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Zoya’s Envy review

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  • Manufacturer: Zoya/Art of Beauty
  • Availability: originally released in October 2008 as part of Zoya's Dare collection
  • Description: blackened green creme
  • Cost/Amount: USD$12.00 for 15 ml / .5 fl oz
  • Would you purchase again: yes
Zoya’s Envy

This is pretty much <a href=”/such/obsessive/addictions/zoyas_suvi/”>Suvi</a>, without the metallic…so the color looks darker, even though it probably isn't. (It's just not reflecting or refracting any light.) This color almost looks like something I might describe as “a dark moss-green”. I live in the Pacific Northwest, and we know our moss around here, and moss does not often come in this color. Moss is lighter green. Even when it's older, it's a dustier green, but it's not this dark. So why do I want to call it a “mossy” green? I have no clue. None whatsoever.

Photos that show how the product actually performs...! See how I create my swatches

Close-up photo of the middle three fingernails of the left hand, showing the nail color applied. The left hand holding a bottle of nail polish and displaying all manicured fingernails, with 2 coats of Zoya's Envy

One coat did not give me anywhere near full opacity. It was thin, transparent, and streaky - but with slightly more pigmentation than Ki or Suvi (both dark-toned metallics from Zoya). I don't know if there was slightly more coverage in a single coat because this was a creme while the other two are metallics, or because I applied more, or because Mercury was in retrograde or something. Two coats did give me full opacity, though. Three didn't change the color depth at all - it just put more polish on my nails.

It's a nice enough color, and if you like dark greens you should check it out. I don't know that this will be a fast favorite of mine, though. I prefer something with a bit more luminosity. I also admit: greens and I do not have the cosiest relationship. I had to consciously make an effort to expand my green eyeshadows and my green nail polishes, and carefully hunt for colors that would work well for me. That may be a factor in my lack of love for this particular shade. Whether you love greens, or only like them kinda-sorta, Envy will make a very striking background-mani color for nail art. (I'm also imagining this as the background for a white-gradient nail art with some red nail stamping…hey, now, there's a Yuletide manicure idea. Maybe I'll try that…)

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