Claire's Candy Shop & Crackle

So this polish was sent to me as part of a swap from Iris over at Polish Amor, and I can't believe I haven't posted about it yet. Again these photos are from a while back.

Claire's - Candy Shop is such a nommy, amazing polish I love love love it. It's a pink jelly with multicoloured glitter pieces that range from small round glitter, to large hex glitter. But most of you have already seen this beauty, or Deborah Lippmann's - Candy Shop. So onto the pictures :]

Then I decided to add a black crackle, and I loved it even more, I'm kinda hit and miss with crackles, every now and again I think they look okay, but I don't actually like to wear them. But I loved this combo so much, and the photos don't do it justice it all.

 & Then I added a top coat. The more I look at these photos the more I'm disappointed, in person the glitter would catch your eye between the crackle, but they kinda look blah here.

I hope everyone's having a good Wednesday :] This was meant to be a scheduled post for Thursday as I will be ingredient shopping for Scott's birthday cake stuff, but blogger decided to be a pain the butt ¬_¬

Gold, Chunky Glitter & Black Crackle

So it must been about a year since I bought this mixed glitter, and I had forgotten all about it. At the time I did swatch it, and decided it was too goopy, and smelly to really bother with. Also the glitter's curved and it's beyond annoying¬_¬

Anyhooo I recently found it again and decided to give it a go with a crackle. Unfortunately the gold had leaked from the gold glitter turning them silver, and the clear into murky brown. It's rank. But it didn't look so bad on :]

Base Coat: CND - Stickey
Base Coat: Miss Sporty - Gold Back Stage
Glitter: Xtras - Mix Gold
Crackle: Barry M - Instant Nail Effects
Top Coat: China Glaze - No Chip Top Coat

Please excuse the tip wear and nail growth, this was after a couple of days wear, I was just waiting for the sun to come back out xD

Pink Crackle Shorties

Finally round to posting my shorties ;( miss my longer nails; but my nails grow fast and they're quite a bit longer at the minute, I have a little bit of over hang, and have shaped slightly. I'm really liking the shorter length for a change :]


I'm still not a massive fan of crackle/shatter polishes; but my boyfriend brought me a surprise Barry M' - Nail Effects in pink. & I really like how looked over Models Own - Pastel Pink :]

Base Coat: CND - Stickey
Base Colour: Models Own - Pastel Pink
Crackle: Barry M - Pink
Top Coat: China Glaze - No Chip Top Coat

Crazy Crackle.

I need to catch up with my posting, it's been ages. I've been doing my nails loads, but work is crazy at the minute - Changing over database systems is oh-so stressful.

Anyways the sun has been out recently and I've been loving bright colours, and pastels. And since buying the Barry M Nail Effects I've only used it once; on my toes. So I thought I'd best do something fun with it

I used tape going in different directions on alernate nails.
Taken with a flash, as the sun had ran away

L-R: CND - Stickey, Beauty UK - Turquoise Shimmer, Rimmel - Pop!
Nail Art Pens - Purple Glitter & Blue Shimmer,
George - Buttercup Sunshine, Miss Sporty - Unknown
Barry M - Instant Nail Effects, China Glaze - No Chip Top Coat