I was recently contact to do some reviews for
Born Pretty - you can check out their shop at
http://www.bornprettystore.com/ and they sell a variety of both cosmetics, nail polish & nail art supplies. They sent me a variety of fun things to play with & the first thing I'm going to review is the Crack Polish.
A lot of you probably remember cracking polish from back in the day, and it recently has been making a comeback. Jessica from Born Pretty sent me 2 colors, black & blue:
And I decided to give them a try over a variety of colors - I started out with each over red, green metallic & silver chrome:
I love the cracking effect, both with the big chunks & the one silver where I got a really fine crackle. It seems to depend both on the application & the underlying polish - I gave it another try over gold & purple (although the purple looks pink in the pic) - the left nail of each had a pretty thin layer of the Crack Polish, the right nail had a slightly thicker coating:
So you can see, I would say the thinner the better. Definitely would take a little bit of practice to get an even coat on all your nails, so that the whole manicure had a uniform level of cracking & not one nail with big chunks & the next with little bitty ones - unless that's a look you were going for.
Born Pretty has Crack polish in a variety of colors that you can check out
HERE.
Only downside was when I tried to just apply over my existing mani, when it cracked it started to totally flake off before I could put a top coat on. I think maybe my nails weren't quite clean enough? Next time I try that I would make sure they're squeaky clean with alcohol or vinegar beforehand.
I also received some rhinestones & some stamping plates, so stay tuned for those reviews! Thanks for reading =)
~Colette
(These products were sent to me for review)
