Because hard stuff is the worst.
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This post is a long time coming! Last month, I got the Zoya Sunshine collection sent to me as a press sample from Zoya. This is a collection of lovely creams and two glitter toppers. The glitter toppers are totally my favorite. They can change up the look of any of the polishes!
Zoya Missy
Zoya Karen
Zoya Ellie
Zoya Saldana on top of Ellie
Zoya Clementine
Zoya Marigold
Zoya Minnie
Zoya Nahla
Zoya Sandy
Zoya Delia
Zoya Jack
Zoya Virginia
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Oh man! This post has been a long time coming! The Zoya Party Girl Collection has been out for a while now and I finally finished swatching all of them! :O This is a great collection of really fun fall/winter colors.
Zoya Blake
Zoya Kelsey
Zoya Delaney
Zoya Sheri
Zoya Danielle
Zoya Nadia
Zoya Solstice
Zoya Fallon
Zoya Landon
Zoya Tawny
Zoya Ming
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Zoya sent me their Sophisticates collection to show you! This is a set of cremes and metallics that will get you ready for fall. Hooray! FALL!!!
Zoya Joni
Zoya Beth
Zoya Hadley
Zoya Yvonne
Zoya Gal
Zoya Tabitha
Zoya Padma
Zoya McKenna
Zoya Elaine
Zoya Hera
Zoya Presley
Zoya Mona
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Who doesn’t love a mermaid-inspired look? I started with two coats of Zoya Winnie which was originally sent to me as a press sample. Then, I used It Girl Emerald and It Girl IG119 to make the mermaid fin design.
I hope you enjoyed today’s Mermaid Nail Art look!
I have resolved to start going live more often in my Facebook group (found HERE) and since I’m pretty shameless, who knows what sort of antics I’ll get up to! :) Additionally, I’ll probably try whatever people ask me to try (you know…short of breaking the law) so feel free to come on over, hang out, and watch me make a complete moron of myself!
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It’s getting warm so it’s the perfect weather for spending time on and around the water. But don’t get swept away by the currents! This anchor nail art will keep you nice a stable. :)Fun fact: When I was little, my parents always warned me about the “under toe.” (The current that goes the opposite direction and can suck you out to the ocean.) However, I thought they said “under TOAD” and I was petrified of these little toads grabbing my feet and kidnapping me.
Anyway…this mani starts with two coats of Zoya River from the Wanderlust Collection. The stamping polish is Konad White and the design is from the wonderful It Girl IG119
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It’s a little-known fact that yellow and orange are my least favorite colors. And yet….and yet….I really love today’s Hawaiian nail art. I started with two coats of Zoya Sawyer (from the Wanderlust collection), I used It Girl Pomelo, and a design from an It Girl stamping plate.
Something about this mani is really working for me. I hope you like it, too!
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Today I’m going to show you the Zoya Wanderlust collection. This is a collection of 12 polishes with creme and shimmer finishes. While the colors in this collection are pretty (except for the greens…) you really don’t need to buy all 12. There are a lot of very, very similar colors in this collection. It’s basically a collection of mostly pink with a couple greens thrown in. Sorry, Zoya! This isn’t your best work. L\
Zoya Journey
Zoya Scout (I seriously hate this color. The formula was nice, but I can’t get over how much I hate this green.)
Zoya Sonia
Zoya Winnie
Zoya River. This is probably the standout in the collection. It’s a gorgeous shimmery blue that isn’t like any of the other colors in the collection!
Zoya Esty
Zoya Lois
Zoya Sawyer
Zoya Arbor…not as bad as Scout but definitely not a cute look for me.
Zoya Mandy
Zoya Cora
Zoya Byrdie
Byrdie is probably my favorite besides River, despite the stupid name. (Oh man. I’m being really hard on Zoya today!)
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Today’s nail art starts with two coats of Zoya Jordan which was sent to me as a press sample. I used It Girl Amethyst to stamp this faux watermarble nail art on my nails.
The is probably one of my favorite Bundle MonsterBundle Monster plates I own. It allows a lazy schlub like me to pretend to do watermarbles! Yay me!
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Happy Friday Eve!! Today’s nail art starts with two coats of Zoya Tina which was originally sent to me as a press sample. Then, I used It Girl Marina stamping polish for this faux watermarble design from a Bundle Monster plate.
I’ve never been able to master real watermarbling, so I have to succumb to the cheater’s way. :) #lazybetty right?
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Zoya sent me their Charming collection to swatch for you! I also have some nail art posts with some of these colors coming up…so make sure you’re following my on Facebook so you don’t miss it!
The Zoya Charming Collection consists of 6 spring shades with three cremes and 3 shimmers. All of my swatches are two coats.
Zoya Abby is a lavender creme
Zoya Amira is a dusty blue shimmer
Zoya Jordan is a baby pink creme.
Zoya Lacey is a light green shimmer
Zoya Millie is a hot purple shimmer
Zoya Tina is a dark purple creme
LOTS of purples in this collection. Half of them are purples, in fact! I think that’s a little overboard on one color for a single collection…but they didn’t ask me, now did they? ;)
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I have four Zoya Pixie Dust polishes to show you today. These are from the holiday 2016 collection. At that time, I was so busy and hardly blogging at all so I had Zoya send the samples to my dear blogger friend, smackerlacquer. Well, she made the collection look so beautiful that I stole the polishes back, LOL. (Sharing is caring, right?)
As you may know by now, I’ve been having trouble with some nail breakages but they’re almost all fixed now. So, just bear with me a little longer on some of these wonky shapes.
All swatches are two coats and no topcoat. They are all dried to a matte, texture finish.
Zoya Waverly
Zoya Elphie
Zoya Lorna
Zoya Alice
I know not everybody likes texture polishes, but I’m a huge fan and I think all four of these are freaking gorgeous.
Since it’s Sunday, it’s also time for a Sengence update! In the past week, I recruited one more person to join our amazing team. Welcome, Melinda H.! If you want to join our amazingly successful team, simply go to Senegence.com/BettysBeauty and click on “Sell Senegence.”
To buy the most incredible lip color in the world, visit BettysBeautybettysbeautybazaar.com
In the past week, I had my 3-month anniversary with Senegence. I am pleased to say that I hit all the fast start goals and received $1,200 in free products from Senegence. :D
In this past week, I sold another $500 in products making my total sales reach $5,500 in just 3 months. As side income, that’s not to freaking shabby. I’m excited to be able to buy my husband a Nintendo Switch when it comes out in March. That’s one thing I definitely want to do with my extra money. I’m also looking at getting a Windows Surface Tablet/Laptop with some of my new, extra money. Because I’m getting paid to play with makeup. WTF. Is this even real?
Fellow bloggers!!! Jump on this crazy train with me. I’ve had 0 in-person parties. These sales are all from the comfort of my own home and my LuLaRoe Leggings. (Damnit, Malisa for getting me hooked!)
#lazyaf #showmethemoney
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Zoya has sent me the third iteration of their Naturel collection. The naturel collections are a series of nude-toned creme polishes. As usual, they have a great formula and are opaque in only one or two coats.
Zoya Debbie
Zoya Cathy
Zoya Jill
Zoya Gina
Zoya Tatum
Zoya Mary
A lot of these colors are pretty similar but there are clearly three dark purpley-browns and three light nudes. This is a great collection for people to try and find their perfect nude because there will be at least one color in this collection that will look great on any skin tone.
Thanks for stopping by today!
Zoya sent me their newest collection of lipsticks to show you. Zoya lipsticks are very creamy and have good color payoff.
Zoya is offering quite the selection of colors these days! I remember when they just had a small handful of lip colors to offer.
Since I already own 5 of the colors sent me, I am giving them away!! :D This giveaway includes Maxwell, Cameron, Paisley, Mellie, and Candie.
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Zoya sent me their Urban Grunge collection to swatch and review for you! I do have some bad news, though. After wearing the very first polish in the collection, I had a terrible break on three of my nails – on my swatching hand! So I had to cut the fourth one down. :( :(
Zoya Finley is a gorgeous, shimmery purple. This is the only one I have swatched with my long nails that I miss so much!
And here start the swatches with my short nails. I have to admit, I was pretty upset about the break. I didn’t paint my nails for about a week. (Hence why this swatch post is so delayed!) But, I have to move on and move up so here are my stubby nails sporting the rest of the Zoya Urban Grunge collection.
First, I’m going to show you the cremes. These were all one-coaters, as advertised by Zoya. Hooray! I love it when formulas actually live up to the advertising.
Zoya Noah
Zoya Mallory
Zoya Courtney
Zoya Wyatt
Zoya August
Zoya Tara
Now, let’s take a look at the metallics. This is my favorite half of the collection. I’m a big fan of metallics. Perhaps it has something to do with me being a 90’s girl?
Zoya Troy
Zoya Alicia
Zoya Merida
Zoya Ash
Zoya Britta
I hope my shortie nails weren’t too unbearable to look at. I have to admit…I might keep them short for a while. I don’t have as much time to pamper my nails anymore. I’ve been focusing on getting my dog training business up and running. I’ve also been working on trying to get back in shape. I’ve gained a ton of weight since my peak fitness level in 2013 and I’d like to get back to walgging (that’s walk-jogging) my 5-6 miles per day. That doesn’t leave a ton of time for nails!
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The Zoya Sunsets and Seashells collection is the newest release from Zoya. The collection contains 12 polishes – 6 cremes and 6 pixie dusts.
Also this time, Zoya sent along two of their lipsticks! I hadn’t ever tried any Zoya lipsticks before so I was pretty excited to check these out.
Zoya Mellie is a pink-red lipstick. I was very impressed with how creamy these are.
Zoya Candy is hot pink. It went on smoothly and stayed for quite a while!
On the left is Mellie and on the right is Candy.
Zoya Cam is a cheerful orange coral.
Zoya Ness is a nice green creme.
Zoya Brynn is my favorite of the cremes, it being a bright pink of course!
Zoya Dixie is a lovely red toned creme.
Zoya Dory is a sky blue creme.
And I couldn’t help but think of this meme the whole time I was wearing Zoya Dory!
Zoya Liv is a beautiful purple.
Zoya Tilly is a silver pixie dust with blue sparkles.
Zoya Linds is a cherry red texture. This one reminds me a bit of the holidays.
Zoya Zooey is my favorite of the pixie dusts. It has a lovely golden shimmer to it.
Zoya Cece is a smashing and cheerful bright green.
Zoya Levi is a nice nude texture.
Zoya Bay is a beautiful light blue texture.
I like the textures in this collection better than the cremes. I think they are more interesting to look at and wear.
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I’m totally in the mood for some burlesque nail art so I came up with this look! I started with two coats of Zoya Azalea. Once dry, I taped off the tips and used OPI Who Are You Calling Bossy? to create the black french tips. I let the tips dry a bit (although I did not use topcoat this time). Then, I used Konad Black to stamp a design from It Girl Fashion Plate IG108.
I really like how this burlesque nail art turned out. What do you think? Is this a look you would try out?
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Born Pretty Store sent me this scale nail vinyls to review for you. The last time I used stencils from this line, I used them as stencils. This time, I decided to leave the stencils on my nails and just top coat right on top!
I started with two coats of Zoya Laurel which is from the Spring 2016 collection. Once dry, I put a mermaid nails stencil on each nail, clipping off the excess with cuticle clippers.
When you leave vinyls or striping tape on your nails like this, you always want to make sure that you use plenty of topcoat. You’ll always want to make sure that each and every edge of the vinyl gets sealed with topcoat. If any water gets under there at all, it will start pulling up off your nail. I will typically do the first coat with Seche Vite and then another, more detailed coat (after the SV dries) with a thinner topcoat that can really get into the grooves of the stencils.
Thanks again to BPS for sending me these to review! You can find these supplies and more in the nail art section of the Born Pretty Store. Use code F
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Zoya sent me their Spring 2016 collection to play with. When the press releases for this collection first came out, the initial internet reaction seemed to be of the ‘not impressed’ category.
I wasn’t sure what to make of the collection. I wanted to get them on my fingers before I made any judgements. Well…spoiler alert…I think they are rockin’ – for the most part. Keep reading to see what I’d change about the collection.
Zoya Laurel is the only real, true creme of the bunch. And even at that, she has a tiny touch of shimmer that you can spot in my macro picture below. Since she does have shimmer, I think we should invent a new finish name. How around sheam? Or creimmer? I think I’ll go with sheam since creimmer sounds rather sexual. ;)
Zoya Azalea is a bright pink with lots of beautiful shimmer. This one is a real winner. So beautiful!
Zoya Zahara is another shimmer in the collection that is really so pretty.
Zoya Aster is the purple shimmer. I should have done three coats like I did for the other two shimmers. You can see some patchiness in these pictures – especially the macro. With a third coat, this would have looked great. As it is, Aster is quite pretty and you couldn’t really see the patchiness in real life.
Zoya Tulip is like Laurel in the sense that it’s a creme..I mean sheam…
Zoya Leia is pretty darn amazing. In these swatches, I layered her over black. This gorgeous polish has a ton of possibilities. Let your imagination run wild! I know I have a lot of plans for Leia!!
I think this collection is lovely. However, I do think there are too many of the same color family (pink/coral). I would have loved to see a mint green or a Tiffany Blue in one of those shimmer finishes. That would have made the collection more diverse. As it is, I would recommend picking up the few that catch your eye, but the entire collection isn’t necessary unless you’re an avid Zoya fan or an avid pink/coral fan!
Which one of the Zoya Petals polishes is your favorite?
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Today’s nail art is for the Crumpet’s Nail Tarts challenge. This week’s prompt is food nail art! I was going to put some ham on my nails and call it good, but I thought I should do some actual ‘art’. :P Polishes used for this mani are:
Zoya Daisy, Zoya Eden, Zoya Cala, Zoya Talia, Zoya Spencer, and Konad Black.
I made stamping decals using my super awesome Bliss Kiss Miracle Mat. You can read all about how I make water decals in this post here. The designs came from Cici&Sisi Plate 27.
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Today’s nail art is for this week’s Crumpet’s Nail Tarts challenge. This week’s prompt is to do pastel nail art. My assigned technique is watercolor. I’ve never done a watercolor mani before so this was completely new territory! I used four Zoya polishes, all of which were originally sent to me as press samples: Daisy, Rayne, Eden, and Tiana. To help keep the colors as true as possible, I started with one coat of Morgan Taylor All White Now. I used a cosmetic sponge to dab the four Zoya colors in random spots on my nails. Here’s what I ended up getting:
I definitely should have used a lighter pink, but otherwise I’m kind of liking what happened here.
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Today’s look is for this week’s Crumpet’s Nail Tarts challenge. This week’s prompt is ‘fashion’. I scoured the internet and today’s fashion nail art is inspired by the look on the left from this post.
I used Zoya Yummy, Zoya Spencer (press sample), Zoya Nyssa (press sample), and Morgan Taylor All White Now. Things didn’t go entirely as planned… I was expecting crisp lines and the vinyls I used didn’t give them to me. Argh! So it would be super great if you would just pretend that they are straight lines instead of the crapfest that is today’s post. :P
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This week’s Crumpet’s Nail Tarts challenge prompt is “love”. I really wanted to do something outside the box for this one. I suspect we’ll be seeing a lot of pink and red for this prompt and for other nail art throughout the weekend. When I think about love, the first thing I think about is my husband. Obviously I love him or I wouldn’t have married him, right? I think there are a lot of different kinds of love and that each couple feels and shows their love in different ways. My love for George is very calm. I wasn’t nervous at all before our wedding because I just knew that it was the right thing to do. He keeps me grounded, but also knows when to let me just be a total nutbag. He’s the only person in the whole world who can make me laugh when I’m feeling cranky, angry, and a little murdery. He knows exactly what to say to crack a smile from me, relieving the tension. It’s really quite wonderful.
I wanted to do some nail art the symbolized the calmness and peace I feel when he’s around. I used Morgan Taylor All White Now, Zoya Yummy, and Zoya Lillian to create this gradient.
As I was looking at my nail art, it reminded me of one of my favorite pictures from our wedding. The color scheme is pretty similar! I promise it was just a coincidence!
Check out more nail art from this week’s challenge here!
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This week for the Crumpet’s Nail Tarts challenge, the prompt is ‘film’. I love Marilyn Monroe films so I decide do do film nail art in honor of her! I made a stamped decal using my Bliss Kiss Miracle Mat and Born Pretty Store Plate BP-L016.
Polishes used for this were:
Konad Black
Zoya Cala (originally sent to me as a press sample)
Sally Hansen Mellow Yellow (original formula)
OPI Coca-Cola Red
Morgan Taylor All White Now
I don’t know what it is about Marilyn Monroe that attracts me so much. I’ve read three or four different biographies on her and I’ve seen as many of her movies as I can get my hands on. I even have cd’s with the songs she sang. There really is a beguiling allure about her. At least for me!
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Today’s nail art look is subtle, but I really like it. I started with two coats of Zoya Eastyn which was sent to me as a press sample. I used this filigree design from It Girl Nail Art Plate IG106 which was also sent as a press sample. I used my Bundle Monster silver stamping polish which I have seriously been neglecting. I usually reach for Konad or Mundo de Unas but I really wanted to stamp with silver. Turns out, my only silver stamping polish is Bundle Monster…and I forgot how good it is! It stamped just as well as the others so I don’t know why I’m always ignoring it.
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It Girl Nail Art sent me plate IG106 to play with! The plate consists of 10 different filigree style designs. I’m going to show you one of those designs today! I started with Zoya Cala (which was also sent to me as a press sample.) I used Mundo de Unas Caramel as my stamping polish to create the filigree nail art show today!
