r/CrackedPolish

This combo is giving me serious swimming pool vibes, and it's exactly what I need in the brutal heat right now!

Inspired by u/CurrentStriking2871

Cracked Beginner's Luck over top of Sally Hansen On the Download

1x LynB Sticky Base Coat

2x Nail Aid Instant Gel Effect (regular lacquer, NOT a gel, but it helps give some protection to my pitiful flimsy nails)

2x Sally Hansen On the Download (and I was so tempted to leave it there at that beautiful blue!)

1x Cracked Beginner's Luck (magnetized 1 minute glass bead, by the Shimmer Hollow Charm Caster)

1x Bee's Knees I'm Fast, Very Fast (magnetized sane method 2 minutes)

This is how I have a car accident because I can’t focus on anything but my nails while my hands are on the steering wheel😅

Sweet & Sour Lacquer Heat Wave PBE collection - 3 coats each (labeled in 2nd picture)
Then 1x each Cracked Thin Ice glass bead magnetized
1x Glitch Lock & Key
1x Glitch Make it Fast

Pinky to thumb all Cracked polishes: Peace within me➡️Grotto➡️Baked Blue➡️Out of the Blue➡️Breakfast at Monique’s

**Excuse my dry hands/nails this is ~5 days into this mani.**

Base coat: Seche Clear
On the Download x2 Salky Hansen Insta Dry
Cracked- Beginner’s Luck x2, magnetized with Shimmer Hollow Charm Caster, glass bread and other charm discs for 2 minutes for each coat
Sally Hansen Insta-Dry top coat, red bottle, also magnetized for 2 minutes

This was my inspo: https://www.instagram.com/p/DXo5vHzm4Vo/?igsh=dnlkYTc2ejllY3g0

I have a sickening amount of untried polish so I did this skittle the other day. I love them all. Cracked never misses fr

Polishes from pinky to thumb (all Cracked, all 2 coats):
- gills
- cinnamon sugar crumb
- nutrient rich
- flaky pastry
- spruce it up (topped with kbshimmer amanita moment)

ETA- all with vibrant scents double bond base (peach beach scent I think) and topped with LynB b-quick topcoat

Flaky pastry is really exceeding my expectations. Nutrient rich is a little darker than I expected but gorgeous nonetheless!

I couldn't decide which of my cracked blues I wanted to wear this week so I took the cop-out choice of wearing them all!

Photos in direct sunlight and shade for comparison.

Products:

Base Coats: Mooncat Getting Even Nail Primer

Seche Vite Base Coat

Pinkie - Cracked Jump In (Jelly)

Ring - Cracked Blueberry Tart (Jelly)

Middle - Cracked Shut the Front Door

Index - Cracked Rolling In The Deep (Jelly) with Matte Top Coat

Thumb - Cracked Infinity Pool

Top Coats:

All but Index - Mooncat Speed Demon Top Coat

Index - Holo Taco Matte Taco

Base coat: LynB Designs B Sticky

Polish: Cracked Polish Delicacy in Sardinia x 2

Top coat: Cuticula Limitless

I’ve waited so long 🥹

LBOH for June ‘26

I waited a LONG time for this but it was worth it!!!🩵

1x Cracked Ridge Filler
3x Cracked Angel Eyes
1x Cracked QDTC

Been eyeing these polishes/Cracked for a minute, and finally did it with the stacked Shop app promos going on rn. I think they fluctuate (I was shown $10 and then eventually $15 off, with an additional $15 off at checkout), but wanted to post here in case anyone was waiting for the right time to make an order, too :) Legit can’t believe I got all this for $27 💫

Dead inside is the most reactive thermal I’ve used. I can hold my nails down flat on my arm for just a few seconds and it’ll turn fully grey then my free edge will gradually pull back to dark purple. It’s kind of a problem, I keep screwing around with it 🤣

2 coats cracked ridge filler
2 coats dead inside
1 coat nail tek strengthener
1 coat Sally Hansen insta dri

I love purple, but don’t wear it a lot. I really like this one I acquired recently.

Sally Hansen - Repair+Rescue base, 3x Cracked - Artistic Expression, Cracked - QDTC

I wanted to make the most fiery, red-orange mani I could, inspired by the outside temperatures right now. I think I pulled it off! Though it is definitely hard to see the difference between CD and Scorchy, especially after the magnet area dispersed over time.
•Holo Taco Long Lasting Base
•Cracked I Burned You a CD x2
•Cracked Scorchy, cat eye
•Holo Taco Glossy Taco, cat eye

Most red magnetics I’ve tried clash on me because my skin tone is cool, but I love DSC. The opacity really surprised me - this is one coat.

2 coats cracked ridge filler
1 coat drugstore chocolate (not magnetized)
1 coat nail tek base coat (magnetized velvet 1 min in horseshoe)
1 coat sally Hansen insta dri

I saw the aura gradient using jellies post on Instagram and was inspired to try! Great use of some of my sale purchases!

3 coats in velvet and cat eye styles. It's a subtle effect and I'm not sure how much it will hold up once it dries down + topcoat but it's a fun thing to discover!