FINALLY:silver metallic crackle I can adore!

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.

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Purple metallic crackle over dark purple

When I was going through my metallic crackle phase, another one of my favorite color combos was this guy- deep purple covered by purple metallic crackle. I got a lot of compliments on this one.

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Gold Crackle over turqoise

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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More Crackle photos

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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

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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

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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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Blue on Blue crackle

So on st. Patricks day I bought myself some rad tights (Hue tights at rickys, they were on sale!) some hair bands and Butter London's Blagger, from their spring Collection. This is truely an Amazing blue, I love it so much. Its a medium hue, bright cobalt. I wore it all day yesterday, and then I got a tear in my left thumb, so I fixed it using a silk wrap, but today I realized that it broke AGAIN. The tear is so close to where my skin meets the nail that I can't let it get the best of my nail length, so i had to fix it again.

Here is what i did

I got a tea bag and cut a triangle, cleaned off my nail with polish remover,

I got Crazy glue, but only bc I didn't have any nail glue, and I glued on the piece of tea bag

I waited until it dried, then VERY GENTLY filed it down.

I put two- three coats of base coat, and I'm fixed!

The only thing is, a solid color will show the little bump of the patch, so I decided to paint my Butter London Blue with China Glaze Crushed Candy on top, and now nobody will ever know..

except all of you, Enjoy!

UPDATE

nail broke again. fml

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St Patricks themed Crackle nails

So tomorrow is st. Patricks Day, Which means I have to work at my moms bar, hang out with lots of friends and family and drink like a fish work my but off and hopefully make some Money!

So in honor of tomorrow, today I decided to do a green with green glitter under white crackle, just to see how it would look. It looks great, except that I always think when I use any of my crackle nail polishes my nails look dirty. I guess I like solid colors and shiney nails more than anything. I put American Apparel's Hunter as a base color, (over my base coat of course!) then I put Butter London's Henley Regatta on top, which is a green glittery amazing polish. And over that I put China Glaze's white crackle nail polish, and Tada!

I must say that although this crackle looks messy, I get complimented on it every day, girls always want to know how I did it, and where to buy the polish, so if your thinking about it but cant find it anywhere, look at sally beauty stores and Amazon. I bought my six pack of China Glaze crackle there.

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China Glaze Crackle nail polish!

So I ordered all six of the crackle China Glaze polishes because after seeing swatches online I knew I had to have at least four of them- but they ended up being cheaper if I bought them all. I must say, maybe its because i'm exhausted from a long boring day, but I was disappointed! I don't like the way the polish crackles- Although its much easier to manipulate than Barry M or OPI. what I mean by this is that you can make it look different depending on how much crackle polish you put on. If you put on a thick coat of crackle , there won't be too many cracks, but they tend to be slightly bigger, revealing the underlaying color. If you put a scarce amount of polish, you will have more cracks throughout, and both colors will show almost equally on the nail. So yeah, i'm not really disapointed, i'm just exhausted. Here are some swatches, enjoy!

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Black Shatter vs. Barry M review

So my Saturday ritual has turned into making a big breakfast, then sitting around and attempting a fancy Water Marble or Konad Manicure. eventually I get tired and bored of repeatedly cleaning up and changing polish due to my extreme perfectionist demeanor. That being said, today I tried and tried to work a water marble and I did fairly well on my left thumb and index finger. Then I lost the magic. I REALLY need tips in doing this because I would do it every day if I could. I love water marbling so much. ugh. I also want to buy the proper Konad plates and polish so I can do a proper Konad design manicure. But alas I am broke.

So I decided that I would do a review comparing OPI's "black shatter" and Barry M's "Nail effects".Both have the same idea, black chunky crackle nail polish that allow for your base color to really come through. I put Barry M on my left hand and OPI's black shatter on my right. I used China glaze's electric blue called "Sexy in the City", and Finger paints electric blue glitter "Laugh my art off" as a layered base color. It looks AWESOME.

The result? well they are not the same polish by any means! Barry M's Nail effects give a chunky, almost fat square like chunks of the crackle, while OPI's black shatter gives longer squares, making your nails look longer because its like vertical stripes. The chunks in OPI aren't as fat, they are thinner and run up the nail.

Anway, enjoy!

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