Here's Barielle's Holiday offering:
Coaldest Day Of The Year. Yes, Coal-dest. I know. *groan* I think it wants to be OPI's Baby It's "Coal" Outside, from the looks of things. This is a black/charcoal with blue-toned silver large particle shimmer. It's not round shimmer, it's more like broken pieces of shimmer. Icy.
Elle's Spell. My favorite of the collection. This is a dark candy apple or light wine red sheer base with red/orange toned opal flakes, a la Nfu Oh. This is rather sheer and not quite as jelly like as I had thought from looking at it in the bottle so it may look better layered if you want a stronger flaky effect.
Get Me To The Party. A deep bronzy gold. Looks sort of duochrome, doesn't it? Has the lighter gold area in the center and the deeper more bronze color on the edges. A little frosty but more metallic than pure frost, but definitely not chrome.
Jess' Champagne Toast. This one is painful. Look how AMAZING it looks in the bottle! It's spectacular! I could barely believe what I was seeing when I held the bottle up in the sunlight. It's a periwinkle leaning toward light lilac frosty metallic base with lots of pink microglitter. Sadly, it doesn't translate on the nail. It looks lumpy and bubbly because the frost base is too, well, frosty? And the glitter is too delicate to be seen through the thick frost. It always makes me wonder when I see a polish like this.... Did they actually wear the color on the nail before they decided to release it? This totally could have been saved with a thinner, more sheer metallic base!
Snow Day. This one is more like a chrome. It's a super reflective metallic blue-toned silver. Very blue toned... Maybe it's actually a silvery blue! Ha! But yes, you will need to be careful with brushstrokes. Frosty.
Wrap Me In Ribbon. This does remind me of ribbon. Pretty. It's a mauve metallic frost, again not a plain frost but more of the China Glaze Romantique Chrome reflective type of frost. You can see how reflective it is in the picture but you can also see some brush strokes. The formula on these was odd. Elle's Spell and Coaldest Day Of The Year were really thick and a little goopy but the rest of the colors were oddly... soft feeling? I can't even describe it. It's like they're oily or too soft or maybe airy? Know what I'm talking about? They feel strange going on. Maybe it's the too-soft brush. I'm really not digging Barielle's brush lately, it doesn't conform to my nail and I can never get a nice application with it. Drying time is long.
I don't know what to say about this collection. I like some of the colors like Elle's Spell and Get Me To The Party. It just seems like Barielle is making so many frosts lately. I miss the Barielle I fell in love with in 2008.
(These were sent to me for review.)
Elle is one of the best polishes I've seen. Frosts? No. Bad trend.
ReplyDeleteelle's spell is bad ass! the others i'm really not impressed with. frosts = suck.
ReplyDeleteI loved Elle's Spell. I loved the idea for Jess's too, a shame it doesn't translate on the nail. I feel something similar happens to CC's De-luxe-licious. The glitter just gets overpowered by the frost...
ReplyDeleteI love Elle's Spell and Wrap Me In Ribbon. Too bad about Jess' Champagne Toast.
ReplyDeleteI love Elle's Spell...not so much the rest of them, but Elle's Spell is incredible!
ReplyDeleteToo bad about "Jess' Champagne Toast", it had so much potential, but "Elles Spell"...pure hotness!
ReplyDeleteElle's Spell and Coaldest Day Of The Year look pretty, but sucks that they're difficult polishes to work with.
ReplyDeleteOh my god, Elle's Spell looks to die for! I also like Coaldest Day Of The Year, despite the name :P It looks.. interesting. I dunno. When will these be available for sale?
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing! <3
Wow, Elle's Spell is AMAZING! I don't have any Barielle's, but I think that may have to change. :D
ReplyDeleteNoooo, Jess's Champagne Toast has the same problem that Color Club Ms. Haute has! I swear these companies must not nail-test things. Epic, epic fail. At least this time I'll know not to buy it.
ReplyDeleteI like Jess' Champagne toast...I'm weird though. I know this. :)
ReplyDeleteI say crap to the whole collection. Everything looks done over.
ReplyDeleteJust wanted to echo what Sybelle said. Why all the frosts? And that Ms. Jess Haute color? It looks like a franken-fail. I guess I should be happy that other companies are trying to save me money after OPI takes me for the whole Burlesque collection.
ReplyDeleteDo not want any. The flakie is cool, but I don't really want it, either. Not impressed.
ReplyDeleteI hate when a polish looks all iridescent and duochome-y in the bottle then none of it shows on the nail! I like Coaldest Day of the Year but thats it...
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