Zoya Reverie Spring 2010 Swatches and Review
Hallo mates!
As you may or may not have heard, Zoya has released their spring collection, hurrah! It’s called Reverie and it’s six really cool colors.
I must admit, when I saw promo pics I wasn’t all that excited about most of these. However after seeing them in person and swatching them, I have totally changed my mind. These aren’t just plain old cremes or colors we have seen before. They are shimmery, metallic, gorgeous iridescent/duo-chromes!
You may be asking, what exactly is a duo-chrome or iridescent? I looked online a ton and in dictionaries in my house, and couldn’t find any true definition for the word “duo-chrome”. In fact almost all instances of it on Google were people describing makeup, so I don’t think its “technically” a word. However, iridescent is the same thing as a duo-chrome and that is a word. Iridescent colors “flash” showing other colors when you move them around in different lighting and angles. They produce a display of rainbow-like colors or can be seen as having an “oil-slick” effect. Hope that makes sense!
I think this probably goes without saying at this point but I will anyway. The formula was fabulous on all of these, and they were all two coats.
Laney
Laney is a silver iridescent metallic that flashes yellow/green, very subtly. This picture doesn’t show the yellow/green, but it is there. There was a tiny bit of streakiness with this color, but nothing to really complain about!
Adina
Adina is a purple iridescent that heavily flashes green/yellow/pink/gold/silver. This is definitely the star of this collection. It’s named after Adina from the Krasey Beauty blog, and it’s an amazing color! This of course was my favorite one
Reece
Reece is a medium pink iridescent that flashes gold/yellow and green. This is a really great pink, I love that it’s not just a plain old pink creme.
Happi
Happi is a cotton candy colored pink with yellow/gold iridescence. This one also is really gorgeous and I think my second favorite of this collection.
Gwin
Gwin is a bright coral orange with gold/yellow/green iridescence. This is yet another beautiful unique color and a coral/orange that looks good one me no less!
Lana
Lana is a orange/red with gold/yellow/green iridescence. This is also very pretty and unique.
Overall I am very pleased with this collection, much more so than I thought I would be. The stand-out, must-have colors in my opinion are Adina, Happi and Gwin.
These are for sale now on Zoya’s website here and they retail for $7.00 each.
-VV
I love them and want them so badly but alas I am poor.
Very pretty! Thanks for the swatches & review. I think I want to get Happi & Adina
any Chance that Happi is close to Strawberry fields from cg?
Hi Patricia,
Nope not even close! Those are glass fleck glitter anyway and these are iridescents.
I have this collection and I love each one of them!
I really like Laney, but wow is Adina ever unique! I’ll definitely be checking this collection out.
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Sweet lord, ADINA is amazing! I need this one! Thank you for the review VV
Gwin, Happi and Adin…wowza….you know? I love orangey colors but I never ever buy them. Hmmmm Gwin, es vocación me nombre!
Good god, you’re a swatching machine – I don’t know how you manage it all but I’m not complaining!
aww…I tried to think I didn’t need them ’cause of that oh well they are soo pretty! must go get!
I have looked at a few swatches for these same colors over and over and I can honestly say none of them convince me; they’re pretty and all but just not me.
I reallly love all of them except for Adina, that is not my colour combo at all lol… They are just so pretty and warm colours! Different then what other brands are promoting this spring/summer!
Love it!
Beautiful swatches! I really like Happi. It’s unique for a pink, and I don’t have many pinks. Good luck with Chase. xoxo
Meh…not feeling these…
Adina and Happi just killed my no-buy
They’re OK. For some reason I’m not that into duochromes – dunno why. These aren’t on my wishlist. I’m into Barielle and BB Couture at the moment….
They look fabulous on you!
I like Adina, Reece and Happi best. They are gorgeous!
I think I’m gonna pass on these. They are very pretty but you can’t have everything!
I didn’t think I’d want any, but Adina caught my eye!
Adina is so nice. And hey, when did you start using a watermark? I noticed it when I saw the swatch for Lana.
Hi marisol,
Yeah I started on Monday. I hate using it, but my pictures were getting taken so much I was having to email people weekly to remove them and got tired of it. I am bummed about it though!
If it makes you feel any better, i really didn’t notice it at first. Lame those people who steal pics.
I’m already used to your watermark, its not as noticable as some. I love Happi and Adina!
I actually think the water mark adds a touch of class, it certainly beats people using your pictures. I don’t mean to bum you out by the way by a few sellers on amazon *cough* nailetc *cough* and also that seller I was telling you about on ebay; http://health-beauty.shop.ebay.com/Nail-Care-Polish-/11871/i.html?_catref=1&_fln=1&_ipg=&_ssn=cleopatrastyle&_trksid=p3911.c0.m282 just go on to the next pages.
Hi Reyyan,
No worries, you didn’t bum me out. It’s been going on for like 6 months almost every week with new people stealing them on various websites. That was just yet another one, le sigh. The cool thing is that China Glaze reps emailed them and asked them to remove them and they did!
Adina is very scrangie-esque. Not a twin but cousins.