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From the moment I clocked Zoya’s Smoke & Mirrors collection for this Autumn/Winter, I knew that there were some shades that I absolutely had to get my paws on. This is something of an irritation actually as Zoya doesn’t really have a presence in the UK. There is a British distributor but they are heinously expensive (three times the price) and also the collection isn’t available yet anyway. So there was only one thing for it, good old eBay. I managed to find a US seller who offers 
express shipping to the UK if you buy a minimum of eight bottles, retailing at about £4.00 each. A bit of a no-brainer really, as it was no hardship to shortlist eight Zoya shades and even with the shipping added in, it was cheaper than buying from the UK distributor.
So, onto the polish. Firstly, apologies for the slightly shabby state of this manicure but as well you know, it hasn’t stopped raining here in like, forever, so it was tricky to get decent photos. And then once I did get some clear sky, it
was on day four of wearing Cynthia so it was a little past its best.
I’m loving these blackened shades at the moment. Previously I passed them by but there is something about the onset of Autumn that is making me crave these dark and vampy blacks with a twist. Cynthia is such a shade – it is a blackened teal, which is just absolutely perfect. I love teal anyway (in fact I am wearing a teal coloured cardigan at the time of typing this) and thecombination of teal and black is just too good to be true. I had a lot of positive comments when I was wearing this (both from a rather eminent Knightbridge hair colourist and also from a sales assistant in Harrods). You know when people comment on your polish that you’re wearing a good one.
This is two coats. Cynthia applied beautifully, and like I said earlier, I wore it for four days, until it practically dropped off. It never quite looks all-black, you can definitely tell that it has something edgy about it, and I can’t wait to wear it again.
What do you think?
Helen
Simply gorgeous!!!!
I just LOVE this one! I think it looks great on you as well. I’m glad you were able to find a decent ebay seller for these, I don’t know why they don’t have a better presence overseas, really!
Oooo….which ebay seller did you use?
There are quite a few Zoyas that I’m lusting after!
This is nice but I have so many dark blue/ green almost black shades. Also, I find that Zoya doesn’t wear very well.
I jumped on this collection. Shame you can’t buy this for a decent price. I love this shade on you. I can’t wait to wear it when my nails grow out a bit.
Love this. Agree about lusting after darker shades for Autumn 🙂
That really looks good, what’s the point of talking about a good ebay seller if you’re not going to tell us who it is?