Hot or Not: Shattered/Crackled Nails

There's a nail trend that I've been seeing for months: the shattered look.  When I was flipping through the latest batch of beauty mags, there they were, right in my face and completely unavoidable: shattered nails in the current OPI Pirates of the Caribbean line. 

Let's take a look at the line.  It features six new shades inspired by this summer's version of the Pirates franchise: Skull & Glossbones, Steady as She Rose, Sparrow Me the Drama, Planks a Lot, Stranger Tides, and Mermaid's Tears (see below; the color on the left end is the Silver Shatter...keep reading!).

You can wear the lacquers alone, or you can do what OPI suggests and go one step further: break out a bottle of OPI's Silver Shatter and apply one coat of it over your dry, freshly painted nails. The results?  Multi-dimensional nails; cracks of color that show underneath a shattered silver layer.

Like I said, this trend has been picking up steam over the months. Different salons and nail companies offer various techniques and products to get this look, but you get the idea from OPI's latest offerings.

Here's my question for you: what's your take on the crackled look?  Is it a hit or a miss?

Here are my two cents on the matter:

• For me, I personally don't like this look.  I prefer a neater, more polished look.  It's interesting, yes, but nothing I'd want to wear.
• This nail technique reminds me so much of faux finishes used on furniture in old home improvement/decorating TV shows from the 90s.  Somewhere Christopher Lowell is loving this nail trend.  (Don't know who I'm talking about?  Click here!)
• I am not loving the new Pirates of the Caribbean nail line from OPI.  There wasn't a single color I was excited about, but maybe I'm just jaded.  I'm not a huge Pirates fan (I find the movies stupid and--worse--boring!), so a beauty tie-in doesn't ring my chimes.

Would you wear crackled/shattered nails?  Leave me a comment!