China Glaze Crackle Metals Collection

Today I finally have China Glaze's Crackle Metals to share with you. I was excited to hear about metallic crackles so I was waiting to get my hands on these. And I must say I'm a tad bit disappointed about this collection.

Not to mention that we have a ton of brands making these crackle/shatter effects, there's a whole range of colors as well. I'm starting to get a little sick of the shatter effects, but nothing beats the original black color shatters. It just makes some polishes look better!

Anyways, let's have a look shall we?


Cracked Medallion is a bronze/copper crackle


Platnium Pieces is a metallic silver crackle


Tarnished Gold is a metallic gold crackle. Quite similar to OPI's Gold Shatter, just this one didn't shatter as much as I hoped it would. Maybe it was because I applied too thick.


Oxidized Aqua is a metallic aqua crackle. I kind of like the weird combo for this one.


Haute Metal is a metallic pink crackle


Latticed Lilac is a metallic lilac crackle

I played around with the base colors and decided to not just do them all in black base but with variety of colors. My favorite combos were Crackled Medallion over a dusty teal base and Oxidized Aqua over a red base. I wasn't too fond of the other crackles because they didn't shatter as great nor were they as opaque as I thought it would be. And when I applied a thicker coat, it didn't shatter as much as I wanted it to be. So was it worth the money for me? No. I only liked two out of the six so that means something.

Are we sick of the crackle/shatter effects yet? Or do we want to see more colors? I'm looking/waiting for a nice green shimmer crackle and a purple creme crackle. Then I'm set!

What do you think of these crackles?