My first Christmas mani: Elle´s Spell over Branding Iron

Hello ladies!

Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas. As I explained the other day, for us here in the Netherlands it´s the second Christmas day today. I did have to work (I work in the airport), so nothing special for me.

I know I´m a little late, but today I´m showing you my first Christmas mani. Since I´m not a red polish kinda girl, but I do love some of the darker ones, I decided to layer Barielle Elle´s Spell over China Glaze Branding Iron. Nice and vampy!! Love the combo!

I used 1 coat of each and it was good to go. Application on both was good.

Here are my pics.

I keep loving flakies! I´m sorry for the overload in the last week.

Have you seen the new Finger Paints flakies yet? They are awesome! I wish I could get them here.

What is you favorite flakie?

Have a great day!

Barielle Elle´s Spell

Hi ladies!

For today I have a polish which you might have not expected to see on my nails. It´s red, which is not really my color. But this one... yes, I love it! I have used it before for layering, but now I finally used it on its own.

Barielle Elle´s Spell is a red jelly with duochrome flakies. Wow, it´s gorgeous! I know there´s one of the Nfu Oh flakies that is pretty similar. I think number 58 or 59, sorry, don´t remember. The difference is that most of my Nfu Oh flakies don´t dry this fast. The formula on Elle´s Spell is great! I used 3 coats.

I´m really sorry for the still very dry cuticles. Working on it, but as explained before, my skin is difficult to get moisturized.


Do you guys like this one? I think it´s the best Barielle I´ve ever seen. And also the best red polish that exists. And I actually like it on my nails too, yay!

Thanks for visiting my blog!

Comparison flakies over Nubar Raspberry Truffle

Hi ladies!

The day before yesterday I showed you Nubar Raspberry Truffle and I told you I wanted to layer something over it. I couldn´t decide what to do, but I did know I wanted to compare different flakies over a dark color someday, so why not now?! So I pulled out my orange/yellow/red flakies to see what happens when you put them over Raspberry Truffle.

First the pictures.

Once again: excuse my horrible skin and cuticles, I wish there would be a solution for it

I used 1 coat of all flakies.

Index = Nfu Oh 49, flakies in a very sheer pink base
Middle = Nfu Oh 51, flakies in a sheer purple base
Ring = Barielle Elle´s Spell, flakies in a sheer red base
Pinkie = Gosh Rainbow, flakies in a clear base

As you can see the flakies in Nfu Oh 51 aren´t as visible as the others. Nfu Oh 49 and Gosh Rainbow don´t show any difference on the nail. And what´s also obvious is that the base color hardly shows at all. The flakies of Nfu Oh 51 and Barielle Elle´s Spell don´t shift color as much as the other two.

All together I can say Gosh Rainbow is an absolute musthave for layering. It is discontinued, but it has 3 dupes: Nubar 2010, Nfu Oh 38 and Sally Hansen Hidden Treasure.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Barielle Elle's Spell over H&M Hello Kitty Cool Summer

Goodmorning!


Today I'm showing you a polish lots of US ladies have been searching for ever since it showed up for the first time about a month ago. Somehow it seems hard to find. Even the US website doesn't have it. I got it from http://www.barielle.co.uk/ and found myself pretty lucky for getting it so easily.


When it came in I swatched it right away and found out it was quite sheer. After 3 coats still visible nail line. So it needed underwear and I decided to go for something purple (surprise! LOL). Going through my stash I found H&M Hello Kitty Cool Summer, which is a red based purple with pink and blue glitter. I was sort of hoping the glitter would still show up after I layered Elle's Spell on top of it, but it didn't.


This is 2 coats of Cool Summer + 2 coats of Elle's Spell

Isn't this just gorgeous!? I love it!

At first I only put 1 coat of Elle's Spell over Cool Summer, but it reminded me of Nfu Oh 51 (which I love and is my all time favorite) and I wanted something more red this time.
But I do want to show you what it looks like.

I think both combinations are great! And Elle's Spell has a great formula, it's really smooth even without topcoat. Cool Summer is bit on the thick side, but it does dry very quick.

Thanks for visiting and enjoy your day!

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Barielle Falling Star

Hi!!

How are you all doing today? Can you believe it´s already the first of december? I can´t, it´s just all going so fast.

Today I´ve got my very first Barielle polish to show you. I got this recently together with Elle´s Spell. I have to say that they are both really gorgeous!!
The one I´m showing you here is Falling Star. This a medium blue creme with orange glitter. This is truly unique! Haven´t seen anything like this before. But I do think it´s pretty easy to franken this. Take a blue creme like Essie Mesmerize or Illamasqua Force and put orange glitter in it.

Since it wasn´t a sunny day when I wore this, it was really really hard to take a good picture. I shot about 50 pics and only found 1 good enough to make it to my blog.

This is 3 coats with SV (which I´m always a little scared to use because sometimes it gives shrinkage, but I was lucky this time).

I think in sunshine the glitter will really light up more, but I like it anyway. And quality is really good! I had this on for almost 3 days without any tipwear! Can you believe it? I have tipwear within 12 hours normally.

Do you have any recs for other Barielle shades that I should really get?

Thanks!

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