Barielle Take Me Shopping

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I hope you're enjoying this journey into pinks and red that I'm going through. I still have many more polishes to use but today we are going into the world of Barielle. This happy coral is called Take Me Shopping and it's from the Vibrants collection that came out in Spring 2014.

I used a base of Duri Rejuvacote, 2 coats of polish and finished with Glisten & Glow H K Girl top coat. The formula on this polish is thin and watery so use thin coats. Two coats covered well without visible nail line but I did have to clean up a little - it didn't flood my cuticles but I ended up getting it on my sidewalls.

Okay, so this looks a little tomato-ey but it's really a little melon like in person? Does this make sense? It doesn't look as neon in person but it's definitely vibrant and was shiny without top coat. If the formula was a tad thicker, I'd probably wear this more often. I won't get rid of it but I will have to be very careful when applying.

Barielle retails for $8/bottle on their website. Join the conversation by liking them on Facebook, follow on Twitter, follow on Instagram, and follow on Pinterest.

Disclosure: The product[s] in this post was [were] provided to me by the company for consideration.  For more information, please read this post.

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Barielle Cream 'N Sugar

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If you work in an office setting, you may be quite limited on your polish choices. Thankfully, my boss allows me to wear any polish I'd prefer but if I ever got stuck in a stuffy place, Barielle Cream 'N Sugar is a perfect pink nude for the occasion. This is from Barielle's "Velvets" Collection.

I used a base of Cult Nails Get It On, 3 coats of polish and finished it with Digital Nails Ain't Nobody Got Time For That. I had hoped this was a creme like the name implies, but instead, I'm just calling this "holy sheer". Barielle calls it a "sheer soft beige" but either I don't know what beige is, or they don't.

I was pretty determined to make this opaque in three coats so this is a bit of a thick coated three but it still dried well with my top coat, so I'm calling it a win. You can see that it's almost a good mannequin hands polish for me.

In the shade, you can really see how sheer it is. I have VNL (visible nail line) on all nails. I don't know how this would fair for someone with stained nails, so if you're stained you may want to proceed with caution.

Indoors with some indirect sunlight. You have no idea how happy I am to have my new door and screen storm door so I can bring you photos like these. It's a little scary posting my hands all close up but I do my best to make them pretty. I don't Photoshop out my cuticles or any cuts, although I know that's a popular thing to do. Nothing against those bloggers, I just don't have time for that. Dat.

Overall this is a pretty office nude but too sheer for me to want to grab regularly. I would like to try it in a jelly sandwich (layering a glitter between sheer layers of polish) but that will have to wait for another day.

Barielle retails for $8/bottle.

Disclosure: The product[s] in this post was [were] provided to me by the company for consideration.  For more information, please read this post.

Live from Cosmoprof North America 2013!

So after missing my flight, being rerouted 5 hours out of my way, and showing up 7 hours late, having my laptop wireless card go southside, my iPad not charge and a migraine the size of Texas, I am in Las Vegas for the Cosmoprof North America show!

Yesterday I met with a large diverse group of brands - NCLA (yes, it's in all caps!), China Glaze (Gelaze anyone?!), OPI (item coming this fall that I am jumping up and DOWN for!), Barielle (great story line behind each collection), Seche (much more pigment and boldness!), ORLY (flakie IN matte top coat!), Jessica (glow in the dark snowman ornaments anyone?), nubar (where have they been), and much more.

Tonight I have more meetings set with brands like essie, and CND plus something extra special that I hope I can talk about. Unlike last year, more items are embargoed this year... some I can't talk about until December! Some I couldn't photograph. But despite that, just know that this is the place to learn about new nail trends ... when I can talk about them!

Be prepared, tell your friends. 

Cosmoprof posts are coming!

Happy polishing!

Barielle June Sweepstakes

Barielle hasn't been featured much on PolishGalore only because it's hard for me to find their products locally. However, they have been launching new collections each month and lately, given their fans awesome opportunities to win their products.

Starting June 10th until June 30th, Barielle will be holding a sweepstakes on their Facebook Page with 11 total winners. From what I understand, it will be open to US residents, age 13 and up.

Ten (10) winners will receive a Barielle kit (total value $97.00) that includes

• Two of the Summer Collection 5 Packs (Brilliant Colors and Summer Brights) - $50.00
• One Nail Rebuilding Protein Base Coat - $17.50
• One No Chip Speed Dry Top Coat - $12.50
• One Nail Strengthener Cream - $17.00

One (1) Grand Prize winner will receive a Barielle Kit and a DKNY Blue Leather Handbag, RSP $175.00

It's great to see a brand giving back to their fans. Be sure to jot down a note to join the sweepstakes starting on June 10th!

*PolishGalore is not affiliate with the above mentioned sweepstakes.

Barielle Tight Knit

The final gem from the Barielle "Style in Argyle" Fall 2010 collection is Tight Knit a purple brown creme.  This is another bottle that separated on me as far as the color goes but came out proper on the nail.  I used a base of Seche Natural, 2 coats of polish and a top of Seche Vite.  The formula was good and even.

No sun on this day, and wow - check out the difference from that bottle to the nail.  The purple brown shows on the nail despite the yellow brown shown in the bottle.  I don't know how to mix it better (because I shook it like it owed me money), but I'll figure it out.

In the shade you can really see how purple shines through at the very top of the bottle but also the undertones on the nail.

And finally indoors with the flash shows off a nice smooth formula that looks a tiny watery but was actually a nice creme.

Barielle retails for $8/bottle.

Disclosure: The product[s] in this post was [were] provided to me by the company for consideration.  For more information, please read this post.

Barielle Cowl of the Wild

I seemed to have lost 2 things... my sun, and my nails.  Boo nubbins.


Barielle Fall 2010 Collection "Style in Argyle" lost steam for me because of all the browns, and Cowl of the Wild was their mushroom taupe creme.  As you can see, my bottle has started to turn orange?!  I rolled and shook my bottle in vain trying to get the colors to remix, but it was to no avail.  I even added extra ballz (BB pellets) to see if that would help.  Nada.  I think this is just a weird color.  I was searching other blogger's posts about this color and it seems that it looks different on every single blog.  Go figure.


I used a base of Seche Natural, 3 coats of polish and a top of Seche Vite.  The formula was fine.

Here's a cloudy picture since the sun has been playing peek a boo for days now.  It's kind of a dirty olive green type color?  Kinda interesting - mostly weird for me.

Indoors with the flash - more of the brown shows through but it's still just kind of a muddy color for me.  After having a baby in diapers, this is not my most favorite color to see, especially not on my nails!  ^_^

Barielle retails for $8/bottle.

Disclosure: The product[s] in this post was [were] provided to me by the company for consideration.  For more information, please read this post.

Barielle Unraveled Rust

Howdy!  Sorry for my break - I have a huge bunch of polish to post including the rest of this Barielle fall collection "Style in Argyle."  Worst part is I have the pictures, I just need to edit and write the posts.  Rawr!


This interesting color here is Unraveled Rust.  Despite this weird yellow bottle color, this is actually a burnt rust creme, and you'll be able to tell better in the other pictures.  I'm not sure why it shows up so yellow here - I even double checked my bottles to make sure I didn't mess up the pictures!  I used a base of Seche Natural, 2 coats of Unraveled Rust and a top of Seche Vite.  I did have a wonky brush on this bottle (boo) and I noticed that the formula was a little on the thick side.  I needed quite a bit of cleanup afterwards.

Two different sun pictures here - you can see some of that weird yellow in the bottle, then a muddied brown rust color in the second picture and more of a darker red brown in the first.  This is definitely a unique color.

In the shade, it's a very dark rust brown color - like I said, very unique.  I can't think of another color I have like this in my collection but I'm going to keep looking.  I was very impressed with the uniqueness of this color.  UNIQUE.  ^_^

Barielle retails for $8/bottle.

Disclosure: The product[s] in this post was [were] provided to me by the company for consideration.  For more information, please read this post.

Barielle Wool You Marry Me? vs Zoya Stacy

When I was swatching these two polishes, they looked very similar to me.  As you can see in the bottle, Barielle's Wool You Marry Me? looks much more brown than Zoya's Stacy.  However on the nail, there's a bit of a different story.


For my Barielle swatches, I used a base of Seche Natural, 2 coats of Wool You Marry Me? and Seche Vite.  For my Stacy swatches, I used a base of Zoya Anchor, 2 coats of Stacy and a top of Zoya Armor.

As you can see, they look very similar on the nail.  You can just barely see that Zoya is more red than Barielle.

The shade also just barely shows a difference - again Zoya is more red, but overall the shades are very close, cousins maybe.


Disclosure: The product[s] in this post was [were] provided to me by the company for consideration.  For more information, please read this post.

Barielle Wool You Marry Me?

Barielle Wool You Marry Me? is listed as a plum brown creme from the Style in Argyle Fall 2010 collection.  It definitely seemed more wine plum looking to me, almost a dark raspberry?  If you think this looks like a certain Zoya, you are very close, but more on that later.


I used a base coat of Seche Natural, 2 coats of Wool You Marry Me? and a top of Seche Vite.  The formula was very nice - not too thick, not runny.  I think this would look better on longer nails but I'm still rocking the nubbins.

As you can see, in the sun, you can see just how warm this color is.  In the original promo pictures, I thought this was WAY more brown than it really is - which is good because I'm still nervous about wearing brown polish... I think it's just too dark for me, but nope this was really more of a red for me.

Now in the shade the color darkens up but it still reminds me of more of a rum raisin in my little mind.  I never thought I'd be this bad at telling colors until I had to find ways to explain literally every color on the planet.  ^_^  Yay for variety though!

Barielle retails for $8/bottle.

Disclosure: The product[s] in this post was [were] provided to me by the company for consideration.  For more information, please read this post.

Barielle Aura Angora

From the Fall 2010 Style in Argyle collection, Barielle's Aura Angora is a royal gold creme, that reminded me of mustard to be honest.  There was an episode of the Girls Next Door (one of the few I saw), where one of the girls was going all over New York City looking for "yellow mustard" but all the vendors had was a brownish mustard.  While this isn't truly a brown yellow, I was reminded of it while swatching this color.


I used a base coat of Seche Natural, only one fully opaque coat of Aura Angora, and a top of Seche Vite.  The formula was just a tiny bit thick, but for a yellow to be opaque and not streaky in one coat is an amazing feat.

As you can see in the sun, this isn't a neon  yellow by any means.  The hint of brown (seen in all the colors of this collection) is apparent, but it's still a pretty fall color.

In the shade, the color really reminded me of the brown mustard from the TV show mentioned above, but it's definitely a gold color - almost like a tarnished gold?  I think this would be great in nail art as well.

Barielle retails for $8/bottle.

Disclosure: The product[s] in this post was [were] provided to me by the company for consideration.  For more information, please read this post.

Barielle Cashmere or Loose Me

Barielle's Fall 2010 Collection, "Style in Argyle", came across my desk and I was really intrigued by all the browns in this collection.  I don't normally purchase browns even though they don't look bad on me at all.  I think I'm still warming up (haha) to browns since it's such a non-conventional color to me.


Unfortunately, I couldn't get a good bottle picture - it kept coming out orange instead of brown.  Cashmere or Loose Me (what a name!) is a soft brown with copper pearl.  It looks like just a creme in the bottle but when I took it out in the sun, BAM hello copper pearl.  When I was just looking at it, I was thinking it was more of a bronze shimmer, but hey, tomato, tomato.  Wait, that doesn't work when it's written...


I used a base of Seche Natural, 2 coats of Cashmere or Loose Me and a top coat of Seche Vite.  Here's some sun!

In the shade, you see more brown, no shimmer on the nail (just in the bottle).

Notice the new bottle?  Before it was "Shades by Barielle" with the circle, and 0.50 fL oz.  Now it's Barielle Shades and they did lower the content by 0.05 fL oz.  I like both bottles, but this new bottle shows off the color more (since the logo isn't large and in the center).

Barielle retails for $8/bottle.

Disclosure: The product[s] in this post was [were] provided to me by the company for consideration.  For more information, please read this post.

Barielle Style in Argyle

Oh, is it fall yet?  Since I started blogging, I've noticed myself looking at women's hands and feet for their nail polish and one thing I've noticed is that I'm a little tired of pink.  That being said, I have TONS of pink polish, but that's another story.  Barielle has just released their Fall 2010 Collection titled "Style in Argyle", an autumn apparel-inspired polish.  Now while I don't actually own any argyle, I do like the way it looks.

The collection includes the following colors:

Cashmere or Loose Me is a soft brown with copper pearl

Tight Knit is a purple brown creme

Aura Angora is a royal gold creme

Unraveled Rust is a burnt rust creme

Wool You Marry Me?  is a plum brown creme and

Cowl of the Wild is a mushroom taupe creme.

Taupe is HOT this fall, I would definitely recommend that one.  Aura Angora was a surprise to me - a royal gold?  It's a break from the bright neon yellows we saw this summer, but I'm wondering if it will be "warm" enough for fall.

Barielle is big 3 free and something I hadn't noticed before on their releases, it is pregnancy safe.  Not that I'm pregnant (or planning on getting that way until my son is like... 10 haha), but it's good to know which companies can state that.  ^_^

Barielle [official website] retails for $8/bottle.

Barielle High Steppin'

Got this in my email, it's share time!

For summer 2010, boogie down with new disco-inspired nail polishes in the High Steppin’ collection from Shades by Barielle.  Six metallic hues and Barielle’s signature healthy “3-free” formulation make hands and feet dance with style.

Flashing back to the 70’s, get groovy with Electric Boogie—an inky metallic blue with teal glitter; shake it up with Belly Dance—a nude taupe with shimmer; party until dawn with Night Moves—a sparkling metallic silver; turn it around with Passion Pirouette—a grape metallic purple; sway to the style with Slow Motion—a light metallic lavender and let loose with Freestyle—a cool metallic mint with silver glitter.

Celebrity Manicurist Elle says, “When creating this collection, we wanted to pump up the volume on nail hues.  Inspired by bright summer whites, we injected some high-voltage color into any look from bikini to boardwalk.”

Formulated to provide nails with safe, healthy and long-lasting glossy color coverage, Shades by Barielle is free of formaldehyde, toluene and dibutyl-phthalate. Women can also safely use Barielle products throughout pregnancy.

Key Features: Contains no formaldehyde, toluene and dibutyl-phthalate.

Barielle Blossom

This is the last of the Wildflower collection by Barielle.  Blossom is hailed as a creamy opaque peach, which is pretty accurate.  Now, when I got this bottle in the mail, it was pretty bad - something happened and the bottle was covered in peach gooey greatness.  I guess maybe it just wasn't sealed all the way?  I did some cleaning to the bottle but the rim is still pretty sticky, and oddly, it appears that the polish is SUPER thick.  I don't really think that's supposed to be that way, but I didn't want to thin it before my review.


I took this picture very late in the evening so as you can see, the sun is going down and honestly, my sun picture wasn't true to life, so here is a shade picture instead.

Notice that in the shade, it looks much more pink than peach, but it's definitely a peach color.  I used a coat of Seche Retain for my base, and 2 coats of Blossom.  I did not use a top coat, and after earing the polish for about twenty minutes, an odd thing started to happen.

Weird bubbling.  The picture is horrible in terms of color but what is with the bubbling?  I think I may have just gotten a bad bottle of polish, because this was the worst one out of the whole collection application wise, but was also the only damaged in transit bottle too.  The color doesn't give me maniquin hands like I thought it would, but it is a good neutral color for the office.


Barielle retails for $8/bottle.

Disclosure: The product[s] in this post was [were] provided to me by the company for consideration.  For more information, please read this post.

Barielle Myrza's Meadow

Barielle Myrza's Meadow is being called a light lime green with silver glitter but really it's multicolored glitter in the bottle.  This was one of the special colors from the Wildflower collection that Barielle was donating 100% of the proceeds to the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund.  Now, I recently saw this color featured as one of the "pretty ugly" colors on another blog, and while I can't quite call this color "ugly", I am slightly reminded of weird baby vomit when I see it.  Blame my kid.

I used Seche Natural for my base, 3 coats of Myrza's Meadow and just for fun, I did not use a top coat.  As you can see, it definitely leaves the nails a bit gritty from the glitter.

I'm sure if I had a coordinating dress or maybe a nice white button down shirt (?) that I wanted a pop of color with, this would work out.  I almost wish that Barielle had left the glitter out of the color, and then I think this would have been a perfect color.


Barielle retails for $8/bottle.

Disclosure: The product[s] in this post was [were] provided to me by the company for consideration.  For more information, please read this post.