Thursday, September 23, 2010

BB Couture For Nails Infamous Lovers Collection 2010: The Ladies

BB Couture once again creates some amazing unique green polishes. I'm thinking they have more greens in their line than any other brand I know... Am I right? Take a look at these:


Bonnie. Wow. Now THIS is a green. It's a midtone green jelly with BB Couture's signature tiny gold and green glitter. It is quite a bit like BB Couture Redwood Forest, but Bonnie seems brighter, a little lighter and has slightly more of a yellow tone. Here's a hideous mani I did with Bonnie as the base that shows the color a little truer because of the flash:

I know... My Funky French turned out to be more of a Fugly French... But, uh, try to ignore that part and you'll see what a great shade of green Bonnie is.



Carla. A super dark purple shimmer. How gorgeous is this? It's vampy purple and I love it. Lots of multicolored shimmer when the light hits it. More red-toned in real life. Great for fall. Amazing application, too.

Cleopatra. This one was really hard to photograph. This picture isn't quite true to life so I'll try to explain how it really looks. It's a blue-green base, you can see the green tone visible in the bottom of the photo, left hand side. But, instead of having just plain shimmer it has this crazy blue duochrome shimmer and lots of it. It sits on top of the color so you're seeing both the green and the blue fighting for attention. It's little bit like BB Couture For Men Pipe Bender in that aspect- the base and the shimmer fighting for attention, blue on green... Very cool effect.


Eve. Oh man, can you believe this? First Bonnie, now Eve? Can't get over how cool this is. It's a murky dark olive green base with red pearl duochrome and it's full of that pretty BB Couture tiny iridescent glitter. Reminds me of Nubar's Gem and Jewel, how there's that pearl duochrome base filled with glitter. Except this one is more iridescent green-gold than holographic like the Nubar ones.

Juliet. This is an odd one. It's somewhere between rose and nude, a creme base, but with speckles of black and silver microglitter. Very unique. One one hand it's cool because it looks like stone, like granite or even a little bit like a Corian countertop. On the other hand, the black glitter is so sparse that it almost looks like it's not supposed to be there- like you accidentally got ash or mascara flakes or Oreo crumbs on your nails while they were wet. I'm 50/50 on this one, cool but odd.


Pocahontas. Like Juliet, this is a creme base sprinkled with black and silver microglitter. The base color of this is the ever-present purple/grey combo, which, despite seeing 343907 polishes this color being released in the past four years, I'm still not sick of seeing. The speckles aren't as prominent in this one.


The formula on these was quite good. Easy application. I did three coats of each color and all but Carla seemed to need the third coat. No flaws in the brushes or bottles. Drying time was slightly longer than average.

There's supposed to be a set of BB Couture for Men polishes that go along with these, but I have not seen them. I kinda like that idea, though... A line of women for women, a line of men for men? Cute concept.

I'm digging this collection. Eve and Bonnie are my favorites and Carla is great too. But really, Eve and Bonnie... wow. Awesome. Keep making these awesome sparkly greens, BB Couture! We're happy that you do!

(These were sent to me for review.)

26 comments:

  1. How much do I love BB Couture? It's one of those brands that I really couldn't be without.

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  2. Scrangie, you have got to ge the Infamous Lovers Men collection. Michael is to die for.

    Seriously. I was so waiting for you to post these (didn't know if you ever were to) cause your pictures make everything look gorgeous.

    I bought all from the Women collection except Cleopatra and Juliet. Carla an Eve are my favorites.

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  3. There are in fact male counterparts - http://www.overallbeauty.com/catalog/clyde-p-1416.html
    Looks juicy :p

    LOVE this collection, I want them ALL! Thanks for the lovely swatches :)

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  4. Ahhh I had forgotten these! Now they're back on the WL! LOL

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  5. Carla is gorgeous! I may have to get it for my friend of the same name!

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  6. Bonnie and Cleopatra for me, thanks :D

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  7. I'm really digging this line. I don't have any BB Couture polishes yet but these are so stunning, I may have to hunt them down.

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  8. I like them all but I LOOOVED Cleopatra and Bonnie. Those two really tickled my fancy!

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  9. This is the first collection I have seen where I could actually see my self wearing every polish!

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  10. Stunning collection, but my favourite shades are Bonnie, Cleopatra and Eve. Hope they'll be available in Italy, or at least on line.

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  11. I think I am newly in love with BB Couture. :) Thanks for the swatches.

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  12. Oh man...I've loved BB forever, but don't have any. Eve is freakin' amazing.

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  13. I'm in love with Cleopatra and Eve. Those are 2 gorgeous colors :)

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  14. I'm the same as Meeka. Cleopatra and Eve are sooo pretty!

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  15. BB Couture can do no wrong! I know they have some frosty pinks, but all of their new releases over the past two years have been fantastic! Thanks for these...Eve will be mine...:)

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  16. Bonnie and Cleopatra are definitely must haves for me!

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  17. The purple lover in me needs Carla!

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  18. Oooo..gorgeous! I love a lot of BB Couture polishes, but the price drives me away ;-;. I adore Bonnie, kind of like Juliet (I wish it had more black glitter too), not sure about Cleopatra, and Pocahontis looks pretty too...it reminds me a little of Sally Hanson Mystic Lilac?

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  19. For me, Bonnie is the standout of the collection. Like you, I'm also a huge green fan, and I think this one's perfect! Not too dark and not too light. You wear it well!

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  20. Eve's my fav. And there's no fuglies here. :)

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  21. I need a really GOOD BB Couture sale to happen pronto! There are SO many colors I want/need! I love this whole collection! Also, if you tweaked that Funky French a bit I bet you could turn it into some adorable little Frankenstein heads for Halloween. I'm just sayin :)

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  22. Your pics rock! These look amazing, especially Eve and Pocahontas.
    You should check out the blog Pedicure Passion for pics of the 'couples' together...gorgeous :)

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  23. I own both collections. I've worn Romeo and Bonnie. Bonnie is one gorgeous lady!

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