Zoya in People Style Watch

Zoya and Qtica made the Top 100 Beauty Secrets list in May's People Style Watch. Industry experts were asked to share their insider top product picks.

Jin Soon Choi, one of the top nail experts in world names Zoya Hurry Up Speed Dry Drops as a Pro Pick! They help your nail polish dry quicker for a smudge-free finish.

Qtica Extending Top Coat makes the list because it keeps your manicure fresh and extends the life of your nail polish. Its a great way to maintain your professional manicures and pedicures at home.

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More Blog Love on Beauty Junkies Unite!

Zoya gets another great review! Check out Beauty Junkies Unite today for a look at Zoya Hot Lips Summer 2009 Collection. They have a glossy color and coverage while keeping your lips hydrated.

Blog is her favorite shade...what's yours?

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Zoya Nail Polish's Summer Collections on Blogdorf Goodman

Have you read Blogdorf Goodman's great review of Zoya Nail Polish's Summer Collections?? Check out the great descriptions of each of the 6 nail polishes in both collections. La-Di-Da's collection is full of intense colors and neons while Ooh-La-La's collection has a range of metallic shades.

Get ready for the warmer weather with your favorite collection. They are the perfect colors for your "tips and toes". - Blogdorf Goodman

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Day 11

Today was a great day, mum came in as my client today for a pedicure. Her first one, ever! Everyone also commented on how I look like my mum, they were amazed... I actually look most like my dad though lol.

After I gave me mum a deluxe pedicure, she drove us to the beauty supply store! Holy cow, I have never seen so much nail art in one place!! I'll show you the goodies on Satuday. Everything was ridiculously cheap, cheaper than the e-tailers!

I also managed to find a flippin train case. First one I had ever found in NZ!
If you are in NZ, and want to find out about this place, send me an email at nailjuice@live.com

BECOMING A NAIL TECHNICIAN:
This morning we learned about...

• Bunions
• Fallen Arches
• Calluses
• Corns
• Arthritis

Did you know that if you have fallen arches, or 'flat foot', those bones have collapsed? Not good eh. So to prevent this,

• Wear shoes that support your heel
• Wear high heels on the odd occasion
• Don't wear jandels too often as this doesn't excercise those muscles
• If you wear flat shoes like me and the arches of your feet get sore from standing or walking... while you are wathing TV, roll a spaghetti can under your arch.
• This helps work the muscles and stretch them. Won't do anything for the bones if they are collapsed.

TODAYS GOODIES:

• OPI Earthquake!
• Train Case
• Fruit Slices (nail art)
• Holographic Hexagons (nail art)
• Purple Stars (nail art)
• Holographic green polish, holo purple polish, pink creme, minty green creme, teal creme, blue and silver glitter with little stars
  

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Millitary Girl

How contagious is the addiction to the nail polishes? Extremely contagious!!!
I went to my local Sally Beauty shop yesterday, just to get some Soche Vite top coat ( i herd about it from "Polish Addict", because she called it her greatest nail opening. in the get to know article, and i just couldn't wait to try it, especially after reading some really good reviews on the net). But in the store i found that where is china glaze "for Audrey" for sale, and i was going to order it anyway, so decided to get this one too. And then the cashier told that where is a promotion going on on china glaze and orly - "buy one get one free" - so i had to pick up 2 more colors. And since already got so many stuff, i decided to get some color club nail-art goodies too :)
And yes!!! i am absolutely happy, still :)
Here is my interpretation of "For Audrey", that i was just dying to try for last several weeks. It happened to be a little hacki-military style, but for Audrey is the amazing color, which really don't need any design on it .

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"GLITTER TOES"

I just love these gel glitter toes for summer. Isn't this a cute color. I custom mixed the color myself to make it the exact shade my customer wanted. The color choices are endless.

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The Best Nail Polish (Zoya) in Women's World this week!

Green - Good for you Glam!

Zoya is indeed... Check out the latest issue of Women's World Magazine to see Zoya Nail Polish recommended as a long-wearing, healthy color by Elizabeth Arden Red Door Spas.

Shown: Zoya Nail Polish in Cassi from the Twist collection. Just one of over 300 shades available at zoya.com.

Want to go even greener? Take part in the Zoya Nail Polish Exchange where you can trade in old, unwanted shades (any brand except Zoya) for fresh new Zoya.

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Get Lost with Zoya Nail Polish!

Zoya Nail Polish Losties (aka a few work men) spend every Wednesday eagerly anticipating Lost. Who will live, who will die and who will Sawyer pick?!

In case you didn't know Kate and Juliette aren't only part of the Dharma Initiative they are also part of Zoya Nail Polish's 300+ collection. Quite like the show Kate and Juliette are nothing alike. Juliette is a creamy, cool sheer white nail polish while Kate is a pinky brown cream.

Perhaps you are a more of a Desmond fan? Try Zoya's Penelope, a deep apricot cream nail polish. Not seeing a color you like. Don't worry, we have many Others to chose from. Who is your pick?

Don't forget to bring your Anchor (basecoat) and fend off Smokie with your Armor (topcoat). We'll be watching tonight...will you?

*The Cast of "Lost", ABC TV and it's associated companies are not affiliated with Zoya. This is not an attempt to imply their endorsement of Zoya. Image for entertainment purposes only.  

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Bikini Bottom & Square Pants

I just took these swatches for you :D Almost broke my neck trying, but here they are!

Square Pants is the pastel yellow with very subtle shimmer (similar to OPI The Violet-ter The Better), I used three coats here.

And of course Bikini Bottom is on the right, a pastel blue jelly. I used four coats here.

You know how I wasn't feeling too flash about these little gems? Yeah well, now I love 'em! :D Haha. What made me change my mind? My holy grail ridge filler of course!

Zoya's Get Even.

It's beautiful. It's white. It works so so well. But I do recommend that you use it over your normal base coat as itself tends to apply a little unevenly without it. You only need one coat of Get Even n_n

Without Get Even, Bikini Bottom applied lovely, but the polish sort of gathered at the sides of my nails, so it looked like there was less in the middle of my nail. Ugh. It was also a little difficult to make them all even (opacity wise) throughout all ten nails. Bikini Bottom also made my tips appear green. Green tips makes me think fungal.

When RBL brought these colours out last year, along with Starfish Patrick (which I'm still trying to figure out how to get) for Fall/Autumn I think? Any who, I knew I had to have them! My sister and I *love* Sponge Bob, and there were pastels made after the show?!!?! Holy flip!

I'll fully swatch these babies for you on the weekend.

Just in case anyone is wondering how I almost broke my neck lol, I stood on one of our breakfast bar chairs (they're really tall, guests often get stuck in them trying to get out of it) and had to try get as close as possible to one of the little lights on the kitchen ceiling (to make sure the colours come out correctly).

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Rescue Beauty Lounge - Square Pants & Bikini Bottom

Don't they look stunning here?

I wore Bikini Bottom today and a got a few compliments on it, which I wasn't really expecting since I wasn't loving it 100%. You will get the review on that one later.

BECOMING A NAIL TECHNICIAN:
Today was day 10, still no sign of our t-shirts or student IDs. They seem really unorganised to me. It's costing me $100 a week to get there and home, with my student ID it would only be $58, so you can see why I'm a little pissed about that, eh?

Anyway, today we did another pedicure, I quite enjoy doing them lol. I really like doing the exfoliate and using the cuticle spoon (the spoon is used to cut the Pterygium).

I suppose with the exfoliate, I get enjoyment too :D and with the cuticle spoon, I can see that I'm actually making a difference. Oh I also love the painting, but I much prefer using my base coat and top coat.

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This holografic design reminds me sunny and fairy Marocco or something of middle east :) The base is holographic china glaze (tonight)
I have tryed holografics before, but almost always was dissapointed. In fact this time too. It look really sparkly and deep on the pictures, or under the lamp, but when i just look at it, i only see grey-blue something on my nails unless under the special angle. So i still woder does it really look like it looks on the pictures when other people look at it. Anyway for those pictures it worth that i gave holos another shoot.


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APRIL-MAY SPA PEDICURE $15 GEL GLITTER TOES $20

I am in the mood for spring! These are similar to my previous post. These are flower stickers covered with acrylic and I added the white dots again as a finishing touch. Even though I always post my fun colorful nail art I do have white for those of you who prefer it. Sorry that some of these pictures turned out a little fuzzy. Have a great day!

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Zoya Nail Polish on Twitter - Tweet with us today!

Zoya Nail Polish is now actively tweeting on Twitter... Sign up and follow us (zoya_nailpolish) for secret sales (we call them tweetbuys), direct contact with the company and interesting factoids galore. You never know what will happen next...

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China Glaze Kicks 2009

Hi everyone!! Today I finally got the China Glaze Kicks Collection swatches done. I didn't buy the whole collection because the other colors didn't seem interesting to me. I love the colors of this collection, but I really didn't like the application at all. It was thin, then gooey, then bubbly. Majority of these are on the sheer side. Every swatch was done in three coats with a Seche's top coat.


Entourage - light lime ish green with a little hint of shimmer



I've decided to try Konad again... What you guys think of it?


Paper Chasing - I love this one. Exact green I want. It looks a little metallic, but not opaque enough to be classified as a metallic.


Custom Kicks - probably a family of Essie's Greenport mixed with Misa's Dirty Sexy Money? It's a shimmer teal that looks much darker in person.


Sky High Top - My 3rd favorite. A medium blue with slight shimmer

And trying konad again!


Fly - a purple plum like. I didn't like this nail polish at all. I mean its looks pretty. But just not on me..


How Street It is - An orange-red creme. Obviously a little too red for me. And red nails for me is like scary looking :(



b-girlz - a light magenta shimmer. Not for me either.

It is 90 degrees here in New York. I am dying from the heat as I'm typing this up. Time to get a nice ice cold lemonade! Enjoy!

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Summer Strawberries

In an attempt to “wish” summer into being this weekend, I decided to experiment with my own version of strawberry nail art. There are a few things I’ll do differently next time, but this was a good first attempt, I think.

I used Avon’s new formula of base/top coat this time, and look – no bubbles! They’ve now gone to a “big three free” formula, so you may be seeing more of that brand here soon. I like to support my Avon lady when I can.

I started with 1 coat base coat, then 2 coats of China Glaze “Red Pearl”, which was far closer to an actual strawberry color than the “Strawberry” polish I have, ironically. Then I used China Glaze “Emerald Sparkle” to create some leaves, though they didn’t turn out quite like I’d hoped. Next time, a toothpick or small brush, I think. I used Nubar nail art pens for the “seeds” (gold) and outlining the leaves (black). Then two coats of Avon top coat.
There’s a Strawberry Festival here in June that is basically a huge street fair with an incredibly huge strawberry shortcake as the main attraction, and chocolate covered strawberries that are absolutely huge. My mom and I go every year, and I think I’ll try this design again for that, with a few modifications.

Next time, I’d like to use gold bouillon beads for the “seeds”, and make the leaves quite a bit smaller. On the index fingers, I’d like to paint a white or brown “dip” on the edges to make them look as though they’re dipped in chocolate. Look for that one in early June…Happy Polishing!

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Day Number 9

It has only been my ninth day at my Nail Technician course, but it feels like I have been there all year... We have learned so much already:

• Deluxe Manicure (filing, buffing, cuticle work)
  
• Hand & Arm Massage
• Nail Diseases & Disorders
• Tools, Sterilization, How To Use etc.
• Chemicals and Ingredients in the products we use
• Foot & Leg massage
• Bones in our Feet, Legs, Hands & Arms
• Veins and Arteries
• Muscles
• Type of joints we have
  

And today we just started the Deluxe Pedicure. I am so exhausted! There is never a moment when we are sitting around doing nothing...

We also had a bunch of Beauty Therapy girls join our class, which is kind of annoying me because everything I just listed, has to be re-visited for them... which slows us down.

I also had a little package waiting for me today when I got home... Rescue Beauty Lounge's Square Pants and Bikini Bottom. I was so so so excited for these, and when I tried them each on a nail... I was totally underwhelmed. They were some of the best formula I have come across though... I think my day has just put me off :(

My nails are peeling horribly too, I'm guessing it's from all the extra filing and buffing that they've had... poor nails :(

What a negative post! I'm sorry guys... what's something positive about today...

• My tutor said I did a lovely job at painting
• My friend might be making a new header for NJ
• I was working on ideas for the May Competition this morning on the train
• At this moment, I am working on a TransDesign order and can't make up my mind on what to get.
  

I think I might do my nails tonight, I really miss doing them with my mum on weeknights.

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Strowberry Shake

Still waiting for summer :) Base is Orly "Polo princess" and the green details is a color club glitter.

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Sparkle Blue Pedi

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MAC Peppermint Patti

I love love love Peppermint Patti. I can't believe I hadn't posted it yet!

Perfect application, perfect formula, perfect colour for me.

I used three coats here. When I was getting ready to put it on, I had prepared myself for all these streaks people were talking about... but, where were they?

The formula in Patti was fantastic, just the right thickness and opacity. So easy to control, I had close to zero clean-up needed.

Peppermint Patti has gone straight to the favourites pile. I want another ♥

UPDATE: I got another. I have worn it three times already, now four. I can't get enough of it n_n

EDIT: I forgot to tell you what a duplicate of this shade was... OPI Hey! Get In Lime. It has recently been discontinued though :(

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Zoya Nail Polish: First Look Elle Magazine May 2009

Zoya Nail Polish can be found in Elle Magazine in the First Look feature for May 2009. Manicurist Jackie Saulsbery applied Colbie, a deep and dramatic metallic red. It’s a sexy shade of red that is sure to get you a lot of attention. It looks amazing against cobalt blue, one of the hottest colors for the spring season.

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OPI The Violet-ter, The Better

This one was a real surprise for me! I wasn't too sure about it, seeing it in peoples photos, but I knew I had to at least try it :D And the end result... I love it!

I think this one works so much better for me than OPI Por Favor. It is more purple toned.

I used just two coats here! It flowed on really smoothly. OPI was bang on with the formula for The Violet-ter the Better. Can't wait to try the other two! :D

This one was a Trade Secrets exclusive.

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Essie Sag Harbor

Sag Harbor is a greyed pastel blue. I'm still trying to decide to see if I can pull it off. I know I love pastels, but this one is just... a bit muted? I think...

However! The formula was awesome. I used just two coats here! TWO!! I also had no clean-up ;)

Sag Harbor was released recently in Essie's North Fork collection, along with Greenport and Shelter Island.

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