Zoya Meg Swatches

Hey guys1 I'm so sorry for my lack of posts the past few days! Being a music major really is much more demanding than I thought! I just added clarinet quartet to my schedule on friday so now I'm up to 18 credit hours..fun, right?

Today I have a little beauty I got from the recent Zoya promotion they had a couple weeks ago, I got 8 which I'll show you all of them later once I get pictures of them all together, but today I have Zoya Meg to show you! Meg is from the Surf Collection and is described as a mermaid green foil metallic. I would probably describe Meg as a green apple foil, but I guess I could see it as a mermaid green also. Very pretty either way!

Pictured is 3 coats of Zoya Meg (I think!) 

Zoya Ivanka

Pictured is three coats plus one coat of Seche Vite.

Like all the other Zoya's in my collection, the application and formula were great. The polish goes on smooth and doesn't get chunky like other glass flecks/glitter tend to do. Honestly, I can't tell if this is a glass fleck or a glitter. In the bottle it looked like a glass fleck but when i went to apply it it looked like very fine glitter. There is some VNL, but that was most likely due to my application, my room was dark when I applied it so I may have missed some spots.

Don't forget to wrap the tips though! I didn't and it's painfully obvious. 

NOTD: Blue Gradient

I'm really into the Gradient trend lately. This is only my third attempt at it but hey, not too bad! I'm still trying to improve my technique though. 

The Base color is Essie's Borrowed and Blue followed by Essie's School of Hard Rocks and Bobbing For Baubles with an accent nail in Icing's Hey Sailor Boy. 

I could be wrong, but Hey Sailor Boy looks like a close dupe to Deborah Lippmann's Across The Universe. Don't take my word for it though since I don't own Across The Universe to compare it to. 

I'm not sure how I feel about these two looks together, but separately they're both fantastic colors! All three of the Essie polishes were pretty easy to work with, Borrowed and Blue took about three coats to be even and fully opaque, but if you take your time you could probably get away with two coats. Hey Sailor Boy also took three coats to be fully opaque. I'm not sure if my camera captured it or not, but it has green glitter in it as well as the blue glitter, very pretty!

Edit: I didn't notice the glare from my curtains until just now, please forgive me for the glare on my middle finger and my pinky!