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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back from the dead INCOCO nail stickers!

hi all

I'm terribly sorry I haven't been keeping up with this little blog of mine. I could give you a million excuses, school,not giving a fuck , work, but honestly I've been busy and not really busy at the same time but haven't been feeling 100% to post. I WILL deliver nail polish on a daily basis from now on.

Today I want to talk about nail stickers by Incoco, you have to buy them online which is lame, but they are pretty much dupes to Sally Hansen nail stickers but more malleable. They move with ease, and applied really easy with just a nail file, I didn't need scissors at all, which is rare for my klutzy self. They also come in a zillion AWESOME designs, unlike anything anybody will ever see ever, so you will definitely get compliments about these babies. Here are some pics that I took of my lease favorite design, as you can see they are preetty bling.

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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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MAC- Bad Fairy

Mac- Bad Fairy tricked me. For those of you who may not know it was a Disney special edition where they made Cruella de ville and that witch from Sleeping beauty polishes, lipsticks and what not. They were pretty cool actually, better than the few mac collectors addition polishes and products that came after. ALL of the swatches looked so cool online, I called up all of the mac stores in Manhattan and none of them had them EXCEPT the booth in Macys on the fourth floor- because only a crazy person like me would go that far to see if they had it. I went there, spent my money, and put it on that night, really excited that the red and pink holo glitters would stand out a mile away to anyone who saw my nails. But when I put them on my tips- I was pretty disappointed, the color is just too light for my skin.. or something. Maybe I need to put a red tone underneath? Thoughts? Ideas?

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OPI-I'm not really a Waitress

SO I have heard this color all over, supposed to be one of the biggest OPI colors. When I came across the bottle, I thought to myself that it reminded me of Sephora by OPI (go figure) curve-acious. The red tone and Glitter looked EXACTLY like the Sephora bottle I own (and would wear over and over and over two summers ago). So here are some day-shots of I'm not really a waitress. I think its a lovely color, perhaps too strong for my skin tone, plus I definitely out-wore a dupe of this two summers ago, when I was all about the Sephora polishes.

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Silk Wraps + Gel activator.

So for the last week I have been working A LOT. And I haven't been able to post my daily polishes, but I will make up for it in a few posts today. The first order of business is that last week I got a tear in my left thumb and I needed a way to fix it. I googled and saw lots of different things and ways to fix it. I decided to use silk wraps I had.

When I first put the silk wraps I only used glue and polish to seal them. They came off within the first day. I then decided that I should go buy brush-on Gel and Gel activator, which basically is stuff you brush on and it creates a plastic like solid on top of your nail. So i wrapped up my thumb, placed on the Gel and the activator, and it was great. They did not come off for a few days, but my silk strands kept coming through because I was still changing my nail polish EVERY day, so yeah.

When you are putting gel on your nails you need to be careful. I put gel on my nails because it keeps them harder, my nails are very thin and no amount of vitamins has changed that. Gel works great, but you need to make sure you clean your brush when you go from placing it in gel and the gel activator, otherwise your brush, or the liquids in your bottles will harden. This happened to me the first night I worked on my nails with Gel.

I think from now on I will only use wraps If I need to grow out a cut again, I managed to keep it for another week- but every day it seemed like it was hurting, or breaking more, or too "filed" on the cut side so it looked lopsided. I put in pictures of what the bottles looked like, and what a mess my thumb was this afternoon before I cut it short. I also put pictures of what the silk wraps looked like- and I don't like it! When my nails are long and I have clear on, I like the way the actual nails look, thats why I have decided to just put plain Gel and thick polishes on my nails, no wraps, because the wraps move around through washing and changing polish.

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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 NAILS

So For the actual day of st. pattys I wanted to do a Glittery green amazing ness, and I wanted to see just how long it would last working 14 hours straight of pushing through drunk people, making loads of drinks, cleaning up nasty plates, tables and washing ones hands over and over again. Yes I waited tables on st. Pattys day, unlike the rest of the world, that got drunk and acted a straight fool.

My nails looked fabulous, but didn't withstand the beating, not that I actually thought they would, I mean, we were really busy and this kind of work doesn't support the dainty girl in me who always wants glossy, unchiped nails. St. Pattys ALSO weakened my nail so bad that I now have a huge tear on my left thumb, which I will show you in my next post how I repaired, but either way, it stunk.

For this mani I used butter London's Thames with Henley Regatta on top(also by butter London) and a green glitter by ColorClub (exact polish name to come). It was really rad and I'll definetely do this green again, probably on my birthday or something. I love green, it always looks good on me with my red hair, and now with my blondish red hair. enjoy

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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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