Saturday 31 March 2012

Barielle Gemstone Earth Collection - Review and swatches

Hello everybody!

Today I will show you the whole Barielle Gemstone Earth Collection for spring 2012. It consists of five shades with creme and metallic finish. I couldn't find any official press release but as you can see, colours are inspired by Earth so it contains natural shades.


L-R: Back To Nature, Pink Quartz, Amber Sparkler, Granite Glitter, Green Opal



Amber Sparkler - metallic brown with silver pearl shimmer. As you can see, the colour is quite streaky so I had to pay a lot of attention to application. The pigmentation is great, the colour was very good in one coat but I've applied two to get deeper shade and better control over the 'streaks'. Whenever I have streaky polish I automatically apply two coats because the second coat allows me to control the brushstrokes better. Polish also dries fast and removal is without problems. 






Back To Nature - neutral peach creme shade. This is quite good shade for me; I wore it for a business conference and felt really good in it. Firstly I applied just one coat which was enough for full coverage and for the second day of wearing I applied second coat just for taking the pictures as the topcoat was scratched a bit. Very nicely pigmented shade which applies nicely and dries reasonably fast. 






Granite Glitter - metallic charcoal silver with just a hint of green (and no glitter). I like this shade very much, it is not classic cold charcoal silver but it has olive undertone in it. The application was good, the finish is a little streaky but not as much as Amber Sparkler. This is two coats and drying time was average.






Green Opal - metallic olive green with gold shimmer. This is a very nice shade and quite unique. At least I didn't notice many golden olive shades recently. It applied very nicely with again a little streaky formula...but I think that with this shade the streaks are not that visible. Pigmentation was good again, I'm wearing two coats. 






Pink Quartz - baby pink creme. I had to apply the polish twice because I've experienced quite a few problems. On the first try the colour created bald spots in the first two coats so I applied third coat. That seemed to even the polish out BUT after the colour started to dry, lots of bubbles under the polish appeared. I couldn't possibly take pictures with lots of bubbles in the polish so I removed it. On the second try I changed basecoat from Trind to OPI basecoat it was much better. I'm wearing two thicker coats. I don't know if it was just the topcoat's fault or if it's the formula of the polish however I didn't like having such problems at all.






Overall, the collection has very nice colours with quite good formula with exception of the Pink Quartz. The metallic colours were somewhat streaky but the formula was generally good. I like the colour palette and finishes and will definitely be trying more Barielle shades.

I'm really glad that the Barielle brand is still going and recently produced 90 new colours. That's a major boost! To be honest I'd prefer putting those new shades into collections throughout a year, which would be much easier to market and promote and also refer to.

Barielle polishes can be purchased at www.barielle.com and www.barielle.co.uk



*These polishes were provided to me for a review

20 comments:

  1. Amber Sparkler is sooo pretty O_o

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  2. Ok, call me weird but I'm actually digging Amber Sparkler's streaky look! Lol! And Pink Quartz is very pretty. :)

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    1. That's good, everybody can find something they like :) Pink Quartz is great except the formula :-/ That's a real shame :( Thank you for visiting my blog <3

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  3. My favourite is Amber Sparkler as well :) And as Nisha, I also like the streaky look :D

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  4. the only one that stands out to me is Green Opal. This collection was a bit of a let down to me!!! But I'm absolutely in love with some of Barielle's older collections

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    1. Oh yeah, I loved the old collections, especially Elle's Spell in the holiday coll. and some spring shades too!

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  5. Did I understand it right that from barielle.co.uk they ship for free?
    Verunka

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  6. they all look good. Green Opal looks like a little bit of Agro from Hunger Games of CG though.

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    1. Argo is darker - and I think Green Opal is more like some of the golden greens we saw last fall after the hit of Chanel Peridot in the summer. I am tired of that green/gold thing kind of right now - but then also am more into looking at brighter or lighter shades with all those being sooo hot this year right off.

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    2. I'm not tired of Peridot-like colours at all! I'm just starting to like them :D I don't wear greens but I'm just wearing Hits Trendy and I love the beetlejuice metallic look on my fingers! Just lush!

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  7. Esra... That was my thought as well, but Gereen Opal looks a bit paler than Agro.

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  8. So sorry to hear pink quartz was icky right off - it's a beautiful shade and your shots make it look perfect. I also agree with you that Back To Nature looks great on you - that's YOUR nude. It works really well for you. I just went and added a few to my on going Barielle shopping cart (which you can do folks - just be sure to look on your shopping cart for the save button - then you don't have to put it back together again when you come back at a later date...it works like of like Zoya's shopping cart that comes back only you have to on Barielle's click on the link and fill out a captcha to save your chart. Worth doing with so many new shades now as it takes time to go through it all and think about shades, descriptions and what you want to try.

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    1. Thank you for the tip with the shopping basket, I'll definitely use it!

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  9. Gorgeous shades :) especially the cremes.

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  10. Green Opal is gorgeous! I've not got anything at all like it
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