This color is described as a wine toned red purple but is more of a black plum. I love that it`s so dark and a gorgeous color for fall-winter. Definitely a great alternative to black.

Definitely a beautiful color in bright lighting but in regular lighting is looks almost black. It sometimes even looked like a near black evergreen color. Still like it even if I wish it was lighter.

This polish is so dark it is nearly black, but with greenish-blue undertones. The way it is "almost" black is not pretty in the way that a dark gray would be, but looks like a mistake in the formula. It is not nearly as bright or as blue as the swatch here leads you to believe. I thought it would be closer to a teal/navy color, but it reminds me of spilled ink. I also found this particular color to be quite streaky.

Like Cynthia this color is very pretty but too dark. Indoors it looks black except under the brightest light. I had painted my nails cynthia then this and almost couldn`t tell the difference even though they are drastically different. Pretty but needs to be a tad bit lighter to really show its pretty purple.

if Cynthia was a person, i`d marry her, despite my husband`s reservations. all very dark polishes look "almost black" after a couple of coats. however, even in very dim light i can see that Cynthia is the darkest of peacock blue. and someone mentioned shimmer - not a drop of shimmer in my bottle. ;o) another reason i love it so. not a fan of shimmer.

I was really excited about this color because it looked like a dark teal, but under the fluorescent lights at my work it just looks black. In better lighting, two coats look like the darkest green before black. This turned out to be my least favorite purchase from Zoya, which is too bad.

just not what i thought much darker in person than on my monitor may gift to someone

I was so excited, but it is so dark. It`s near black.

Even with just one coat it`s a lot darker than the image. Still a pretty color, but it`s nearly black.

Beautiful dark peacock/teal color with a slight shimmer, loved wearing it. Rated a 4 because even with a base coat it stained my nails :(

I like the color of Anja, but am a little disappointed that it is so dark. It`s the kind of purple that is almost black. There is no red tone to it. I only put on one coat, if I put two I think it would be black. It is closer to the bottle color, but nowhere near the sample color. A good color for fall.