Interesting Crackle Nail Polish Discovery

Alright, so I have a slightly abusive relationship with. Crackle nail polish.  Until very recently, I could never get them to work, like EVER, no matter what I do to try and change it.  And suddenly, they magically started working for me; I was super excited.  This was the first picture I tweeted when I got them up and running, actually:

They are two of the crackles from the Nicki Minaj line by OPI if I remember correctly on top of Orly Platinum.  But yeah, so anyway, I really love crackle polishes now that they’ve decided to work for me and do what they are supposed to do.  However, as I found out today, that is not always the case.  These polishes do not act right sometimes …

Let me explain my thought process before I tell you what I did, because it’s sort of a doozy. ^^;;  I just moved to NYC and started a new job, and this was a very sudden change for me.  Like, so sudden that I had an interview Thursday and started the next Monday, so I had to pack and move several hundred miles in three days or so.  Yeah, hectic.

Needless to say, during those three days I didn’t have much time for beauty endeavors, and because of all the packing and moving boxes, my nails suffered horribly.  Only one outright broke thankfully, but the polish was in a sad state when I was done.  What was once a neat manicure with OPI’s Pink Friday (another from the Nicki Minaj collection I realize ironically) was chipped and horrible, and I didn’t have time for a manicure.

So, I decided that the best thing to do would be to put crackle polish over the top of it instead of taking the time to remove the polish and put on a whole new color.  I figured when the polish cracked it would disguise the chipped polish underneath, and might even give a two toned mosaic effect too.  Well, I put on a quick coat of polish, and something very interesting happened.  Let’s see if you can spot it in this picture.

Can you tell? … Look REALLY carefully and you’ll see what I mean when I explain.  The best example of what happened is actually my thumb, so I’ll give you a close up.

Excuse the mess, but you can see how the part near my cuticle cracked nicely, while up near the free edge it isn’t cracked at all?  Well, where it is nicely cracked is where there is pink nail polish underneath the blue crackle, and where this is no crack is where the Pink Friday chipped off.  You can also see it a bit on my middle finger above as well, and there are almost no cracks on my pointer finger, which was the one missing the most pink polish.

Obviously my idea was a failure, and I’ll have to get this polish off tonight and sorted out – but I found it very interesting that the polish didn’t react to my bare nail like it did to the pink nail polish.  Not sure if the same thing would happen if you put plain clear polish first, but maybe this was part of my problem before?  Putting crackle polish on without a base of some kind that the crackle polish would react to …?

Dunno, but I figured it was an interesting tidbit to let you guys know I discovered ^^;;

Let me know if you have any good tips or tricks about that tricky crackle polish, and let me know what you want to read on here :3

Until next time!