Candy Corn Jelly Gradient Sandwich

Hey Guys! Today I've got a bit of a Halloween nail fail. I did these nails after I got home from a curling game the other night. Started at about 10pm and once I realized it wasn't going to work out I didn't have time to go back and fix it! Since I want to show you that everyone has nail art fails, here is mine!

I've been itching to do more jelly sandwiches and specifically more jelly gradient sandwiches lately and I thought, hey! Candy corn has three colours! That will be peeerrrrr-fect. So I started out with Wet n Wild Black Creme and then added a coat of my trusty Sally Hansen Glass Slipper (I'm gonna need another bottle of this bad boy soon). From there I started my jelly gradient.

I didn't have all the appropriate coloured jellies, so I decided to make my own for the yellow and orange. Essie Marshmallow the best white jelly ever took white jelly position. I mixed some clear polish in a palette with NYC Lexington Yellow and OPI Roll in the Hauge then proceeded to make my gradient using the technique outlined in this tutorial.

If you're still reading now you are probably thinking, hmm Candy Corn does not go in that order... and you're right! In my post-curling tired state I completely forgot the order of colours on Candy Corn, which is actually, white, orange and then yellow. I also had recently come across NYC Demon Glow and then thought I could save these nails by making it awesome and glow in the dark. Only to realize that the topcoat glows under black light and not in the dark. Bummer.

This manicure has taught me that when I get home from curling I should just go to bed and attempt nail art the next day.

What do you think of my candy corn attempt on another jelly gradient sandwich? Hope your having a greaaat day!

Jelly Gradient Sandwich Tutorial!

Gooooood Morning loves! Today I am very excited to present my Jelly Gradient Sandwich Tutorial and my YouTube debut!! You have seen the jelly gradient sandwich twice on my blog before, here and here. Each time being a different set of gradients. Well today I decided to create a blue to purple to pink jelly gradient sandwich!

I got a lot of comments on my past two jelly gradient sandwich posts so I figured it was time to make a tutorial for you all! Now before you watch, I have a lot I can improve upon. I know essentially nothing about videos, but iMovie tutorials helped me and here we have my very first tutorial! All things considered I think it's halfway decent for my first try :) 

I'm hoping that I will improve with more practice and that my voice overs will eventually get better, so please bear with me while I try to figure out all this YouTube stuff! :)

Meanwhile if you would like you can subscribe to me YouTube Channel! :)

The polishes I used for this manicure are, Nailtini Espresso, Sally Hansen Glass Slipper,China Glaze Ride the Waves, China Glaze Under the Boardwalk and OPI Too Hot Pink to Hold Em. I'm not going to give a verbal explanation because that's what I made the video for! ;)

I hope you all enjoyed my first foray into creating tutorials! If there is anything else you would like to see a tutorial for, so I can practice, because I need it, let me know!

I would love to see if any of you attempt the Jelly Gradient Sandwich so keep up with me on Facebook and Twitter to show me! :D

Thanks SO MUCH for stopping by!!! :D

Jelly Gradient Sandwich Take Two

Gooood Morning lovelies! It's a Monday, bleeeeh, but today starts my exam period at school. First exam is this afternoon and then in less than two weeks I am done my semester! So I'm going to let you all know that posting might be a little sporadic in these next few weeks. Gotta study for those pesky exams! A few weeks back I posted what I called a Jelly Gradient Sandwich. This was one of my favourite manicures I had done in a while so I decided to redo it using a different colour scheme! At the end of my previous post I talked about doing a gradient in yellow, green and blue. I didn't *think* I owned a yellow or green jelly, but upon further inspection of my stash I found some!

I couldn't decide what pictures to narrow it down to, so I'm just posting all of them! Keep reading after the jump to see how I did this!

Jelly Gradient Sandwich

Yes you read that title right. Today I have a jelly gradient sandwich to share with you. The other day I was looking at my stats and I suddenly had a higher than normal volume to my Polish Days jelly sandwich post. I investigated a little and it turns out that someone had linked my post on Make Up Alley! So after reading all the awesome things you wonderful people had to say about my jelly sandwich I noticed one person with the nickname supko had suggested a jelly gradient! So I decided to put it in action! Thanks for the awesome idea!

Isn't is preeetttyyyy :D To get this look I started with one coat of Wet n Wild Ebony Hates Chris your basic black creme. Then added a layer of Sally Hansen Glass Slipper. Now here's where it get's interesting. To achieve this jelly gradient I first used OPI Too Hot Pink To Hold Em and swiped across the center of my nail. Then I used OPI Big Hair...Big Nails to do a swipe of jelly goodness near my cuticle and finally used OPI Do You Think I'm Tex-y? to do a swipe of jelly at the tip of my nail. Doing the middle swipe first made sure that the gradient was even and the colours blended. 

This is one of my favourite looks that I have done in awhile. Gradient? YUP. Jelly Sandwich. YUP. I'm head over heels in love? YUP! 

Wouldn't this look cool in a yellow to green to blue jelly gradient?! I think that might be going on my to try list. Juuuust need to get those jellies. ;) I think I am a tad obsessed with this look. It really is stunning! 

What are your thoughts on my jelly gradient sandwich? Is this a look that you would rock? I'd love to see it if you try something like this! 

Hope you're having a great Thursday, it's almost Friday! Woo!! Thanks for stopping by ladies and gents!  

Feel Me Up to a Happy Ending

Yup that is a maaad racy title. But I thought it was funny so I decided to run with it ;) I've got an awesome jelly sandwich to share with you today. I recently got some fabulous Cult Nails nail mail and inside contained two amazing polishes Feel Me Up and Happy Ending. (There were more, but those are the ones I'm showing you today!) 

Cult Nails Feel Me Up is a stunning yellow creme. It glides on like butter and is one of the nicest yellows I have ever worn. It really is your perfect daffodil yellow and has the always awesome jelly-creme formula. I used three coats here to get the opacity that I wanted, but I probably could have gotten away with two. Topped off with one coat of Cult Nails Wicked Fast and you have that glorious swatch. Cult Nails Happy Ending was sitting out just begging to be put over this so I listened to the polish and swiped some on. Yes sometimes polishes speak to me. I can't be the only one right? lol

Ok this polish stole my heart. I mean LOOK AT IT! How amazing does that look over Feel Me Up. Happy Ending is a multi-coloured shredded metallic glitter suspended in a clear base. When I originally saw this I honestly was 'ehn' about it. But it somehow found its way into my polish hands and I am so happy it did! It really is such a happy polish! The layering combinations for this is insanely endless. 

Awhile back Colores De Carol posted this fab jelly sandwich. It has been in the back of my mind to recreate for awhile and this felt like the perfect opportunity to add a coat of Essie Marshmallow and have a lovely jelly sandwich. 

With the coat of Marshmallow the entire look is completely transformed. Without it it's an edgy summer look and with, a pastal beauty. I've been rocking some neons lately so this was a lovely change from the brightness. 

I was totally felt up to a happy ending here in the best possible way. ;) Gorgeous base colour? Check. Amazing shredded glitter? Check. Jelly Sandwich? Check. SO GOOD. I had so much fun with this one. The only thing to watch for here was that the shredded pieces in Happy Ending can stick up. You can see a piece on my pinky that stuck through the top coat. This was probably due to my application, but it's something to watch for. 


Cult Nails you can feel up my tips any time. ;) If you want to be felt up by Cult Nails you can purchase Feel Me Up and Happy Ending here for $10 each. 


What are your thoughts on this colour? Are you ehn on Happy Ending like I orginally was? Or are you jumping up and down wanting this polish like yesterday? Maybe somewhere inbetween? Your thoughts on jelly sandwiches? Personally I hope you like them because I *might* have another one for you this week. I'm obsessed. 


I hope this fun post cheered up your Monday! Have a fabulous day and thanks so much for stopping by!! :D 

Let's Make a Jelly Sandwich

It's the second installment of Polish Days! This time we will all be posting delicious jelly sandwiches! My jelly sandwich is inspired by the lovely Sarah at Chalkboard Nails. Awhile back she posted an awesome jelly sandwich using Sally Hansen's Glass Slipper, a white flakie, and then layered Revlons Royal over that. I did something similar, but with purple! 

I started off with a base of Wet n Wild Black Creme and then added a generous coat of Sally Hansens Glass Slipper. This is a gorgeous white flakie in a clear base. Once this had dried I added one coat of OPI's Houston We Have a Purple from the Texas Collection, a deep magenta purple jelly. 

I really like this kind of jelly sandwich! The flakies are awesome and it looks like it is almost purple flakies instead of a jelly sandwich. The combination with purple and black gives it a bit of a vampy edge that I'm really feeling! 

What do you think of this jelly sandwich? If you don't already know it jellies hold a special place in my heart. They are just super squishy goodness and well I just love em. :) 


What do you think about jelly sandwiches? Are you a fan? Do you like this one or prefer when they have glitter instead of flakies? 


Make sure you stop by the rest of the ladies participating in #SandwichPD!! 

Hannah of Polly Polish

Jen of The Nail Polish Project

Susy of Susy in Color

Jenny of Beauty by Jenny

Mara of Mara in Polishland

Nail Tart

Salla of OMG Polish 'Em

Jasmine of Colour Coated

Deborah of Love Varnish

Kat of Hooked on Polish

Melissa of The Crimson Petal

Cassie of Sparkles Make Me Happy

Pris of Pris Nails

Julie of Time On My Nails

Keisha of Refined & Polished

Lynn of Oh So Lacquered

Alexis of xoxo Alexis

Cuti-CLUE-les

Mihaela of Lacquer Buzz

Heidi of Pretty Painted Nails

Sabine of My Polish Stash

A Lacquered Affair

Jelly Sandwich!

Morning Folks!


Today I will be starting a challenge with a group of lovely girls that I met through twitter :) This is a Smorgasboard of a challenge with a variety of different techniques. We'll be posting 7 challenge days every other day, check out the graphic at the end of my post to see what else will be included! The first day is a jelly sandwich. 

I started off with 2 coats of Essie's Marshmallow, which is my favourite jelly to use for sandwiches! Then I added 1 coat of Finger Paints Flecked which is the green flakie. Then I added a coat of LA Girl's Eutopia, which is a Violet Purple glitter in a clear jelly base. Then I added one more coat of Marshmallow. Finished off with a coat of NYC top coat. 

I'm really sad that the green flakies didn't show up in the sandwich! Maybe if I put them over a black base next time with a different jelly on top? I shall keep experimenting :) 

I like how this turned out, it reminded me of a twist on Nubar Black and White Polka Dots. What do you think of this jelly sandwich? 


Check out the other girls participating in this challenge! Alaina of The Little Canvas, Ryan of Dream A Little Dream of Polish, Ave of Polish Pixelle, Megan of Let there Be Lacquer, Nicole of My Nails. My Polish, Kristen of In the Name of Polish and Amanda of Fashion Footing.

Yummy Jelly Sandwich

Morning folks! 


Today I have a very yummy jelly sandwich to show you!! Last week I showed you Pretty and Polished's Hello Dolly. Once I had it on for a few hours I decided to try making it a sandwich :) 

I used Essie's Marshmallow to do my sandwich. Just one thin coat of it over Hello Dolly and Marshmallow created this yummy yummy jelly sandwich! 

The more and more I looked at this, I knew that it needed to be mattified! So I grabbed Essie's Matte About you and went to work. 

Wow I loved the look of this even more!! The squishyness went to a whole other level and I loved how I could still see the white glitter underneath jelly coat. 

I can see many many more jelly sandwiches in my future! I'm in love with them! :) 


What do you think of them? Any cool combinations you've done?


Sincerely Stephanie