The Jelly Sandwich Manicure

This manicure has been circulating beauty blogs and nail art YouTube channels for some time now, so I thought I would show you the glittery blue version I did yesterday. The concept is simple: Layer a glitter polish between an opaque polish and a sheer, jelly finish type polish. What I like about the finished result is that chunky glitter seems less textured on the nail and in my case, the jelly polish I chose made my glitter seem even more vivid and intense.
For my opaque polish I chose Layla "Aqua Zen" which is a bluish creme polish that dries almost matte. I guess you could call it a "satin" finish. My glitter is Nicole by O.P.I. in "A Million Sparkles." To get the application I did, I completely wiped off all glitter from one side of the brush and used a dabbing motion to pack glitter on each nail. On top is "Isle See You Later" by China Glaze. It's really sheer and I'm not even sure the glitter has a bluish tint at all, but it did really intensify the look of the glitter.
I think this manicure could also be really cool just applied as a french tip if you don't want the solid color plus glitter look.

Lily Pad Nails

Here is a "Blobicure" style nail art design I did yesterday. I do not claim to have come up with the idea, this is just my own take on a design Colette from Mysimplelittlepleasures did recently on her YouTube channel.
The blue color I used was China Glaze Tranzitions in "Modify me." step one was to apply one coat of the polish to each nail after using a base coat. For the blob part, I painted each nail with a generous second coat of polish, and while that was drying, added blobs of Wet n' Wild "I Only Eat Salads." when the second coat and the green blobs had dried, I added some white lines to look a little bit like flowers on a few of the lily pads. The Tranzition colors change color once top coat is applied, so the blue became much darker and the green lily pads had more contrast than before. Overall, I'm pretty happy with how it turned out.

China Glaze Tranzitions- Modify Me

This is embarrassingly my very first China Glaze polish I have ever gotten. Wait, second. I got one of those crackle topcoats about 3 years ago, but it dried up as crackle polishes tend to do and is no longer with us. Anyways, the brand is not available in any drugstores I have ever been to, and the only places I have seen it around town are at Sally Beauty and Ulta. Tranzitions is a collection that is about a year old now that features polishes that change color when topcoat is applied, presumably for various nail art- type applications.
"Modify Me" is a sort of satiny finish periwinkle in its unmodified state that turns dark blue when the topcoat is applied. I think I prefer the unmodified color because there are so many dark blues that look just like the darker color out there. The periwinkle color is more unique.
After trying out this color, I was impressed with the hardness, quick dry time and how long it lasted. I'll have to try some more China Glaze colors in the future.

The original color are on the middle finger, ring finger and thumb, pinkie and index finger have topcoat on them.