While I personally love jellies in theory, a lot of the time I don't like it on myself. But the hype of the OPI Ballet collection got to me and I got the full set and I love them! My first full manicure with the sheers is OPI: My Pointe Exactly + OPI: Pirouette My Whistle.
I think this is about 4 layers of My Pointe Exactly and 2 of Pirouette My Whistle. The glitter is so delicate and sparkles lightly, if that makes sense. I kept this manicure for about 3 days before messing with it, haha.
Rainbow Honey is another indie that makes amazing glitters. When she offered a pre-order a while ago I jumped on it and got four. I layered one of them, Hanami, on top of this mani, and it was instant love! I feel grey and pink are one of those pretty color combinations, too :)
I did two layers of Hanami and a whole bunch of top coat -- it was a hungry glitter! But so worth it. Pink hexes along with more translucent shards, translucent hex glitters and iridescent smaller glitters jam packed in a pink shimmery base. There's so much in this polish! It garnered a lot of compliments, too :D
You could still tell it was layered of a sheer/jelly base, and it all worked beautifully together.
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I love both of these manis!
Nice! I have on My Pointe Exactly at the moment - actually tried it as a french mani, which I haven't worn in about, oh, a decade or so. I figure the gray base keeps it more edgy than stepford. I can't get over how amazingly streak free the application was - not like those streaky "sorbet" disasters from the texas collection.
I'm loving both of these! The glitters you used are really pretty.
@TikiBarbie - thank you!!
@Grace - yeah I love the Ballet jellies! too awesome
@Melissa - thank you! check Rainbow Honey out if you can :)
I have so much enjoyed most all of the NYC Ballet sheer/jellies and I too use them often with Pirouette My Whistle. These parings were my first really successful Jelly layerings. Encourage others to try jelly sands with light shades first. Now I am more bold when I find some bolder shades I have that work for jelly sandwiches. I do have to agree with you - I go back to this same one a lot - the gray with Pirouette My Whistle really looks great. I sometimes add some Nubar White Polka Dot to the mix as well, despite Pirouette and WPD are pretty close to each other.
@grace - I agree. I had trouble learning to do a jelly sandwich at first because I only had the couple of jellies from the TX collection and they did not work that well...UNTIL I put two of the TX shades together - I use the pinker one with the pink coral. That seems to work and the formulas level out. I think the 2 I put together are Do You Think I'm Tex-y? and Guy Meets Gal-veston.
Yes! I LOVE Rainbow Honey. I've got 6 of 8 of the Equestria collection. Celestia is layered over American Apparel The Valley on my toes right now and it's GORGEOUS.
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