Sheer Tint Nightshade, my first jelly! + a bonus manicure

This is Sheer Tint Nightshade from Emily De Molly. I wasn’t sure if I’d like jellies tbh, I’m new to having visible nail line since I only just stopped nail biting a few months ago and this is the longest my nails have ever been in my entire 27 years of life (aside from any fake nails) but wow. This is stunning! My nails are still drying and I can’t be bothered to clean up yet but I just had to share. I really like this so far.

The only thing is I ended up doing 3 coats but that’s entirely because I accidentally made one nail darker and wanted them to match in depth. I did like how it looked in two though, so next time I’ll have to see how it looks when I stop there!

Used Waabooz’s Black Raspberry Vanilla scented top coat. I find the scented minis I have from the brand actually dry pretty quickly even though I don’t *think* they’re meant to be QDTC, but your mileage could vary. I like this one and the Cotton Candy the best. I find the Birthday Cake and Chocolate Chip Cookie scent smell the same, but I would def repurchase more scents to try. So far I like the formula of the top coat!

Base coat was 1x Beaux Rêves Dream Smooth ridge filler.

First two photos are under ring lights, second two are with flash. Last one in the car/natural light.

I’m definitely excited to try more jellies in the future! I just ordered Scarlet Jelly and Eros Jelly from Cirque to test just regular ones, but I’m really digging this flakie version from EdM. Super pretty and I can’t get over how glossy everything looks. I don’t think anything could defeat sparkles for me but this is still lovely with how shiny it is!

Also included a picture of my St. Patrick’s mani which I already took off. I wore it for like 5 days though. I was super impressed with how pigmented Green Taffy was, I got full coverage right away and only added a second thin coat to even things out. It dried down perfectly too within like half an hour, I didn’t smudge anything for once!

PS- in the last picture you can see a groove on my pinkie nail but that’s just how that nail is without ridge filler.

**Polishes used:

First mani- 1x Beaux Rêves Dream Smooth base, 3x Emily De Molly Sheer Tint Nightshade, 1x Waabooz Black Raspberry Vanilla top coat

Second mani- 1x OPI Natural Nail Base Coat, 1.5x Holo Taco Green Taffy, 1x Sally Hansen Insta Dri Top Coat**