Zoya Beach & Surf Collections for Summer 2012 Swatches & Review
Zoya Beach and Surf are the new summer collections for 2012, inspired by the sea and sand!
There are twelve new colors in all, six in each collection. Beach focuses on mostly creme colors and Surf is all about foils!
The formula for Beach overall was pretty good. There were some slight streaking issues with a couple, but they mostly worked out. All but one were two coats. The formula with the Surf colors was great. Creamy amazing foils. Applied like butter, and all just two coats.
Ready to get your bright pop of summer color on?
Beach
Shelby
Shelby is a soft blue-toned pink creme. Not quite a Pepto Bismol pink, but softer. It went on a little bit uneven but mostly worked itself out. This was the only one I needed three coats of in either collection.
Lara
Lara is a bright “cerise” pink. Cerise is what Zoya used to describe it and was a color I had never heard of until I looked it up on Wikipedia. *The more you know* 
Anyway it’s bright and shiny and a pretty color for summer.
Reagan
Reagan is a deeper cerise pink creme. Looks a bit like a raspberry pink in my eyes. Pretty color but for whatever reason berry pinks never impress me much.
Arizona
Arizona is a vivid tangerine creme. It’s really bright and quite yellow. Maybe too yellow for my skin tone? This one was a bit streaky when I first applied it, but it pretty much evened out.
Wednesday
Wednesday is a green/blue teal creme. Is that redundant? It’s really quite a unique color compared to other teals I have. It has a dusty soft look to it and it’s really very pretty. My favorite one in Beach. Great formula! I kinda wish my name was Wednesday.
Tracie
Tracie is a a “sea grass” or as I call it celadon green metallic. This is the only non-creme in this collection and it’s a welcome surprise! Love the green color but not so sure I love the slightly frosted finish. Still it’s pretty and not too streaky for a metallic.
Surf
Rory
Rory is a cool-toned pink foil. I see speckles of pink, blue and silver in it. Really pretty color, not that common of a pink, I don’t think. Look ma, I made a rhyme!
Zuza
Zuza is a aqua blue foil. Mostly blue and silver speckles. Very pretty color, super creamy formula. I love this one. I think I might be starting to like blue more than green right now…
Meg
Meg is a medium green foil with green, and yellow speckles. Again, great formula and nice color. Not sure it’s my favorite green shade, but definitely summery.
Myrta
Myrta is a deep and bright burnt orange foil. This is really pretty and I liked it a lot more than I thought I would. Very saturated, you could almost get away with just one coat.
Kimber
Kimber is a bright pink/red foil with pink and gold speckles. It’s a really rich color, and I’m glad it’s not a red. It looks mostly pink with very slight red look in certain lighting.
Carly
Carly is a dark eggplant purple foil with heavy purple, pink and blue speckles. This looks very velvety and rich. Pretty!
Overall: Nice collections! From the Beach collection I really liked Wednesday, Arizona and Tracie the best. I feel like they are the most unique ones. Wednesday in particular is a must have for me. From the Surf collection my favorites are Rory, Zuza and Myrta. Again, I think they are the most interesting and unique shades.
Availability: For sale starting April 1st.
Pricing: $8.00 for .05 oz.
Now that you have seen Beach and Surf in all their glory, which ones are you all hot and bothered over?
-Kelly
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beautiful! I have been patiently waiting – since last friday – for some swatches. Love all the creams and Zuza.
I HAVE to have Zuzu, Rory, and Kimber! I’m on the fence about Wednesday and Tracie. Can’t wait for their annual exchange to stock up!
I really like all of these!!!!!
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Arizona, Wednesday, Zuza, and Kimber! You will be mine, oh yes! You will be mine! Thanks for the swatches, Ms. VV.
OMG I am dying for Zuza and Meg! You seriously made my morning with these swatches! These foils are great.
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When I think of women named Wednesday, the only one I can think of is Wednesday Addams – and that color would SO not fit her. My favorite of the bunch though!
Love Wednesday – will get that one without question. Now I have to pick my other favourite, since I’m only allowing myself to get two…hmm.
Out ot interest, how close is Arizona to Jancyn? They look very similar.
Thanks for the excellent swatches and review, as always
Hi Sarah,
From what I recall, Jancyn is a little more orange with less yellow undertones in it.
I love the whole beach collection!
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Ugh I wish Tracie was a creme! I love the color but it looks too frosty. My life would be incomplete without Zuza, Wednesday, Kimber, and Rory. Probably pick up Shelby too, don’t think I have a pink like that.
I would love to see a comparison of Wednesday against some other turquoises to show how unique it is!
One, your nails look bomb. The shape looks so good!
Two, I LOVE Zuza! She must be mine!
Thanks for the gorgeous swatches!
I’m so excited for these! Wednesday & Arizona in particular are calling my name but knowing myself I’ll end up with most of them. Great swatches!
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I love all of these, but I don’t know if I will be getting any though, I don’t own any zoya, yet….Might break down and get some. Thanks so much for the awesome swatches!
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I can’t resist a red purple and love the foil finish, so I want Carly in addition to Zuza and Shelby. Thanks for the pretty swatches
GAHHH I need them ALL!!! Esp. Wednesday and Zuza.. sooo gorgeous!
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Thanks so much for these! Next time there’s a promotion, I’m definitely getting Zuza. Like Carly and Arizona too.
ZUZA! Looks.. amazing.. can’t wait to get my hands on it!
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Arizona and Rory are pretty.
OMG ZUZA must be mine!
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Ooo I love Zuza and Carly. i hope zoya has another one of those great promotions thy’ve been doing.
I just want the orange one. All pretty though.
Arizona, Meg, Myrta, and Carly are my favourites from your awesome swatches!
This is such a great collection – it really reminds me of the summertime.
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Lovely colors especially zuza, kimber and shelby cant wait!!!! But i have a request is thare anyway you can do swatches with the mylar fleck effect collection over the beach and surf new collection i bet it would look bomb
just saying
Love that they have made a whole set of foils. Zuza is a stunner. Also, I kind of wish my name was Zuza.
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Fantastic swatches and descriptions! Would you say that Wednesday looks anything like Essie’s Turquoise and Caicos?
Crap! They are all pretty
I love Zuza….
Zuza, Rory, and Wednesday are my favorites!
Great swatches! I can’t wait. I am planning on getting Wednesday, Arizona and Tracie
I am going to buy 39857230967203 bottles of Zuzu so I never, EVER run out. OMG. SO PRETTY!
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When I first saw the press release for these collections, I was excited to see a swatch of Myrta. It does not disappoint. Rory looks a lot like Revlon Top Speed Orchid to me, bit a little more shimmery and less metallic than Orchid. There is a whole lot of prettiness in these collections
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I like Shelby (my best friend’s adorable niece is named Shelby, so that may influence me) and Wednesday (although I fear I have many similar colors). I like the foils, but need to reserve judgement for now…I’m a little out-of-it today and they aren’t impressing me as much as I expected, although I expect that may change.
Kimber looks AHHH Mazing
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Nice post. I’ve been waiting for this one. I may try to get about half of these. I’m not much of a berry or pink girl. Zoya does amazing foils and Zuza looks killers.
They are very pretty. I think, once they get to Ulta, I’ll give them a look over and see if there is anything that I don’t have a close duplicate of and go from there.
Kimber reminds me of a girl I went to school with named Kim Kimber. We didn’t call her just Kim, it was the whole name.
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Hi Kelly,
Do you think you could do a comparison between Zoya Carly and Valerie and/or Jem?
Please & thanks
Hi Sarah,
I will try to get to some of these suggested comparisons soon! Thx!
OMG! SUCH pretty colors! I loved them all!
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Ahhh nice, colors!
I think I’m definitely going to try to snatch up a few of these though Zoya is incredibly tricky to find for me.
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I love that orange!
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These are so pretty! I really like wednesday
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I must have all the foils…they are stunning!! Especially Zuza! I also like Arizona. When are the supposed to be available?
Obviously I MUST have Kimber! I’m dying to get my hands on that baby!!!! Seriously, I’m ready to sell a Kidney
Carly is also freakin’ gorgeous, and Wednesday is a must have for me.
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These are fun and gorgeous for summer! I’m going to pick up many of these including all of the Surf side of the collection. Thanks for the lovely swatches…
Ooo I think Zuza and Meg are gorgeous! I like Carly too, but I already own Yasmeen AND Jem, so I am kinda sure I don’t need it :p
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I have CG For Audrey, but I still want Wednesday! I love colors like this.
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I really like Carly and Zuza. Is anyone else bothered by the fact that out of 12 polishes 5 are pink? Sometimes I forget that the rest of the world likes the “normal” colors lol.
I know what you mean. I’m not into pink that much, either.
very nice colors collection by zoya
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I love the entire Surf collection!! Must have them all. The only one that half-way interested me in the Beach collection was Tracie and I’m still a bit on the fence about it.
I wonder how Carly compares with Jem… or Valerie.
I want Lara and Kimber at least!
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I must be in an extraordinarily good mood today, because I seriously want ALL of them, every single last one!
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Love the collection. I feel like I have a lot of similar colors. The only one I may pick up is Arizona. What a fun color!
I definitely will be ordering all the shimmers and the 2 greens. Love Zoya’s when they’re all lined up. They just look irresistible! I try to just order the a couple of polishes I like. I end up just clicking on the whole collection. They make it so easy to order like that. I just cave in.
I want Zuza so bad!! Lara and Tracie too!! <3 Can't wait to get them!
I NEED Wednesday, Shelbie and Arizona. I have been looking for an orange and pink in those exact shades. And Wednesday is just a pretty color. Period. But, I WANT all of them. Not a bad shade in the bunch. Thanks for posting and adding to my ever growing wish list.
I really, really like Wednesday!!! It’s My Favorite of both collections! I also like Arizona!
I cannot wait to get my hands on Zuza and Kimber!