Pleasantly Surprised by Zoya's Jacqueline.

As an experienced Mani-ac, I have been through the trials and tribulations of a disappointing color.  After a certain point in time, colors of a certain variety will automatically induce pessimism for an experienced polish-aholic.  That's because many times you see a color that you love in the bottle, but it looks atrocious on your nails.  It doesn't go with your skintone, it has a bad formula and never applies right, it's too sheer and gives vnl, or simply isn't as impressive as it is in the bottle.
For me, I was extremely skeptical when I picked up Zoya's Jacqueline.

The first thing that I said when I picked this bottle up was "Well this is going to be streaky VNL city".  I reluctantly swatched it on my pinky nail and was pleasantly surprised.  Instead of a sheer milky coating on my nail, there was a thick and mostly-opaque layer of a beautiful buttercream polish.  

Photo courtesy of Oh My Gosh! Polish who has the same
Blogger layout as I do!

I quickly snatched it up and went home to execute a nail art design that I had been swooning over.    Now, as a disclosure here, I'm not the biggest fan of white-based nail art.  I've done a few designs with a white base and I felt that it was too bright and strange to have it on my own nails.  This design made it really hard for me to be against the white base.  I knew that it needed to be my next project, and now with a magnolia-nude color to use for it that wouldn't be so intensely WHITE, I knew I was ready to give this a try.

I decided that I wasn't going to do all of my nails with the design as pictured above.  Instead, I would do one 'fashion nail' on my index finger imitating the original.  I also used Essie Lilacism for my stripe color.  I've always been more of a purple person than a pink one.  Personal preference, ya dig?  Below you will see my supplies for creating this design:

Pictured: Nails Inc GOOEY, Zoya Jacqueline, Essie Lilacism,
Its SoEasy Stripe Rite Black and Seche Vite Top Coat.

I did two coats of Zoya Jacqueline for my base, striped using a fine watercolor brush with Essie Lilacism and then used my Stripe Rite for the black bows.  I topped it all off with 1 coat of Seche Vite and VOILA!

I was very pleased with the outcome of these nails as well as being very happy with my new polish color.  I hope you all give this awesome shade a try!