Earth Day and Zoya

For those of you that are nail fanatics like me. Zoya is having a special deal. Send in 6 unwanted nail polishes (that are not Zoya products) and they will send you six Zoya polishes of your choice. Just pay shipping. I know I have not had the greatest experiance with this brand. But I can get free nail polishes and get rid of the ones I do not like? Bring it on!

Here is the link: Zoya Nail Polish Exchange

So if you are a cheapo, nail polish fanatic, want to get rid of nail polishes you do not like, like the Zoya brand or want to try out the brand for the first time, this is as good a time as any to give them a try.

Ciao! xoxo
~Dissolved Girl

Nail of the Week: Raven

During Thanksgiving Zoya had a sale on their nail polishes. I had never used this brand of nail polish so I thought this was a good of time as any to try them out. Well, so far I am disappointed.

This is Raven:

Per the Zoya website Raven is described as:

"Black with subtle cool shimmer metallic"

Here is my manicure:
What is wrong with this picture?

There is no shimmer. It is BLACK. No shimmer, no glitter, not a hint of any sort of sparkle. Oh, and they state on their website that:

"Zoya is the longest wearing nail polish on natural nails"

Well, they are WRONG. At least this particular nail polish is not long wearing. I painted my nails a few hours before I went to bed one evening and by mid morning the following day while at work I noticed that it was already chipping. I should really be calling this nail of the day not week since it did not even last 24 hours.

See the Chips?
How disappointing. Hopefully the other Zoya polishes I got will be better quality.

Ciao!! xoxo
~Dissolved Girl

Little Box of Happiness

Today I got my new nail polish shipment from Trans Design. The excitement I am feeling over my new package of happiness is so big that I just want to bust out of work and get home to do my manicure.

Mind you I just did my manicure (I will have the nail of the week up tonight, I forgot my camera computer cord to upload the picture), so there really is no need to do my nails again. But I really want to try the new OPI Matte nail polishes.

I have been waiting to try these since I heard about them. I only wish that they had a Matte black nail polish color. But I guess we can’t have everything. Or I can just go and buy the Zoya Matte nail polishes. Zoya’s collection of Matte nail polishes only has three colors. The colors are black, red and like dark grey color one. You can go see the swatches at the Nail Juice blog. I believe that MAC Cosmetics is also going to come out with their own black matte nail polish. But I cannot remember right now, I will look into that and let you know.

I do not have a picture of my little package because like I stated before I left my camera computer cord at home but I will add the picture of my nail polish haul later tonight when I get home.

What is your take on this new Matte Nail polish trend for the fall?

Ciao! xoxo

~Dissolved Girl