Picture Polish Wisteria and OPI Rainbow Connection Jelly Sandwich

On Wednesday of last week I decided to experiment with the concept of the Jelly Sandwich again. As some of you may recall (or if not you can find it on this blog) my last attempt of a Jelly sandwich wasn't so hot. The effect was too nude/dead fingers and it ended up sliding off my nails the next day, urgh! So this time I played around with a few colors on a swatch until I was happy with how it was going to look and this is what I came up with :)

I give you the Purplicious Jelly Sandwich

This is what I used to create it :)

Ulta3 Base coat and 2 coats of Picture Polish Wisteria

Picture Polish Wisteria is such a lovely color on its own.

Then I added a glitter layer of OPI's Rainbow Connection

OPI Rainbow Connection

One layer of Rainbow Connection over Wisteria

Rainbow Connection and Wisteria, without and with flash

Then to complete the Jelly Sandwich I topped Rainbow Connection with 2 coats of OPI I Pink I Love You

OPI I Pink I Love You

Final Result of the Jelly Sandwich, a lilac looking sandwich with suspended glitter :)

Depending on the light can look quite purple....

....or light Lilac

The completed Jelly Sandwich pics were taken after 4 days wear, so please excuse the tip wear. Even then the wear was awesome and minimal! I loved, loved, loved this mani so much that I still have it on and it's only coming off as I need to have more "work appropriate" nail attire. Whatever. I will definitely have another go at a different type of jelly sandwich, as technically I didn't use a jelly polish but the layering technique was there and I love the endless combination you can try :)

 Hope you liked the jelly sandwich, what's your fav color combo for your sandwiches?

Kleancolor Jelly Sandwich

So tonight I have a quick change of polish after taking mine off today midway through the day because of performance appraisals. I don't have a problem with my polish but I am sure not every one thinks all my colors are "work appropriate"! So the black Orly Androgenie mani went and tonight I created a quick mani so I wasn't naked.....a Jelly Sandwich!

I wasn't quite sure which way to go with the sandwiching colors, but I thought pinky/nudes were quite safe so the first color I applied was Kleencolor 151 Sheer Pastel Cocoa with 2 coats so there was no nail line.

Next was Kleancolor 192 Afternoon Picnic for the glittery goodness

I then used Picture Polish Nude as the top layer of my sandwich

A top coat of Seche Vite and the result...a sheer nude glittery sandwich!

Not 100% sold on my Sandwich of choice. I always love the thought of nude nailpolish, but I think it makes me look a little dead! Overall I like the Sandwich look :)  I do love the Kleancolor Sheer Pastel Cocoa...will have to do a nail stamp with it as a base in the future. The only issue I had with the Kleancolors (apart from that they are very smelly apparently, but I have a terrible sense of smell!) is that the Kleancolors can be a little thick and not very fast to dry. I didn't rely on just my Seche to make sure didn't kill this manicure, I added a few drop of OPI Drip Dry to make sure it fully drys before I go to bed. It seems to have worked a treat after the recommended 5 mins. 

I am currently taking photos of my nailpolish choices with my phone camera..yes, it's not the best it can be but I do have a proper lightbox which I am setting up this weekend so hopefully the quality of my pics will be getting better!