Review: A Bunch of Zoya Pixie Dusts

I got paid yesterday so of course I'm going to go buy more polish. It's the good pay, where I don't have to pay rent, so I kind splurged a bit, picking up the other half of the Zoya Fall Pixie Dust Collection, a Deborah Lippmann, a couple of Nails Inc and a few cheap drug store polishes. Shh I'm an adult. I've seen some lovely manis with rainbow stripes and texture polishes so of course I'm going to try out my new Zoyas.

I'm not very good at freehanding things but it turns out vertical stripes are pretty easy to do. I started out with the usual base coat (still liking OPI Nail Envy), placed a blob of each of Arabella, Dhara, Solange, Chita, Sunshine and Carter on a piece of paper and went to work with a small brush. I eyeballed the width of each stripe although I found it easiest to start at each edge and work my way inwards. This is three coats of each polish. Two would have been fine but I wanted to make the edges as sharp as I could.

I of course then put top coat on. Which I now regret because it looks better without it.

The Verdict: I'm not sure why I keep buying texture polishes. They're still kinda hard to incorporate into regular manis and I'm still not not 100% used to the rough texture. They're sure pretty in a rainbow though! What do you think, leave the texture nature or add a top coat?

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