Ombre Ikat Hearts + Green Jelly Sandwich

Hi there guys!! My exams are nearly over and this makes me a very happy bunny, but arguably my worse exam is tomorrow so I'm hoping I can keep my cool and do my best.
I did this jelly sandwich and I liked the way it looked but I didn't want to leave it plain and it took me ages to decide what to paint on top. But I eventually decided on ikat hearts cause I really liked the way they looked the last time I did them.

I know I could've painted this much better, the ikat just isn't very spiky and I wanted more colour. But it was at a point where there was too much colour and I had to go over with the white again. But then there was too much white and I didn't want to keep going in circles. Though it would've looked better with more colour. I like the heart on my thumb but this mani is just missing something... :/ But hearts are always sweet and the jelly sandwich looks pretty cool with it. 

I started with white polish, dabbed the colour on and then did the black spiky parts (excluding the whole adding more white polish step). They're more gradient hearts cause for an ombre it's only meant to have one colour but ombre sounds nicer, sorry if it bothers you cause it would bother someone like me :P

Jelly Sandwich Base: Barry M - Guava, Orly - Ridiculously Regal, Barry M - Ruby and Topshop - Green Room
Black: Lovely Me:Ex - Black
White: Barry M - Matt White
Red: M&S - Poppy
Coral: OPI - Jinx
Orange: Essie - Fear Or Desire
Light Orange: Models Own - Beach Party
Yellow: Barry M - Lemon Ice Cream

Thank you for reading and I hope you have a fantastic day!! :)

Seashell and Starfish Nail Art

Hello there!! How you doing? Haha hopefully well, I have a summer design today as the summer is still here (though September and school is fast approaching *ultimate sad face*). I used a cutepolish tutorial, well I just used the picture cause it's super cute and super cute is my favourite adjective. I changed it up quite a lot and the result is...different (in a kind of good way). Her's are WAY cuter, just saying.

I like it but my seashells are so messed up. I couldn't find a way for them to look ok so I let them look weird and wrong. I like the starfish though especially the metallic pink dots, I'm glad that polish worked way better than I expected it to.

The difference being the colour scheme and I jelly sandwiched for the base. It gives a kind of sea feeling, but pink sandwiched in green worked better in my head than in real life.

Green: Barry M - Greenberry and Topshop - Green Room (jelly)
Both polishes are virtually the same colour (I'm almost 100% certain they are the same colour), I compared them on a sheet. I would never do a nail comparison with them as the difference would be so clear. Greenberry is a careful 1 coater, Green Room is minimum 5 coats and it's not even opaque (I was very disappointed the 1st time I tried it). Green Room will forever be my green jelly.
Glitter: OPI - Minnie Style 
The white square is peaking out on my ring finger and I like that.
Dark Pink: Barry M - Fuchsia
Metallic Pink: Barry M - Boots Xmas LE 2012 B (really opaque :))
Purple: Illamasqua - Jo'Mina
Dark Purple: OPI - Plum And Get It

Thank you for reading and I hope you have a nice day!! :)

Freak Out! Stars

Hi there guys!!! I hope you're enjoying this fine Sunday evening, which will hopefully lead into a wonderful new week.

This post should also be titled "How nail fails can be saved", cause really. It was bad. I had an idea to do a glitter gradient "inspired" by Models Own - Freak Out!, but I think I was too lazy to do that and I just told myself, don't just put Freak Out! over plain nails. You can probably guess what I did, we all know I can't listen to myself.
It escalated to the point where I jelly sandwiched the mani and it was bad, very bad. I'm not going to describe how bad it looked cause it was bad. I gave myself a rule not to jelly with a different base and jelly colour. ...Um...Yeah...I did that. But I'm glad I didn't freak out (I'm a clever one aren't I :P) and give up, cause I really love this nail art.

I don't know why I don't do more stars cause I love stars. I freehanded those bad boys (literally have never used that phrase before in my entire life), and I'm so happy with how they turned out. It's really the colour scheme I love, it's "inspired" by Freak Out!. I think this is such a party manicure, ok maybe more kids party manicure but I love that vibe.

Base: OPI - Plum And Get It, Models Own - Freak Out! and No7 - Snowflake (DON'T DO IT, PLEASE)

Purple: OPI - Plum And Get It

Light Purple: Barry M - Berry Ice Cream

Blue: Nails Inc - Baker Street

Pale Blue: The Face Shop - GR501

Pink: Per Una - Fuchsia (no name)

I like Freak Out! but I don't love it, I show it here a lot but that doesn't mean I love it. I find the formula a bit tricky, everything migrates to the tips. I also don't like shards (they poke out and annoy me) and it smells really bad. But it's nice enough that I use it, no where near being a favourite though.

Had to edit out a wee bit of a cut, but it's still ok :)

Moral of the story: Don't jelly with a different colour to the base, and always persist after a nail fail cause it could turn out right!!

Thank you very much for reading and have a lovely day!!!! :)

Jelly Sandwiches + Tribal

Hi there guys!! Hope you're all enjoying this lovely Saturday. Have you ever had that chocolate-y ice cream cake. OH MY SO AMAZING. I was feeling like some glitter, in some sandwiches with some tribal so that is what be happening (bad grammar intended, don't worry it won't be often. Hopefully).

I was determined to make up my own tribal design so I did (I tried to use tribal elements that I've seen before). I think mostly successful, my favourite is my 4th finger as I decided to go crazy there. I'm happy with the neatness as I painted this with my non-dominent hand.
Base and Glitter:
Thumb: Rimmel - Misty Jade and Barry M - Superdrug Xmas Limited Edition 2012 B
Pointer: Rimmel - Misty Jade and Orly - Go Deeper
Middle: Rimmel - Misty Jade and OPI - Rainbow Connection
Ring: Models Own - Snow White and Barry M - Amethyst
Pinky: Rimmel - Misty Jade and Models Own - Freak Out!
Jelly:
Thumb: Essie - Turquoise and Caicos
Pointer: Topshop - Green Room
Middle: Topshop - Green Room
Ring: No7 - Snowflake
Pinky: Essie - Turquoise and Caicos

Jelly sandwiches by themselves

I really liked Amethyst sandwiched and Superdrug Xmas 2012 B (it's too long man) too. I won't sandwich the Barry M Superdrug glitter again though, cause you can't hide gorgeous glitters under a bushel. Go Deeper is clearly not a glitter to be sandwiched, actually looks better in picture than real life. I'll take it. There was a shard poking out of Freak Out! and I told myself to ignore it but it annoyed me so much that I ripped it out (yep under topcoat and jelly). I felt much better after and then I patched it up.

Thank you very much for reading and have a lovely day!!! :D

Abstract Christmas Trees

Hello there. I wanted to do a cool Christmas tree design, I thought I was a genius when I came up with this but the sad reality of my life is that I'm not :'( But I'm ok with that :P

I've been really into jelly sandwiches after the gradient I did a couple of posts back. I love Rainbow Connection sandwiches with Green Room. It's pretty. It's nice as a background. I really like the shape of the tree as it's somewhat clever and easy to do.
Dark Green: OPI - Jade Is The New Black
Red: w7 - Burnt Amber
Gold: w7 - Golden Sands
Pink: Barry M - Pink Foil (or BLE 2012 B, whatever you wish :P)
Brown: w7 - Brownie
White: Models Own - Snow White (creme) and No7 - Snowflake
Light Green: Rimmel - Misty Jade  
Green/Blue Jellies: Essie - Turquoise and Caicos and Topshop - Green Room
Rainbow Glitter: OPI - Rainbow Glitter
Other Glitter: Models Own - Freak Out!
Black: OPI - Metallic 4 Life
It very much has a jelly theme going on, as Metallic 4 Life has a black jelly base too. I thought it would be a weird accent, I quite like it.

Thanks for reading and have a wonderful day!!! :)

Sea Jelly Gradient

Hello there, good to see you (kind of :/). I was meant to do a base for some nail art but it turned into an actual clever idea (rare occurrence in my brain) that I don't see floating about a lot (AH PUN :D).

I did a really pretty gradient (another rare occurrence) and I didn't want to ruin it with nail art (though it probably wouldn't of ruined it) so I thought to add some rainbow glitter for festivities. I didn't like how shiny the glitter was so I used 2 jelly polishes and bam. Some funky gradient. I really like it, it looks pretty cool.
Pale Green: China Glaze - Re-Fresh Mint
Medium Green: Rimmel - Misty Jade (as base creme) and Essie - Turquoise and Caicos (as jelly) 
Darkest Green: Topshop - Green Room
Rainbow Glitter: OPI - Rainbow Connection
In real life these polishes are more green.

Thank you for reading!!! :)

Combo: Phoenix Egg (Rainbow Jelly Sandwich)

Hello there. I've wanted to do this for a while but I kept getting distracted. Also my first successful jelly sandwich, last one didn't go too well. Failed something that's near impossible to fail. Go me.

I wasn't sure what to call it, but I thought Phoenix Egg worked. White nails are weird, it's not that I don't like it, it's just weird. I'm not used to it. Jelly sandwiches are really cool, I have limited jelly polishes but once I can more interesting glitters (I'm looking at you Models Own - Freak Out!) and more jelly polishes. I will probably go jelly sandwich crazy.
Opaque White: Models Own - Snow White
Jelly White: No7 - Snowflake
Rainbow Glitter: OPI - Rainbow Connection
I've had Rainbow Connection for almost a year and it's starting to get thick. Anyway I did one coat of Snow White, one coat of Rainbow Connection and one coat of Snowflake.

                   (A picture with crappy lighting to hopefully show the glitter better)

31 Day Challenge - Day 9 - Rainbow Nails

I had such high hopes for this :’( When it said “rainbow” I thought rainbow glitter. So I attempted my first jelly sandwich.


AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! Revlon Dreamer you lied to me, I thought you were a jelly polish. Now I know it’s more of a jelly-crème :L the second finger looks ok but otherwise it’s an unquestionable mess and an unmitigated disaster. I love OPI Rainbow Connection though; I bought it for the name. But also, IT'S RAINBOW GLITTER!!! My aunt showed me the song and I instantly loved it. I love rainbows in general but I failed this. 

I gave up with the jellying of the sandwich for my left hand. The glitter didn’t really show up true to colour. But trust me it’s lovely. 

Colours used:

Powder Blue: Revlon – Dreamer

Rainbow Glitter: OPI – Rainbow Connection

This is upsetting. Tomorrow better go amazing.