Zoya Carly
Carly was released by Zoya as part of the Surf collection for summer 2012. Zoya describes Carly as a "very rich, bold, red-toned dark purple with iridescent red and silver metallic shimmer and a dense foil finish." You can't tell from looking at the bottle, where the polish has sort of a meh so-so look, how beautifully it turns out on the nail and Zoya's description is quite apt. Carly is a gorgeous, vibrant medium-dark well-saturated warm plummy purple packed with silvery metallic shimmers that read through the plum-colored base as magenta, adding to the richness and depth of the color. It has a brilliant magenta flash along the axis of light and deepens along the edges to a dark red purple. The shimmers in Carly are quite finely milled as opposed to the flakier shimmers that I usually associate with Zoya's foils.
Application was great. The consistency is of the sort that Zoya does so well, fluid, creamy and dense, with excellent self-leveling flow over the nail. Pigmentation is outstanding. Carly is a one-coater, although I did two to straighten up some of my lines in the first coat. I had a lot of cleanup to do (it was a shaky hands day), which freed the shimmers to disperse themselves freely about my nail environs, but this wouldn't be a problem for someone applying with a steadier hand than mine. Carly dries naturally in good time to a smooth shiny finish.
Photos show two coats of Carly over Seche Rebuild treatment and Pretty Serious All Your Base basecoat. I was wearing a light blue top when I took these, so if you notice some blue reflected by the polish, that's what it is.
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Beauty, eh? This is a great polish in a vivid, striking color with an easy application and a beautiful shimmery finish. What's not to love? I especially like the plummy hue, it's nicely balanced between red and purple without leaning too far into fuchsia territory. It reminds me of the color used in the classic diamond-patterned harlequin costume. Green is the traditional complementary color to purple, but this color also looks great with turquoise, aqua, cerulean and other blue-greens as well. I think it'd be a nice pop with navy too, and yellow. Because it's so well-pigmented, Carly would work well for stamping and other nail art. Just a great polish to have in your collection!
love,
Liz
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