Jelly Potion Sandwich nails tutorial

Do you know what I realised? We haven't done any jelly sandwiches as tutorials and we're going to change that today. Let's play with layers!

This is truly the simplest of techniques, as you will only need two polishes. They have to be of a specific formula but it will be fine, I swear:

 

The polishes you will need are a jelly and a topper. A jelly is a translucent polish, intentionally sheer. And a topper is a polish that you want to put on top of your manicure to add effects like flakes, shimmers or glitters. I'll explain as we go what the effect is, for now, mine are:

• Mixture I did of a couple drops of green polish into a bottle of transparent polish, not top coat
• Deliplus' Duo Nº900 (only the white glitters part)

I know this is probably the less helpful list of products so far, as I made my own mix with a bit of green polish and that duo polish has been discontinued for a decade or so, and it's 3 mL bottles. I used almost all of it for a manicure, sample size can't even describe it!

Our first step will be painting a coat of our jelly, so it's transparent on purpose. If you use it on natural nails, you are meant to see your nail line!

Next step, paint a coat of your topper on top! Mine has small white hexagonal glitters and a golden shimmer throughout. I kinda want more white glitters or flakes, they're fun...

And to complete the sandwich, you need to add another layer of jelly. Again, its transparency will allow the topper to show through but with the hue of the jelly you're using, adding a lot of dimensionality to your manicure and making it look like it came out like that straight out of the bottle. Also, a second coat of the jelly will help a lot with coverage and saturation.

In camera it's very shy but in person I could see more of the glitters. But if you don't like this, you can keep going! Add another layer of topper to get a more dense topper effect:

 And of course, you can add a final coat of jelly if you want to encase this one too!

 The different layers of topper and jelly will create a lot of visual interest on your nails no matter what look you end up going for, if the simple sandwich, topped or double sandwich, so it's a case by case basis depending on how the polishes play together and your personal preference. I am wearing this exact manicure topped, but when I did it, my topper was extremely thickened by time and I decided against thinning it for consistency between my nails. A bad decision, but a decision nonetheless:

That's why my glitter looks so dense. Because it is, it was lacking base. It also makes my manicure to feel thick. Also fun fact that I didn't realise when I made this jelly a couple years ago! I did it with a cheap Pinkduck polish in shade 11, a totally medium green, the green you think when you think of green. That pigment, for some reason, reacts to black light:

 My plan was for the glitters to look like bubbles, preliminarly, but it didn't translate great so it doesn't really look like a potion, but I'll pretend like it does and move on, y'know? So, hey, nail polish companies, if you want to collab with me, we can work on a jelly with glitters... and, oh, yeah, thanks for reading! See you next week, I hope, with another elegant set because I have another wedding to attend to and I don't know if I should repeat mani. Even though I'm repeating outfit. lol the hypocrisy.