My first jelly sandwich - Valentine edition

Hello my lovelies.  Damn it.  Now I have that stuck in my head. There is a stupid ad on TV here for 5 Seeds cider (which is bloody nice by the way) and this guy at end says 'Hello my lovelies' to the two twin girls riding a tandem bike who are delivering the cider.  Their blonde hair in plaits, but their faces are edited so they are actually bearded men.  All kinds of weird for me!  (Geez, I really should have got paid for that product placement!)

I digressed, Ok check out this little bit of squishy and lovey goodness.  This was my first attempt at a glitter jelly sandwich and I really love the final look.

I really don't own any commercially available jelly polishes, so like usual when I don't have something, I make it up for myself.  I made this jelly polish up using 97% clear suspension base, and 3% Red 7 Tint.  I did one layer of the jelly, then one and a bit coats of Nabi Heart Glitter.  It was really one coat, but then I dabbed with extra hearts to fill it up till I liked the effect.  I then layered two more coats of my jelly polish and one coat of Seche Vite.

The Nabi glitter has heart glitter in three colours, pink, silver and blue.  What I love about this jelly sandwich is that the pink hearts went hot pink, the silver ones went pink and the blue ones went purple.

You should see the monstrosity of a nail art creation I have put on today and will post tomorrow.  It really is worth coming back to see.

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Nabi New Lime Glitter over Avon Electric Green

Yep, I'm still layering chunky glitters over creme polishes, I just can't get enough of it.

The base colour is new funky colour my sister-in-law gave me for my birthday.  It's Avon Electric Green and it just went so perfectly with this glitter.  The glitter polish is Nabi New Lime Glitter and it was so much easier to work with than the last gold and red one.  I was able to apply two coats of glitter and still finish with a relatively smooth and flat nail.

The glitter polish is made up of large green holographic hexes, medium green holographic hexes and small green hexes.  These large holographic hexes are so freaking awesome.

Green polish like this is pretty out-there, it's the sort of colour you have to rock with a bit of confidence.  But anytime I wear 'strange' colours like this, I get so many comments from people.  And I don't mean 'eeww, look at her weird green nails' kinda comments, I mean 'holy crap, look at her green nails'.  Ok, those two sentences sound identical, but say them with the right tone and the second one is such a compliment.

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Nabi Mix Big Glitter

I have another Nabi glitter polish to show today, this one is called 'Mix Big Glitter'.  The polish contains large and medium sized gold holographic hexes, medium sized blue holographic hexes and small blue and gold hexes all in a slightly red tinted base.  

In the bottle this polish is pretty spectacular.  But damn, if this wasn't the most difficult polish for me to apply in the history of applying polishes, then call me a crazy cat lady.  These photos show two coats of the glitter over a Bourjois red, which I can't recall the name of, but it was one with one of those massive flat brushes I featured on this post.

I needed some sort of fancy lure to fish out the large glitter pieces, I had to dip the brush around five times to finally get a piece.  Because of all that fishing in the bottle it became really thick and gluggy, but I didn't want to thin it because then it would be just as hard to fetch out the glitter.

Anyway, I persisted with the two coats, then a coat of Seche Vite and in the end it looked like I had massive thick gel nails on.  The top of the nail was dry, but it was still really dentable when I went to bed.  The next morning I took these photos and I've selected the best photos here that hide the flaws as much as possible.  Check out the massive shrinkage I got on the ring finger, it pulled back about 1mm.

Oh yeah, and look at those embedded bubbles on this thumb nail.  Because of the thickness of the polish, you couldn't feel the bubbles at all.  I actually wish I could create these bubbles in a regular top coat, where the finish is totally smooth, as it might look like some really cool nail art effect.

This polish was still dentable after more than 24 hours when I decided to take it off, because I was starting to pick at the glitter pieces.

I totally love this polish, but for me it just needs more glitter to make it more usable.  I feel like getting another bottle, straining them both to just get the glitter, then mixing them into my own suspension base to get a double saturated glitter.  Man I wish I could just but solvent resistant glitters like these to franken with.

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Nabi Blue Big Ball over Ulta3 Spring Shower

Another Nabi glitter polish today.  This is Nabi Blue Big Ball, one coat over Ulta3 Spring Shower.

I love the final look, but this glitter was a beeoch to apply.  I literally had to place each large piece of glitter on the nail.  I couldn't wipe down the nail at all cause all the large pieces of glitter would just wipe off.

This polish has large blue hex pieces and large silver holographic hex pieces, but I only managed to get one silver piece on one nail!  There are also slightly smaller lighter blue hex piece and then small silver and blue holographic glitter.  

Despite the difficulties I had applying this polish, the clear base in this polish dries quite dense, which means the glitter stays nicely beneath a glossy top and the result is a smooth nail.  It really surprised me.

The glitters in this polish are awesome.  What I love most about them is the size of the large hexes.  I have heaps of glitter polishes, but most are just small and micro glitters.  It's a shame this was so tricky to apply.  But really who cares if it's a little hard to put on when the results are so pretty.

Oh yeah, can cause it was so tricky to apply, I ended up with bubbles, and lots of them, the tips of my nails looked like fizzy soft drinks.  But, cause of the density of the polish, even the bubbles stayed beneath the finished layer.

I used the foil method to remove this, and it almost came off smoothly.  Just some of those large blue hexes stayed stubbornly on my nail and had to be scratched off.

I'm going to go pick out another Nabi glitter to wear tomorrow, I just need to decided if it will be a green one or the red and gold one.

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Nabi Glitter polishes - Gold big ball over Zoya Mimi

I got some new Nabi polishes last week from a discount cosmetics shop on the other side of tow.n.  Here is a spectacularly crappy photo of them taken on a piece of paper on top of the BBQ out the back!  That's right, no fancy light box for me, your lucky there's not grease spot showing through the paper :).

I've been so into glitter polishes recently.  Every time I go to put something on I pick up a glitter bottle and work out what I can match it with.  This combo is Nabi 'Gold Big Ball', which is most certainly a Chinese import and not three free from the smell of it.  Ohhhh I love the smell of toxic nail polish!  

Gold Big Ball has three sizes of gold hex glitter, with smallest and largest pieces being holo gold glitter!  Yell yeah, super sized gold holo glitter!

I layered one coat of Nabi gold big ball of two coats of Zoya Mimi.  Application of the glitter was a bit tricky and I did need to search for the glitter pieces in the bottle and roughly place them on the nail.  But the final look was definitely worth it.

I wore these nails to work on Thursday (I know, totally work appropriate right!)  At the end of one meeting with some ladies in another division, one of them leaned over to me an said "Seriously, your nails were so distracting during that meeting".  How cool is that!  I'm used to distracting myself with my nails, but I love it when I can distract someone else too!

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Nabi Glitters...............PSA:Plug your nose, while using

I got a set of these Nabi glitters on eBay, a LOOOOOONG time ago. Well I finally decided to try them out. It wasn't to bad to apply, but OMG they smell soooo bad! Oh and these are of course all over black :)
Here is the set I have, with no flash

Here they are with a flash

This one is called Blue Big Ball, lolololol 


 

Green Big Ball

Purple Big Glitter

Gold Big Ball

L.A. (really, couldn't just stick with your color naming theme?)

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