I fell in love when I saw Pure Porcelain. In bottle this is just ever so softly off-white. On the nail it pulls slightly pink. Love-love-love. But of course, I didn't want to keep it too simple so I added a couple of crackle nails.

After my review of Sally Hansen's crackle in Fuchsia Shock I was ready to not try the other colors at all. But I ended up getting suckered into the blue- Distressed Denim. What can I say, I love crackle! I already missed out on the China Glaze crackles (which it seems I will never get my hands on :( ) so I gave it another go. This is the only time I've tried it so I can't give a full review. I did try it over a pale color and on the thumb it does look slightly sheer. I might go ahead and do another ghetto card of swatches to see how this works. All the other issues I complained about in my review of Fuchsia Shock are still there, especially the wonky brush.

What color would you like to see topped with Distressed Denim?

These colors are fabulous. I was checking out the display I noticed there were quite a few awesome colors that I had never seen before. So I picked out:

Unicorn- banana cream

Hazard- Hot coral pink cream

Innocent- Pastel lime green cream (pastel lime? Yeah, I guess)

Savage- Nearly neon blue cream

I've bought another 4 and there are at least another few I haven't heard of. Are these new shades? Have any of you heard of them or have any idea when they came out?

China Glaze- Lemon Fizz

Revlon- Temptress

Borghese Rapido- Menta

Orly- Thorned Rose

China Glaze Shower Together

Sally Hansen- Lickety Split Lime

Orly- Glitz and Glamour

Essie- Going Incognito

Revlon- Stormy

Petites Color Fever- Daze

OPI- Simmer and Shimmer

Borghese Rapido- Limoncello

China Glaze- Millennium

Revlon- All Fired Up

China Glaze- Solar Power

Do you see what I mean, it seems to shift to red or orange over some colors. Darker shades wipe it out completely. It is too sheer to go over something like Simmer and Shimmer. It also does some super weird stuff over some shades- like Going Incognito. All these swatches were completely dry before I applied the crackle, so I'm not sure what caused this. It worked well over Millennium and Solar Power, but that was it for me.

What do you think?

You may remember a little while back I showed you a little bit of a franken I made- Chaos. I finally made myself a big bottle of this and wore it as a full mani. And then I went to work and saw we had gotten in the SH crackle polishes and I snapped up Fuchsia Shock.

...it's like a gluey consistency and won't seem to break down even with pure acetone. It happened to 2 Seche bottles, I've used them before with no issue so I thought this was weird! Any guesses?

Anyways, back on topic...

I quickly applied a coat of Fuchsia Shock over the polish I already had and was kind of disappointed. When I picked this up I have grand visions of it over so many colors- in my opinion pink goes with nearly any color. So when I brushed it on and the pink barely had enough coverage to go over pale blue, I was a little disappointed. I mean, you can see the glitter in my base polish THROUGH the pink. No Bueno!

So on my other hand I decided to try a thicker coat. Now, I want to say that this is not easy. The brush this polish comes with is small (think Essie) and I can only coat half my nail before this stuff starts to dry. Sometimes if you take too long to apply it it gets mad or something and doesn't quite work right- so you have to move fast. The small brush makes this really annoying and I think that OPI has it right (can't comment on others) with the mop like brush that covers (albeit somewhat messy) in one quick coat.

Just to be sure, I did a bunch of swatches on paper. Which, I have photos of but they are kinda on my dead camera at the moment so I will upload them tomorrow and link later. Among them I tried both dark and light colors and decided that this was one polish I would be returning- which I have never done before. Over dark colors it was pretty much useless. You can't tell that it is pink because it takes on the color beneath it. Even over lighter colors (think pink would look awesome over yellow? SO DID I) it takes on the tone of the base (over yellow it appears orange). If you apply it thick enough this isn't so much of a problem- but I had issues getting it to be consistently thick on each finger.

While I haven't tried the other colors, I have discussed the silver one and have seen it used and it also seems to be more on the sheer side (on her nails it went on more like a metallic top coat and had minimal crackles).

As for how it crackles, I can't put my finger on it but I just don't care for the way it does- both thick and thin. I was over all unimpressed. These retail for $6.99 and can be found in most drug stores.

Something I'm really excited about, OPI's new Black Shatter top coat. I've got it over 3 colors for you today, including the Serena Williams polish Simply Smash-ing.

I've been on the hunt, like I'm sure many others, for a crackle top coat for a long time. I recall having one when I was much younger from Maybelline or Cover Girl. I L-O-V-E-D crackle polish and was very disappointed to find that at least here in the US it was impossible to find.

I even ordered the crackle polish from Transdesign and really, I don't even know what that was but it wasn't polish. Sure, it crackled but it also peeled completely off the nail and what didn't was ridiculous to remove. I really don't feel like it was a safe product even- at least I didn't feel like it was safe.

Which brings me to OPI with Black Shatter! The one thing I am confused about is what collection this is part of, as it seems to be a duo with Simply Smash-ing. But then it says...

First I have to show you how it looks over Teenage Dream from the Katy Perry collection...

Layered with Black Shatter. Can you see the differences in the crackle from finger to finger? On my thumb and pinkie I used a very thin layer and on my ring finger I used a thick one. I do recommend using a top coat as the crackle polish has a semi-matte finish.

And here it over yellow, my current mani (I'll have it without black shatter for ya tomorrow ;) )