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Clean out your nail polish wardrobe and get rid of old nail polish that may not be BIG5FREE (Free of Formaldehyde, Formaldehyde Resin, Toluene, DBP and Camphor) trade in exchange for ZOYA Nail Polish!
The code on the site actually gets you a 50% discount. Link below the video for full details.
http://www.zoya.com/content/38/category/Earth-Day-Nail-Polish-Exchange-Zoya.html
So I just posted about Elodie but the other two Zoya “three free” polishes are also here. Sneak peek. I’ll swatch sometime soon. 🙂
I love Essie “Boat House” which is a lovely coral color that isn’t too harsh. But it’s an older Essie color (and no longer available) and it’s one of the worst nail polishes I own in terms of chipping. I think this may be the case with older Essie colors. And it seems like there was some sort of formula change at some point because I’ve only had problems with some clearance Essie polishes I purchased over the summer.
So I’ve been on the lookout for other colors I could replace it with. I already owned Sinful Colors “Thimbleberry” but it’s a little bit darker than the Essie and not quite close enough (though fairly close.)
So when the Zoya three free promo happened, I went through my spoons and double checked colors online and picked out Zoya’s “Elodie” to try and replace “Boat House” with. Swatched it looks like the perfect dup which makes me happy. I have yet to try it out to see about chipping but I’ve not had any problems with that on Zoya polishes (matte polishes on the other hand simply don’t last as long but that’s a different story.)
If you’ve ever wanted to try Zoya nail polish (which I would say probably comparable to Essie) they’re running their three free promo. So for the cost of S&H ($10) you can get three full size nail polishes if you enter the promo code ZOYA2013
Details here: http://zoyanailpolish.blogspot.com/2013/01/color-your-world-in-2013-with-zoya-nail.html
Their servers are a little slow at the moment so I suggest browsing color options via google to make your choices. I’ve already bought mine. 🙂
I DO think that Zoya’s “Lotus” looks better with a top coat. Particularly Essie’s “A Cut Above” pink glittery top coat would be my choice.
It draws attention to some of the pink undertones that Lotus has but are hard to see. I still feel like this isn’t a very spring color for some reason. Maybe because I’m personally interested in pastels, golds and neons for spring. :/ 🙂
Unboxing video:
What’s inside:
What I mentioned that I didn’t get that I still want to try is the AlimaPure products. I said I was going to use my birchbox points but it looks like they are out of the berry color lip product I was going to buy and I know that the Alima site does mini samples of foundation and bronzer (not lips or eyeshadow as samples) on their website so I’ll probably do that soon. Bronzer is the other thing I’ve been thinking about trying from them.
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