Daily Manicure: July 16, 2011: OPI ms.Universe & Color Club Fuchsia fractured!

My manicure of the day (tomorrow really, cuz I'm going to bed now) is a combination of two of my new favs. I told you that I bought color club's new shatter (fractured) in blue (have a bash) and fuchsia (Crush on you). Well, as I was walking around Chelsea, we stumbled upon a collection holder of the Fractured collection, but instead of these two colors, they had different ones for blue and purple- they had splitting image (a blue with shimmer)and Kiss and Break up ( A true purple w shimmer). These two colors seem to be dupes of the Mattesse line, and I've looked at swatches and they don't crack quite like the two I have, so I'm happy I got what I got. Also, fuchsia is much hotter than purple and I don't care what anyone says! The good news for all, is that there are several options out there for blues, pinks and purples thanks to Color Club!

I also wanted to share with you that I bought 3 OPI shades,(they were 3 for $20, bday present from husband) two from Ms. Universe collection and one from the Summer Nice Stems collection. I bought I lilly love you, a jelly pink w crazy glitter action, Crown me already, pure intense s

ilver glitter, and swimsuit...nailed it, also from the Ms. Universe collection ( a GREAT blue). I will swatch them all for you tomorrow, but I needed to tell you that I bought them because Crown me already, paired with the Color club Fuchsia, is my Manicure of the day, and tell me it isn't AMAZING!

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Manicure of the day-July 14 Color Club fractured blue

So like I said earlier crackle/shatter/fractured/frictured/broken/whatever polishes are being made by every single nail polish brand imaginable. Only a handful of companies have stayed behind and have not released a shatter-like collection. Yesterday's manicure was Color Club's Blue Shatter over orly white, and although it looked bomb in the beginning, I do have to say that I didn't wait long enough for the white to dry- or maybe didn't put enough white layers on my nails, because I noticed that the white looked yellowish or dirty in some spots.

I love the Color Club shatter formula, I own two shatters that I found at a local beauty supply store here in Astoria, and I have to say they both Shatter like crazy in every which way possible. When I ventured into Manhattan today with the girls I babysit, we found a small beauty supply store called Essentials on 5th avenue by around 18th street/19th street. They had the Color Club collection, but they didn't have the Fuchsia and blue I bought (picture below). This makes me think that the full color club shatter collection is bigger than this one.

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More Crackle photos

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Crackle is EVERYWHERE

Hi all

I know its been a million years since I have been posting regularly or relevant information. I work seven days a week now, saving my money for the fall where I won't have enough time to work. In the last few months I have been coming across dozens of different brands that have created crackle, and I wanted to share the information with all of you lovelies because crackle is rad, and I have found many new hot colors that OPI and China Glaze have failed us.

Perhaps the best one I have found, in terms of color variation and price is a small brand called 2012, they retailed at my local beauty store for $3.99 a piece, but they had a wide variety of Neon colors, which I thought was rad. In terms of formula however, they are very smelly, and are not 4-free or 3-free by any means. They go on very well and dry almost immediately. If you have sensitive skin however, or are against the harmful chemicals in some nail polish, these are not for you. They are definitely a cheap brand making a quick profit. Also, I found that you must use the crackles over lighter colors in order to show off their true color potential. I put the blue pictured below over a darker color and it didn't show itself well, rather it appeared as though the two colors mixed together to form a new crackle color.

Walgreens in Times Square has a huge set up of Pure Ice crackles, which retail also retail at 3.99, they have almost every color- except a huge selection of neon colors. They have black, white, gold, silver, a silvery blue, a shimmery yellow. I bought a few for the girls I babysit and they liked them. I went to two other Walgreens in Manhattan and they were either sold out, or half of their small display was gone. The formula, according to my knowledge is NOT 3-free, but I don't have the bottles in front of me, so don't hold me to that. They apply smooth and look really good in my opinion, and they crack really well, with the exception of the silver polish, which cracks slightly different than the others.

Color club is another brand that came out with a good selection of crackle colors, including the hot pink and cobalt blue I purchased happily. I found these at another beauty supply store for $5.99. I feel like I could find them cheaper at another location if I tried, but it was a very spur-of-the-moment buy. These polishes aren't three-free either, but on applying them just as I was creating this post, I have to say they are some of the best cracking crackles out there. The picture below will show you, compared to 2012, they crack much more frequently, and I didn't even manipulate the brush! I simply brushed on.

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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 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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