Essence Choose Me! with Gold Stamping

I had a lot of fun with this mani!  This particular polish, despite being glittery, wears well on me.  I paired it up with some other colors to achieve the final look.

Zoya Frida - Funky Fingers Platinum Record - Essence Choose Me!

Layering goes as follows:

1. Nailtek II Foundation
2. Two coats Choose Me!
3. Stamped: BM 204, FF Platinum Record
4. One coat Zoya Frida
5. One coat OTD

I'm super happy with how this came out! Bonus: the gold gets a bit purposefully "lost" in the manicure, the stamping doesn't need to be perfect. 

I used the floral full nail design right above BM204 for the stamping.

Layered Jelly Sandwich - Zoya Frida

As much as I'd love to take creative credit for this, I was inspired from a post on Reddit that I saw some weeks ago.  I pretty much copied the manicure exactly, layering coats of Zoya Frida with dotticured flowers.  Below is the final result!

There is four layers of Zoya Frida; I started with a coat of it before putting on the first flowers.  I LOVE the final look of this.  So much depth!

Light and Airy Manicure

I always forget how much I love sheers and sheer jellies.  Sometimes a nice palette cleanser is what I need!

For this manicure I did three coats of OPI Care to Danse over Orly Bonder and sealed with OTD.  For the accent nail, I used OPI Crown Me Already! over two coats of Care to Danse and then sandwiched it under one more coat of Care to Danse.

 

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Anyone else think that the accent nail looks an awful like Revlon Starry Pink/Popular?  I was surprised at the resemblance! 

Verity Deep Violet Jelly Sandwich with Mash Silver

I so love Verity Deep Violet, so so much. It has so many possibilities!

For this manicure I started with two coats of Deep Violet, one thin coat of Mash in silver nail art glitter with one more coat of Deep Violet.  This was over Orly Bonder and sealed with Out the Door.   The silver glitter is SUUUUUPER dense, this was as thin as I could get it to apply!  It is not gloppy or anything, really a nice, unique polish.  The pictures appear a bit bumpy.. but it felt so smooth and it didn't appear bumpy to the eye; something the camera only seemed to pick up.

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Jelly Sandwich: Verity Deep Violet and China Glaze Luxe and Lush

One of the only ways I can keep chunky glitters on my nails without sheeting off in big pieces is to sandwich it between a jelly polish.  This works out nicely because the finished look is by far one of my favorites!

I ended up doing two coats of Verity Deep Violet, one coat China Glaze Luxe and Lush and then one more of Deep Violet, sealed with OTD and over Orly Bonder.  Deep Violet needed some extra strokes before I put on the glittery flakie because it was streaky, so I'd say VDV was about 2 and 1/2 coats.

The flakies in Luxe and Lush are not typical flakies, they're thick and not flexible like most are.  You can see on my index finger a piece is sticking up and wasn't flattened by the addition coat of VDV or the top coat. It's not a big deal to me, but it may be to some.  Also worth mentioning is that the flakes aren't the color shifting kind - they're more so just iridescent. It's different from the usual which can be refreshing or frustrating depending on your feelings towards it. Overall though, I love how it turned out!

Pink October: OPI Care to Danse? and KleanColor Metallic White + Stamping

I don't think the blog post title is long enough. I needed a palette cleasner so I went for one the OPI NYC Ballets and turned it into a jelly sandwich with some sparkle and added some for-the-cause stamping.

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I started out with two coats of Care to Danse? and then added one layer of Klean Color Metallic White which is a shimmery metallic white flecked polish.  It's very sparkly!  I then added two more thin coats of Care to Danse? and sealed with a coat of Out the Door.  I used Orly Bonder as my base coat.

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You can really see the sparkles from the Klean Color here.  These two colors play SO nicely together and make such a clean/delicate jelly sandwich.

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For the stamping I used Bundle Monster plate BM-321and Konad Special White stamping polish.  For the pink ribbons I used Zoya Lara which is the perfect pink for the occasion!

I'm still currently selling the Pink of Me polish in my Etsy store. Two dollars from each purchase goes towards Men's Breast Cancer Awareness education.  Pink of Me is available HERE. So far $32 has been raised!

Oopsie Daisies Pink of Me

Oopsie Daisies Apple Picking Jelly Sandwich

The thought hit me to turn Apple Picking into a jelly sandwich when I woke up this morning, so that's what I did!

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This manicure consisted of to coats OPI Y'all Come Back Now Ya Hear?, two coats of Oopise Daisies Apple Picking, and one more coat of OPI. I'm not sure if it was because I used my Barielle base coat which isn't really a base coat, or what, but the OPI jelly stained a bit. I used one coat of the Barielle Pro Advanced and one coat of OTD for this mani.

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Then I added some stamping.  I used bornpretty's black stamping polish and BM plates 211, 314 and 305 for the images.  The stamping polish worked well, better than WnW Black Creme, which was transferring too sheer. The brush for the stamping polish was flared and had strays which made it a little messy to work with, but the opacity was nice which made up for it.  The stamping polishes are available HERE for $6.93 and free shipping.  Also, you can use coupon code "CA10L91" for 10% as well!

Apple Picking and many others now available at my Etsy store!

Oopsie Daisies Nail Polish 

Black stamping was provided for review.

A Jelly Sandwich With OPI

Ever try to capture a really fun manicure but your camera is just all, "NOPE!"? That's what happened today.  I think this needs to be photographed outdoors, but its 11:00pm right now and that wouldn't help much.  I'm busy during daylight hours )= I have no time to do my nails then, so lets just look on at the hot mess I have for you today.

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The photo above is the reason I don't touch my camera settings for swatch photos. Now, I'm pretty pale and I admit that, but I am not translucent.WHAT HAVE I DONE! D:

Seen on this post is a jelly sandwich: 2 coats OPI Too Hot Pink To Hold 'Em - 1 coat of OPI I Lily Love you and the one more of OPI Too Hot Pink To Hold 'Em.  That is all over Orly Bonder and sealed with Out the Door.

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Yeah you can't really tell what's going on too much there, can ya?  It's difficult to see in real life, so I'm not surprised it doesn't translate well onto the screen. Sorry for that.

OPI Too Hot Pink To Hold 'Em has a perfectly lovely formula. I thought it was going to be too sure, but it isn't.  It's a magenta jelly, so it's love, really.  And I Lily Love You is a fun one, but it left bits sticking up that didn't self-level. Anyways, fail.

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Verity Deep Violet Jelly Sandwich

I just finally got a bottle of Verity Deep Violet from Amazon. I had no idea what I was missing! It's the most perfect jelly, I died. I made a jelly sandwich with China Glaze Techno. I couldn't stop looking at my nails all day.

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I did one coat of Orly Bonder, two coats of Deep Violet, one coat of Techno, one coat of Deep Violet and sealed it with Out the Door.

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I haven't loved a mani like this in so long. It looks like the glitter is swimming around on your nail!

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Verity has PERFECT application, the most incredible formula and just is lovely. I'm in love. I can't wait to see what else comes out of this bottle when I sandwich it with other glitters.

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Lynnderella Love Lace & Lilacs

This attempt with using a white glitter was much better than my previous one.  With Sweets to the Sweet the base color I used killed the mani.  I love the results of this manicure!

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Instead of using a white creme, I used a white sheer/jelly.  It's really a little of both.

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I used Brucci French Opaque.

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I used two coats of French Opaque over a coat of Orly Bonder.  Then I used two coats of LL&L and one more of French Opaque, to "sandwich" it. Then it is sealed with OTD.  LL&L applied very nicely and this manicure was strong, no chipping and lasted wonderfully!

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Ulta Aim to Squeeze & KleanColor Chunky Holo Candy Jelly Sandwich

The Ulta Aim to Squeeze polish came in a set of minis comparable to the OPI Texas Sorbets.  I used the orange one from the Ulta mini set and put 3 coats, one coat of KC Chunky Holo Candy and then one more of Aim to Squeeze, a fun orange jelly.

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This is over CND Stickey and sealed with OTD, of course.  The three coats of AtS on their own were.. quite ugly.  It's a fun polish to sandwich with but in my humble opinion, fugly on its own.

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Its just not my style and there was some bare spots (my fault) on the tips, but they were covered by the rest of the layers.

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Definitely click to enlarge to see the detail. Candy is INCREDIBLY subtle buried in the jelly.

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Jelly Sandwich with Sinful Colors "Gogo Girl" and SH HT

I love the look of jelly sandwiches and I am happy to show you this one.  While I'm not too crazy about reds (mostly because I don't wear them well - I love them on others!) the extra sparkle made this a bit more bearable for me.

When Walgreens was having their 99 cents sale on Sinful Colors, I picked out a few that I normally would dodge and Sinful Colors "Gogo Girl" is one of them.  But I think everyone should have a bright red jelly.

Anyways, for the sandwiched part, I used Sally Hansen "Hidden Treasure".

Two coats "Gogo Girl" - One coat HT - One coat "Gogo Girl"

I had a difficult time trying to photograph this.  The sparkle barely shows through on camera.  It was so attention grabbing in person though.  Maybe two coats of HT would've been more effective but I don't want to waste that beauty.

You can see it a little better here, but barely.  The sun was setting and all.

So the Hurricane Irene will be full force here in a few hours.  I think the anticipation is exhausting.  It's Saturday night and I've been waiting since Thursday afternoon (that's when I started hearing about it frequently).  Just sitting and waiting, it was quite ominous outside today.  The air was heavy, the sky was kind of dark.