Try it on Tuesday: Zoya Carly & Holly

For those of you who missed my post last week, this is my second week participating in Try it on Tuesday. This week I decided to try out two of my Zoya polishes, so this week it was Holly and Carly. Pardon the messy photos.. it's always one thing or another isn't it? Today, my nails didn't want to dry and the polish remover didn't want to work :/

Carly is described by Zoya as "Very rich, bold, red-toned dark purple with iridescent red and silver metallic shimmer and a dense foil finish. The bold color and sparkling foil finish make Carly like gift wrap for your nails."

Holly is described as "A rich holly green with subtle yellow tones in a luminous metallic finish.? Great for giving the nails a flash of rich gem-toned color."

I  bought Carly as part of Zoya's special buy 3 for $15. Holly I got last month using my Zoya Share the Love credit. I've been wanting Carly for awhile, so naturally I jumped on the special as soon as I saw it. Holly I bought because I've been wanting a nice green color for holiday manicures. With a name like Holly, how can you beat that for a Christmas manicure?

I love these colors and they look gorgeous in person, but the weather must be humid today as they definitely didn't dry correctly. I already have a few dents and smudges where the polish didn't dry in time.

For the accents, I used Sally Hanson's Lavender Marquis. It's a gorgeous color all by itself (this one I have used previously) but I wish I wouldn't have added the accents this time.. I need practice with my dotting tool, that's for certain but I think solid colors are just more my style. Oh well :)

Lavender Marquis is part of the Diamond Strength collection and it is gorgeous by itself; I'll have to swatch it one of these days. I probably received it as a Christmas present years and years ago, I don't remember when exactly.

(sorry for the blurry photos! I wanted to show you how these look in the sun but all the photos turned out blurry.)

So what do you think? I'm not sure about this manicure yet... I'm hoping it grows on me!