Zoya Enchanted Collection Swatches and a Bug Infestation

What do you do when you get a nail polish collection with such a range of colors, it almost doesn't make sense as a "collection"? Do you pick out your favorites, and leave the rest in your shopping cart? Do you throw your hands up in frustration because it just makes no damn sense? Do you buy it all because you have no willpower or self-control? I'll tell you what I do...

I paint bugs.

The Zoya Enchanted holiday 2016 collection could quite possibly be the 6 most unusual colors mashed together as a "collection". I don't know what the good people at Zoya were doing the night this collection was born, but creative juices were definitely flowing. With that said, this collection also contains 2 of my new favorite polishes. These are polishes I wouldn't normally warrant 3 seconds of my time either! But after swatching the colors from Enchanted, consider me converted.

I was so drawn to Olivera in fact, I immediately knew the nail art I wanted to do with it. This duochrome beauty could quite possibly be made of crushed beetle shells, except I'm pretty sure Zoya doesn't do that (though I can't find anything specifying they're cruelty-free or vegan on their website). So I painted bugs!

These critters were done all freehand with my favorite liner brush and polish. I had up a picture of a beetle and butterfly, and took a stab at it. They came out beautifully!

This little beetle was done with Olivera, but the picture doesn't do the polish justice. The polish shifts from one color to another more obviously later in the full nail swatch.

Then after painting the little beetle, I realized that another shade from Enchanted would make a fantastic butterfly, so I did him in Saint with accents of Alice.

Then after all that was said and done, I had to edit myself and stop from doing too much with glitter and rhinestones, so I gave the beetle and butterfly a habitat with simple grass on the other nails.

Here's a look at Enchanted as a whole.

Zoya - Olivera

Olivera (2 coats) is one of only two colors in Enchanted that is NOT a PixieDust polish. It's a smooth, deep purple to teal duochrome shifter. I almost got away with ONE COAT for it...that's unheard of with duochrome polishes!  Here's another angle to help show the shift:

Zoya - Olivera

Zoya - Saint

Saint (2 coats) is the other smooth finish polish from Enchanted. I used this as the butterfly's base (with accents of Alice). What you get from Saint is a smooth, periwinkle shimmer with an iridescent finish. I was surprised to like this one as much as I did.

Zoya - Alice

Alice (2 coats with no top coat) is a PixieDust polish, so the texture and grit is intentional. This one is a light lavender periwinkle, accented with pink and iridescent glitter. I'm pretty sure this is what the Little Mermaid's bra was made of.

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Zoya - Elphie

Elphie (2 coats with no top coat) is a Christmas green PixieDust. Nothin' but green in this polish.

Zoya - Lorna

Lorna (2 coats with no top coat) is all in the pink family, but this magenta-based PixieDust is accented with brighter pink glitter.

Zoya - Waverly

Waverly (2 coats with no top coat) rounds out the collection as a royal blue PixieDust. It looks a little squishy doesn't it?

The Zoya Enchanted collection is available through their website HERE. And if you have no self-control like me, you'll probably just end up with all of them. I should note, bugs are not included in the polish, so you'll have to start a butterfly farm separately.

The products in this post were given for review purposes. The reviews are based entirely on my experience with the products and were in no way influenced by anyone.