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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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.

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