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Nail Polish Battles: Zoya Channing vs. China Glaze Bend Over Backwards and Flormar JG453 vs. China Glaze Riveting

I have two Nail Polish Battles for you guys today, this time they both are with some pretty great orange polishes. But let's start with a battle between Zoya and China Glaze:

When I tried on Zoya Channing* from Zoya's fall 2013 collection, it made me immediately think of China Glaze Bend Over Backwards from China Glaze's Cirque Du Soleil 2012 collection. I compared the bottles side by side and they do look quite different in the bottles already, but I still decided to but them on nail side by side too, just to see if I needed to keep them both or if I could maybe get rid of one of the two.

So like in the bottle, on nail these two are definately not dupes. They are different colorwise and also the shimmer in them is bit different, as the shimmer in Bend Over Backwards is more fine and the shimmer in Channing is a bit more coarse. Colorwise they both have that similar type of reddish burnt orange, but the China Glaze one is more red hued and the Zoya one is more coppery. I have to say that I really like them both! The color of that China Glaze one is really gorgeous and it looks like it has some great depth in it. Then again, the Zoya one has a quite rustic feel to it and the color is really a perfect fall orange. The quality of both of these is really nice too, they both cover with just two coats. Actually, Bend Over Backwards is almost a one-coater. If I still had OPI Deutsch You Want Me Baby, I would have definately included it too to this battle, but I have already sold it quite a while ago as I thought it was too similar to Bend Over Backwards. Though those two aren't really dupes either, I just liked the color of that China Glaze one a bit better and the two were quite close, so I needed to get rid of one of the two.

Final verdict: I'm going to keep both, at least for now!

Then the next battle is between Flormar Jewel Gold JG453 and China Glaze Riveting. And yep, I totally forgot to take the bottle shot before I already sold one of these two, sorry about that! So one of these got to go, but which one?

Riveting has been pretty much my favourite orange polish since I got it as the color is soooo gorgeous and I love the shimmer! I had read that Flormar JG453 was quite similar to Riveting but that those two aren't really dupes, so when I had the chance to get it really cheaply, I decided I wanted to see myself which one I would prefer. As you can see, they really aren't dupes, but they are quite close, so if you're not a total orange polish lover that has to have every single orange shade out there, I'd say you'll only need one of these two. The China Glaze one is a tad darker and it has more shimmer in it, whereas JG453 is somewhat lighter orange with less shimmer in it. Riveting isn't the most opaque one, so you'll need three coats for full coverage, but with JG453 two coats is enough as it is more thicker. I did like them both, but like I said, I really didn't need to keep both of them as they are close enough colorwise to me. I prefer the tad darker hue in Riveting and that gorgeous shimmer too, and as it really is one of my favourite polishes of all time, the decision wasn't really too hard...

Final verdict: Riveting stayed and the Flormar one got to go.

But tell me guys, which ones did you prefer?

*I have originally gotten Zoya Channing for review, the other three polishes I have bought myself. For more information see my disclosure policy.


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Tänään taistoon käyvät siis kahdet erilaiset oranssiset lakkaparit. Ensimmäisenä kohtasivat Zoya Channing* ja China Glazen Bend Over Backwards. Molemmat ovat todella kauniita sävyjä ja molemmissa myös laatu on kohdillaan, peittävät kahdella kerroksella eikä minulla ole mitään valittamista levittyvyydestä tms. Molemmat ovat myös melko täydellisiä syyssävyjä, China Glazen sävy on hieman punaisempi kun taas Zoya on kuparisempi. Lakoissa myös shimmer on hieman erilaista, Chinassa se on hienompijakoista Zoyaan verrattuna. Tykkään molemmista lakoista ihan hirmuisesti, enkä millään osannut päättää kummasta voisin luopua, joten ainakin tässä kohtaa molemmat saavat jäädä kokoelmaani!

Toisessa parissa vastakkain ovat Flormarin Jewel Gold JG453 ja China Glazen Riveting. Riveting on ehdottomasti yksi suosikkilakkojani ja ehkä myös suosikkioranssini, mutta ostin Flormarin kuitenkin testiin kun halvalla sain... Näissäkin on selvä sävyero, Riveting on tummempi kuin JG453, ja lisäksi Rivetingissä on selvästi enemmän shimmeriä kuin Flormarissa. Eroa on myös peittävyydessä, Flormar on paksumpaa ja peittää kahdella kerroksella kun taas Rivetingiä saa levittää ainakin kolme kerrosta. Kuitenkin tykkään itse enemmän tuosta Rivetingin tummemmasta sävystä ja sen sisältämästä shimmeristä, joten valinta ei ollut kovin vaikea: Flormar saa lähteä.

Kertokaahan kuitenkin, että mitkä oli teidän suosikit?


*Zoyan Channing on alunperin saatu arvioitavaksi ilmaiseksi, muut kolme lakkaa olen ostanut itse.

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Zoya Fall 2013 Polishes - Swatches and Review

Like I told you before in this post I got to choose some Zoya polishes from this fall collections to try and I thought now that I would show you my swatches of them all in this same post. I have some manicures that I've done with these polishes to show you also, but I think I will show them in separate posts.

But like I told before, I chose 6 polishes, two from the fall Pixie Dust collection, one from the Cashmere collection and three from the Satin collection.


Let's start with the two Pixie Dusts:
So the first one is Carter and I have here two coats with base coat but of course no top coat. If you wear this as a full mani, you might need a third coat to get totally full coverage, but the formula was really nice and this was easy to apply.

The color is really gorgeous royal purple and it's the type of purple that never photographs correctly, but I do love the combination of darker and brighter purples in this one.


The second PixieDust that I chose to try out was the one that I have been most excited about for a while when it comes to textured polishes. This one is of course Chita and I have only one coat here with base coat. Oh my, this is so gorgeous and really unique! The combination of green and gold is of course a bit christmassy but that didn't bother me at all, I just love this one!

If Carter was easy to apply this one was even more easier to work with and it really coveres with just one coat! I can't really even begin to tell you how much I love this, it's just so pretty! I already have used this for one of my challenge manis, here, and I will surely be doing some Christmas nails with this!

Then I have the one polish from Cashmere collection:
This one is Pepper and I have two coats here, with base and top coat. Pepper is quite basic brick red creme, but I have been missing a good quality polish with this color in my stash and now I have it. It's really a gorgeous color and it makes quite a chic mani.

The formula of this one was really nice too and it was really easy to apply. I don't really like brown polish, but this kind of red that leans towards brown is really my type of color and it's surely perfect fall color.

And then I have the three Satin collection polishes:
First off is Neve and I have two coats of here, no base or top coat. This one is a bit strange one as it looks in the bottle straight up blurple, but on nail it's clearly blue and there isn't really even a hint of purple in it. But the color is really gorgeous sapphire blue and I do love the depth it seems to have!
 
I really thought I might not enjoy this one as much, but it was a nice surprise when I put it on. This was also really easy to work with and it coveres really well, so well that it was almost one-coater. 
 
The next one is Channing and I have two coats here, no base or top coat. Channing is a coppery red/orange and I have to say that it's really my type of color. It also made me immediately think two other polishes, China Glaze Bend Over Backwards and OPI Deutsch You Want Me Baby. I've had both of them but I thought I didnät need both so I sold the OPI one, but I did love them both as I do also love Channing.

The formula in this one was slightly runny and sheer, but it was still quite easy to apply and it did cover with two coats, but you might need a third one just to be safe.

And then the last one is a gold topper called Maria Luisa and I have here one coat over Neve. This one was a bit hard to photograph as the flakes seemed somehow to be hiding when I tried to take a picture eventhough they are really visible on nail. I do love the look of this one and the fact that it's really a unique one, at least I don't have anything like it and I'm pretty sure that I haven't even seen anything quite like it!
 
The formula was really easy to work with and you really get a generous amount of the flakes with just one coat. This will look really great with pretty much every color, so it's really versitale.

So tell me, which ones were your favourite ones? Did you get some other polishes from the Zoya fall collection that I should still check out or were my picks the right ones?

 
Information for my Finnish readers:
Zoyan lakkoja saa Suomesta ostettua kauneushoitoloista ja salongeista, joista löytyy lista täältä, sekä suoraan maahantuojalta sähköpostitse osoitteesta info@nailcity.fi hintaan 15,50 euroa/kappale.

*The polishes in this post were sent for me to review, for more information see my disclosure policy.

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Zoya Fall 2013 Polishes

I will have my day 4 challenge nails to show you guys later today too, but first I wanted to do a little post with some bottle shots of some Zoya Fall 2013 collection polishes. The Finnish Zoya importer NailCity was kind enough to sent me some polishes to try out and I actually got to choose the ones that interested me most of those fall collection polishes, so here are the six that I picked out:

So I chose two fall PixieDusts, Chita (the green one) and Carter (the purple one). Then I also wanted to try out one creme from the Cashmere collection and I chose the brick red creme called Pepper. And the the last three are all from the Satin collection and they are Channing, Maria Luisa and Neve. 

All the fall PixieDusts looked pretty awesome to me, but I thought I won't need them all as I do already have quite a few textured polishes, so I chose the two that interested me most. Both Chita and Carter are really unique ones to me and I've actually worn them both already, but I will show the manis to you later! The Cashmere collection for this fall seemed to have some quite basic colors in it, though they were all pretty, I decided to choose only Pepper to try as I didn't own any brick red cremes before and it's quite appropriate color for fall. The three polishes from the Satin collection were the ones that I thought that I didn't already own anything similar to them and especially Channing and Maria Luisa looked really interesting in some bottle shots and swatches that I've already seen. I can't wait to see how they look on nail as they are pretty awesome in bottle!


I also did a little collage of close-up bottle shots for you guys:

So tell me guys, which ones were your favourites from Zoya's 2013 fall collections polishes?


Information for my Finnish readers:
Zoyan lakkoja saa Suomesta ostettua kauneushoitoloista ja salongeista, joista löytyy lista täällä, sekä suoraan maahantuojalta sähköpostitse osoitteesta info@nailcity.fi hintaan 15,50 euroa/kappale.

*The polishes in this post were sent for me to review, for more information see my disclosure policy.

pekal

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