As Seen On... Sara ♥'s Pretty Little Things

(This is a scheduled post. I'm on vacation!)

Good morning! If all is going well with my scheduled posts, this should be Wednesday morning.
I'm not sure what today entails for me in Toronto, but I'm sure there will be shopping involved.
Are you looking forward to seeing what polishes I get? I'm sure looking forward to buying them.


Today I have for you my second mani recreation. (And resulting failure.)
This one is from Sara at Sara ♥'s Pretty Little Things.
Sara is a nice British girl who has some British polishes that make me jealous.
(Also I am jealous of this clutch she got recently. It's a bit over the top but so cool!)
(And ALSO she recently got Ozotic 505 and 528 which is grounds enough to unfollow her out of insane jealousy but somehow, I still like her. Somehow.)


Sara posted this crack mani a few weeks ago that made me want to use my white crackle for the first time. 
But she used Barry M crackles which seem to crack WAY nicer than China Glaze ones.
I tried my best with what I've got! And half of it was awesome! And then... well... you'll see.

I started with one coat of Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Silver Sweep, and one coat of Hema Jip en Janekke to make it a bit more sparkly, because Sara's base polish was sparkly and pretty.


Then I added a coat of China Glaze Broken Hearted crackle!

I tried so hard to make sure it crackled well, and it worked so well! I applied it in small strokes all over the nail instead of long sweeps. That helps get a more defined crackles and less of a "shredded" look.


Awesome. Almost there. I can do this. Now lets add the white crackle in the same fashion and hope for the best...

WHAT? WHAT IS THIS?
Ew! Are you seeing this? Where is the crackle? What happened?!

This was my first time using China Glaze Lightning Bolt white crackle and holy crap, it sucks.
I was staring at my nails thinking "WHY AREN'T YOU CRACKLING?"
The formula was so runny, I flooded all my cuticles, and as you can see it's too sheer for this look anyway, even if it did work!
Maybe if I use it a few more times it will thicken and be more opaque and actually crackle... I don't know.
All I know is that this was a great big fail. And it started out so promising!!


Go check out Sara's blog and her properly functioning white crackle (if you don't hate her too much over her Ozotic babies.)