Aly Loves Lacquer

Here is the second Pure Ice Crackle polish I picked up, a shimmering turquoise called Strike a Pose. I like the Pure Ice chose creative names, as opposed to just "black crackle" or something similar. Strike a Pose is beautiful because it has a lot of shimmer and depth to it. Here I am wearing it over OPI DS Reserve, which I will be showing you tomorrow for Pink Wednesday.

At my local Walgreens, there is a huge Pure Ice Crackle display. Each polish is $3.99, which is great compared to some of the more expensive crackles. I picked up All Shook Up, and pretty purple crackle. I wore this over Sinful Colors Pink Forever, a nice pink crème. I had a bit of trouble applying All Shook Up,  but I think that the next I use it the results will be better. I just needed to get the hang of everything first, because every crackle seems to apply a bit differently.

Here is Pure Ice All Shook Up over Sinful Colors Pink Forever.


So, what do you think? Personally, I am really excited about this line of cheaper crackle polishes. Purple is my favorite color, so I was glad to finally see a nice purple crackle.

- Aly

Sally Hansen makes some beautiful blues! Remember Pacific Blue that I swatched before? Here is another gorgeous blue crème, called Blue Me Away! It went on beautifully and was way more pigmented than I expected. It went on in two easy coats.

First I'm going to show you my final product, then we'll backtrack and look at Blue Me Away! on its own. So here is Sally Hansen Blue Me Away! with a coat of OPI Last Friday Night and OPI Silver Shatter on top of that, followed by Seche Vite of course.