China Glaze - Black Mesh / Wet and Wild - Grey's Anatomy

Oh dear, has it been 8 months? While I abandoned this blog, I have not abandoned nail polish. I'm going to jump right in with some crackle polish. This is China Glaze - Black Mesh over Wet and Wild - Grey's Anatomy. 

I was on the fence about crackle polish in general until I saw my friend Kim wearing OPI's Teenage Dream and Black Shatter. It looked amazing on her and I immediately hunted down my own bottles. My first attempt at this combo was a bit of a failure as I was still getting used to using crackle polish. Teenage Dream, while very pretty, is just as annoying as any other glitter to remove so I decided on something a little easier to handle on my second attempt. 

Grey's Anatomy is a subtle grey/pink duochrome that works well under crackle polish (it's very similar to OPI's Not Like the Movies from the Katy Perry line). It comes across sort of nude and basic in these photos, but trust me that pink shimmer is there. This was 3 coats of Grey's and one very thick coat of Black Mesh. 

Wet and Wild - Wild Card / OPI - You Don't Know Jacques

Wild Card on it's own is pretty sheer, it's great for layering and I love it over You Don't Know Jacques. I was trying to recreate what Chanel's Paradoxal looks like in the bottle (which is a lot more shimmery than it looks on a nail) and I think this is close enough.

Paradoxal on index and ring finger, Wild Card over YDKJ on middle and pinky.  I will have a better photos of just Paradoxal up soon. 

Wet and Wild - Night Prowl

Bad photo, great polish. Night Prowl is a very deep eggplant purple loaded with fuchsia glitter. Even though it's dark, it rarely comes across as black. For 99 cents this is pretty much a must have for anyone who likes vampy colors. It did chip a lot after 48 hours (as you can see in my photo), but once again a proper base coat would probably help out with that. Definitely needs a nice top coat to even out the finish. 

Not really the greatest photo, but it shows the color in artificial light pretty accurately. Sorry I wasn't able to photograph this in the sun, maybe next time!