New Stuff: Zoya Tickled & Bubbly Summer Collections

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Warm weather has me reaching for brighter polishes these days, and recently I received a treasure trove of polishes that fit the bill perfectly! I’m talking, of course, about the Tickled and Bubbly collections from Zoya’s summer 2104 lineup.

Image courtesy of zoya.com

Image courtesy of zoya.com

Tickled has a creme finish and Bubbly is a jelly base with holo shimmers. The fun thing about the sets is they correspond to each other so you can mix, match or layer them. Between them, there are a total of twelve shades:

Tickled

• Rocha – poppy red
• Wendy – melon pink
• Kitridge – bubblegum pink
• Rooney – magenta
• Ling – royal blue
• Tilda – grasshopper green

Bubbly

• Alma – pale yellow with gold shimmer
• Jesy – coral with gold shimmer
• Harper – warm pink with gold shimmer
• Binx – orchid with gold and blue shimmer
• Muse – royal blue with blue and silver shimmer
• Stassi – lime with gold shimmer

I’ll be honest and say I wasn’t hugely excited about how these looked in the bottle – the cremes looked a little flat and pastel-y and the glitters didn’t look all that complex. On the fingers though, it’s a whole different story! The cremes are deeper and more vibrant than I expected, and the glitters catch the light in a really pretty way. When you layer them the colored jelly base of the glitter shades changes the color ever-so-slightly, basically making a whole new shade. Of course, you could layer them together whatever way you want to get a pretty huge number of options (I’m not going to math that, though). Here are some swatches for you:

For the most part, the cremes are opaque in two coats. The only one that needed three was Kitridge, which went on just a tiiiiny bit streaky. The glitters have good coverage but are still a bit sheer in two coats. The layered swatches above are two coats of the creme followed by one coat of the glitter. I haven’t wear-tested all of these, but in my experience Zoya polishes are pretty easy to apply, if a bit on the thick side, and don’t have some of the chipping/shrinking issues that a lot of three-free and five-free polishes have.

So, my favorites of the bunch? I’m loving the Wendy+Jesy combo the most, but Rocha and Rooney are also calling my name. Which ones are your favorites?

The Zoya Tickled and Bubbly collections ($9 for each shade) are available at zoya.com