Cracked It (Again)

After receiving a fair few comments about my red/black cracked nails (see previous blog post), I decided to give it another go, with a different base colour. This time, I decided to use a base colour made by the same brand to see if it gave any benefit to mixing the two.


I used the "Barry M Black Instant Nail Effect" again, but whereas before I used a Red Chanel base, this time I used Barry M's "Shocking Pink 272".

Although this is an effective colour, which works with the black in standing out, I did find that on one or two of the nails, it stripped the base pink as it was cracking. Now this happened on the hand, that I didn't double-coat, so perhaps for this to work effectively, you need to have at least 2 coats of the base colour.


I did this time, use a lot more paint on the brush when putting the black on, and funnily enough, this has allowed the paint to "crack" even more.


Therefore, I would reccommend doing at least, 2 coats for the base colour, and then putting the black on (once the base is fully dry), in a thick, 3 swipe motion. 






272 Shocking Pink Barry M Nail Paint -
http://www.barrym.com/nail-paints


311 Black Magic Barry M Instant Nail Effect - http://www.barrym.com/products/product.asp?id=155