After much playing around with my Sally Hansen Crackles last night, I finally figured out and mastered the trick to using them: You want to use as little nail polish as possible. Very, very light coat but seriously: try to get the brush as free of the polish as you can. There should just be a tiny amount. I literally had to dab it in with the brush in some places because there just wasn't enough on the brush. Doing it this way though got the results I've been wanting.
Sorry, I know these aren't the best photos but I hope you can tell it definitely cracked like it's supposed to!
I also got my nail art brushes and dotting tools in the mail!
I ordered Bundle Monster's Pro 20 Piece Nail Art Detailing Brushes and Dotting Tools from Amazon.com. This set costs $14.99 (I got it for $9.97!) and it looks pretty awesome! Next up, I need to learn what to do with each of these awesome tools and how to use them. My boyfriend said he would help first time I want to use them :)
I also organized my polishes last night, this time by color. I definitely need more yellows, greens and oranges... and I discovered while I have lots of different purples, they're almost all Wet n Wild, so I think I need to get a few different brands in there. I've definitely come a long way from the days of mostly greys, and dark shades. Lots more color in there.
This got me wondering though, to those of you who organize by color.. how do you organize your glitters? I mean, some of them are easy. Others, not so much!
Holy crap your collection has grown! So Crackles: Yes use very little polish. Also the direction you paint chooses how the cracks appear. Collette from My Simple Little Pleasures has a good video on YouTube (go watch it seriously!). As for organizing...I was doing it by color and I would put my colored glitter with its color family but I changed that (only when I ran out of room) so I just put all glitters together unless it was in a pigmented base. For instance: Pure Ice Strapless was in with glitters and CG Lubu Heels was with the blacks. Make sense?
ReplyDeleteyes it has.. I think I started with like 40 something polishes back in April.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the Crackle tips. I've had different results with OPI Black Shatter, which is why I didn't know... you can use a ton of polish with Black Shatter and it cracks. Guess I got spoiled.
Yep, makes sense, thanks!