Barielle - Jess' Champagne Toast

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I got here another Barielle Swatch. Now this is one that when I got I was SOOO excited to try it out and it looks amazing in the bottle. However once on the nails it's a little disappointing. It's not as opaque as I thought it was going to be and the sparkle doesn't show through as much as I thought. In the bottle it just seems to have a OOMPH that disappears on the nail. However once I got past that I really do like the color quite a bit- it's very pretty and feminine. This is going to be one of those picture heavy posts because it's a color that is difficult to capture in pictures. Hope you enjoy!


BRAND: Barielle

NAME: Jess' Champagne Toast

COLLECTION: Holiday Hustle Collection 2010

COLOR: Metallic Violet w/ Rose Gold Glitter

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RGB - Mink

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Here is a nail polish brand I had never heard of before until I got this full size bottle of it in the color Mink in my monthly Glymm Box.

A bottle of this polish costs $16 and it's for 12 ml where as with OPI you get for 15 ml per bottle for $6-10 depending on where you get it. The quality of the RGB polish is really good. It's very opaque which I am always a fan of. The formula is also on the thicker side which is better than watery formulas but I do wish that it was a teeny tiny bit thinner.
As far as color goes I really do enjoy the color and it's perfect for fall. One small unimportant detail that I did not enjoy and found annoying was the brush handle length, it's a little short for a my short stubby fingers and I find that with a longer handle I have more control.


BRAND: RGB

NAME: Mink

COLLECTION: ? ? ?

COLOR: a warm, cocoa brown with some olive green undertones

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Barielle - Mazie Rose

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Here is another Barielle swatch, one of my favorite so far from this Canadian brand. I am not sure what collection it's from, but the color is AMAZING! It's rich and beautiful and perfect for fall and for the holidays, but really perfect for ANY time of the year. If I have one complaint about this color is that the name doesn't seem to fit the beauty of the color.


BRAND: Barielle

NAME: Mazie Rose

COLLECTION: ? ? ?

COLOR: a deep, almost blood red


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Barielle - Positive ZEN-ergy

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Here is another Barielle Swatch for Positive ZEN-ergy that I picked up while Barielle was on sale on Hautelook. I did purchase a lot of funky colors during that sale and kind of went into it blind because it was difficult to determine what the colors would look like in real life as opposed to just on the screen. This one was one of those colors that I was unsure about but took a chance on and boy am I glad! It's a very magical color, and I know magical sounds like a weird word to use in describing a nail polish but trust me it really is! It is a bit more opaque than what I was expecting but because I love the end result so much I cannot complain.

BRAND: Barielle

NAME: Positive ZEN-ergy

COLLECTION: Karma

COLOR: it's a light grassy/mossy green with a gorgeous silver shimmer

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OPI - Meet Me On The Star Ferry

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Here is another OPI color. This one I ended up getting off a friend of mine who was moving to France and needed to get rid of some of her polish and I think that this one was one of them. Originally I did not really think I was going to like it even though it looks gorgeous in the bottle but turns out that it looks amazing on the nails also! Warning - there are a lot of pictures because I have a not so amazing camera and because the beauty of this polish is very difficult to capture on film.

BRAND: OPI

NAME: Meet Me On The Star Ferry

COLLECTION: Hong Kong

COLOR: A Kowloon-lit, moonlit violet - it looks like a rich sea of violet with shimmer and tiny sparkles running through it






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with flash - allows to show the great amount of tiny glitter in the polish

Julep - Cameron

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Here is a new brand I am trying out. It's from a company called Julep and the Julep Maven Subscription Program. It's like Birchbox but for nails. I have gotten two boxes so far and am almost certain that I will be canceling my subscription due to all the drama that the company created over people getting their credits for referring people. Other than that I also am not a big fan of spending $20 dollars a month and the quality and the amount you get. Every month you get 2 - 8ml bottles of lacquer whereas I can 2 OPI bottles for the same price [if not less] and I get 15ml per bottle and much better higher quality. ANYWAYS! Let's get to the swatch!



BRAND: Julep

NAME: Cameron

COLLECTION: N/A

COLOR: bright fuchsia pink


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3 coats + 1 coat top coat [natural light]

[with flash]

OPI - Do you Lilac it?

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This is a very popular OPI color and although I really like the color I'm not quite sure why this particular color is SO popular. It's beautiful, that's for certain but OPI just has so MANY other colors that are just better? [for lack of better word]

BRAND: OPI

NAME: Do you Lilac it

COLLECTION: Brights Collection

COLOR: purple with a cool blue undertone


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3 coats color + 2 coats top coat [not that it needs 3 coats but I just felt like it]

natural light + flash

direct sunlight

OPI - Hot & Spicy

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Here another beautiful OPI color that I love! I had bought this a while ago and had never tried actually put it on and tried it until now, and I really like it. Excuse the last of color on the edge of my thumb, I smudged it by accident while it was still wet. OPPSIES!

BRAND: OPI

NAME: Hot & Spicy

COLLECTION: Hong Kong Collection

COLOR: coral with lots of red infusion


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3 coats of color + 2 of top coat / natural light

3 coats of color + 2 of top coat / natural light

3 coats of color + 2 of top coat / natural light

3 coats of color + 2 of top coat / natural light

3 coats of color + 2 of top coat + flash

OPI - Steady as She Rose

AHH! So here is the first 'official' swatch post. So excited! Hope you guys like it!

BRAND: OPI

NAME: Steady as She Rose

COLLECTION: Pirates of the Caribbean

COLOR: very light 'sky' purple

Sorry!!!! I do have to apologize for the lack of natural light photos. I had a super busy day at work and really wanted to get my first swatch up, also this is a color I've had for a while now and hadn't tried it out yet.

This is more of a swatch but I do want to do this again tomorrow to get some natural light pictures as well as maybe a design? Hopefully if all goes well!


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This is 3 coats with no top coat

Again 3 coats no top coat NO FLASH

3 coats + top coat

natural light - no flash

direct sunlight