Zoya: Charla

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Zoya: Charla
Described as Tropical blue sparkling metallic

“Charla” is from the Sparkle collection from summer 2010 and it’s my all time favourite Zoya polish. I bought it in 2013 where I also wore it. I haven’t worn it since, which is only because I have so many polishes that it usually takes many years between wears. Today I’m going to let it shine again.

Last time I wore it I applied two coats and wasn’t quite happy with the coverage. Today I’m wearing three coats which made it much better. The drying time was good.

I was in a hurry so I made three mint green dots on each nail with a stamping polish from El Corazón.

This is the final result in daylight, no sun.

Zoya: Charla

The shimmer and sparkle in “Charla” is so pretty.

Zoya: Charla

This is “Charla” alone; three coats and no topcoat.

Zoya: Charla

Here are the two polishes I used today.

Zoya: Charla, El Corazón: st-matte-107

“Charla” is green to me and super pretty. Zoya has made a lot of polishes, but this is by far the prettiest in my eyes.


Number of coats: 3
Drying time: Good
Finish: Metallic shimmer
Overall impression: Wow. Beautiful polish and effect, good formula, good drying time
Buy again: Yes

Walking down Memory Lane with Zoya ~ Mimi

Walking down Memory Lane with Zoya ~ Mimi

Purple with colour shifting glass flecks/shimmer

I usually don’t do Halloween manicures. I don’t celebrate Halloween and I usually just forget about it until I see all the spiders, skulls, pumpkins and witches on other blogs. But this year I ordered some really cute stickers and they actually arrived before Halloween! :D

So: I decided to stick them onto a crazy pretty purple polish: Mimi from Zoya. I used two coats for my manicure and the drying time was pretty good. I think I would have added an extra layer of polish if I was going to wear it on its own. I added a layer of glitter instead. I used a mystery glitter from Ooh La Lacquer.

Then I stuck on the little stickers and sealed the whole thing up with topcoat.

Here’s my final Halloween manicure:

I dig this.

Here’s Mimi on its own; two coats and no topcoat. There was a time where I had to get my Zoyas through polish swaps. I kinda miss swapping, it was great to receive polishes from all over the world and to interact with other nail polish addicts like that as well.

Zoya ~ Mimi

These are the things I used today.

I tried to look back and can’t actually see that I blogged about Mimi before. That’s a shame, and it’s nice making up for that now.

Number of coats: 2
Drying time: Good

Finish: Shimmery glass flecks
Overall impression: Great colour and finish, I love it!

Buy again: Yes