Zoya’s Nail Polish Exchange 2010

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Zoya’s Nail Polish Exchange 2010

You've heard about this, right? I announced it last week, beating Zoya's announcement by nearly an hour (I just happened to find the page on their site and just had to share…) You send in bottles of nail polish (or base coat, or top coat, or treatment - even mini bottles), pay $3.50 per bottle for shipping and handling, and in return you get your choice of a bottle of Zoya nail polish for each bottle you send in.

I ended up doing two "batches", because I wasn't 100% sure I could find enough Zoya colors that I wanted but didn't already have. (The downside of placing two great big orders just weeks previous.) I sent in some Sinful colors (great price, pretty in bottle, not so great on the nails), some Sally Hansen nail prisms (Turquoise Sea, South Sea Pearl, and White Diamond, which are pretty but just not duochrome enough for me), and a few nail topcoats (one of Sally Hansen's gel-strengthener, one of Nubar's Diamont Shine which is nice enough, but I prefer Zoya Armor or Seche Vite/Seche Plus.) The package went UPS ground this past Friday, and should get to Zoya by April 30. In return, I'll be getting the following colors:

Akyra, Amanda, Brizia, Drew, Diem, Envy, Fawne, Ginessa, Goldie, Hermina, Jaime, Jo, Kotori, Lyric, Midori, Nevaeh, Raine, Zanna
Miscellaneous: Zoya's 2010 Nail Polish Exchange selections

I got a lot of "softer", more neutral colors - that's largely because I already own Sasha, Kalimah, Salma, Kalmia, Colbie, Blair, Isla, Tallulah, Addison, Austine, Ki, Adina, Happi, Reece, Lexi, Joy, Tess, Manon, Suvi, Ibizia, Freja, and Shivon (and a few others, I'm sure. The caffeine is still percolating through my system and hasn't quite saturated the neurons just yet.) I spent a lot of time looking up swatches to build my two exchange-lists. I would have dearly loved to be able to use the Zoya color finder to filter out supersheer colors - because while some folks like sheer nail colors, I prefer more opaque/intense colors. I didn't order anything lower than a "3", intensity-wise. I wanted some neutral-ish-oid colors, and I found several metallics and a few (more) creams.

Now I just have to be patient and wait for my packages to arrive...which will probably not happen for about a month, taking turnaround times into account.

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