Barielle June Bug

Shades by Barielle June Bug is another from the Wildflower collection, and this is one of the colors that are to pay homage to women close to Barielle who are still battling or have lost their fight to ovarian cancer.  They describe the color as "teal with fuchsia glitter" but they forgot to mention the green shimmer (which photographed more blue than green) and the grey tint!

I really felt like this was more of a slate grey (think hex color #778899 for the nerds) and while inside I really didn't see the glitter, but it's there.  There's also this really awesome green shimmer, kind of like in the Rescue Beauty Lounge Scrangie but not as bright.  I used Seche Natural for my base and Seche Vite as my top coat and two coats of June Bug.  I was a little confused with the formula because it appears to be VERY thick, but after wiping the edge of the brush on the bottle, the polish was super thin on my nail for the first coat, and was fully opaque after the second coat.

Definitely a good color to wear to the office because of the hidden glitter and shimmer that you can't see across the room, but will entertain you during the day.  Now for sun (!) pictures!

A little shade

Some indirect sun

Mmm sun!

And a bit of a blur to show the shimmer

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.

Essie Icons of Color

Got this email in about some new Essie ^_^

You can always click on the image to see it bigger, in case you miss the bottom line about free shipping on orders of $40 or more (enter code: FREESHIP40).  

Essie can be purchased on their website [official website] or etailers like Head2ToeBeauty [official website] or TransDesign [official website]

Rescue Beauty Lounge Sale!

48 HOUR SALE!

It's an ultimate set!  7 Fabu nail polishes for only $50 (retail for $126).  These polishes are going to be discontinued.


Snatch them up now for a huge discount before it's too late.  When they're gone...they're gone.  All sales are final. No returns. No exchanges. No substitutes.

I love the formula on RBL but I only have one polish... Scrangie, and it was totally worth the cost.  ^__^  Rescue Beauty Lounge has both their website [official website] and their Facebook Fan Page [Facebook].

China Glaze B-Girlz

Tomorrow, an American film actor and artist will be at my campus for a presentation.  I actually met him today when he came to do a talk show for us, but tomorrow I have to be with the entire school for this presentation.  I was looking for a color that would pop, especially since I'll probably be wearing lots of black (can't stand out on days like tomorrow when you're running up on stage, in the catwalks, etc), but wasn't going to get me yelled at ^_^


I finally decided to grab China Glaze B-Girlz which was from the Kicks Collection.  This was one of my untries since I seem to have a LOT of pinks lately, and after my application, I do think I need to do some color comparisons when I FINALLY GET SOME SUN.  I had a bit of a love/hate with this polish.  The first coat was very watery and coverage was spotty, making me wonder if this was a neon but coat two was pooling into a few of my cuticles (I went a bit thicker coat for 2)  but overall this is an awesome pink shimmer polish - almost a hot pink with very light purple shimmery dust in it that I only saw when I nearly stuck my finger in my eye.  I used Seche Natural for my base and my bottle of Seche Vite which got a healthy dose of Seche Restore last night.  

ONE DAY LATER EDIT

omg!  Sun!  I ran home to snap these pictures for you - real pictures!

One in the sun

And two pretties in the shade.

China Glaze [official website] can be found online through several etailers, including my favorite Head2Toe Beauty [official website], Sally's Beauty Supply [official website] as well asTransDesign [official website].

Barielle Daring Dahlia

I am so sick of the "No Sun" that has been inflicted upon me since I started my blog.  Rawr.  Then I find out today that the special lamps I bought for my light box takes a different light bulb than the pricey ones I bought.  /headdesk.

So unfortunately I have some regular olde web camera pictures tonight but WOW this color was a surprise to me!

Barielle Daring Dahlia is from their Spring 2010 Polish Collection "Wildflower" and they describe it as "a deep fuchsia with a hint of silver metallic."  I personally did not see the silver, but I'm also under daylight lamps (6500K), and not the sun.  I used Seche Natural for my base coat and only 2 thin coats of polish.  The application was VERY smooth which was quite delightful - but it dried like a neon - matte.

Maybe it's the matte that throws off a silver metallic?  Either way, I couldn't leave it alone like that, so I put on a coat of Seche Vite and BAM.

Jelly goodness. /loves  Gotta say, for being my first Barielle, I am VERY pleased with the color, and application.

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.