Never Enough Nails: The Zoya Surf Collection: Possibly the Best Zoya Collection EVER!

I can’t believe it’s been a whole week since I posted the Zoya Beach collection!! I was really hoping to get the Surf collection swatched quickly, but there were some rainy days in there and I had to work a lot. I also had 4 St. Patrick’s Day shows on the weekend! Come on people, St. Patrick’s Day is over!! Stop having parties! LOL… anyway, I finally have the Zoya Summer 2012 Surf collection for you today, and it is stunning!
Zoya Carly is probably my least favorite of the Surf collection, but it’s gorgeous and I still really love it!! I first thought it would be similar to Zoya Valerie, but Valerie is much darker. Carly is like Valerie’s lighter, more sparkly summer cousin. Zoya describes Carly as a “thalia purple foil metallic”. Now, I had no idea what that meant, so Google came to the rescue. Apparently thalia is some kind of a red-purple plant or flower. I just kept thinking of the character Thalia in the Percy Jackson series (any fans out there? I’m a huge fan of those books!). All of the Surf collection polishes had an excellent formula. I happen to adore Zoya’s foil metallics anyway, and these were particularly excellent. They were buttery smooth, pigmented and easy to apply. I’m only going to say that once so that I don’t sound like a broken record!! I used two coats of Carly for these pictures.

Zoya Kimber is one of the colors I was most looking forward to and it doesn’t disappoint! Kimber is a beautiful pink mixed with a little peach/orange. Zoya described Kimber as a “magenta pink foil metallic”, but in my mind, magenta is always more purple-toned than this. In any case, Kimber is a beautiful pink for spring or summer!!
I used two coats of Kimber for these pictures.

Zoya Rory was a sleeper hit for me! I can’t believe how much I like this polish!! You all know pinks are not usually my thing, but Rory has a lavender tinge to it that it really beautiful! It reminds me of one of my favorite MAC lipsticks, Lavender Whip, but a bit more pink. Zoya calls this one a “lotus pink foil metallic”. I (again) googled “lotus flower” and I guess this could be an accurate description. Lotus flowers are gorgeous, by the way!

YUM! Look at that macro shot! It reminds me of cotton candy a little bit too! I used two coats (!) of Rory. I feel like I never find two-coater awesome pale pinks that I actually like!

My absolute number one top favorite of this collection is Zoya Myrta! I am really having an orange make-up moment (hey, it’s the color of the year!) and Myrta fits right in to my current orange-a-thon. Myrta is a stunning juicy red-orange foil metallic. Zoya calls it “coral orange” and I’d agree with that too. I would also remind you that including the word “coral” in a description of a make-up product statistically makes me 90% more likely to obsess over it.
I did use three coats of Myrta for these pictures. It looked perfect at two coats, but I wanted to make sure it would look perfect in the pictures so you could fully understand my obsession with this polish. When I finish typing this post, I am removing my current pedi color and putting on Myrta STAT.

Zoya Meg is a stunner for the green lovers out there! I wasn’t sure how to describe this one, besides using the word “gorgeous” 50 times, but Zoya says it’s a “mermaid green foil metallic”. I don’t think I can top the descriptive power of the words “mermaid green”, so I won’t even try!! Love this!
Meg was a very solid two-coater, definitely no need for a third here!

Zoya Zuza is my second favorite in this collection and a definite hit of summer 2012. Zuza is an amazing mix of blue and green (it’s actually a hair more green than my pictures show). I don’t anything like this! I think I own maybe somewhat similar colors, but with a creme finish. The foil metallic finish plus this color= a home run hit for Zoya! They describe it as an “aquamarine foil metallic”. I think they could have done a bit better with that description. Maybe like “seafoam from an exotic Caribbean island beach foil metallic”… yea, that’s better.

I did three coats of Zuza for the pictures, and it’s the only one in the collection that I felt actually needed three coats. No worries though, it was well worth three coats and the foil metallic formula dries very quickly.

Overall, I think this is possibly my favorite Zoya collection ever. Period. I normally love Zoya collections, but I can’t come up with one that I adore as much as the Surf collection. I normally tell you my top picks from the collection, and then I give you advice for which ones to get if you can only get one or two. I can’t even choose here!! I know my top top picks are Myrta, Zuza and Rory, but I really think you should put the whole collection on your list! The only one I would even possibly contemplate skipping is Carly, but even that one is a gem! This whole post is a Never Enough Nails Necessity. So which ones are on your list?? Are you better at narrowing down choices than I am?

The Zoya Surf collection looks like it is available now on Zoya.com!!! (That link is my “Share the Love” link.  If you click this link and set up a Zoya account, you get a $5 coupon to use immediately. For a full description of the new Zoya “Share the Love” program go here)

These polishes were sent for review. For more information, please see my Disclosure Policy.