Cherry Blossom Nails for Spring Break

Japanese Cherry Blossoms (done with a tooth pick! :D)

When you don’t have all the right tools, you make the best of things and use a toothpick haha!


Green: Zoya Gemma
Brown: O.P.I. I’m with Brad
Light gray/lilac: Zoya Marley
Top Coat and Base Coat: Essie 3 Way Glaze


Inspired by MissChievous’s nail tutorial on youtube. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TftmO0vA5i8] link to MissChievous's nail tutorial :)


I hope Japan’s Cherry Blossoms will bloom again to give people hope.


First impressions of some of the polishes used in this design:


This design stayed without chipping on my nails for two weeks. By the end of the second week there was some wear on the tips of my nails, but no noticeable chipping.  

I know a lot of people don’t like Zoya’s Gemma because it clashes with their skin tone. But I really love this color; its described as a muted olive on the Zoya website (I think) with a duochrome finish, meaning it sparkles purple and blue in different lightning. It has a nice smooth and even finish. Its not streaky at all and its really opaque. The picture above is 2 coats on each finger. I really love Gemma with the design I did… without it I still loved the color, but not enough to keep it a plain solid color for longer than 2 days. 

This is Gemma without the nail design. It only took 2 coats of nail polish to achieve this opacity. The formula of the nail polish was so easy to apply. I love that I didn’t need to layer on a lot of nail polish. Also, that the formula wasn’t too thick. I often have problems with thick nail polishes becoming “goopy” or easily smeared even after the nail polish has dried. I had no problems with this formula at all. Usually after I apply nail polish I would become instantly disappointed in the formula because even after it has dried the nail polish would have finger print marks or indents because of the thickness, but I did not experience that with Gemma. 

I bought this polish from Ulta. It is apart of Zoya Intimate collection. I also bought Marley and Dove from the intimate collection and have Indigo that I bought from ebay. 

Bottom line: This nail polish is awesome and so is the brand. I give it a 10/10!