Misa Office Polish-tics

First, can I say how BRILLIANT Misa is for coming up with such a name? I actually really like all the names of their polishes from the 9 to 5 collection. Really creative and they're not too corny, like how OPI can get sometimes.



Misa Office Polish-tics under a lamp.



In natural sunlight.

It's a really pretty colour, kinda reminds me of Zoya Kelly (which I don't have so I can't do any comparisons). It's a grey with hints of puple and blue (blurple?) and it's a really nice smouldering colour! Used two coats here and it was fairly easy to paint on! And I didn't do any clean ups in the above pictures so I think my painting skills have improved in terms of accuracy (and aiming)!

After an hour or two, I kinda got bored and decided to play with my crackle polishes and it's so fun just painting random strokes on so the pattern on all the nails look different!





Kinda getting the hang of painting the crackle polish on so that it kinda cracks the way I want it to. And did I mention how fun (and amusing) it is to watch it crack?? I showed my brother and his girlfriend my nails and they were both rather intrigued by the fact that my polish can crack! Oh, and I also tried painting the crackle on my bare nails and they don't crack! Seems like they only crack when there's polish underneath!

Interesting how it can "sense" the polish being there or not! Oh, and the black crackle is OPI Shatter, and the grey one is China Glaze Cracked concrete. I also added a top coat which is why the crackle polish seems glossy (because they dry matte).

Shatter // Crackle

Update: I found the youtube video that shows the random painting strokes you can use: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMjAvQvmiHA
Click away! And be creative! (:
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Finally went down to collect my shatter / crackle polishes from Estella today and I couldn't wait to test them out!!

Thumb: Nature Republic BL503 base (light powder blue) with China Glaze Cracked Concrete painted on with super random strokes. I actually like this pattern the best among all the different "techniques".

Index: Nature Republic BK001 (silver) with OPI Black Shatter painted on with a braided technique, which is like painting diagonally from right to left, then from left to right and so on and so forth.

Middle: Nature Republic BL503 base with OPI Black Shatter painted on regularly.

Ring: OPI Hey! Get in Lime base with China Glaze Cracked Concrete painted on using very very very random strokes.

Pinkie: Nature Republic BL503 base with China Glaze Cracked Concrete painted on normally.

I really like the whole pale blue with grey combi and the process of painting the polish and watching it crack is so fun I could do it all day! If I had to choose which one's better, I actually prefer the OPI one if I want to do just the normal linear crackle because the brush was wider so it was easier for me to coat my entire nail without having to go over certain areas again! But of course if I want to do the braided technique then I'd probably choose China Glaze for it's thinner brush so I can get as many strokes as possible for more cracks in different directions! Formula wise, I did find OPI a little thinner and hence easier to work with!
Hope you enjoyed this post! (: