Milky Jelly Sandwich

Hello my lovelies! I'm still away and this is another scheduled post that will hopefully go up when it's supposed to. If you haven't already noticed, one of my biggest obsessions as of late are jelly sandwiches. They are so easy to create and give such a nice look to the nails! The sandwich I'm showing you today was created with the help of a couple of nude polishes and a very interesting glitter. Here's what I'm talking about.

The idea of this sandwich started from a nude jelly that I recently purchased, namely Essence Give Me Nude, Baby!. It's a very light milky jelly polish that claims to have a "perfect finish". I don't know about that, but I can tell you that it's very sheer. So sheer that I didn't want to use it as a base for the sandwich because it would have needed too many coats to be opaque. So instead I started with two coats of Flormar 12 from the Plus Quartz line. I then added one coat of OPI Lights of Emerald City, a glitter that I borrowed from my kind friend Kinga. It contains square glitter (one of my favorites) in two colors. There are larger white squares and smaller iridescent squares. Unfortunately this was hard to apply because of the thick gloopy base and the fact that the larger glitters are so hard to fish out of the bottle. Here's how it looked over the Flormar base.

OPI Lights of Emerald City over Flormar Plus Quartz 12, indoors, artificial light

I wish there was more glitter on my nails, especially of the white kind. I did my best to put as much on as possible and ended up with a lot of the clear on the nail, which led to bubbles. You can see some of the bubbles in the picture above if you look closely. They became even bigger after it dried, but that was after I took these pictures. I added a coat of Essence Give Me Nude, Baby! on top of the glitter and finished with a coat of top coat.

I really liked how this came out, too bad for the bubbles. I will definitely try this combo again with a different glitter. It's such a great way to create a neutral manicure. Both elegant and fun at the same time!