Shatter Mosaic

Crackle/Shatter polish has been around for over a year now and I think that most people in the polish community will agree that we are kind of over the trend. Sure crackle's are cool, but after awhile you get the seen one, you've seen them all kind of feel. I have a bunch of crackle/shatter polish in my drawers and most of them have gone unused for a very long time. I was stalking browsing through Gorgeois the other day, she's a genius btw, and saw a stunning shatter moasic she had created and knew I needed to do one myself!

This is extremely easy to create and I feel like the final outcome almost looks a little like brains! Which is awesome because it's around Halloween!

All you need to do it paint your nails any base colour, I used Wet n Wild Black Creme and then take your crackles and one nail at a time add small strokes of each colour until your nail is shatterified! I suggest one nail at a time because I find that crackle polishes especially get a little gloopy if you leave them open for a bit. The crackles that I used here are the whole China Glaze Crackle Metals Collection. Which I got on eBay back when I first started collecting. The collection includes,
Platinum Pieces (silver)
Oxizied Aqua (blue)
Latticed Lilac (purple)
Cracked Medallion (copper)
Haute Metal (pink)
Tarnished Gold (gold)

I loved the look of this, but had an itching feeling that I would love it even more matte. So I grabbed butter LONDON Matte Finish and added a coat over each nail.

Yup, matte this is even more cool! I love that when you make something matte that has either a foil or shimmer finish it takes on a whole new dimension and is just astoundingly cool!

Braaaaiiiinnnnnssss. I wasn't intending for this to be Halloween themed at all, but looking at my nails I can't get past the feeling that I'm looking at some weird multi-coloured brains here! What do you think? Do you see the brainy look?

What are your thoughts on crackle/shatter polishes? Over them? Still love them? Matte or shiny here? Let know!
Hope you're all having a wonderful day, thanks for stopping by loves!

Baseball Nails Round 2

I've got some nails that I did on a friend to show you this afternoon! My good friend Alyssa is headed to Toronto for the double header baseball games that are going on this afternoon. So naturally I did her nails for the occasion. :) 

I used Orly's Royal Navy and China Glaze Platinum Pieces (crackle) for the majority of her nails. For the accents on her ring finger and thumb I used Sally Hansen White On then added a coat of Sally Hansen Glass Slipper and then used my Red Stripe Rite Striper to freehand the baseball stitching on. 

A really cute and simple manicure to wear to the game! I hope Alyssa is having fun today and loves her nails! :D 


I hope all of you are having a great Saturday! Up to anything interesting? I'm finishing off an essay, super exciting I know ;) 


Thanks for stopping by!! =D

Art You Wondering about Lightning!

Good Afternoon Lovelies!

How is everyone doing on this post Valentine's Day Wednesday!? Today I have a swatch of a polish I really like called Art You Wondering? by Finger Paints. This polish is a greeny teal micro glitter in a clear base. For me it applied fairly easily and only needing three coats for complete coverage. I find that micro glitters with clear bases generally require more than this depending on how thick your coats are.

As with many micro glitters if you don't take your time with the coats glitter can end up everywhere, so even after clean up I still had a little bit on my skin that just refused to come off!

Then I've been dying to try out my China Glaze Crackle polish as I had previously only used OPI's. Here is Lightning over Art You Wondering?

I was pretty disappointed about the lack of crackle on my later fingers. It started out great on my thumb then as I went along my hand less and less crackle happened and virtually none on my pinky. Hmm... not too sure about that. I do like the colour combo however and maybe with a different stoke technique it will crackle more? I'll look into it.
Please ignore the really odd skin tone of the next pics I took all my pictures in the same light and for some reason even when I tried to alter the colour my hands still look just odd.

And there it is! Hope you're all having a great day!

Until next time,
Sincerely Stephanie

Nicki Minaj Save Me and Turquoise Shatter

So there is a funny story behind this swatch. I got the Nicki Minaj Collection for Christmas and on the box it said the colours were Did it On 'Em, Fly, Pink Friday and Metallic 4 Life. So not looking that closely at the actual colours I assumed that those were the four colours that I got. Then I was putting on what I assumed was Metallic 4 Life and realized it looked nothing like it was supposed to! So I did some searching and voila I actually had Save Me! Has anyone else run into this? Do all the mini collections have Save Me labeled as Metallic 4 Life?


Well that is besides the point, but I'm not really sure how I feel about this polish. It covers pretty well, but all the bar glitter doesn't sit perfectly on the nail and well I just don't know how I feel about it. 

I do really like the colouring of it, but I'm just not the biggest fan of it on its own. Sidenote, I used it over a navy blue on my toes and I really did like that colour combo! 

I tried to put turquoise shatter over it, but I don't think the shatter sat well on top of the glitter, or maybe I didn't wait long enough for it to be dry. Or maybe the glitter just doesn't show through very well. Anyway not a fan of this combination. 

I will work on finding better combinations for both these polishes. I really think that they are probably great polishes on their own, but together not the best thing I've ever done. This was a disappointing post. I will post again like now to make up for the terribleness of this haha. 


Until next time,
Sincerely Stephanie 

Fly with Gold Shatter!

Hey all!! 

Sorry I haven't done a nail post in awhile, with all the craziness of the holidays finishing and starting a new job I just haven'y had the time! So there will be multiple posts this weekend :) 

For my first post Christmas manicure I just haaaaaad to use the new Nicki Minaj nail polish and one of my new shatters. So why not put them together! This one was super easy, but had a great effect that I got complimented on a lot! The teller at the DMV even said she loved my nails! 

This was the final product...

Final Manicure! 

How pretty is that!? and soooo simple. 

So to start off with I had to use the new lotion and nail and cuticle oil that I also got for Christmas. 

The nail oil feels unreal on your cuticles! There is life put back into them! Using oils such as this are especially important when you're changing your nails so often, they can tend to get extremely beat up, so I am thrilled to finally be taking care of them! 

So as always apply your base coat first! I used OPI's Start to Finish Base Coat, also a Christmas present!

Then apply two coats of Fly by OPI from the Nicki Minaj Collection. 

two coats of Fly

I really like the colour of this polish. It's a gorgeous teal, with a bit of shine and not toooo bright. It's perfect for this time of year where you want to add a bit of colour but don't want a bright summer colour screaming at you all the time. 

After this I added a layer of OPI Gold Shatter to give it a little extra something. A trick with Shatter is trying to get your whole nail covered in one stroke to get the ultimate shatter effect. Once you try to put multiple layers of shatter the polish sticks together and won't shatter anymore, which will ruin the effect you are going for. 

with the gold shatter!!

This looks so pretty and is perfect for this time of year and takes noooo time at all to do. 

 fly shatterrrr

Polish Used

Again the polish I used was OPI's Fly in the Nicki Minaj Collection and OPI's gold shatter. 

I have more posts coming this weekend so stay tuned!! 

Until next time,

Sincerely Stephanie