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Morning!

Barielle’s new winter collection called Holiday Hustle features six new shades that will have you set for the season.

Don’t expect the basic glittery red, gold, silver and green though, there are some really unique colors and finishes here!

The formula was pretty good on these. A couple of the more metallic ones were the tiniest bit streaky, but nothing bad. They were for the most part three coats.

Snow Day

Snow Day is a pale blue/silver metallic with blue and green shimmer. This is a really nice color and I love that it really does remind me of blue ice. Not that we get much ice on California, but you know what I mean. This was two coats.

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Barielle’s new fall collection for 2010 is called Style in Argyle, and I’ve got your first peek at it. It features six warm, cozy colors that you can slip on as easily as a sweater.

If the idea of slipping on a sweater in mid-summer (which technically it still is) is repulsive, then lucky you! We here in the Bay Area have had the coldest summer in 40 years, so sweaters don’t sound too shabby right now!

First things first. The new logo! Barielle is sporting a new logo featuring a horse and man jumping over the “B” in the name. I really like this new look; I think it’s looks much more modern and hip than the old logo.

Second thing I noticed was the colors looked…bland? At first I wasn’t all that excited because they are all in the brown family (except one) and I thought they looked a little boring. But I was wrong.

Thirdly the formula was pretty good on these. Most of them applied really nicely in just two coats. They weren’t too thick or thin and I didn’t have any streaking or pooling issues. One was a little patchy but blame the user not the polish.

Here is how they describe the colors in the press release:

• Cashmere Or Loose Me – a soft brown with copper pearl
• Tight Knit – a purple brown creme
• Aura Angora – a royal gold creme
• Unraveled Rust – a burnt rust creme
• Wool You Marry Me? – a plum brown creme
• Cowl Of The Wild - a mushroom taupe creme

Cashmere Or Loose Me

Cashmere Or Loose Me is a light, cafe au lait brown with soft, subtle copper shimmer. I wasn’t that aware of the shimmer until I took this outside and saw it in the sun. Then I realized it was a lot prettier than my initial impression. I don’t have many browns this shade and certainly not with the copper shimmer, which makes it more unique. I think this is very flattering with my skin also. This was two coats.

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Friday is finally here, let’s all breathe a sigh of relief!

Barielle’s new summer collection for 2010 is called High Steppin’ and it’s a nice departure from most other collections we have seen so far this season.

This is made up of metallic colors, inspired by the disco era and not necessarily all colors you think of when you think summer. I definitely appreciate that because after awhile the same colors get to be so boring!

These are metallics and as we all know, they have a tendency to be streaky. I don’t have any major complaints here with the formula, just some small ones that aren’t a big deal.

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Belly Dance

Belly Dance is a pale taupe with silver shimmer. This went on pretty sheer, but built up nicely after three coats. I don’t love this one personally, it’s a little too nude for me, but it’s still pretty. Very conservative office friendly I think.

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Mornin’!

Barielle has come out with a very interesting collection for spring 2010 called Wildflower. It’s six colors in a range of finishes, which is kinda cool. There are two glitter ones that are particularly unique!

The formula on these was kind of all over the map for me. Some were great, one was a nightmare and others were good.

Anyway, check this collection out!

Blossom

Blossom is a pale peach creme. This one gave me serious issues. This polish was so thick I had a very hard time getting it even. I waited about 90 seconds in-between coats, but whenever I put down the next coat it would get even thicker and harder to manage. After three coats it was basically even but you can see towards the tips (mostly on pointer and pinkie) that it’s quite thick and “gloopy”. I was really irked about this because I love the color itself.

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Here we go with Part II of Barielle’s All Lacquered Up collection for fall 2009. There are quite a few that I really love in this set and not a single one that I didn’t like or that didn’t flatter me. Totally spot on! Peep ‘em out!

Putt-E-On Me

Putt-E-On Me is a fabulous mushroom taupe creme. If you have been reading my blog for awhile, you know that mushroom colored polishes are some of my very fav and now this one joined the rest of them. There is something that’s so “out of the norm” with colors like this and that’s why I like them. I like wearing colors that you won’t see people like Dina Lohan or Paris Hilton’s mother wearing (yuck). This was creamy and opaque in just two coats.

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