Categorized: Creme

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

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Illamasqua Human Fundamentalism is their new spring/summer 2012 collection.

Human Fundamentalism features a bevy of beautiful colorful products, including two new nail varnishes.

Nomad

Nomad is a bright jade green creme. Not mint but definitely jade. Not neon but definitely bright. Pretty good formula here, if not a little thick. It went on nicely in just two coats. I don’t think I have anything quite like it yet so it wasn’t a dupe for me!

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MAC Chenman is a collection based on Chen Man. She is a huge star in the Chinese fashion photography arena, and got her start taking a bunch of cover photos for the Shanghai based fashion magazine, Vision. Honestly I had never heard of her until this collection was announced but now I have seen some of her work and she’s really quite awesome.

This collection features a lot of blue and pink tones, which were inspired by her fascination with love and water. It’s not a huge collection (yay!) and includes some things I have fallen in love with already.

MAC Chenman

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Short on time? Milani High Speed Fast Dry Nail Lacquer might be what you need.

These lacquers come in six new shades and are meant to be a one-coat super fast drying formula. The colors not shown are Black Swift (black), Jiffy Orange (bright orange) and Rapid Cherry (bright red).

For me none of these were really one-coaters. They were either too uneven to just do one coat or not quite as opaque as I would like. So I used two on all of them.

Yellow Whiz

Yellow Whiz is a bright cool yellow. I know it looks warm in this pic but in actuality, it’s cooler toned. Bright but not neon. Streaky, but not nearly as bad as a lot of yellow polishes out there are.

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Revlon Coastal Surf is a new color in their new Colorstay Longwear Nail Enamel line.

I hadn’t really planned on getting any more of the colors in this collection but there I was. With a CVS coupon that said I would get any Revlon Colorstay Nail Enamel for $2.00. How could I pass that up?

Luckily I spotted this light sky blue beauty and knew it was going to be the one coming home with me.

Coastal Surf

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