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.  

Pure Ice It's Complicated and Zoya Venus Sandwich

This is Pure Ice It's Complicated sandwiched between layers of Zoya Venus. I started by wearing Zoya Venus, 3 coats.  Then a few days later I added a coat of Pure Ice It's Complicated and another coat of Zoya Venus. 
Pure Ice It's Complicated is a mix of several jewel toned colors of hexagon shaped glitter with some silver glitter mixed in.  It applies very nicely.  It isn't too thick, you don't have to fish for glitter, the glitter applies evenly.  I bought this glitter mostly to do jelly sandwiches, but it is nice when not topped with another polish too.  Without another polish over it, it has a birthday party feel to it.  Fun.

Maybelline Color Show Blue Blowout

This is Maybelline Color Show Blue Blowout.  It is another polish from the CVS clearance sale.  This is a fairly unique color.  It is between a silver and turquoise with a metallic finish. You could get by with one thick coat of polish and no top coat and it dries quickly.  Unfortunately it chipped in 3-4 days on me, which is not good.  The average polish wears 5 days on me and a good polish will wear 6-7 days.  Since it chips, I won't be getting a lot of Maybelline, but I do like that you can slap it on and run out the door.
EDIT:  As someone else on the internet pointed out, these are 0.23 oz, less then half the size of a 0.5 oz OPI or Zoya.  If you pay 4$ a bottle for these, that makes them on par with Zoya, OPI, and Essie prices per ounce.  They are definitely not worth that price tag IMHO.
EDIT:  This one stains nails blue.

Mint with Orange Dots

This is Wet 'n Wild Megalast Garden Hose as a base.  I used a dotting tool to add three rows of Essie Brazilliant dots.  I wanted it to look like three off set rows of dots.  Instead it looks like half a nail of dots.  That is good too, but not what I was aiming for. 

Wet 'n Wild Spoiled Deeper Dive

This is another polish I got from the CVS clearance.  Spoiled Deeper Dive is a deeper tone and the green shimmer shows more in person making it look greener overall.  The nail line does not show in real life.  You know how when you dive in very deep water in the Caribbean the water is a deep blue/green?  Me neither, but this is the color I imagine that water would be.  There is bad news.  This polish and another Spoiled with a shimmer finish chipped in one day. Also this really stained my nails.  The blue stain in the pic below was from Deeper Dive.  The yellow stain is from using polish in general. 

Poppies for Memorial Day

I did poppies again for Memorial day.  Last year I used a blue polish as a base and I liked it better.  This year I used Rimmel Pro Rags to Riches as a base with Wet 'n Wild Megalast Heatwave and a random black polish for the poppies.  I followed the Cutepolish tutorial above, but I used a small dotting tool and made several small dots for the centers. 

Wet 'n Wild Spoiled First Class Only

This is another polish that is on clearance at CVS for 75% off.  It is a blue with matching blue micro glitter.  There is a purple iridescence that shows in the bottle, but barely shows up on the nails.  I had two nails chip in less then one day.  I have had that happen with two Spoiled shimmer finishes.  The Spoiled Cream finishes wear better for me, 4-5 days (average for me).  I own a lot of mid tone shimmery/metallic blue polishes.  Eventually some of them will get voted off the Island.  This one is on the chopping block, but it is very pretty and I might have to keep it.