Twinsie Tuesday: Jelly Sandwich

Good Morning! It's that special day of the week again, it's Twinsie Tuesday! When I originally looked at the schedule for this week I saw jelly sandwich as the theme and though to myself this would be a disaster. I had only tried one jelly sandwich before, using Essie Marshmallow and it was a FAIL. Besides Marshmallow, I only own 2 other jelly polishes due to the fact I had sold/swapped the rest of them. I had Revlon Royal to work with (too dark to sandwich anything) and Deborah Lippmann Yellow Brick Road. I remember seeing swatches of a jelly sandwich featuring Yellow Brick Road on Goose's Glitter and I was blooooown away. Deborah Lippmann's Yellow Brick Road was in a pile of polishes I was going to sell/swap, so I decided to give it another chance before I had to try and franken a jelly. I originally tried to sandwich DL YBR with Lynnderella's Connect the Dots but the white didn't stand out enough, in my opinion. I layered two coats of DL YBR and a coat of Jordana Sequins and came out with this......

 

To complete my jelly sandwich I added another coat of DL YBR and voila!

Visible nail line and all, DL YBR can keep it's home in my helmer. I may put Essie Marshmallow in the swap/sell drawer instead lol.

As always, don't forget to check out the other Twinsie Tuesday ladies. We've also added Brandi from The Collegiate Nail to the rotation, so make sure you check out everyone:

Amanda at Amandalandish

Anna at Going to the Showing

Anne at Grape Fizz Nails

Ashley at Art Evolve

Brandi at The Collegiate Nail

Chelsea at Nailed Blog

ChiChi at I'm Just Me...ChiChi

Jenn at All That is Gorgeous...

Jenna at I'm Still Thinking...

Katherine at Haul of Fame

Marisa at Polish Obsession

Meredith at Polish and Charms

Nory at Fierce Makeup and Nails

Rachel at Top Coat It

Sarah at See Sarah Swatch

On a side note, my no/low-buy was going so good and I was getting really proud of myself. I've been saving my dollars for the Lynnderella polishes that I want, and I've probably only purchased about 10 polishes in the last month (down from the 400-500 I bought in 2011 lol). Sometimes, rules must be broken. And if you have some extra money to spend RUN to Aveyou.com because they have the entire Hologram Collection from Layla up. My bestie alerted me to this last night and I whipped out my credit card like it was on fire lol. I was trying to hold out and buy them in Ulta for the sake of the $3.50 coupon, but with the coupon code Gimme25 you get $25 off $100. You can get all 8 Layla holo polishes for $99 + $1 shipping. Just figured I would share to anyone who has been waiting for these.
 Thanks for stopping by! :)

Hard Candy 'Sky' with Deborah Lippman 'Happy Birthday'

Today I have Hard Candy 'Sky' topped with Deborah Lippman's 'Happy Birthday'.

I picked up Hard Candy's 'Sky' because I read it was a dupe for Chanel 'Riva'. Don't get me wrong...I've dropped a pretty penny for some HTF polish, but $23.00 is a little much in my opinion. I got this so called dupe for $5.00 at my local Walmart. Good enough for me. The first coat of 'Sky' was a little uneven and streaky. It evened out by the second coat.

I bought Deborah Lippman's 'Happy Birthday' in a mini pack of 3 polishes at Nordstrom. The 3 pack of minis included 'Happy Birthday', 'Across The Universe' and 'Bad Romance'. Formula on this was great and I only needed 1 coat to reach the glitter coverage seen here. I always thought the base would be 100% clear, but it changed the color of 'Sky' slightly to a pinkish/purple tint. I'm thinking maybe the glitter bled a little? Either way it wasn't a big deal.

Please excuse the lack of clean up.
The swatches below are two coats of Hard Candy 'Sky' and a coat of Deborah Lippman's 'Happy Birthday', topped off with 1 coat Seche Vite.