China Glaze Stone Cold

Lateness AND nasty cuticles...Ah well, this is China Glaze Stone Cold and my last pick from the Hunger Games collection. It's a matte, kind of metallic gray color. Formula is typical matte, easy and fast drying but sucks in the wear time department. I experimented with my Hard Candy Matte-ly in Love and that just made it a million times worse. UGH is it too much to ask for a long wearing truly matte polish?! This is 2 coats, no base coat or top coat. It stained.
I'm getting so behind in this swatching thing. I wanted to get half my collection (52) swatched before Sam came to visit at the end of July. Considering this is #16...I'm not sure if that's going to happen. After her visit, I will go back to swatching half my collection but it's going to be a much much bigger collection!

Zoya Savita

I know I said I was going to post an extra special polish this week and I didn't. I will get to it soon, I promise!
This is Zoya Savita. Savita is actually Zoya's MatteVelvet formula, hence the matte bottle and cap. But what you see here is 2 coats with base coat and OPI top coat. I LOVE this color but it is my problem child polish. If you want it to be a true matte, you can't use base coat and top coat BUT it will chip within a couple hours and absorb any moisture that ends up on your nails or is in the air. So it won't be matte or on your hands for more than a few hours. With top coat and base coat, wear time is really only 24 hours at most. The one redeeming quality to this polish is dry time - 1 minute max on this. Really. UGH, why can't I have the pretty color AND fast dry time AND matte finish without the ridiculously short wear time?