Barielle Swizzle Stix

Ok, this is going to my very last Barielle polish post in quite some time. Not because I don't like them but because I have showed you pretty much all I have except for a couple. I have Elle's Spell but I have yet to be able to take a good enough picture of it, as awesome as it is.

In today's post, I'm showing you Barielle Swizzle Stix. It's hard to get the most accurate color in the photos but this is very very close. It does have a slightly warmer feel to it. 

It's a great color with a great formula. I used two coats here with topcoat. I had no trouble with application. I used it before in my mermaid mani last year.

Alright, that's it! On to Barry M polishes from my stash for the next several posts. Thanks for looking!

Barielle Falling Star with Sally Hansen CSM Copper Penny

I'm not done with the Barielle swatches from my stash! I have a pretty blue one for you today, Barielle Falling Star. It's a slightly dusky medium blue with copper glitter mixed in. I decided to amp up the copper factor with some Sally Hansen CSM Copper Penny glitter gradient on my two middle fingers.

I think it looks okay in the pictures but for some reason I wasn't happy with it in real life. I felt like I should have just left it alone. It looked so garish for some reason in real life. Perhaps I went too heavy handed with the glitter, who knows? I took this off earlier than planned because it was bumming me out. 

Here is Falling Star on it's own. This is two coats. The glitter in the polish was subdued and not super shiny. Maybe that's what was wrong with the combo above. The Sally Hansen was so shiny that it looked a little odd with the non shiny but same color glitter on the other nails. Now I can't recall if I liked wearing this one on it's own because my memory is all overshadowed by my dislike for the one above. I'm just going to have to wear it again and find out.  

As always, thanks for looking!!

Barielle End of the Rainbow

Hello everyone! Today, I'm going to show you a beautiful beautiful Barielle polish. It's amazing looking in pictures and it really was this amazing in real life. This is Barielle End of the Rainbow. 

This is a sheer shimmery teal color that took three coats for opacity and full depth of color. It has this amazing glowy property to it that was visible in real life as well as pictures.

Because of how sheer it was, I decided to layer one coat over Barielle A Bouquet for Ava. Oh. My. God. Was that ever an amazing looking combo! I definitely have to try End of the Rainbow over other blues and greens. Seems like it would be stunning.

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Barielle A Bouquet for Ava (teal and copper go so well together)

Hi folks! More Barielle swatches for you today. I swear, I swear, there aren't too many more after this. I have a lot of them from sets I bought on discount at TJ Maxx a few times so....

This one is Barielle A Bouquet for Ava. 

Is that not just a totally gorgeous teal? The formula is just perfect too. I had no problems with the two coats this took. It did stain if I recall correctly so make sure to double up on your basecoat. I had to use the old teeth whitening toothpaste trick myself. 

I wanted to see if I could transform it to a shimmery finish with some copper glitter by doing a small franken. I used a drop of Barielle End of the Rainbow with a drop of Sally Hansen CSM Copper Penny and a tiny drop of A Bouquet for Ava on a piece of foil and then applied a coat of that to each of my nails. I needed to repeat the process in order to cover all my nails. Here are pictures of the end result in various lighting situations. 

In the lightbox:

In my bathroom:

Outside in the bitter cold (it was January):

See what I do for pretty pictures?

I really liked how the franken looked. I love love love Copper Penny in the bottle but I'm not sure how it looks on its own next to my skin. I need to use it with more colors to see what I like. 

Barielle Green Opal

Hi everyone! Here is another Barielle swatch. This is one of those weird/ugly/cool colors that may not be for everyone. It's a greenish gold metallic chrome color. I am not really sure it's for me. In the pictures I kind of like it but I'll have to wear it again to see if it's something I could be happy about. I certainly didn't have any problems with the formula. This was two pretty easy coats. Up close, it has these tiny microflecks of yellow gold glitter that do add some depth and sparkle to the shade. 

The above two pictures were taken in my light box and the picture below was taken in daylight.

So, in other news, we just celebrated my younger son's first birthday! When I look back on these posts, that statement is going to confuse the hell out of me. I took these pictures early 2015 sooo....yeah, I'm over a year behind on posting all my pictures. Like I said in a much earlier post, I'm going to be going back and forth between old and new manis as I try to get caught up with my backlog of pictures from last year. I can't believe I'm still so far behind!!
Anyway, back to my son. We tried to give him a small piece to eat after the cake cutting but the poor guy was so tired by then that it was a full meltdown. He didn't like the frosting on his fingers and that was enough to tip him over the edge. But, other than that minor wrench, it was a good day.

Again, thanks for visiting!

Barielle Glammed out Garnet

A quick Barielle swatch for you today. This is Glammed Out Garnet. This is three coats but I can live with that because it give it a lovely squishy look. 

This is a perfect shimmery red for me. The shimmer particles are small so they are not that prominent in real life. It is just the right amount of berry for me. There are subtle pink flashes in certain lights.

Short and sweet today. Thanks for looking!!

Barielle Blackened Blue and a frankened holo overlay

My post for today will feature another wonderful Barielle blue polish called Barielle Blackened Blue. I think it's more of a blackened teal colored polish myself. It's got wonderful sparkly teal shimmer in a dark, almost black base. Here it is in three coats. 

I then wanted to try something to make it look a little different. I always have an urge to do something to my manicures. With the lack of time I have these days, I can't do any art so I try to change the finish by doing little polish mixes and create a different look. I think it's better than just layering. So, for this mix I used Barielle Blackened Blue, Nicole by OPI Make a Comet-ment and NOPI Imagine If. 

I mixed up tiny drops of the two silvery holographic polishes with a larger drop of Blackened Blue on a piece of foil and placed one coat on my nails. 

Isn't that just lovely? They look cosmic to me. Here's another look at just Blackened Blue again.

Again, thanks for visiting! Comment if you like and come back again!

Barielle Jordana's Skinny Jeans with Sally Hansen HD Laser

Another gorgeous Barielle blue polish for you today. Before I get to the swatch of the polish, let me show you a really fun layering comboI did  with this polish. This is Sally Hansen HD Laser, a wonderful duochrome shimmer that shifts from blue to purple. It was so sparkly!! And, as with all duochromes or multichromes, it was really interesting on cloudy days and other lower light situations. 

This is what Sally Hansen Laser was layered over, Barielle Jordana's Skinny Jeans. This was two easy coats of this polish. It did not give me any trouble at all and it did not stain with removal. 

Barielle Slate of Affairs

I should have showed you this swatch with the last post. This is Barielle Slate of Affairs, a very calm blue tinged with grey with a subtle blue shimmer in it. This is two coats.

Color blocking with Barielle Slate of Affairs

Hi everyone!

Another quick mani to show you guys today. I experimented with color blocking and this has to be one of the easiest ways to get quick nail art done. I had painted my nails with Barielle Slate of Affairs a couple of days prior to this mani and wanted to make it more interesting. I had just purchased Orly Mirrorball that day and wanted to use it right away. Here is the result!

They go so well together, don't you think? I must use Mirrorball by itself one of these days. I really liked the color blocking and really should utilize it more often than I do. All it took was a single piece of tape!
Hope everyone has a great day and thanks for looking!

Couple of Barielle polish swatches - Putt-e On Me and Buddha-ful

Alright, about a month ago, I told you guys I'd show you Barielle Putt-e On Me by itself. I had used it as a base for ILNP Supernova as seen in this post and it worked great. I really love the color by itself too. It's a really flattering shade of taupe-y brown that works great for my skin tone. Two coats gave me excellent coverage. 

The second swatch for this post is Barielle Buddha-ful. I remember this being all the rage a while back. It was one of the first "flakie" polishes. Now we're knee deep in flakies but I keep this one for sentimental reasons. The base is a very soft sheer pink. Think any one of a number of Essie polishes that look like this. The flakies are color shifting flakies that shift from a pale gold maybe? to a bright green. Most of the time the shifting happens when the light hits it from an angle. Seen head on the flakies almost seem to disappear. I have pretty prominent visible nail lines but I was kind of frustrated that even at three coats I really couldn't hide them that well from the camera. They were not quite that prominent in real life.

ILNP Supernova over Barielle Putt-e-On Me

Happy New Year everyone!! 

So I did have some lovely sparkly nails for New Years but I'm not as excited about those as what I'm going to show you today. I wanted to start the year off with one of the loveliest polishes I wore last year so I am going to show you ILNP Supernova. What makes it even better is that this polish was given to me as a random act of kindness by someone and started my love for the multichrome flakies. 

In these pictures, I wore it over Barielle Putt-e-on Me. I'll show you the swatch of that in a post real soon. It made for a great neutral base with which to show off the multichrome beauty of Supernova. The colors mainly shifted from teal to blue to purple but at extreme angles you could see a slight fuschia and gold as well.

The three pictures below are my attempt to show you what it looked like when not under the lightbox. The lights are bright incandescent lights of the kitchen and natural sunlight on a cloudy day. 

I'm looking forward to wearing many more of the multichrome flakies I've purchased since receiving this beauty over the next year.

Barielle Ready to Party and L.A. Girls Dazzling Pink

Hi everyone!

I've got a quick couple of swatches for you. One is layered over the other so it was only fair I showed them both to you at the same time.

The first is Barielle Ready to Party. It's a nice salmon-y pink. Good formula. I wore it here in two coats.

I then layered a coat of L.A. Girls Dazzling Pink over it. I loved all of the polishes in that collection and got every one of them but the orange. I couldn't find that one.

I absolutely adored this mani! Thought it was great.

That's all for today!

Stash Swatch: Barielle Gelt Me To The Party and Out-grey-geous

Hi everybody! I've got a few minutes to show you a couple more swatches. Barielle polishes again. 

This first one is Barielle Gelt me to the Party. Looking at this color now, it really makes me wonder how close it is to Essie Leggy Legend from this year's fall collection. I'm not sure how I feel about this color against my skin so I don't know if I'll ever own Leggy Legend to compare. It's very interesting though and so I don't think I'll let go of it just yet. It has to be one of the most unique polishes in my collection. 

This next color is a very interesting one as well. This is Barielle Out-grey-geous. At a quick glance, it very much looks like I took a graphite pencil and colored all over my nails like I used to do in middle school when I got really bored in class. Except, you know, topcoated. It amused me, it was interesting. I'm sure I'd get bored with it somewhat quickly. Grey is not so much my thing...even though I have several shades of it. This one is a little more unique because of all those little gold sparkles in it. 

Ok, see you next time. I just realized it will be my 200th post!! Gotta make it a good one. I need to think about it.