Jelly sandwich

Jelly sandwiches are so beautiful sometimes, here I've got one (kinda jelly sandwich at least?) I'm very biased about, in some ways I think it looks cool and unusual, but it other ways I think it looks weird, like if it's some kind of organical membrane...Anyow, I started with a black creme, then Kleancolor - Party Fever and then a coat of Kleancolor - Sheer Pastel White. I've actually showed this combo once before, that time I liked it more than this time, maybe because I had longer nails that time or used more glitter? What do you think?

Polishes used:
Nordic Cap - NP12
Kleancolor - Party Fever
Kleancolor - Sheer Pastel White

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Jelly sandwich in pink with Etude House - #4 Minnie Pink Ribbon

The title lies a bit, this is a more of a "half baked jelly sandwich".. ;) I've layered glitter beneath the jelly but I didn't put jelly on top because I liked it better like this. First pink jelly, glitter, jelly and then glitter.

The gorgeous glitter is Etude house - #4 Minnie Pink Ribbon and it was way better than I thought it would be. It has middle size white opaque circle glitter, pink and white hexagons, small hexagons in pink and white and pink and white bow (or butterfly shaped too) but also square shaped color shifting glitter which goes from blue/purple to yellow/orange (awesome!!!). The last pictures shows the color shifting the best, seems like the yellow/orange shows the best in shadow and natural light.

Can't wait to try Minnie Pink Ribbon on top of black :D

Natural light.

Check out the color shifting ;)

Polishes used:
Kleancolor - Sheer Pastel Purple (Yea, that what the bottle says, but I think it's wrong labeled and that the actual name is Sheer Pastel Pink)
Etude House -  #4 Minnie Pink Ribbon

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Old archive nails: Jelly sandwich with Kleancolor - Party Fever

More old archive nails which is what I've shown this whole week and today I'm showing two jelly sandwiches with the same glitter polish. The pictures are not that old, only since January this year but the photos are a bit bad and again cleanup is a bit so and so. But the light version of this jelly sandwich is so good that I had to show it. It's actually one of my better versions of jelly sandwiches and I'll definitely redo this!

Party Fever from Kleancolor is such a nice polish since the glitter is in different colors and the result looks really fun. The white version has a white jelly like polish and the last picture is with a darker blue jelly. That version looks okay to but I much prefer the lighter version this time. As I said I'll redo this soon and also show you a real swatch of Party Fever.

I took this old photo to at least show you a hint of the bottle.
Party Fever is the second polish from the right, next to the gold one.

Polishes used:
Kleancolor - Party Fever
Kleancolor - Sheer Pastel White
China Glaze - Ride The Waves 

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31DC2013 Day 30: Inspired by a Tutorial (Floral "Pond Manicure")

I don't follow a lot of tutorials when I do nail art, but damn I really should! There are so many awesome tutorials out there and I had a lot of fun picking out what I wanted to do today.

This style of nail art is called a "pond manicure!" It doesn't so much reference an actual pond so much as it references the depth and the layers of the design. I followed a tutorial from Jacki at Adventures In Acetone, and she credits Olive View Fashion as the originator of this technique. It's genius and gorgeous and best of all, EASY!

You can see all of the details in the tutorial I linked above, but the basic concept is to place nail art or stamping between layers of a jelly polish and repeat this 3 or 4 times.

The jelly I used is China Glaze You Drive Me Coconuts, a scorching Barbie pink, and the white I used is Essie Blanc. I decided to go with my go-to small flower style (seen here and here and here), and painted them on with a small nail art brush.

Isn't this technique so beautiful! I hope you guys will be trying this soon. Like I said, it's nice and easy but has such a beautiful finished effect. Ohmygoodness. I die.

More 31 Day Challenge
View the final upcoming prompt!
View my inspired by a tutorial nails from 2012!
View my inspired by a tutorial nails from 2011!

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