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Pastel Jelly Sandwich

8th July 2014

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Jelly Sandwich with Maybelline Acid Wash Top Splatter

Jelly Sandwich Nails Recipe - The Nailasaurus

With the rise of indie glitter polishes over the last few years, I feel like jelly sandwiches are becoming a thing of the past. So many indies are described as a ‘jelly sandwich in a bottle’ and it’s true, they absolutely are! Soon enough, Jelly Sandwiches will be to nail polish what the Game Boy is to gaming – a nostalgic piece of the not-so-distant past. Don’t get me wrong, I love the innovations that indie brands have brought to the table in the nail industry and I hope they’ll be changing the game for many more years but sometimes you can’t beat a good classic.

It’s been years since I last wore a jelly sandwich and I’ve been meaning to revisit them since I got hold of the OPI Muppets Most Wanted collection. The nude and pink polishes in that collection are very sheer and although they’re not true jellies, they fit the role okay in a jelly sandwich.

I tried out a few combinations yesterday but couldn’t decide which to actually put on my nails so I put it to a vote on Facebook and this combination came up trumps. I had to switch out the base colour for something a bit closer in tone to the jelly topping but I think it works nicely.

The Recipe

2 coats of NYC Lavender Cupcake

1 coat of Maybelline Acid Wash Top Splatter

1 coat of OPI I Love Applause

1 coat of Glisten & Glow HK Girl (Top Coat)

Jelly Sandwich with NYC Lavender Cupcake

31 Day Challenge, Freehand, Glitter, Uncategorised

31DC2012: Day 16 Tribal Print Nails

6th November 2012

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Day 16 of the 31 Day Challenge calls for Tribal Nails. I love tribal nails but they take a hell of a long time to do! So I copped out and cooked up some glitter sandwiches on a few of my fingers when it was getting too close to bed time.

I have a confession to make. Last week I cut my cuticles. I really couldn’t tell you why, I had the clippers in front of me so I just did it. It was one of those decisions I regretted almost instantly, like while I was still sat there cutting away at my fingers, and yet I still couldn’t stop doing it. I am never going to cut my cuticles again.

There’s not really a bottom line to this story, I just thought it was something noteworthy to write down on my nail blog! I’ve always been an advocate of moisturise and push and since my bad decision last week, I feel stronger than ever about it. My favourite post about cuticle care is still this one from Lacquerized’s archive. Perhaps it’s time I finally wrote my own.

I used three coats of Deborah Lippmann Fashion* as my base colour. The colours in the tribal patterns are NYC Water Street Blue*, MUA Shade 23 and Black Acrylic Paint. I used a small striping brush to paint the details.

The studs are from Born Pretty Store (SA5X31 to get 10% off).

The glitter is JENsations Bubble Gum with a coat of OPI Samoan Sand over the top to create a sandwich.

I finished it all off with two coats of Seche Vite.

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Freehand, Glitter, Uncategorised

Sandy Skittle

15th June 2012

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It seems I’ve dug myself in to a comfy little nail art nook this past week. There have been two manis that I fell head over heels for and have been longing to wear again – the purple skittle mani and the sandy glitter sandwich.

But I don’t want to bore you all, so I imagined what their lovechild would look like and painted that on my nails instead! The result is a Sandy Skittle! I don’t know where I keep plucking these absurd names from but they do seem to roll off the tongue and I think they are perfectly descriptive.

I had so many pictures to choose from today, I had to put some after the jump. You’ll also find all the info about polishes there too.

The base colour is Cult Nails Cruisin Nude.

For the tribal patterns I used Black Acrylic Paint and Barry M Gold Foil.

The glitter on my ring finger is BYS Gold Finger and I topped that with two coats of Samoan Sand to make a glitter sandwich.

To create the leopard print on my first finger, I used Red Angel Plate RA-107 with W7 Black and topped it with Barry M Gold Foil.

The brush I used for all the freehanded details was a small striper brush from a nail art brush set.

Finally I finished it all off with two coats of Cult Nails Wicked Fast Top Coat.

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Sandy Sandwich… Mattified!

12th June 2012

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Yesterday’s mani… mattified!

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Wibble Wobble, Polish on a Plate

20th May 2012

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Fun fact – In the UK (as opposed to the US), Jello is called Jelly and Jelly is called Jam. Wrap your brain around that for a second! Also, have some context for the title.

This is my first ever Jelly sandwich! It just seemed to slot together this week after I got my first ‘proper’ jelly in a package from the States and spotted this multi glitter in The Original Factory Shop yesterday.
For those of you that aren’t familiar with jelly sandwiches, the process involves layers of jelly polish and layers of glitter or other special kinds of polish painted alternatively on the nails so the glitter looks buried underneath.
I didn’t get too overzealous with layering on this one because I didn’t want a mani that would take five hours to dry! I kind of cheated and used a crème first to cut down on the amount of coats I’d need to get it opaque. You can find all the details of the polishes and the order I used them in down the page a little.

You may also notice my funky new watermarks. I finally figured out how to get text to follow a curve in Photoshop so I had a good time playing with that effect. I’m not sure if I’ll be keeping them this way because it takes much longer than just stamping on the straight version but for now, they’re lots of fun! I’d like to know what you think if them, do they detract from the pictures or do you prefer the way they’re integrated instead of randomly placed?

Glitter Sandwich with OPI Houston We Have A Purple

The Recipe

One coat of Barry M Bright Purple

One coat of NYC Starry Silver Glitter

Two coats of OPI Houston We Have A Purple

One coat of Cult Nails Wicked Fast Top Coat

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