Zoya Flair Collection...with Fossils!

Y'all. I'm so excited about the upcoming posts I have for you, starting with tonight's!

Recently Zoya started putting out images of their Focus and Flair collections, and the nail world collectively "died." Me being more of a creme girl, I'm uber-excited for Focus (which you'll see shortly), but Flair incited some pretty creative ideas in my head. I thought the multi-chrome color, Aggie, seemed like a good fossil color, so I tried my hand at the stone technique made popular by cutepolish.

I'd tried this technique earlier with terrible results. But now that I have real hairspray, I got some pretty sweet marbling.

Did that whet your appetite for more Flair? Then read on!

Zoya - Aggie

Zoya - Aggie

Aggie (3 coats) is a copper, gold and teal multi-chrome foil. I used that for the marble lines in the nail art. It's tough to capture the multi-chromeness of the polish, so here's another angle.

Zoya - Cinnamon

Cinnamon (2 coats) isn't quite cinnamon...more cinnamon stick in its color. The chrome finish is nice though. It might be one of the few colors I prefer as a chrome versus a creme.

Amethyst Art

Yesterday during lunch, I posed a question on Instagram, asking y'all what you'd like to see me create. Several of you asked for geode nail art. There are a lot of interpretations for "geode", but the first thing that came to my mind was amethyst...that good ole reliable rock with the purple in the middle. It looks a little something like this.

So after digging through my entire stash of polish, I pulled out four colors to use for these rocking rocks:

• Kleancolor - Holo Chrome
• Rainbow Honey Nail Lacquer - The Worst Possible Thing
• China Glaze - Are You Jelly?
• Zoya - Peterhof Palace

Surprisingly, this isn't hard to create at all! First, I used Glitter Off (the OPI peel-off base coat) because I knew I'd have way too much glitter on my nails to take off without a peeling base coat. Then, I painted the center part of my nails with Holo Chrome. It was perfect because it was slightly sheer. Then I used Are You Jelly? to get the right color of the amethyst, then layered a little The Worst Possible Thing over the top, giving it a real gem look. Finally, I outlined each nail with Peterhof Palace, being slightly sloppy to keep it "organic".

Thanks for the suggestion girls, it turned out fabulous!

One of my favorite parts of this was the removal. Remember how I used that Glitter Off base coat? Well when I peeled off the layers, I had little leftover amethyst stones! I liked them so much I framed them.

Is this something y'all would like to see as a tutorial? Let me know in the comments!