Finally a fuchsia (plus spoons)

Today's mani: Zoya Alegra. Nice dark metallic fuchsia. Actually I have had it on since Friday, and it's chipping a bit so I am likely to have something else on by tonight or at least tomorrow.

Karen told me that she had worn one of the Orchid colors that I sent her, and she has now posted an entry about it. (It's prettier on than I realized, and I had even seen it in person!) (For reference purposes, what I sent her is in this entry. And all the lovely stuff she sent me in return is the bottom picture in this entry.)

In other news, I happened to do the math on my spreadsheet and I have 38 Zoyas, which is certainly by far the most nail polish I've had of one brand at one time. If you could count up every Revlon I've ever owned in my life - since that goes back to oh, 1972 or so - it might exceed that, but probably not by a whole lot. I've been thinking that the next time I buy anything from Zoya, it ought to be their own top coat and base coat, which I have never bought, since I hear that it really does last better when you use their own system. It's an investment in all those polishes I already have. (But that still doesn't mean I'm going to go out and buy that now. Maybe at some point soon.)


I have probably actually bought 40 bottles of Zoya altogether (starting in late 2011, so in less than two years), because I'm on the second bottle of Chloe, and I threw my bottle of Tallulah away because the lip was broken and air had seeped in.  I know for sure about the late 2011 thing because I looked it up on my Zoya account to see, the other day. The first thing I ordered was a bunch of spoons, and after that I ordered Kierra, Karina and Juicy. (Juicy is a lovely sheer pink and I don't know why I haven't worn it more. Kierra and Karina are both wonderful fall colors, and I wore both of them a ton.)

So here is my entire spoon collection, which I found stuck in a box. Most - maybe all - of the loose ones are from that first order. Several of the collection ones came later.

(My bedspread is possibly not the best background in the world for this picture. From a distance, some of the spoons are almost indistinguishable from the brown background!)

Often if you order something, they automatically send you spoons for new collections - so above is Touch, which I think was new around the time I first ordered, and there are a bunch more of these collection sets below. (So some of you will have seen a lot of this stuff already, but some of you won't so I'm posting it anyway!)

These are ones I have purchased since (Delilah, Karina, Dita, Juicy, Lilith):

(and so are these: Kierra, Mira, Harmonie and Indigo)

These I have not gotten around to buying so far - the reds on the left are Caprice, Valentina, Carmen (which if you can read close enough, is ZP001, the first Zoya color), Garbo, Andi, and Kimmy. The blues are Tallulah (which as I said, I did buy but had to discard, and eventually might buy again) and Twila, and the greens are Ivanka, Midori, and Suvi.

Collections:

Except for Touch, I think I own at least one polish from all of these sets. (And Beach and Surf in particular - I'm fairly sure I have at least half of those, if not more.)

And, just for completeness' sake, here is a back view of one set:

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