Tuesday, December 27, 2011

FINALLY:silver metallic crackle I can adore!

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Some of you may have noticed that I have been trying to get myself into the metallic crackles- when they were first released I didn't get excited. The swatches on the internet were cool- but when I tried them in the store I was dissapointed. Gold crackle is easy to pair, blues and reds go great with it and make a great holiday manicure. Pink metallics go really well with pink shades and blue shades, and blue metallic crackle goes great with purples, pinks and blues. The Silver crackle took me forever to figure out however, but I think I finally got it! I need to pair it with dark purples, blues and blacks- and I mean dark for me to really enjoy it. I believe these photos are of the silver over a really dark green- American apparel's Hunter I believe. Although I haven't worn something like this since (its been at least a month) I do like this manicure.

Mattesse blue crackle swatch plus factory mix up?

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I was at a Ricky's store the other day drooling over nail polishes when I saw that Mattesse, like many other brands that have crackle nail polish, has made a shimmery and non-shimmery purple and blue crackle but doesn't distinguish the two colors. I saw this with color club also. Its as if they manifacture them differently for some reason but don't distinguish the colors- and the difference is obvious! Here I also have a swatch of their new dark blue crackle that they have on the shelves which I love!

bubble gum pink manicure w sparkle

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I'm not too proud of these nails. Its not like I was at a costume party and I was hello kitty. Its not like I was at a babyshower for triplet girls. Its not like I was walking for breast cancer. Its not like I was at an all female feminist poetry rally against Misogynist companies. I was just bored.

Pink crackle from claires over mattesse blue

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I know, I'm in the process of changing this blog's name to the dailycracklemanicure because thats how much damned crackle I put up on this thing. I just want to give people pictures of all the options- and there seems to be a hundred brands with a hundred different colors of crackle. Also, I have to try them all and every manicure I have has a pic. So here you have it, shimmery pink crackle by Claire's over Mattesse sky blue.

Matesse blue crackle fun

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I have to admit I am really excited about the glitter crackles from Sephora, if I weren't so into magnetic nail polish at the moment I would definitely splurge on them. Maybe I will in a few weeks after the christmas post season is over and my finances are (sort of) ahead of schedule. I have here the Mattesse dark purple crackle that is currently in Ricky's stores. It is one of my favorites, I've worn it with white, glitter, light blue. All of which are pretty bomb. I had a problem with my old purple crackle from china glaze, because I used it so much it dried out and I had to get polish thinner. At the time though it gave me an excuse to buy a new bottle of purple crackle- as I had none that worked. Here it is over an electric blue glitter.

Gold Crackle over turqoise

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This has to be one of my favorite color combinations using gold crackle. Another good one is gold crackle over a deep warm red, or a bright cool red. The China glaze metallics collection is interesting because they have a coppery gold and a brighter warmer gold, so you all have more to choose from ;0
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