Zoya Elodie

Zoya Elodie is a crelly.  It is between a cream finish and jelly finish.  A jelly polish is a sheer polish that looks squishy like jelly on your nails.  Jelly polish has a translucent quality.  This is 4 coats, but 3 will do.  I used 4 to try to hide some blue stains on my nails from a different polish.  You can see the stains and the visible nail line in this picture, but they didn't show up in real life.  Elodie is a red/pink coral.  The color is just O.K. with my skin tone.  I like it, but won't buy it again.  Zoya polish wears really well on me (6 days) and is my favorite brand of nail polish. 

 

I used the brush from Orly Luxe to add a quick, cute accent.  

I Mixed it Myself (Navy Blue Jelly)

So I'm going to have to explain a lot of terms here.  The internet term for a polish you mix yourself is a franken.  You know how Frankenstein is made from the parts of lots of dead people?  Well a franken polish is made from a mix of other polishes.  What is a jelly polish?  A jelly polish is a sheer polish that looks a little like jelly on the finger nails.  With me so far?  What is a jelly sandwich?  A jelly sandwich is one coat of a jelly polish, one coat of a glitter, and a final coat of a jelly polish.  So, this is a franken jelly sandwich manicure. 

I mixed my navy blue jelly polish in a uncleaned Wet 'n Wild 415A bottle.  I figured I was making a blue polish, so why bother cleaning out the blue bottle.  I mixed Orly Star of Bombay with Wet 'n Wild Clear.  I plan to add more clear to make this polish more sheer and a tiny bit of black to make it darker.  Since I"m a dork I named the polish. Since I'm a geek, I named it Watching for the Capitol Seal. 

This is one coat "Watching for the Capitol Seal", one coat Wet 'n Wild Kaledoscope and then another coat of "Watching for the Capitol Seal".

Blue Ombre Nails

This is a blue ombre manicure.  From light to dark:  Wet n Wild Megalast Bird Bath, L'Oreal Now You Sea Me, Sinful Colors Aquamarine, Revlon Colorstay Midnight, and Orly Star of Bombay.  I really liked this manicure.