Mail call! Hey everyone, I have some
really exciting news! Thanks to Stephanie over at
Sincerely Stephanie, I have just acquired all the ingredients to re-create her jelly sandwiches she has been featuring for the last few weeks. I'm fairly new to this nail art business, so when I saw Stephanie's jelly sandwiches I knew I needed to try them out for myself :D The only ingredient I had in my polish stash was the black polish so I had some shopping to do :)
She e-mailed me a very detailed list (thank you oh so much Stephanie!) of what polishes I should try and quite a variety of colours from a variety of different brands. I was able to search through
Nail Polish Canada to look at all of the colours and decided on 3 colours as well as a Flakie polish.
I placed this order on Saturday July 28 and it came in the mail Tuesday August 7 (with a Canadian long weekend in there ;)) so I'm really impressed with the speed of shipping :)
Here's what I got!
Everything was wrapped so well - each polish was in bubble wrap (OMG BUBBLE WRAP!) with little styrofoam peanuts to keep everything from shifting around during shipping.
First up - my very first OPI polish! This is Do You Think I'm Tex-y?, a pink jelly. I can't wait to try this one :)
Then we have my very first Nfu Oh polish! (Yep, I'm a polish-virgin!) This is JS31, a bright blue jelly! Now, with being new to the big-name polishes, I was distracted for a few minutes when I realized that the bottle was in the shape of a woman's dress. At first, I noticed that the top of the lid looks like a heart, but then as I was studying the bottle some more I realized "oh, those are boobs!" HAHA! So I had to take some extra pictures of the bottle because I live a sheltered life and have never seen a nail polish like this before :P
Then we have China Glaze Under the Boardwalk. I love this colour, it's a fuchsia-purple jelly polish. I love purples, so this is right up my alley :D
Finally, we have the ingredient that makes this a jelly sandwich -- the Flakie polish! I chose Essie Shine of the Times because I liked how it looked in the swatches I looked at :)
I love the rainbow in this Flakie :D It looks like it's going to be a well-used addition to my polish collection!
And, Nail Polish Canada included a little treat in with my shipment -- A LOLLIPOP! :D I LOVE sugar/sweets, so this is a nice surprise to find in with my nail polish :D
Ok, so here's what you've all been waiting for -- the jelly sandwich manicure! I started with Jordana Black as my base colour and then topped it with Essie Shine of the Times. I LOVE this Flakie! I can't wait to try it over white, and other colours as well :D
Ooooh eeeee! Look at that fire! :D
Then I topped that off with OPI Do You Think I'm Tex-y?. It takes the green colour out of Shine of the Times and makes it more of a gold to purple holographic. I tried doing a gradient top with OPI Do You Think I'm Tex-y?, Nfu Oh JS31 and China Glaze Under the Boardwalk (all the colours I ordered for this jelly sandwich) but it didn't look right, it's going to take some practice to get it right :) I will definitely do another post later on when I master the gradient jelly sandwich :)
If you are interested in trying this manicure for yourself,
here is Stephanie's tutorial -- take a look! If you give it a try, share it on my
Facebook page and Stephanie's
Facebook page and tell her I sent you ;)
