coat)

Sorry for some mess!
Here it is nail-by-nail.

Pics are all clickable!

CELEBRATE THE LAST SUMMER DAY!:)))
Cheers at all of you, be happy!