Polish Days: Jelly Sandwich

Today is...



JELLY SANDWICH DAY! Happy Jelly Sandwich Day to all!

The first thought that came to mind when I heard Jelly Sandwich was a PBJ sandwich but that's not what I'll be showing you today! HAHA!

A jelly sandwich in manicure terms refers generally to sandwiching a glitter/flakie polish between layers of jelly (or sorbet, yes, I'm refering to you, OPI!) polish. As a result of the glitter/flakie polish having another coat of jelly polish on top of it, it isn't as bling as it normally would be, creating a softer, more subtle effect that many (including myself) have come to love!

I also realised that doing a jelly sandwich is a GREAT way to wear the louder glitter polishes you have in your collection to work if your office has a strict dress code (like mine does)! SCORE!

What I have here, is two coats of Essie Not Just A Pretty Face (a sheer pink) over one coat of NailTek Foundation II. I find that whenever I'm going to be painting a sheer polish, using the NailTek base coat helps the polish to apply less streakily and helps the colour to come out better, with less coats. I know, I know, there are still streaks in my swatch below, but seriously, Essie's super anorexic brush wasn't helping. Further, we'll be covering the streaks up with pretty glitters so it won't be too obvious in the end! :)



And then, I painted one coat of Revlon Whimsical (the Deborah Lippmann Glitter In The Air dupe). I love how because the base of Whimsical is a sheer blue, it changes the base colour of Not Just a Pretty Face to a paler, softer colour!



I then painted another coat of Not Just a Pretty Face over, followed by another coat of Whimsical and a final coat of Not Just A Pretty Face (again) to complete the entire Jelly Sandwich!



This is with a coat of SV on top to seal everything in. See how pretty and demure the mani looks? Normally I wouldn't dream of wearing a blue glitter polish to work but now I can, all thanks to the wonder that is the jelly sandwich!



Here's one more picture for the road! It's absolute love for me!



In fact, I was loving the Jelly Sandwich look that I did another jelly sandwich mani, this time using another sheer base, OPI Coney Island Cotton Candy (CICT)! Again, this is two coats of CICT over NailTek Foundation II. CICT isn't a pink, but a skintone shade that didn't streak as much, probably due to OPI's AWESOME pro-wide brush. I swear, the pro-wide brush is a godsent for fat nails like mine.



This is one coat of a super colourful Aritaum glitter polish that I hauled back from Korea, the motherland of pretty glitter polishes!



Since the glitter was dense enough, I just layered on another two thin coats of CICT and one coat of SV and called it a day. GOSH, I just LOVE how the jelly sandwich turns the vibrant glitter into a pastel party! It's a totally different look!





Boy am I glad I finally found a way to way all my crazy glitter polishes to work! It's like having a secret party on my nails, subtle enough for work, but not totally boring!

Are you loving the jelly sandwich trend now? Do check out all these other posts on jelly sandwiches to get you fill your hunger!

Hannah (Polly Polish)
Jen (The Nail Polish Project)
Susy (Susy In Color)
Jenny (Beauty by Jenny)
Mara (Mara in Polishland)
Nail Tart
Salla (OMG Polish Em)
Jasmine
Deborah (Love Varnish)
Kat (Hooked on Polish)
Cassie (Sparkles Make Me Happy)
Pris (Pris Nails)
Julie (Time On My Nails)
Keisha (Refined & Polished)
Lynn (Oh So Lacquered)
Alexis (xoxo Alexis)
Cuti-CLUE-les
Mihaela
Stephanie (Sincerely Stephanie)
Heidi (Pretty Painted Nails)
Sabine (My Polish Stash)
A Lacquered Affair
Chiro (Nail of This Week)
Wendy (Wendy's Delights)
Charlotte (Charlotte's Nails)
Sophia (Unhas a Trois)
Laura (Polished Off)
Carolina(Colores de Carol)
Chrissy (Nailutopia)
Emma (Manicurity)
Ishah (Ishah x Beauty)
Esther (Fab Fingertips)
Kerrie (Pish Posh & Polish)

May's Haul

Sorry I'm late with May's haul. I haven't really been keeping track of my polish collection of late, reason being it's getting harder to do so with the ever-expanding polish count. Also, I've been trying to stay off polish to save for something I would treasure more, a new guitar! That being said, I only started my serious low-buy in June so May's haul was a little crazy (as usual).

The first two pictures are of the polishes I got in Korea, while on my graduation trip. The polishes were dirt cheap I tell you and I grabbed so many that my baggage was overweight on the flight back. Thank goodness my friends who didn't shop a lot, so I "ate" into their excess weight limit.





As you can see, I'm really loving the chunky glitter trend right now, especially with all the indie polish trend so I had my chunky glitter fix with the Korean polishes! I'm not gonna name them because in all honestly, they're all alphabets and numbers and it's just too much work.

Next, we have the three Cult Nails polishes I got (Seduction, Captivated and Toxic Seaweed), Floam, as well as a couple of Beadstreet polishes I bought. In the bottom row, I got Jawbreaker and Dream Queen, Catrice Sold Out Forever (a Chanel Jade dupe), Essence Glorious Aquarious, GG 10 to Midnight, Inglot 204 (a blue flakie) and GG Andamooka Blue (a supposed blue flakie but I see random bits of red and green flakes in there too! D:).



Then we have four Essence Colour3 polishes. Three of them were CPs from EuropeI didn't know Singapore was gonna bring them in and sadly, I paid almost double what they cost at Watsons but hey, you win some, you lose some. And I'm still very grateful to my dear Evillee who helped me buy all the gorgeous European polishes on her trip there!



And lastly, I did an epic Ozotic / Picture Polish / A-England haul at ninjapolish. I'm so glad I snapped up all the Ozotic 500 series polish that I wanted because they're now discontinued.



So ther you have it, May's Haul. An epic haul if I might add. I seriously need to cut back on buying polishes! My Helmer is now full and I'm storing all the polishes you see in this post in an empty A4 paper box cover, which incidentally, is almost the same size as a Helmer drawer. I know us polish addicts always say we need to cut down and then we go on no/low buys which always turn out to fail but we'll see.

I'm pretty damn adamant this time and considering it's already 26th June, I've only bought a couple of polishes from a US blog sale because those polishes were quite unique and were going at some exremely reasonable prices! I did pay for my Pretty and Polished pre-orders but I placed those orders a long long time ago so they don't count!!! I also have the Nails Inc Sprinkles and some Nubar duochromes in my beautybay cart, which I'm sure I will check out by the end of the month but it's a considerable improvement already so yay! :)