Barielle Blackened Bleu

Hey ladies! Happy Monday! I will announce the winner of HoF's holiday giveaway this afternoon. I plan on double checking the list when I get home from work so I can be 100% positive I didn't miss anyone. I appreciate everyone who participated and I'm shocked by the turn out. I hope everyone enjoys my blog. Enough with the rambling, right? lol

Today I have another Barielle for you. I swear, I will mix it up more this week. Barielle Blackened Bleu is a gorgeous polish with a black base with blue shimmer. This is so stunning on the nail, especially when the light hits it. Formula was great, and I only needed two coats. When I applied the first coat, I honestly thought it would be a three coater because it was so sheer but the second coat really made it opaque.

The photos below are two coats of Blackened Bleu with a coat of Seche Vite.

How amazing?!?!

Barielle Do Unto Others meets Buddha-ful flakies

Hello ladies! I know yesterday's post features Barielle's Do Unto Others, so I hope you liked it enough not to mind a continuation of that post.....because I didn't want to take my polish off lol. I change my polish every night before I go to sleep. It's very rare that I wear a polish for more than a day or so, because I have so many to get through and swatch. I hate swatching and removing polish just for photos, since I see it as wasteful so I only write on polishes I wear as a NOTD. Also, when I swatch I seem to rush and that comes through in my photos.

Since I was so happy with this polish I decided to add a coat of Barielle's Buddha-ful on top of it. I think by now most people have seen Buddha-ful and even this combination. I really like Buddha-ful, but on it's own I needed 3 to 4 coats to really get it opaque (next time, I'm layering over a complimentary pink). I slapped 1 coat of Buddha-ful over my 2 coats of Do Unto Others and this is what I got.....

I got a combination I really liked.Buddha-ful made the base color have a more milky tint to it, so I don't think you can layer this over just any color. As much as I want to put it over an emerald green, I'm going to have to resist lol.

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Barielle Do Unto Others

Happy Friday!! It's my favorite day of the work week lol. Today's polish is another Barielle. Each time I try another one of my Barielle polishes I keep wanting more! I think they do amazing cremes. I know a lot of people don't like cremes, but next to holos they are my favorite.

Barielle Do Unto Others is from their Karma collection. This is a bright aqua. Even though I have a ton of aqua/teal polishes this really stands out. This was hard to photograph (as you will see) but it's such an eye popping color. I had absolutely no issues with the formula as this glided on nicely and evenly. It's extremely opaque, but I did two coats anyway. If I was careful, or wearing this on my toes I could probably get away with one coat.

The photos below show two coats of Do Unto Others and a coat of Seche Vite.
Photos are indoors, with and without flash.

Not color accurate! But look how smooth.....

Not color accurate. See first two pics. This is to show finish.

Barielle Falling Star

Happy Tuesday ladies! Welcome to all my new followers!! And a very warm thank you to all of the kind ladies who referred you! For today's mani I have Barielle Falling Star, which is another polish I got from my best friend for my birthday.

Falling Star is a gorgeous cornflower blue with small round copper glitter. It's opaque in two coats, and I absolutely love the creme finish with glitter. My issue here was the formula, as the formula was terrible! On the first few strokes I thought maybe that the bottle was never properly sealed, as it was thick, goopy and stringy. I tried to work with it, but only got 6 nails in before I ran and grabbed the polish thinner. I added 15 drops before it was easy to work with. I thought there was something wrong with my bottle, but a Google search proved that this is the formula of the polish.

Although I don't normally like super thick polish, the pay off was gorgeous so I know I'll be reaching for this polish again in the future. The photos below show 2 coats of Barielle Falling Star with 1 coat of Seche Vite.

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Barielle Elle's Spell

Hiya! I got some of my first Barielle polishes for my birthday this year from my best friend. We're both polish obsessed, so naturally holidays/birthdays are filled with polish. We usually gift OPI, China Glaze and Essie but she went outside of those brands that this year and bought me Nubar, Misa, and Barielle. She also picked me up a melmer, which will make organizing easier since my helmer drawers are organized a little funky. I can't wait to start my Christmas polish shopping this year!

Barielle's Elle's Spell was a polish I've had my eyes on for quite some time. It's absolutely gorgeous, although it was incredibly hard to photograph. Elle's Spell is a burgandy red jelly with flakies in it. The flakies glow orange/gold and this reminded me of fire on my finger tips.

The photos below show three coats of Elle's Spell and a coat of Seche Vite. In order to save polish, I plan on layering this next time. I really want to see what it looks like in person over black.