Barielle Holiday Hustle Swatches Winter 2010

Iwas sent the Barielle Holday Hustle collection....I love it!

Barielle has a great way of avoiding the typical so again they make me so very happy!

All swatches are 2 coats no top coat, in lightbox lighting.

Gelt me to the Party is an antiqued Copper/bronze/gold

I really wish this looked better on me because I love the color a lot!

Coalest day of the year is a dark gray almost black with pearl shimmer!

I think this color is beautiful.

Jess' Champagne Toast is a metallic lilac/violet with pink micro glitter

You all know I love a contrasting glitter/shimmer and this one grabbed me immediately!

Barielle calls Snow Day metallic with silver undertones.

On me it looks like a slightly blued metallic green with silver hues. Now we all know that colors can sometimes catch the skin tones and look a bit different on different people.

Wrap me in ribbon is a metallic raspberry and a surprize love.

I am shocked but I really love this color.

Elle's Spell.....drooooool.....stare......drool

As you can tell I swatched this a week ago, when I lost my claws, to cheer me up and it worked so well that I wore it for 3 days. (That says a lot)  Elle's Spell is a beautiful red jelly with opal flakies that shift from firey orange, gold to green and occasional blue flash.

I will leave you to drool!

Color Club Dark Romance swatches anyone?

I recieved the Color club Dark Romance mini set from Color Club for review and I had a chance to quickly swatch these tonight.

Isn't it adorable! I love the packaging.

It comes with a matte top coat, Alabaster, Smoke and mirrors and Dark Romance.

These are all matte so I was a little confused by the inculsion of a matte top coat at first.

Then after swatching I think it's a great idea.

Dark Romance is a beautiful satiny black matte with almost a rubber texture to it which I found very cool.

This is 2 coats with no top coat. These are a little slower to dry than most mattes so they are more forgiving in application. Also they are slightly satin, not flat or chalky matte.

Smoke and mirrors is a matte metallic silver. I love this!

This is one coat over Dark Romance. If you wore it alone I think you would need two coats.

I love the sparkly yet matte look of this one!

Alabaster is streaky on the first coat but the second smooths out nicely for a matte white.

As with Dark Romance, Alabaster has a slightly satin finish which I really like for the white.

I added a coat of the Color Club matte top coat and Alabaster turned to a completely flat matte.

So I like that you have an option with these. If you like the satin matte leave it as is or if you want a super flat matte add a coat of the matte top coat. You can also use it over and regular polish to mattify.

I think the application is easier with these than I've found with most other Matte polishes.

So YAY Color Club, you did a great job with some sexy mattes!

What do you think? Which matte do you like? Flat, satin or no matte at all?