#zoya pixie dust

Ravens Mani Week 14

There’s no salvaging this nightmare of a season, but I still love my team and my city, so I’ll keep doing my weekly Ravens manicures. lolllll what are you gonna do.

Orange... oh boy. I was worried about today. I was SUPER worried about today. Like, when I saw the challenge was happening and saw Day 2 was "ORANGE NAILS" I nearly said "... never mind". But hey, it's a challenge, right?

Why the concern over orange nails? because orange and me... aren't friends. Orange clashes so much with my skin tone I have a huge trouble with it. I don't own a single piece of orange clothing and only own maybe 2 orange nail polishes.

All that said, I'm pretty excited with what I came up with. The gold sparkle in Dhara keeps it from being too intensely orange as do the color block tips. Love getting to use my Zoya Pixie Dust Fall 2013 collection, as always.

Zoya Pixie Dust Dhara with colorblock tips in Zoya Chita, Sunshine, Carter and Arabella.

Just opened up the Zoya package I got yesterday. Grabbed these babies during their BOGO sale.  These are my first pixie dust polishes. Excited to try these! These shades will be awesome for fall.

My nerd is showing bigtime. (Book!) Ravenclaw Pride!

I usually go with movie Ravenclaw colors (navy and silver) because I'm generally not the world's biggest fan of bronze. But come on, these two polishes were made for each other.

I used butterLondon Nail Foundation, then laid down a layer of Essence Colour & Go in Mister Rusty on my thumb and middle fingers. One coat was sufficient for my purposes; if I were doing a full mani with it, I'd do probably two coats. It's a really nice polish with a good formula and a great finish. 

While Mister Rusty dried, I set up two layers of Zoya PixieDust in Sunshine on the rest of my fingers. I am still happily addicted to the PixieDusts and do not see my love for them fading away any time soon. Sunshine is a textured navy blue with silvery sparkles - the silver picks up the blue in reflection so in some lights it looks like there's a sort of periwinkle sparkle to the polish. I love it to bits.

When Mister Rusty had fully dried, I used tweezers to lay down some striping tape I had cut before I began painting my nails, did a coat of Sunshine, and peeled off the tape. Originally I had intended to do chevrons but that quickly proved to be well beyond my coordination level. It's fine; I love me some 80's laser stripes.

Textur-Nagellacke sieht man ja im Moment in allen Kollektionen - ich war neugierig und habe mir den Zoya Pixie Dust Lack ind der Farbe London bestellt.

Auf Youtube gibt es wohl Videos, wie der Lack richtig aufgetragen wird. Ich habe allerdings einfach mal drauflos gepinselt und konnte ehrlich gesagt kein großes Geheimnis entdecken, es hat alles gut geklappt. Auf dem Bild seht ihr 2 Schichten des Lacks die sehr gut decken. Die Glitzerpartikel sind bei Kunstlicht deutlicher zu sehen als bei Tageslicht, mein Freund fühlte sich insgesamt an den Look von Schmirgelpapier erinnert. :) Die Haltbarkeit war sehr gut, allerdings habe ich nicht die vollen Tage ausgekostet, da mir der Lack für die Arbeit dann doch ein bisschen zu auffällig war.

Insgesamt kann man über den Nagellack und die Qualität nicht meckern. Noch eine Farbe werde ich mir wohl nicht holen, da ich mit dem Look insgesamt nicht soviel anfangen kann. Es ist ok - aber wirklich brauchen tut man es nicht.