Barielle ~ Elle’s Spell and Blackened Bleu

Barielle ~ Elle’s Spell and Blackened Bleu

Red jelly with golden flakies, and light black base with blue micro flakies

So, I’ve been dying to try out Barielle polishes for a while. I bought four different colours, of which “Elle’s Spell” was one. It looked so interesting in the bottle. A nice shade of red packed with golden flakies!

What I wasn’t aware of was that the base is a jelly. I’m not very familiar with jellies, so I didn’t quite know what to expect. Formula was okay, I guess. Not too runny, not too thick. I applied the first coat and it looked absolutely horrible. I waited what seemed like forever before it was dry enough to apply the second coat, and then I waited again. Drying time of this polish seems very long indeed.

And this was so not what I was out for. I knew right away that this mani had to die this instant. I took a few pictures, of which I’m going to post one.

Here. Two coats, no top coat:

I removed it all after taking the pictures and tried it over both a black base and a bright red base, each only on one single nail. None of it looked as great as I expected, so I gave up on that polish for now. I’ll have another play with it on a day when I have more time and patience.

Instead I grabbed the “Blackened Bleu” and tried with that instead. I had the same experience as with “Elle’s Spell” – it looked absolutely horrible after the first coat. Damn! Drying time was just as bad too. Second coat didn’t help much, but since I didn’t want to spend the entire evening putting on nail polish, I applied a third coat, and that helped. Now I had a dark base with tiny blue micro flakies on. It looked pretty good.

Three coats, no top coat:

(It’s on purpose I don’t mention which top coat it is, it’s because it’s a mix of various top coats from nearly empty bottles that I’ve poured into a single bottle. Waste not, want not, right? :D )

I wasn’t finished though. This just wasn’t sparkly enough for my liking. I decided to go for a glitter today. I picked a topper from Essence called “Glorious Aquarius”, a clear base with light blue and orange glitters in it.

One coat over the Blackened Blue, plus a layer of top coat:

Elle’s Spell:

Opacity: 4/10
Colour, prettiness: 6/10
Durability: N/A/10
Value for money: 5/10
Overall: 5/10
Buy again: No

Blackened Bleu:

Opacity: 4/10
Colour, prettiness: 6/10
Durability: 5/10
Value for money: 5/10
Overall: 5/10
Buy again: No