To start off, I want to show my first attempt ata jelly sandwich. I'm not really that good at telling diffrent kinds of polishes apart, and I'm pretty sure I don't own a jelly polish, so I just took a really sheer polish that doesn't streak too much.
In case you didn't know, a jelly sandwich is when you paint your nails one color, add a glitter polish and then another coat of polish on top. The end result is a subtle shimmer from the glitter, it really is gorgeous.
I started off with a blue polish, and added a glitter with both small and big pieces. Then I added a thin purple polish and well... See for yourselves.
Personally, I think this purple is a bit too red, which is why I applied a blue color first. I don't enjoy wearing many red shades (which is funny, because I've been wearing a lot of them lately).
Anyway, these nails were super sparkly in the light and it was really hard to capture on camera. I added some studs and wore these for a whole week.
After that experiment, I figured I'd go ahead and try something else; textured polish! I watched this wonderful video on how to do it, and went to town.
I started off with a red polish, and applied a top coat to make it dry super fast. Unfortunately it was the first time I used my new top coat, and the red polish still wasn't dry, so now my whole, new bottle of top coat is tinted pink. Oh well, it doesn't really show.
When that was completely dry I cut some strips of tape and placed them on my nails. I used masking tape but I would recommend scotch tape, as long as you put it on your skin first to remove some of the glue.
Then I applied a coat of black polish and quickly applied black glitter all over my nail. Remember to press the glitter down with the brush, I forgot and most my glitter fell off the next day.
With these I also applied red polish on the underside of my nail. It didn't look so great so I'm not showing it, it mostly just looked like I was wearing acrylics.
It looked awesome either way though! Wearing textured polish feels very strange at first. It scratched against my jacket when I pulled it on, and I got lint stuck on them from clothes etc. But I will definitely do this again, with more colors!
Then I dyed my hair pink. So, to match, I painted my nails pink!
I started off with a french pink, and then marked out where to paint with some lines.
Then I painted the whole bottom area white. On my thumb and ring finger I did two coats, on the other three I added two coats of neon pink polish. Then I used the same neon pink to make some spots on my white nails. I used a black striper polish to make a leopard pattern, and then added two diffrent sized rhinestones along the line.
I find that using a striper brush gives a more haphazard feel to the leopard print. It's a bit harder to aim and it gives it a more random look. I love it!
And of course my new topcoat smudged the leopard print, but I think it looks a bit cool. I don't mind. Even more pink into my topcoat!
These nails are super neon, which the camera doesn't want to capture at all. I loved wearing these, and I love my new pink hair!
Tialiq
