E is for Elegance

Post #2 - I'm on a roll!

I can't believe we are on "E" week already for the ABC Challenge!  If you are just joining us, click the link and get the information for the Challenge, and join in if you want!

For "E", I wasn't sure what kind of nail art to do so I just picked something kind of vague and random...

E is for Elegance

February Nail Art Challenge Day 3

Good morning lovelies!!  Today's my last day of work for the week, I get to sleep in tomorrow :D  We are also expecting a BUTTLOAD of snow tonight and into tomorrow - there is an Alberta Clipper coming through and it's meeting up with a Texas Low over the Great Lakes!!  YAH-HAH-HAH-WHOOO!  The weather man says Toronto is to expect about 30cm (12inches) tonight :D

Today is Day 3 of the Nail Art Challenge, and the design for today is Glitter Loaded :D  I will admit, when I put this as an option I was going through a glitter obsession and didn't really think about how to do nail art with glitter.. but that's OK.  Looks like there are some ladies that have accomplished this already :D

Nail Mail: Ingredients for a Jelly Sandwich

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 ;)