China Glaze Crackle Glitter Swatches & Review

I like crackles and glitter.  I've only known of one other brand of crackle glitters, so when I got these to review I was excited.  You can click HERE to see the press release. 

Now to the beauties.  I've seen everyone else using black as their base colors, but I wanted to do something different.  China Glaze Hologram didn't work too well, so I went with opposing colors on the color wheel.

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Jade-D over China Glaze Stella.  This is a yellow-y, green glitter crackle.

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 Glam-More over China Glaze Agro.  This is a beautiful fuchsia glitter crackle.  When taking pictures I was afraid it wouldn't show the true color, as it was looking pure purple on my camera.  Luckily, I didn't have to adjust anything. 

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Luminous Lavender over China Glaze Trendsetter.  This lavender shade was sort of sparse in the glitter department.

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Gleam Me Up over China Glaze Vermillion.  This is a beautiful aqua blue shade and is by far my favorite.

These were my first China Glaze Crackles.  I did have a problem with some of them being overly thin, especially Jade-d, but I let it sit with the cap off for a little bit.  Though after that I forgot to apply a thin coat and the middle finger wouldn't crack.  On some of the other shades, you can see where I did thicker coats vs thinner ones as it seemed to separate more with thinner coats. 

These do dry matte and definitely need either a coat of Gelous + a top coat or 2 coats of a thick top coat.  I just used a standard base/top coat combo with these for swatching purposes. 

I'm still deciding how I feel about these.  And luckily, for glitters, I didn't have any issues with removal.  It came right off and any residue went away while washing my hands with soap & a nail brush. 

These will be releasing next month(May) and will be available in salons & beauty supply stores retailing for $9.

LATER Y'ALL!!!

~ Note: These were sent for review by China Glaze for my 100% honest opinion.