Someone on Tumblr suggested that I do some anti-Valentine's Day manis, and I figured I'd oblige because come on, who HASN'T hated Valentine's Day with the fury of 1000 hells at some point in their life? I know I have.
I painted all my nails (except my ring finger) with Wet n Wild Burgundy Frost. On my ring finger, I painted a black base. I then used acrylic paints to draw the lines, "explosion" (I don't know what else to call it?) and broken heart on my ring finger. I also topped all the other nails with OPI Black Shatter.
Now, I've never been into shatter/crackle polishes AT ALL, mind you, but this one seemed to fit. Black Shatter, shattered heart....yeah, my emo side is coming out. But I digress. Anyway, the ONE time I used this bottle of Black Shatter (I got it in a giveaway) and it's goopy and clumpy. So... I don't know if that's the reason you can hardly see any base color or if I applied too much...but I only used one thin coat. Anyway, what I'm trying to say is I wish the deep red popped out a bit more underneath the Black Shatter. It did come alive a little more with top coat, you should have seen how dull it was before!
I have the whole week off, so hopefully you guys can expect more posts than usual this week! Gotta keep myself occupied somehow ;)
This is very pretty.Great combo.
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Haha, so cool! I really dig this look, now I also want to do an anitvalentine!
ReplyDeleteI've never used crackle, but from what I've read, if you apply it thinly, you get thin cracks; if you apply it thicker, you get wider/thicker cracks. Honestly, I like the effect you ended up with better! It looks like muscle striations (which of course is what comes to mind because thinking of hearts...)
ReplyDeleteHaha! That striation comment made me giggle. Thanks! :)
DeleteIt's very cool, and a pretty good idea :D
ReplyDeleteI can see what you mean with the basecoat showing to little. Applying shatter very thin will also cause very small cracks, with a black one I find it better to put it on slightly thicker so it allows more room for the basecolor. I absolutely love the freehanding you did!
ReplyDeleteThank you! If I ever try crackle again (which I probably won't because I've always hated it) I'll try doing a thicker coat. Maybe I'll try again for another Anti Valentine's day mani...
DeleteLove the broken heart! The anti-valentine mani...it's cool :)
ReplyDeleteOooh, that is so cool! I'm glad someone took a different approach on the typical happy, girly Valentine's mani. Very good job :)
ReplyDeleteThank you, Addie! I'm thinking of doing some more of them >:)
DeleteI love the accent nail!
ReplyDeleteIt's so creative... I love it!
ReplyDeletehaha i love the anti-valentine's day mani. super cute and creative!
ReplyDeleteYou know, I really friggen hate crackle/shatter polish. I don't like the look and when I tried it personally, it was also goopy and non-cooperative. But, I didn't realize that you had crackle on here until I read the description! It looked like an awesome almost-black polish that had the berry duo-chrome stripes. I'm not a fan of the whole anti-v-day thing (even when I was single), but very cute design and I love that you take requests!! I didn't know you had a tumblr!! Following you now! Yay!
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