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Striped Picture Framed Nails

The Nerd — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 17:06:00 +0000

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with brushes/tools

Tags: Art Club Barielle black purple silver

Nothing all that fancy today, but did want to try out picture framing (yes, I know some folks are calling this a rim job, but goodness…) — trickier than it looks! I started with a two coat base of Barielle Coalest Day Of The Year, a great dark charcoal with a little silver shimmer to [...]

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Three-fer Nails

The Nerd — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:24:15 +0000

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Tags: Barielle black blue OPI Orly purple red Wet n Wild

I’m running out of weird names for these random manicures that have zero rhyme or reason. So it’s a three-fer technique. First, some swack-swack over a base of OPI Yes I Can-Can with Wet n Wild Ebony Hates Chris and OPI I’m Suzi & I’m A Chocoholic to create a faux-textured based for the colors [...]

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Beetle Burnout Nails

The Nerd — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:25:07 +0000

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Tags: Barielle black green Wet n Wild

Still plowing through the untested goodies, I realized I haven’t done a full blow green in awhile so picked up Barielle Date Night, a metallic bug-green that wasn’t quite as creamy as I thought but still covered pretty well in two coats. The thinness gave me an idea though. See, there’s regular gradient sponging and [...]

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Chocolate Chunk Nails

The Nerd — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 02:09:52 +0000

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Tags: Barielle brown Essie Migi OPI pink

This my dears is what COMPLETELY OVERWORKED looks like. Seriously, I got totally lost in these for like an hour for no good reason (I really need to go into these things with a gameplan). I think what happened was I got so madly excited when Essie Case Study went on beautifully in two coats [...]

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Blues and BBQ Fest Nails

The Nerd — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 19:49:32 +0000

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Tags: Barielle blue China Glaze Color Club orange red

The sixth annual Crescent City Blues & BBQ Festival, presented by the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation, is on this weekend celebrating Southern soul with the best in local and international blues and R&B talent, plus the greatest assemblage of home-style barbecue to be found in New Orleans. GAME ON. I’m headed down there shortly to [...]

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Jess’ Champagne Toast Nails

The Nerd — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 16:26:00 +0000

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with brushes/tools

Tags: Art Club Barielle glitter purple

Check out this stunner! Barielle’s Jess’ Champagne Toast polish from their Holiday Hustle collection last winter is a metallic violet with rose gold glitter, perfect in 2 coats (and no thinner needed, phew) ending with a sort of foil finish — pics are without topcoat. Thanks to the micro glitter the polish dries pretty quick (which [...]

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Dotty Green Squiggle Nails

The Nerd — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 04:43:03 +0000

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with brushes/tools

Tags: Barielle black blue green Wet n Wild

Wheeee freewheelin’! The base on this is 2 coats of Barielle Decadence, a really lovely sea blue-green replete with shimmer tones, lovely stuff with and without lights. Then I used Barielle Positive ZEN-ergy to add a two-coat swoosh squiggle thing across each nail, and finally bordered that out with Wet n Wild Ebony Hates Chris [...]

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Barielle Falling Star Nails

The Nerd — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 17:22:36 +0000

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just the varnish

Tags: Barielle blue China Glaze

Does anybody else have this one? I was so excited to pick this one up (cheap! sparkly! fun blue!) but oh man was I ever disappointed after popping the bottle open… This stuff was AWFUL to apply. It has the goopiest, gnarliest consistency to it, it was like trying to spread soft cheese on my [...]

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