Zoya Touch Collection - Nudes for Summer 2011

Here's another little mini-collection from Zoya for summer. It's not particularly summery or exciting color-wise, it's more of an addition to the Zoya color wardrobe. The intention of this collection is to provide the perfect opaque nude for each skin tone. These are like foundation shades; you pick the one that compliments the undertones in your skin. What's nice about these is you aren't necessarily trying to match your exact skin color (like the 'mannequin hands' manicure), just finding which nude meshes well with your skin, so the right shade can work on anyone from dark to fair skin colors.

There are three shades:

Minka. This is a very light beige nude that has a strong yellow undertone. This is good if you have a lot of yellow or green undertones in your skin, but I'm pretty cool toned and this still looks good on me. In fact, I think it's my favorite of the three because of the yellow in it. There's a bit of a pearl finish to it (think a more subtle version of the pearl on Zoya Pasha) to keep it from being chalky.


Pandora. This one is more of a cool pink with mauvey, beigey, almost ashy tones in it. Same pearl finish as Minka. This is the coolest toned one in the trio, but it's not excessively cool toned, it seems just a touch too blue based to be called neutral.


Shay. Shay is a warm peach-beige. More peachy than beige and against my skin it looks to have some warm sandy, earthy tones in it. Hint of a silvery pearl finish like the others.

The formula on these is great. These are meant to be full coverage nudes and they are. Very dense, opaque, pigmented colors. I've done two coats in these pictures, plus topcoat to bring out the pearliness. The colors are very dense and pigmented, to they're on the thick side. The drying time is good despite the thickness. They don't dry entirely glossy, but there's no reason you should be skipping topcoat, so this is a little irrelevant... Just thought it was worth mentioning.

So, if you're looking for a good, opaque nude that goes well with your skin color, these may be what you're looking for. They can be worn by light, dark and every skin color in between, just go with which one seems to look most natural with your undertones. I'd recommend getting spoons of these if you're shopping for nude shades.

The pre-order on these is open today on Zoya.com and they should ship by the first week of June.

(These were sent to me for review.)