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The Glitter Sandwich - Barry M & Girly Bits

Written by Katie Schmidt

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Posted on October 16 2012

Good morning lovelies! I wanted to do a quickie post today inspired by one of my "most liked" photos on my Instagram account (@madebykate) - it's a gorgeous blue glitter sandwich including Barry M Blue Moon and Girly Bits Wet Bikini!!



So the above was taken on September 22 with my iPhone, so I redid the manicure yesterday for you and there has been a real lack of sun around here lately, so most of the photos that I did take use the flash and are indoors.

What is a glitter sandwich you ask? Well, it's basically just layers of glitter (I prefer glitter in a clear base) and sheer or jelly polish - it creates much more depth than if you were to just put a coat of glitter on top of your manicure. You'll be able to see the depth in a couple of the photos. I'll explain step-by-step what I did to get this look:

1 - Use a base coat (whatever works for you, everyone is different)
2 - One thin coat of Barry M Blue Moon, wait for it to dry.
3 - One coat of Girly Bits Wet Bikini, wait for it to dry.
4 - One thin coat of Barry M Blue Moon, again, wait for it to dry.
5 - One coat of Girly Bits Wet Bikini, and again, wait for it to dry.
6 - Finish the manicure with a top coat, if the glitter is gritty or bumpy you may want to use a thicker top coat like Seche Vite or Gelous. And you're done!

So this may take a little longer to do than a normal manicure, but the looks is definitely worth it in my opinion. 


You can see the gorgeous shimmer in Barry M Blue Moon really plays off of the Girly Bits Wet Bikini glitter!
I apologize for the state of my cuticles - it's so darn dry here and I've been packing tons of orders!!






Outdoors, no flash - our dreary Canadian fall - boo!


Macro to show the depth of the glitter - outdoors, no flash.

I'm kind of obsessed with the glitter sandwich, so there may be more of these on the way - I hope you don't mind! I love showing how you can use glitter polish - it's so versatile! I fell in love with this kind of manicure thanks to Kirsten at GlittaGloves for her blog post here.

Do you guys sandwich your glitter?!

Thanks for reading, cheers!
Katie
Oct 16, 12   •  By Katie
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