Jellybean was released by now sadly defunct indie polish maker Candeo Colors for spring 2012. It's a glitter crelly with a pale soft creamy yellow creme/jelly hybrid base loaded with multicolored glitters in two sizes. There are medium-sized pink, turquoise and purple hex glitters and tiny square microglitters in lime, yellow and pink. The bright springy melange of colors pops from within the yellow base color in the prettiest way -- it's just a little darling of a polish!
Previously I had layered this puppy over Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Mellow Yellow, a brighter yellow that leans to the lemony side of the spectrum. I've seen Jellybean perform beautifully solo with opaque coverage in two coats, but my bottle is particularly dense with components and I wasn't certain that I wanted the same abundance of glitters on my nails that two coats had provided in the past, so I chose again to layer. Taking a cue from Lacey of Lace and Lacquers, I dug out my bottle of Sinful Colors Unicorn, a pastel fluffy chick yellow that's part of Sinful's core line. Unicorn turns out to have a decent formula for a yellow polish, if a bit sheer and streaky at the outset. It has a smooth, creamy consistency with a nice flow over the nail and it actually self-levels. I used the lightest touch I could muster and floated on two thin (for me) coats, which wasn't streak-free or even wearably opaque but definitely suitable as a base for Jellybean.
I used about one and a half coats of Jellybean over the Unicorn base. The first coat I simply painted on as I would a non-glitter polish. The consistency of Jellybean is fluid, smooth and super easy to work with, a really outstanding crelly formula for a yellow. It has a lovely flow over the nail with no tumbling of the components, very few protrusions over the free edge and excellent self-leveling properties. Glitter payoff is also excellent with a substantial mix of components per brushful dispersing fairly evenly over the nail. I had just a few bare-ish patches on various nails so I subsequently dabbed on extra Jellybean over those areas. I was really happy with how well this worked out, there was no ghosting around the dabbed on patches and the amount of glitters on each nail was a bit less than in past manicures with this polish -- goldilocks! Cleanup was a snap. Jellybean dries in fairly good time to a finish with some texture from the components. To smooth the finish I used one coat of Nail Pattern Boldness Glitter Food and one coat of Seche Vite.
Photos show one and a half coats of Jellybean over two coats of Unicorn over treatment and basecoat, with a surface-smoothing layer of Glitter Food followed by a topcoat of Seche Vite.
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| Candeo Colors Jellybean over Sinful Colors Unicorn |
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| Sinful Colors Unicorn and Candeo Colors Jellybean, bottle shot |
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| Candeo Colors Jellybean over Sinful Colors Unicorn |
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| Candeo Colors Jellybean over Sinful Colors Unicorn |
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| Candeo Colors Jellybean over Sinful Colors Unicorn |
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| Candeo Colors Jellybean over Sinful Colors Unicorn |
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| Candeo Colors Jellybean over Sinful Colors Unicorn |
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| Candeo Colors Jellybean over Sinful Colors Unicorn |
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| Candeo Colors Jellybean over Sinful Colors Unicorn |
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| Candeo Colors Jellybean over Sinful Colors Unicorn |
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| Candeo Colors Jellybean over Sinful Colors Unicorn |
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| Candeo Colors Jellybean over Sinful Colors Unicorn |
Adorable! I've had this polish for a while and never tire of it. I like it with Unicorn even better than with Mellow Yellow. Unicorn is a pretty good match for the base of Jellybean and doesn't overbrighten the yellow, leaving it soft and delicate. It's still a party, though!
We're having guests from out of town this weekend -- my sis and her family (including my wonderful niece, Eleanor, for whom this blog was originally created) are here to celebrate Easter with Fuzzy, John and me. We're having an Easter feast and just hanging around the place enjoying the spring. Perhaps you'll be doing something similar? Enjoy!
love,
Liz
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