Experimenting: my first jelly sandwich!

Well, I'm sure everyone reading this already knows what a jelly sandwich is, or glitter sandwich, or whatever you want to call it, but it took me forever to really understand it. I'm sure I probably still don't, so don't judge if this is wrong! But the way I think of it, a jelly sandwich is when you sandwich a bold glitter in between layers of a jelly polish, to give the glitters a cool, sort of muted look. I experimented with this recently with a couple polishes that I felt were sheer enough to be considered "jelly". It was tough for me to find a jelly polish in my collection that didn't already have glitter in it! But I found a handful and decided to test them and see how they measured up!

For my glitter, I used Ulta Pinata-Yada. My "jellies" from L to R are Revlon Effervescent Opal, Loreal Tweet Me, and Studio M Total Wow. I layered my sandwich like this: 2 coats of jelly, 2 THICK coats glitter (equivalent of 3 regular coats), 1 coat jelly, 1 coat SV. And here it is!

I really liked how these turned out! I thought this would be a great look for someone who likes a little sparkle, but nothing outrageous. The top layer of jelly really tones down the glitter in an interesting way. I'll definitely be trying out some more combinations. I'm even thinking of making a few jelly frankens to try out in a sandwich - I have tons of chunky glitters to use in the middle!

One last picture in brighter light. So what do you all think? What are your favorite jellies to use in these types of looks?? :]

That's all for now - good night everyone!

Kelly