Sponged Shatter Nail Art

Posted by Erin on 9/28/11. Filed under: , , ,

Today I have some nail art to show you. This isn't typical of my normal designs, mostly because I almost never use shatter/crackle. It's not that I don't like it....it's just that I don't love it. But the trend shows no signs of dying anytime soon, so i may as well embrace it to the best of my ability.

Here's the result of a sponged nail using 4 different colors with a thick coat of black shatter over it.




What's your favorite backdrop for a crackle polish? I'm trying to find some new and interesting techniques to use since I'm not a huge fan of the "standard crackle look". Any advice or tips?

4 Responses to Sponged Shatter Nail Art

  1. Sosa07ac

    I like it. It's a good way to hide a failed nail design if that should ever happen!

  2. Abbie

    I'm with you. I never got into the crackle craze. It just wasn't for me. I do sort of feel bad for OPI. They came out with the idea and then an entire flood of duplicates. XD;

  3. Erin

    It just seems sloppy to me I guess. And so many of them don't work right. The white shatter is HORRIBLE! And I don't understand why so many people love the silver shatter. It barely cracks and it looks like shit, tbh.

    To be fair though, I think it was Cover Girl who started crackle back in the 90s but it never really took off so they stopped making it. Then a few years ago OPI noticed that a lot of us polish addicts started looking for the old CG crackles on ebay so they started producing their own version. It's covergirl that should be sad haha.

  4. Unknown

    Ooo I really like this!

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