Stampabilities # 018: Barielle

Hi all,

Today I have the 18th edition of Stampabilities for you, with this time Barielle to show the stamping ability of four more polishes!


Stampabilities 018: Barielle. They all show up pretty nicely, except for Misbehaving Mistress, but I suppose that's because the color itself isn't really popping, so to say. Hidden Hideaway is a truly stunning color to stamp with, btw!


If you have suggestions for the upcoming editions of Stampabilities, please let me know! You can leave a comment on this post, but you can also send me an email.

Edited to add: Apparently, I did something wrong with the scheduling of the posts, which means they didn't go up like I planned it. Argh. Anyway, I hope everything goes up from now on, because I don't think I will be fully up and running this week.

Christmas Lights

Hi all!

Christmas is only a couple of nights away so here's another Christmas manicure! I didn't come up with this myself: I saw someone do this on MUA - I forgot your name, so sorry! Let me know if you read this, so I can give you the credits :) It's another easy, yet festive mani.


Christmas lights! To do this, you'll only have to do a few simple steps. First, paint your nails in a green color. I chose to do Nfu Oh 056 over China Glaze Holly Jolly, because I wanted a flakey tree. You can also go with a creme (like Orly Enchanted Forest or RBL Recycle) of a shimmer or glassflecked polish (like Orly Meet Me Under The Mistletoe or China Glaze Emerald Sparkle).

What you want to do next, is get a black polish and a striper brush. I used China Glaze Ink, which is technically not even really black, but it would work just as good. I drew some lines over my nails. I didn't want the lines to match: I wanted them to look 'random', like you see them in the trees.


When you've done that, it's time to take out your light bulb colors. I picked Barielle Glammed Out Garnet (red), China Glaze Lemon Fizz (yellow) and China Glaze Coconut Kiss (purple), but really, you can pick any color you'd like. I 'wiped' the brush of at the neck of the bottle, keeping just enough polish on the brush to create a bulb. I just put the brush on my nail to create a little oval drop and that's it! I think you could also use a dotting tool and pull it a little toward the light cord, so you get a somewhat teardrop shape to your colors.

I did that three times on all of my nails, so I had three different colors of lights. You can use as much colors as you'd like: I was aiming at a subtle yet colorful look, but I think I could have put another color there - like a pale lilac or something.

That's it! Easy, right? Even I could do it and my hands are nowhere near steady. Thanks for stopping by!

Stampabilities # 015: Barielle

Hi all!

I'm so sorry that I forgot last week's Stampabilities, I feel so stupid! I hope you'll forgive me.. Anyway, this week is a new edition of Stampabilities, this time with some Barielles.


Barielles! As you can see, they all show up pretty nicely. Night Moves is a silver foil and shows up better on darker backgrounds. It gives a crisp look instead of a solid silver look so that might be interesting to do firework stamping.. Both Date Night and Glammed Out Garnet would be nice Christmas stamping colors in my opinion!


If you have suggestions for the upcoming editions of Stampabilities, please let me know! You can leave a comment on this post, but you can also send me an email.

Barielle Konad Overload

Hi all,

While I was browsing through my nail folder, I found this overload of stamping with Barielle colors. I like the purple and the green together, but I think the blue blew it all overboard whehehe.


Barielle Grape Escape as a base, stamped with Sweet Addiction, Berry Blue and imageplates M57 and M60. Not my favorite konadicure to say the least, but it was fun to do.

I wish you all a very nice weekend :)


I will be working on the giveaway winner tomorrow - I'll ask my sister to pick a winner from all of the entries after I'm done checking and sorting them :)

Barielle Holiday Hustle Collection

Hi all,

The new Barielle collection is out! This comes from the press release:


The Holiday Hustle Collection brings you new hues combined with flecks of sparkle and metallic shimmer to make you glisten brighter than tinsel.

Step under the mistletoe with Elle’s Spell—a jelly red with multi-colored foil flakes; grab some luck with Gelt Me To The Party—a copper bronze metallic; stay off the “naughty list” with Coalest Day Of The Year—a carbon gray with white pearls; tie it in style with Wrap Me In Ribbon—a metallic raspberry with violet and copper pearl undertones; cheers to a new year with Jess’ Champagne Toast—a metallic violet with rose gold glitter; and bundle up with Snow Day—an ice blue metallic with silver undertones.

Celebrity Manicurist Pippa Hebden suggests:, “To add that winter party sparkle choose two of your favorite shades to make a two color fade using one as the base color and the other using light brush strokes from the tip to the middle and allow that to dry then apply your top coat.”

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 or dibutyl-phthalate and Pregnancy safe.

Size: .45 fl oz. / 13.3 ml
Suggested Retail Price: $6.00
Availability: Ulta Stores nationwide, Ulta.com and Barielle.com


I'm really looking forward to Elle's Spell and Coalest Day Of The Year looks interesting too! I hope I will be able to show you swatches soon.

Silver and Black Konad

Hi all,

A quickie today, so many things to do! I'm reorganizing my room a bit, giving it a more "home-y" feel.. I have to sort out a whole box filled with old friendship books (from when I was like, 7?), old agenda's, prizes/certificates that I got from diving and a ton more. I think it's enough to keep me busy all morning ;)

For today I have a konadicure that I did last week and since I really like silver and black combinations, I thought I'd share.


Barielle Night Moves stamped with Wet n Wild Black Creme and imageplate M64. Silver and Black is a golden combination with me, and so is this one. I had a little bit of trouble transferring the stamp good enough to get straight lines, but I still like how it turned out!

My original post about Barielle Night Moves can be found here.

Do you have any 'golden combinations', either in colors or maybe even polishes that you like to combine together? I'm always in for some new inspiration!

Barielle Night Moves

Hi all,

Today I have a awesome silver polish for you that I felt I *needed* after seeing swatches from Angie and I don't regret ordering this baby at all.


Barielle Night Moves, three coats in daylight. Night Moves is a stunning silver foil. I don't think it's the most unique polish out there, but it sure as hell is an eyecatcher!


I needed three coats for opacity, since the formula was a little on the thin side, but they were easy to apply and builded up to this stunning silver. I can't wait to wear this when the sun is out more, I think it might be able to turn some heads in sunlight hehe.


Barielle can be bought at www.barielle.com and at Ulta. They're having a 20% off sale on the website til 28th of November. They also still have the '2 + 1 free' deal and there's a free shipping deal when you buy for $ 50 or more. Pretty awesome deal if you ask me!

Lacey nails!

Hi all,

Last week, I showed you Barielle Get Mauve-ing and today I have the konadicure that I did over it afterwards. I like these colors as a background for konads like this!


Barielle Get Mauve-ing stamped with Wet n Wild Black Creme and imageplate M71. Because Get Mauve-ing is such a soothing color, I really liked the lacey stamping on it. I like those more on the dusty, muted looking polishes somehow.

Barielle Get Mauve-ing

Hi all,

It's weekend! Let's hope the weather is being nice so we can go outside.. Yesterday was a sad rainy day. I have one of the Barielles for you that I got at the sale recently!


Barielle Get Mauve-ing, two coats in indirect sunlight. Get Mauve-ing is a gorgeous mauve taupe creme that I found to be very nice in combination with my skintone.

I think I could have done one coat and be fine with it, but I did two out of habit.


This was the third Barielle bottle that I got that leaked during transport. The neck of the bottle had dried polish over it, sticking up and breaking off when I opened the bottle. The brush was wonky, with outstanding hairs and hairs that were longer than the rest of the hairs in the brush. Because the bottle leaked polish in transport, the polish got thicker and was really thick when I applied it.

I thought it was bad luck when two of my bottles leaked the first time (Berry Blue and A Bouquet For Ava), but now I'm concerned the caps aren't being put on tightly enough. I hope I just had bad luck and my other bottles will be fine.

I hope you all have a great weekend!

Barielle Date Night

Hi all,

Today I have one of the Barielles for you that I bought in the sale recently: Date Night.

Barielle Date Night, two coats in direct daylight. Date Night is a gorgeous deep green shimmer that doesn't look black in low lighting (yay!). It's gorgeous and it's really pigmented as well. I used two coats to even my sloppy polishing, but if you work neatly you can call this a onecoater!

As you can see, it's just the slightest bit brush strokey so you want to be careful while applying the polish.

The formula is smooth as butter and practically applied itself :)

In low lights, it looks darker and 'mossier' (is that a word?) so I immediately thought of Slytherin - well hey, I'm a Harry Potter fan! I decided to do an accent nail to wear with this mani.


Barielle Date Night stamped with China Glaze Millennium and imageplate M28 in indirect daylight. The color shifts to a darker shade of green, me likez!

I'm a bit lost for words, I really don't know what to say.. I'm tried and I don't know why. Thank goodness the clock goes back one hour tonight, so that's an extra hour of sleep! Yay! (I'm writing this on Saturday night hehe)

Hope you have a great Halloween!

Barielle Pin Up

Hi all,

How are you all doing on this fine thursday? I hope you are doing well :) Today I have a pretty red Barielle for you; Pin Up from the All Lacquered Up Collection for Fall 2009.

Barielle Pin Up, three coats in daylight. Pin Up is a pretty red with a hint of tomato; I wouldn't call this a pure tomato red though. It has golden and orangey red shimmer in it to give it an interesting finish.

As I've probably said before, I'm digging reds lately and this one is no exception. It looks really pretty, without being the trashy kind of red.


Application on this one was very good. The polish went on smoothly and was of pretty good structure, giving me no problems to apply it. Dryingtime was good as well.

The more Barielles I try, the more I dig them. I think the first two were a bit on the thick side (formulawise) because the polish had leaked a bit in transport, since all the Barielles I've tried ever since had a good formula. So if you like red and this one looks good to you, I'd suggest you give it a try :)

Barielle can be purchased at www.barielle.com and costs $8 a bottle.


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Barielle Grape Escape

Hi all,

Today I have another Barielle for you! This time I have Grape Escape from the Sugar Rush Collection for Summer 2009 for you.

Barielle Grape Escape, two coats in daylight. Grape escape is a pretty medium purple creme. It reminds me of OPI Funky Dunkey, but I haven't compared them yet so I don't know if these are dupes of eachother.


Application on this one was good. The polish is very pigmented and needs two coats for opacity. I had some bubbling issues, but I'm experiencing that a lot lately so I think that's more my problem than of the polish lol.

I'm digging the Barielles I have. I recently got in some more Barielles that I bought while they were on sale and I can't wait to try those as well! Plus, I'm a sucker for square bottles these days so Barielle fits right there in my square bottle obsession ;)

Barielle can be bought at www.barielle.com and costs $ 8 per bottle.


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Barielle A Bouquet For Ava

Hi all,

Today I have another Barielle for you. I think they have some really nice colors and this one fits in that category perfectly.

Barielle A Bouquet For Ava, two coats in daylight. Please imagine this more green - the green in the polish was a bit camerashy. A Bouquet For Ava is a gorgeous teal creme that leans mostly to the blue side, but the green is definately visible.

Application on this one was good. The other Barielles that I tried were a bit thick, but this one had a nice formula and dried pretty quickly.

What do you think of A Bouquet For Ava? If you have some Barielle(s) yourself, which one is your fave?

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Barielle Suntini

Hi all,

Today I have another one of the Barielles I got for you :) This time it's a bright and bold jelly: Suntini.

Barielle Suntini, two coats in daylight. Suntini is an orange coral polish with a jelly finish. It's fairly opaque; I only needed two coats for opacity, although I have a tiny bit of vnl in some angles.

Application was good; the polish was thinner than the other Barielles that I tried before this one (Sweet Addiction and Berry Blue) so that is good!

They recently changed the bottles and they downsized a bit; a new bottle contains .45 fl. oz./13.3 ml while the old bottle holds .50 fl oz/14 ml.

Barielles are available via www.barielle.com and cost $ 8 per bottle.

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Stamping On Orly Shine

Hi all!

Today I have a little Konadicure that I did a little while ago. Everyone always says that the Orly Foil FX collection is great for stamping, but I did it the other way around this time; I used Orly Shine as a base for this one.

Orly Shine, three coats, stamped with Barielle Pin Up and konad imageplate M60. I like the effect! The red really complements the silver base. It's not straight red, it has a strong hint of pink in it while stamping.


Hmm, nice!

Don't forget to send in your Harry Potter designs for the nailart contest I'm hosting! You still have a week to send in your design(s). To read more about the contest, please click here to read the original post.

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PS: I am so way behind on answering my emails. I'm so sorry! I try to catch up with them, but everytime I try to get through the pile of emails something comes in between or I just don't have enough time. I'm working on it, so if you're waiting on a reply to your email, please bear with me! Thanks :)

Stampabilities # 001: Barielle

Hi all!

A little while ago, I told you about something I thought of, that I could do on my blog. I've decided to give it a shot! There are a ton of polishes suitable for Konad and the lovely Michelle from The Lacquer Files has made a stamping polish database to help you chose a regular polish that works for stamping. I wanted to show you what the regular polishes would look like when you stamp them, so you can see exactly how clear the image is. Today is the first time I'll feature this on my blog, but if you think it's a good idea, I'll make it a weekly post that will go up on mondays.

Todays Stampabilities: Barielles!

I stamped them all with my Konad stamper and imageplate M60 on a piece of white paper. As you can see, they all show up pretty nicely!

The idea is to stamp these on a white base as well, so I will be adding a picture with this in the next week. I will try to do this with all the polishes in my stash eventually, but since that's a massive amount of work, it's probably best to break it into ittybitty pieces.

Let me know what you think about the Stampabilities! Should I make this a weekly thing?

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Barielle Sweet Addiction

Hi all!

Today I have a gorgeous slate green for you: Barielle Sweet Addiction.

Barielle Sweet Addiction, two coats in daylight. Sweet Addiction is a gorgeous slate green creme. I love these kind of colors! They're right up my alley. This one is really really pigmented; I could have done with one coat for opacity, but I had to do a second coat to even out some ridges :)

Application was alright. The polish was a little on the thick side, making it a bit streaky. This one also leaked in transport so that may have caused the polish to thicken a little. I will use a little bit of thinner to restore the formula :)

What do you think of Sweet Addiction?

Barielle polishes are available on www.barielle.com and cost $ 8 per bottle of 0.45 fl oz/13.3 ml (new bottles).

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Barielle Berry Blue

Hi all!

How are you all doing? I hope everyone is enjoying their weekend! Today I have one of my first Barielles for you. I was really excited to try these, so here we go with the first one.

Barielle Berry Blue, one coat in daylight. Berry Blue is a gorgeous dark denim blue creme. It's not so dark that it looks black around the edges, but it can look black in low light. And yes people, you've read this right.. Only one coat!

I have to admit that the cap was stuck to the bottle when I tried to open it, so I *think* some polish was spilled during transport. I cleaned off the entire cap and neck of the bottle before I used Berry Blue, so the polish might have gotten thicker in transport since some polish leaked.

The formula was a bit on the thick side (but I think this is due to the spilling) but I found it easy to work with and the polish covers very well in only one coat.

I will try thinning it next time I use it. I didn't want to use thinner at the first try, since I felt like I wanted to try it the way it arrived at my doorstep :) I think the polish will be opaque in two coats when thinned, which still is pretty good!

I don't think I own another polish like this yet! I do have a couple of these dark denim shimmers, but no cremes, so that's a winner for me as well! I'm excited to try the other colors that I got, they all look so pretty..

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