Laura Paige - Red Hot & The ALL NEW British Nail Bloggers Round Up.

I LOVE this nail polish, it's the perfect red jelly.  I picked it up randomly in a little independant chemist a while back, it's a brand I had never heard of, Laura Paige, but the colour appealed to me and at just £1.99 (with a free eyeliner!) I couldn't resist. 

 

 

These pictures are two coats, a coat of Nubar Black Dots and then a final coat of Red Hot over the top, I love the effect, like little ladybirds or strawberries on my nails.  Although it's technically a jelly sandwich I don't think it really looks like one as Red Hot is so sheer you can barely tell there is a coat of red over the glitter.

 

 

The finish is a perfect jelly, so sheer and juicy and squidy looking, I love how this polish looks on my nails, I just with it came in other colours (so far none of the other LP polishes I have seen have looked a similar texture at all).

 

 

I've included this bottle shot, pre clean up with horribly dry hands, so you can see what the bottle looks like and keep an eye out in your local chemists in case you can spot and LP bargains too.

 

 

This week we're taking a slightly different approach to the British Nail Bloggers Round Up post, instead of the usual text post about what everyone has been up to on a Sunday we've decided to move over to an InLinkz version so you can actually see a little preview of each manicure before you head over to their blogs to check them out.  Hopefully it's showing below!

My first ever jelly sandwich!

This is something I have been meaning to try for a while, sandwiching glitter in between coats of a jelly finish nail varnish.  After my Kiko manicure the other day I decided to try it out and I am very pleased with the results:

I then decided to mattify it and see how it looked:

Overall I am really pleased with the results, although I'm not sure about the matte finish, and can't wait to try out some other colour combinations, I'm hoping I might be able to create something which will look similar to Deborah Lippmann's Glitter in the Air. *fingers crossed*

Red

I picked this up while waiting for a prescription in my local pharmacy, I have never heard of the brand before and can't see anything about it online, it's a very pretty polish though.  Bright red jelly!  This is 3 coats and you can still see my nail line in some lights so i am quite keen to try using this for a jelly sandwich at some point as you could definitely see glitter through it.