Zoya’s Sparkle collection review with photos

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  • Manufacturer: Zoya/Art of Beauty
  • Availability: beginning April 2010 through the webstore and salon retailers
  • Description: 6 nail colors
  • Cost/Amount: USD$48.00
  • Would you purchase again: not the whole kit; but individual colors, yes
Zoya’s Sparkle collection

I started out not buying any colors from this collection. Then on a whim, about a year after its release, I bought Ivanka and liked it. Then I picked up Ivanka and Charla from one of Zoya’s promos, and a few months after that I added Alegra to my hoard. I think that’s going to be it for me from this set of polishes.

The colors are rich and the polishes all cover in two coats. They’re glitter polishes, though, so they’re really difficult to remove. Even after you get most of the polish off, a few little particles may hang around your cuticles.

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The left hand holding a bottle of nail polish and displaying all manicured fingernails, with 2 coats of Zoya's Charla polish. The left hand holding a bottle of nail polish and displaying all manicured fingernails, with 2 coats of Zoya's Charla polish. The left hand holding a bottle of nail polish and displaying all manicured fingernails, with 2 coats of Zoya's Ivanka polish.

This collection contained:

  • Alegra — metallic deep fuchsia-pink microglitter
  • Charla — metallic tropical-sea blue microglitter
  • Gilda — metallic cool medium pink microglitter
  • Ivanka — metallic emerald-green sparkle
  • Mimi — metallic royal purple microglitter
  • Nidhi — metallic bright orange-red microglitter

I think part of the reason I steered clear of these polishes was the "glitter" aspect. I prefer my nail colors to be metallic, or have some shimmer, but I'm not a gigantic fan of glitter or even microglitter (though, in the case of Zoya polishes, I won't automatically turn tail whenever I see "microglitter".) Yes, they're harder to remove than regular nail polishes, and I've got ring-around-the-cuticle for about a week after any given microglitter manicure; but they're less troublesome than other brands' microglitter polishes, and are usually more opaque to boot.

Ivanka was my first polish from this collection. I have a few green polishes, perhaps just over a dozen; but nothing quite this shade of bright emerald. I love blues, but with all the bloggers going ga-ga over Charla, my inner five-year-old had a temper tantrum and there was no way I was going to buy that one. I don't care how pretty it looked. Unless there's a promo where Zoya gives it away free...which happened. And another bottle of Ivanka, along with Charla, arrived in my mail box. My latest - and possibly final - purchase from this collection was Alegra. I got a spoon of Alegra and Gilda, and Gilda is just a little too bright for my tastes as a microglitter polish. Alegra's close to the same shade as Areej, but a tiny bit darker and a little cooler...and a microglitter instead of a creme.

Currently, I don't care to get the other shades in this collection. They're all lovely, but Nidhi is a little too orange to work well with my coloring and preferences; Mimi is a lush lovely purple but I'm not a huge fan of purple polishes; and Gilda is a color that I don't care to own in a microglitter.

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