Zoya Savita

OK so a couple people wanted to see Savita (even though I wanted to do Yummy, LOL!), so I have obliged. Here's a messy pic:


Savita is a little lighter IRL than in this pic, but you can really see the red tones that are in it. This one was DEFINITELY harder to apply than any other matte I have tried, including Verschka. It dried SO fast. I ended up fighting lumps and having a hard time getting polish all the way to the tips. Once I started the 2nd coat, I regretted it. I mean, it needed the 2nd coat to cover some initial messy application, but it just seemed to thicken immediately after removing the brush from the bottle. I ended up loading the brush overboard and mopping it on my nail and then trying to swipe off any excess. You have to be QUICK with this one.

So once I had it on, I knew I really didn't want this as my New Years mani. Since I knew I planned to remove this today, I went ahead and experimented with the Barielle fast dry top coat I picked up at Marshall's the other day to see both how the polish looks shiny and to see how Barielle compares to SV.



I like this polish better matte personally. Yes, it's very pretty shiny, and it takes on an almost metalic quality, but I just don't love it. I dunno. I keep looking at my nails trying to figure out what to say about the color, and, well, I just don't have anything to say!

I DO have something to say about the Barielle top coat though. It blows. Seriously. I put it on over 99% dry polish and it was still sticky tacky 10 minutes later! WHAT??!? Maybe that's because it's B3F? It was a very thin top coat too, so it was pretty bumpy over the matte. After 15 minutes and it still being tacky, I swiped some SV over each nail and rolled over to go to sleep 5 min later.


Here's a pic with SV


Not that you can really tell a difference, but in this one you can really see the red in it. I think it's shinier too.

TTFN! I'll post my NYE mani later.