When I saw the first swatches of Adina, it immediately reminded me of some other polish; but I couldn't place it. Finally, my Adina arrived yesterday and I realized that was it: Adina looks like a much more condensed and seriously improved Significant Other Color by OPI. Both polishes have purple base with a green duochrome/flash. Unlike OPI, intended for the layering purposes, Zoya is not sheer at all. It's perfectly opaque in two thin coats.
Base color. Actually, it's more lilac than purple, don't you think? This warm hue reminds me of Misa's Foxy and Folksy
Here is Adina in all its duochromy glory:
Green side is very, very strong:
Despite the similar idea behind Significant Other Color and Adina, latter is definitely unique; and it's an absolutely beautiful color. Formula was excellent, neither runny nor gloopy. Kudos to Zoya.
And one more pic; just because I feel like it:
Speaking about Zoya, I hauled just a little bit: in addition to today's color I also got a long lemming of mine, spectacular Casey; and Qtica balm. Cannot wait to show off Casey!
PS: I had to file my nail down to the quick. Sad. This will teach me to go without manicures for days (unpolished nails=unprotected nails).
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Long time no see, huh? I'll explain my extended leave of absence in the following posts; now on to the polish.
Moon Shadow. One of Nubar duochromes. Nubar makes really mean duochromes (check Scrangie - I'm sure she posted a bunch of Nubar duos a while ago). This one is purple/brown/amber-green. Really complex and really gorgeous. Main color - purple - has this glowy quality to it. I'm very picky when it comes to purples, but I love this one.
Under some light purple leans a bit on a brown side; very warm brown:
Moon Shadow is not one of the subtle duochromes, when you need to squint to see a change in color. It's a bold and true duochrome; as obvious as a chameleon.
I dunno about you, but I said "Wow!":
Couple of words about application. This one required three coats; in two coats it still looked like an ugly, weird muddy gray (huh?). Talk about ugly duckling.
PS: Don't forget to click on the pics to enlarge them. Totally worth it.
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Well, technically, this polish is not even a duochrome. It's a deep burgundy with aqua-teal-blue shimmer; but this shimmer is so strong that one really can call this amazing concoction a duochrome.
One of my favorite polishes - it's definitely on my top 5 - and one of the best Misa's creations ever. Embroidered Emerald, ladies and gentlemen (mostly ladies, I guess).
This nail polish is absolutely flawless: color, consistency, application - everything is perfect.
Enough words, though.
I made this picture to show off an amazing blue undertone of EE. It's visible under very extreme angle only, but the blue is superb; it reminds me about peacock feathers or maybe blue silk - very exotic kind of blue.
This picture has been taken with ridiculously exaggerated flash - this is why polish looks patchy. Flash brings out both teal shimmer and burgundy base.
And this is how Embroidered Emeralds looks like in normal daylight:
I hope that Misa will never, ever discontinue one of the best colors ever created. I'm going to get a back-up bottle, though - better safe than sorry.
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Don't ask me what's my favorite Misa polish; unless you want to hear tiny "bop-bop-bop", accompanying my brain exploding. I do know, thou, what is Misa signature - it's duochromes. Duochrome in a nail world means color-changing polish. One can see two - or more - different colors under different angles, depending on lighting. Change can be rather dramatic (from lilac to green, for instance) or within the same color range (from a pale pink to a dark pink).
Haute Hippie is a part of a great Misa duochrome collection. Not the best example, in my humble opinion. Beige color is very anemic, or should I say boring and non-flattering?
Pink face of this polish is OK...yeh, just OK:
/I'm biased - I hate three-coaters and this one is really, really sheer. 4 coats to achieve the bottle color./
Bojangles, on the other hand, (no pun intended) is one of my summer favorites. Flashing from a very wearable metallic orange to a hot pink. Epitome of a fun summer color.
Wearable, right? And orange is difficult to pull off - for me at least.
And for desert today - beautiful Foxy and Folksy. From a colder lilac to spectacular golden amber. Can you believe this is the same polish?
Bonus: it's a dupe of hard to find OPI Merryberry Mauve. I have them both, and like Misa better. Not that I'm biased...
To be continued.
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