Thursday, September 9, 2010

Barielle Style in Argyle Collection Fall 2010

I've been wavering on posting these for a couple weeks... Interesting collection....



Aura Angora. My absolute favorite of the collection. I am a fan of mustard shades and this is a mustard shade if I ever saw one. It's a gold color- yellow and brown- creme finish.



Cashmere or Loose Me. I don't even know what to say about the color because I can't get past the name. I don't get it... The only thing I can get out of it is "Catch Me Or Lose Me"? And in that case, if it is actually 'catch me or lose me', did they really spell it wrong on the label? I sure hope that's not the case... Maybe it's just an even more elaborate and horrible pun- because cashmere sweaters are often loose? This is one of those rare cases where a really awful name will actually make me dislike the polish (which is not actually a bad color, it's warm milk chocolate brown with red pearl).


Cowl Of The Wild. A dusty milky brown. Bordering on that grey-taupe-brown-beige thing, but this is definitely more in the straight brown category than grey/beige/taupe/current-trendy-color. This one is rather nice, very calming shade.


Tight Knight. A warm plummy milk chocolate brown.



Unraveled Rust. This doesn't really strike me as a rust color- it's more of a deep dark chocolate with slight wine tone.


Wool You Marry Me? This is a brown with plum-burgundy tones. Seems to be on the cooler side of brown.


The formula on these was decent. Thick, as Barielles tend to be, but opaque. Good coverage, two coats are pictured here. Some of the brushes had stray hairs that I needed to be mindful of while applying. Drying time is long.

Um... I'm really not sure about this collection. All browns? If you want to do an all brown collection the right way and make it really good, you should take notes from Nubar's Chocolate Truffles Collection. That was a great set of browns- nice variety of shades and finishes, something for every skintone. This Style in Argyle collection, though... I can't say it excites me. None of them really look very good on my skintone and the names are pretty cheesy (and possibly even misspelled!). I do really like Aura Angora, Unraveled Rust and Cowl of the Wild. I would actually wear them.

I don't want to be harsh, but I do want to give my honest opinion... I am disappointed. Do I need to whip out the 'Son, I am disappoint' man again? I look forward to every brand's fall collection as the fall collections are usually the best ones, and for the past two years, Barielle's fall collection has been amazing. 2008 was that epic set with Date Night, remember it? And 2009 was the All Lacquered Up collection with twelve whole shades (designed by a blogger, to boot!). Now in 2010 we have... six browns. Though, this year's collections this year haven't quite rocked my world, either, but this is just the icing on the brown, frosty cake. I'm just having a hard time imagining someone at Barielle saying, "Hey, let's do an all brown collection." "Yeah, everyone's going to love that, it'll be a huge seller!"

But, whatever, that's just this girl's opinion. I am a person who does actually like brown polish. I do, I wear it often, my first true brown polish love was OPI Espresso Your Style and I've loved it ever since. Yet, as much as I do enjoy brown polish, having the entire fall collection consist of nothing but brown is a disappointment for me. Based on their past fall collections (I've only known about them since the 2008 fall) I had intensely high hopes for this year's collection. And, that's what I have to say on the topic.

These should be available now on the website, and they are in a perpetual state of buy two get one free.

(These were sent to me for review.)

18 comments:

  1. Nice mustard shade. I like this. They're shades I've seen before. Probably have others like them. This will save me money.

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  2. Aura Angora is amazing! I really love wearing sweaters that color, but I worry about wearing it on my nails...it might clash with my super red skin tone. :(

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  3. Hey I was typing my comment and it vanished in mid sentence! BLAST!
    I was saying that I like the mustard colour on you Scrangie, but I don't know if it would work on me. :( The browns in this collection aren't as exciting as I hoped they would be... if you can be excited about browns. I like Cashmere or Loose Me with the red pearl. Thats kind of neat.
    I like Unraveled Rust too.

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  4. Totally getting Aura Angora. Everything else doesn't speak to me.

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  5. Hmmm, kind of boring collection! Even though I loooove the first one <3

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  6. The collection looks boring to me but man Aura Angora, I want it. I'd love to wear a mustard shade on my nails.

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  7. yeah...i had the same feelings as you did on this collex...not a complete FAIL...but close :/

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  8. I love Barielle polishes, but unfortunately I can't find a website with international shipping: I live in France and I can't buy them :-(((

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  9. I really love the mustard shade, although I could never pull it off. All the other shades are too "normal" for me but that Aura Angora is just awesome.

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  10. I picked up cowl of the wild at Ulta yesterday. The mustard color is nice too.

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  11. I love all of these colors... but that Aura Aurora is amazing.. I dont have anything like that and to be honest I have never seen anything like that (not here in Finland at least).. such a unique and beautiful color :)

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  12. yes. please whip out "Son, I Am Disappoint" man again. that was hilarious!!

    aaaanyway, I'm surprised that you like "Aura Angora," but it does look nice and unique in the bottle. I might just look into buying that one.

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  13. I liked this collection more than I thought I would, but not really enough to buy it, especially since the color I really loved (Cashmere or Loose Me) has a twin from what I can tell(Essie Over the Knee).

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  14. Hmm. I guess I'm the only one who hates Aura Angora? It would look like bile on me, or worse... all colors like that do, and I just have a hard time liking them for that reason. I like the other colors better, unlike everyone else, even though some are kind of easy to dupe, probably.

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  15. I work at Ulta and we got this collection in all of the color in the bottles looked old and sepreated. And when we started playing with them the polish was so thick. It's no wounder there not very popular.

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  16. These are all hideous. I hate brown polish because I swear it looks like you got poop on your fingers while wiping your butt.

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  17. I actually really like this collection. The first 3 shades I think I'll have to get; the others are similar enough to colors I already own. I love brown polish, it looks so rich and decadent on my fingers :D!

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  18. i was so excited when i saw Aura Angora but disappointed when it dried a little too dark and close to brown for me. wish it were more mustard-y!

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