China Glaze Smoke and Ashes with a jelly sandwich

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Howdy. When "The Hunger Games" was released on video, my girlfriends and I had a viewing party. Of course, I had to wear one of the Capitol Colours and as you may or may not recall, when I went to see the movie at the theater, I wore Riveting (my favorite nail polish). So, this time, I wore District 12 on my nails instead. I love this polish. The pictures don't do it justice. They don't show all the blue and green glass flecks in the polish. Because the polish is so very dark, it is a little unforgiving of a less than perfect application and to me, it seemed to chip a little bit faster than my other China Glaze polishes. I still like it a lot though.

I decided that I wanted to use some of my other new polishes on this manicure too, so I topped my ring fingers with a coat of China Glaze Glitter Crackle in Jade-d, then a coat of Orly Glam FX Mermaid Tale and finally used two coats of Nfu Oh Jelly Syrup JS-01. If I were to do it over again though, I would only have added one coat of the Nfu Oh Jelly Syrup. I liked it, but wanted the glitter to show through a bit better.

I forgot to mention last time that I was the lucky winner of Holly and Polish's China Glaze On Safari collection giveaway. I wore one of the glitters, "I'm Not Lion" as an accent in another manicure (I just hate trying to remove an entire glitter manicure, but I love glitter polishes). What are your thoughts on glitter accent nails, like 'em or do you like a more uniform looking set of nails?

Got to go. Happy polishing.
~Alexis

Nfu Oh Jelly Sandwich

Pin It Hello lovelies! Before I get started, I would like to ask you a favor. I am crazy for the Olympics. I love watching the US athletes, but more than that, I love the fact that so many of the world's athletes join together and share their talents and abilities. I know that I have some followers from other countries as well as from the USA. If you have done a manicure honoring your home country during the Olympics, would you consider sending me a photo? I would love to share some of those manicures on here before the closing ceremony. If I receive any pictures, I would make the post on Friday, August 10, so please send pictures by Thursday, August 9. Please just tell me how to credit your photograph. Send to lexissarah (at) gmail (dot) com. Thanks so  much. I'm looking forward to seeing what you've done!

This manicure was inspired by a beautiful Nfu Oh jelly sandwich by the Swatchaholic. I love how all the layers show through and how using Nfu Oh JS-24 transformed the colors of both the base color and the second layer, a crackle polish.

I started off with  one layer of Orly Gorgeous. I then added a layer of China Glaze Cracked Medallion crackle polish, one coat of Orly Can't Be Tamed from the Glam FX collection. I finished the manicure with two coats of Nfu Oh JS-24. Can you see all those layers?

Seven days later and about typical chipping for me, maybe slightly better than usual. I expected more chipping with so many layers of polish though, so I was pleasantly surprised.

What do you think of jelly sandwich manicures? What has been your favorite part of the London Olympics? I love seeing people winning for the very first time, especially if they weren't favorited to win.

Enjoy the week.
~Alexis