Barielle - Elle's spell

I know you've all seen this probably a million times before, but this is the first time in real life for me, so I'm going to bore you with it.

First I applied it alone, and by the 4th coat it was still not opaque, so I said f*** that, I will layer it.
This is how it looks after 4 coats - still nice flakie goodness, but I am not a fan of VNL.

So I decided to apply 2 coats of OPI - Got the blues for red - you can check out the original swatch here (just for fun because it is a horrible swatch) - and then layer Elle's spell on it.
This is OPI all by itself.

And with the Barielle layered over it: