NOTD Barry M Nail Effects over Ciaté Main Stage

Everyone and their granny has done a post on this but I thought I’d volunteer my thoughts on it anyway.  Crackle polishes seem to be all the rage at the moment but frankly why would you pay for an OPI version when Barry M do the same things for £3.99? Ciaté Main Stage is a bold, bright pink with no shimmer. It is opaque in one coat and being almost neon dried to an almost non glossy finish. The nail effects dries to a matte black finish, there is a glossy top coat over all of this. I find if you don’t use a top coat it can scratch off very easily. 

The things about the nail effects is you can control the pattern to an extent by applying it differently. I like to slap it on in a really thick layer. Here I did one layer of Ciaté, Seche Vite, left it till it was almost but not quite dry then slapped on a really thick layer of nail effects. The result is a very chunky and defined pattern. By applying a thin layer over dry polish it results in smaller fractured pieces. I really like the effect!

*I bought these myself*