Anyway! Today I have a collection of 5 jelly sandwich ideas that may or may not have worked out. For those of you who don't know, a jelly sandwich is when you apply a glitter polish between two coats of jelly polish. This creates a really cool effect of the glitter being suspended or "trapped" in your nail. I don't know if this look is for everyone, but personally I love it! I've always had a weird fascination with things like this. Remember those acrylic toilet seats that had little marine animal figurines suspended in them? Like this: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/a7/f3/76/a7f376682f901020c28336071b02177f.jpg ? Yeah, I've always loved those for some reason. Why am I comparing a nail polish technique to a toilet seat? I don't know...
Moving swiftly on, I will show all of my concepts and include which polishes I used to achieve the look. I'll tell you how I did it, and my thoughts on how it turned out. I'm excited because I've been wanting to try out a jelly sandwich look for a while but never did, and now I've got 5! Here goes...
Here they are! Let me start off with the thumb, which I consider to be the biggest failure.
Thumb
Jelly polish: Pure Green by NYX Girls
Glitter polish: Fairy Dust by China Glaze
Yeah... I don't even know if this can be considered a proper jelly sandwich. I don't know if that green polish (which I LOVE, by the way) is even really a jelly... I get the feeling it's not. It also doesn't help that Fairy Dust's particles are very small, and jelly sandwiches are supposed to be made with chunkier glitter. This was 3 coats of Pure Green and 2 coats of Fairy Dust, alternating. I just wanted to see if this would even work, and evidently, it didn't.
Index finger
Jelly polish: Maven by NYX Girls
Glitter polish: Flake Out by Sinful Colors
I like how this turned out, but it was SO labor-intensive. First I applied 2-ish coats of Maven, then added a flake. 2 more coats, another flake. 2 more coats, another flake. 2 more coats. Yeah... 8 coats of nail polish to get this done. You should have seen it from the side - it looked like an acrylic nail! This would never work as a real manicure. It just requires too many coats and too much time. But it's so pretty to look at, isn't it?
Middle finger
Jelly polish: Purple Effect by L.A. Girls
Glitter polish: Celestial FX by Revlon
I sorta kinda liked how this turned out. It's better in theory, honestly. I did one thin coat of Purple Effect, fished a few glitters from Celestial FX and placed them, then topped it off with another coat of PE. I think that last coat was a bit thick, so it's hard to see the glitter underneath. It also doesn't help that PE has scattered holo in it, overpowering the moon & star glitter and making it harder to see. It looks better in low-light because the holo isn't reflecting. Either way, I wish this worked out better.
Ring finger
Jelly polish: Ravishing, Dahling by China Glaze
Glitter polish: Hologram by Revlon Street Wear
This one is really interesting! Unfortunately, the camera doesn't quite capture it, but this has an amazing amount of depth to it. I did 3 coats of R,D and 2 coats of Hologram, alternating. Interestingly that top coat of R,D basically cancels out the holographic qualities of the glitter and just reduces it to typical silver bar glitter. But I really like it! I think this one best captures that suspended/trapped glitter look. Or maybe that honor goes to the final one...
Pinky finger
Jelly polish: Sheer Jelly by Butter London
Glitter polish: Carnival by NYX Girls
I think this is the most traditional jelly sandwich look that I did. Sheer Jelly is a true jelly polish — look, it's even got "jelly" in the name! - so that's why this worked best. Carnival is also the perfect chunky polish for the look. I did 3 coats of SJ and 2 coats of Carnival, alternating. I really, really love how this turned out! This is the only one of the bunch I can actually imagine doing a full manicure of.
So, that was my foray into jelly sandwich territory! I make it sound so treacherous when jelly sandwiches are really super easy. I also read somewhere that you can make your own jelly polishes with 97% clear and 3% colored polish mixed together. That sounds like it'd work tbh... I should try it sometime! I hope you enjoyed this post. Until next time...
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