China Glaze Crackle + Katy Perry OPI collection colors

I'm having a rough day today- rough end to a long rough week! So to cheer me up I played a little with a few nail polishes I had on my person. I brought the China Glaze crackle polishes Pink (broken hearted) and purple (Fault Line) and Katy Perry by OPI's Last friday night ( blueish clear with sparkles) and Teenage dream (pinkish clear with sparkles). I did two combos that I thought would look cool, the Last friday night with fault line on top, I tried to move the crackle around, painting it horizontally and vertically and every which way to see how it affected the crackle effect, but overall I ended up not liking the color combination, i'd much rather like to see a contrast here, but the Last Friday Night didn't show through as much as I wanted, maybe I should put a white base underneath.

The second color combo I did was the Teenage Dream with China Glaze's Broken Hearted on top. it looked rad enough for me to keep it on for the night. From afar it simply looks like hot pink, but then the shiny sparkly comes out through from underneath pretty nicely. I must try other combinations soon- any suggestions?

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MAC- Bad Fairy

Mac- Bad Fairy tricked me. For those of you who may not know it was a Disney special edition where they made Cruella de ville and that witch from Sleeping beauty polishes, lipsticks and what not. They were pretty cool actually, better than the few mac collectors addition polishes and products that came after. ALL of the swatches looked so cool online, I called up all of the mac stores in Manhattan and none of them had them EXCEPT the booth in Macys on the fourth floor- because only a crazy person like me would go that far to see if they had it. I went there, spent my money, and put it on that night, really excited that the red and pink holo glitters would stand out a mile away to anyone who saw my nails. But when I put them on my tips- I was pretty disappointed, the color is just too light for my skin.. or something. Maybe I need to put a red tone underneath? Thoughts? Ideas?

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OPI-I'm not really a Waitress

SO I have heard this color all over, supposed to be one of the biggest OPI colors. When I came across the bottle, I thought to myself that it reminded me of Sephora by OPI (go figure) curve-acious. The red tone and Glitter looked EXACTLY like the Sephora bottle I own (and would wear over and over and over two summers ago). So here are some day-shots of I'm not really a waitress. I think its a lovely color, perhaps too strong for my skin tone, plus I definitely out-wore a dupe of this two summers ago, when I was all about the Sephora polishes.

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Silk Wraps + Gel activator.

So for the last week I have been working A LOT. And I haven't been able to post my daily polishes, but I will make up for it in a few posts today. The first order of business is that last week I got a tear in my left thumb and I needed a way to fix it. I googled and saw lots of different things and ways to fix it. I decided to use silk wraps I had.

When I first put the silk wraps I only used glue and polish to seal them. They came off within the first day. I then decided that I should go buy brush-on Gel and Gel activator, which basically is stuff you brush on and it creates a plastic like solid on top of your nail. So i wrapped up my thumb, placed on the Gel and the activator, and it was great. They did not come off for a few days, but my silk strands kept coming through because I was still changing my nail polish EVERY day, so yeah.

When you are putting gel on your nails you need to be careful. I put gel on my nails because it keeps them harder, my nails are very thin and no amount of vitamins has changed that. Gel works great, but you need to make sure you clean your brush when you go from placing it in gel and the gel activator, otherwise your brush, or the liquids in your bottles will harden. This happened to me the first night I worked on my nails with Gel.

I think from now on I will only use wraps If I need to grow out a cut again, I managed to keep it for another week- but every day it seemed like it was hurting, or breaking more, or too "filed" on the cut side so it looked lopsided. I put in pictures of what the bottles looked like, and what a mess my thumb was this afternoon before I cut it short. I also put pictures of what the silk wraps looked like- and I don't like it! When my nails are long and I have clear on, I like the way the actual nails look, thats why I have decided to just put plain Gel and thick polishes on my nails, no wraps, because the wraps move around through washing and changing polish.

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