Showing posts with label China Glaze Crackle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label China Glaze Crackle. Show all posts

Sunday, November 27, 2011

China glaze haute metal crackle swatches





As my husband snored next my awake ass last night. I thought of all the nail polishes I wanted to work that were hanging out in my closet next to my ex's skeleton(like the gray that was on my nails at the time). Recently I purchased the China Glaze's metallic crackle collection from Amazon, they didn't send me the silver one, but refunded me anyway.
I decided to try the pink metallic over a darker purple/pink, and the blue crackle over a dark blue, the purple over a dark purple ect. Today I decided I would start with the pink. I already had China glaze's "Ahoy!" on my toes from a few days ago, which is a really pretty reddish pinkish rose amazingness. The crackle looks amazing over it (sorry for a toe shot). I know you can't really see the color combination of "Ahoy!" with "Haute metal" but it is my favorite, it brings the rosey-ness out of the pedicure, and I honestly wish I wore it on my hands instead of the purple combination.
I also decided to use a dark purple from L.A. Colors metallic nail polish collection as my mani and place the haute metal over it to see how it looked. It looks fabulous. I finally figured out how I can wear these and tolerate them. I do not like using the metallics with colors not in the same family, but then I saw a few good combinations of dark purple with the aqua metallic from China Glaze. So Bottom line, there is hope for me yet, and I think I will play with them all this week and show them to you, just because my life is so interesting otherwise.

Gray Crackle (it never works)



I really don't know what to tell you on this one. I love crackle, I love easy nail art. But I don't love gray and I don't love silver crackle. Maybe I'm missing the color combinations, I know I have tirelessly looked online for color combinations and failed. I don't see anything I like or, when I do try it on myself I think it looks like a pile of ass. This time I said to myself, I like crackle over glitter, so lets try a nice darkish purple glitter, thinking it would look nice. I put china glaze's "Cracked Concrete" and then I instantly hated it. Wore it for one day because I can't do my nails more than once a day for fear of ripping them off, but hated it nonetheless.
I will continue to look for other combinations, I kindof like it with pink, but think I should like it with more colors then ones from the hot pink family. And anyway, I like anything thats hot pink so I don't think it really counts.

Monday, May 30, 2011

China Glaze Crackle: Crushed Candy Blue






I really love Crackle, in case you didn't know. I got all six of these on Amazon some time back- I put on American Apparel Neon Red and Crushed candy over it, really bright, amazing mani. I also Included some photos w/ Lighting Bolt (China Glaze's White Crackle). A girl stopped me at my job wearing the white and told me that OPI's white Shatter was terrible. I have heard mixed reviews BUT the China Glaze crackle rocks. As you can see, but of course, I get hundreds of chips after just one day. :(

Monday, May 2, 2011

OPI Red Shatter Swatch!





So OPI has released their silver, blue, white and red shatter, and I decided to only go with the red shatter because broke as fuck I don't like the silver or the blue, and I already own China Glaze White crackle. I must say that I REALLY like China Glaze's white crackle, and I was looking forward to the red Shatter by OPI, but I was VERY dissapointed. Its sheer, kind-of like their texas sorbet finishes, you can see through to the base color way too much, and I just don't like that. I want to be able to have strong contrasting colors with my crackle- and China Glaze's white offers me this. Here are some swatches- the white China Glaze crackle is over American Apparel's Downtown LA, one of the best red polishes period. The Red Shatter is over a sparkly blue, a white, and Sally Hansen's Insta dry Silver sweep. I figured these three polishes would work well with a strong red shatter, but because it isn't a solid color, as you can see it doens't work well. I need to play with this more, otherwise I might actually just return it. especially since my ass needs cash
So, We have swatches here of American Apparel's Downtown LA,
And swatches with White Crackle by China Glaze over Downtown LA
Plus Swatches of Red shatter over a silvery glitter, a blue chunky glitter and a matte white

Thursday, April 14, 2011

China Glaze Purple Crackle




This was a great manicure, I put the matte purple crackle on top of a simple shine-free ivory nail polish. The great thing about a manicure with the crackle polish is that it can mess up and it still looks normal. This manicure did chip quickly because my mani's always do, but I thought I would share it with you anyway because its a good color combo without looking too juvenile. This wouldn't look so good with darker colors, think light cremes or light neutrals, or you could go with sparkle hot blue or something similar, but honestly, if you match it with hot pink or electric blue, it almost looks like it should be worn by an eight year old. Anyway, Enjoy