olive - Lucy's Stash

*PR samples

Hello lovelies,

Today I want to show you another new A England shade called Love Is Enough. It is an addition to the Heavenly Quotes collection. It seems like Adina, the creator of A England brand keeps working relentlessly on new shades because each new shade is just another gem.

Love Is Enough - dark olive green foil base with gold and silver foil flecks. It's a very interesting yet not bold shade (compared to neons or brights of course). The formula was slightly sheerer so I have applied two thicker coats. It applied well without streaks or patches and dried quite fast. I've applied Seche Vite topcoat to get the best possible shine.

I've compared Love Is Enough to OPI Number One Nemesis because I thought they are identical. The truth is, they are very similar but OPI is darker and has a little bit less of the foil flecks.

Lucy's Stash - A England Love Is Enough vs OPI Number One Nemesis

I've tried to apply silver embossed stickers I received from Born Pretty Store. My past experience wasn't very good as the sticker usually don't stick to my nail properly because it's very curved. This time I've applied the stickers along the nail and they seemed to stick well.

Stickers are available here, you can use 10% discount code LUHH10.

So what do you think of this new A England shade? If you'd like to get your paws on the new A England collection, it is available in e-shops all over the world, HERE is the full list.

*PR samples

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

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