Fancy Friday #15: Two Colours...and some 3D Jelly Sandwich pics

So I am back again after a much needed vacation. I was actually intending to blog a little bit during but I was at places where there was either wobbly internet connectivity or not much internet at all. Besides that I had Nekkid Nails almost the entire time!!! On top of it all I've hardly moisturised which shows - pardon my very rough cuticles in this post ;)

And my first August post is a Fancy Friday one. This week's challenge is Two Colours which leaves an abundance of interpretations open. I went into my YSL stash and chose two La Lacque colours: Utopian Turquoise and Ultra Orange.

I was spending the best part of an hour considering what to do and in the end I made something very simple:

My camera freaked out when I took the pictures, look at how plasticine my nails look :O

As you can see I still have some problems with straight lines, all these dotted lines are definitely not aligned :D

Ooops, looks like I forgot to apply two layers of orange on my thumb :D

Oh and some bonus pics: I missed out on the 3D Jelly Sandwich, inspired by this manicure where the goal is to make it look like flowers laying in layers under water, and since I was the one that suggested this challenge I didn't wanna miss out on it so here is my contribution.

Using RBL Bikini Bottom, Starfish Patrick and Squarepants I decided to stamp instead of dotting.

I'm not quite satisfied with it but that is more because of my sucky jelly polish application skills than anything else.

I have purchased a white stamping polish but I sure need to get acquainted with it before it will look really good.

 I think the T-Rex is awesome!! Of course from a VividLacquer plate!

So there you go, hope you enjoyed these manis. And be sure to check the other girls out, they've got some great Two-Colour-Manis!!

Endnu en Fælles Fredag manicure. Som nogle af jer måske har bemærket, nåede jeg ikke sidste uges udfordring - hvilket skyldes ferien og nogle ret sløve og næsten ikke-eksisterende internetforbindelser.

Ugens udfordring er to farver og jeg er gået på hugst i mine Yves Saint Laurent lakker og har fundet Ultra Orange og Utopian Turquoise frem. Der er jo mulighed for at fortolke emnet på uendeligt mange måder, men jeg valgte altså noget helt enkelt.

Og som bonus er der også billeder af min 3D Jelly Sandwich, jeg tænkte at eftersom det var mit forslag til en udfordring blev jeg da også nødt til at lave den, selvom jeg ikke kunne nå det til tiden :)

Elevation Ama Dablam

I was extremely lucky to get hold of this beauty when Lulu at I Dig Brown Nail Polish aka the creator of Elevation Polish did preorders for the very last batch of this wonderful glitter polish. This is a very complex polish with different copper and teal glitters.

 

For this combination I layered it over YSL 142 Ultra Orange and Leighton Denny Plush Pink.

 

I used two coats for this level of coverage.

 This polish was very easy to apply, there was no need to dab it in order to get this to cover properly. I used one coat of Gelous and one coat of top coat to get full cover of the glitter though I think I could have gotten away with one liberal coat of top coat.

Some of the glitters do have a tendency to "cling" to each other but in my experience it is a common trait in glitter layering polishes when they are packed with glitter the way Ama Dablam is.

 This is really gorgeous, the way the copper glitter seem to light from within in indirect sunlight is absolutely amazing!!

Even in shadow it lights up!

You can purchase Elevation Polishes at Lulu's BigCartel Store, right now there are quite a lot of polishes in stock. She usually restocks new colours the 7th of each month but due to technical issues she has moved this month's restock to the 22nd, that is usually a restock of recurring colours - so there will be loads of polishes to get a hold on. I myself will be getting Marmolada and Jungfrau if they don't sell out too quickly.