Zoya - Veruschka

Here's another swatch from long ago.  Veruschka is a deep green polish with shimmer.  This is a matte velvet polish.

Three coats, no basecoat.  I used topcoat on my index and ring fingers, and wow, it is gorgeous with topcoat. 

I do not know why this is, but I feel like the matte velvet Zoyas always have amazing application, and the straight matte polishes are awful.  Is it just me?

Zoya - Mitzi

Mitzi is a lime green matte.  I should have put this up for Halloween.  Embiggen IF YOU DARE!

Basecoat:  Zoya Ridge Filler (1 coat)

Color:  Zoya Mitzi (3 coats)

Yuck.  Draggy, lumpy, thick, just nasty.  It's got to be the lack of shimmer - the other mattes don't apply like this one.  Even the blue one from this collection (I forgot its name) applied nicely.

These photos actually look a little worse than real life - I don't think I realized the pinky was that bad until I was editing the photos.

Zoya - Harlow

Harlow is a berry/wine matte.  It has a lot of sparkle with a top coat.

Basecoat:  Zoya Ridge Filler (1 coat)

Color:  Zoya Harlow (3 coats)

Topcoat:  David (on index and ring finger, 1 coat)

This was a little draggy in application but it really wasn't too bad once I got used to how much I needed to put on my brush.  For whatever reason, I keep buying the Zoya mattes and never wearing them.

Harlow looks amazing with a topcoat, but not really all that unique.

Zoya - Savita

Yeah, so I totally destroyed my Passion in the Pacific mani. I nudged one nail somehow, and the entire thing just peeled off. I wasn't about to re-do it at 9:30, so I slapped on Zoya Savita. Here's a crappy phone pic.

Basecoat: OPI Ridge Filler (1 coat)
Color: Zoya Savita (3 coats)

I always use a basecoat, even with mattes. I haven't found that significantly reduces the wear, maybe because my polish rarely lasts more than a couple of days anyway.

Savita is pretty. The consistency was pretty terrible - you can see a glop on my pinky finger that I wasn't able to get rid of in time. I got it fairly even. The color is nice - I will probably slap a coat of Seche on it tomorrow night or something. Meh.