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Showing posts with label BB Couture for Men. Show all posts
Showing posts with label BB Couture for Men. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Rescue Beauty Lounge Autumn/Winter 2010 Real Housewives of the Tudor Dynasty





It's been awhile. I received these three Rescue Beauty Lounge polishes from the new collection in the mail today (from my pre-order). I did not order Jane. I believe these will be made available on the Rescue Beauty Lounge site this week.

Here are the descriptions from Ji:
Catherine—Henry the VIII's first wife and Europe's first female ambassador inspired this royal purple with a fine pewter sheen and hints of blue and fuschia shimmer.

Anne—Rumored to be a sorceress, Henry's second wife lends her short-lived name to this bewitching olive green with a subtle pink-gold metallic iridescence.

Jane—my (current) favorite polish, named for Henry's favorite wife, is a pale gray pearl with sheer washes of pink and gold.

Catherine H.—Like Henry's trophy wife, you'll lose your head for this shimmering Wedgewood blue hue with a hint of a gold- and pink-flecked darkening sky.

I compared them to my stash. Catherine was unique amongst my purples. Anne resembled a few greens from BB Couture, but as you can see from the comparisons below I found no dupes. I believe that Catherine H is *almost* an exact dupe of BB Couture for Men Impact Driver. There are slight differences - Catherine H has slightly more purple shimmer and I believe that Impact Driver may have a few grains of black glitter - but Impact Driver applies better and is cheaper so it would make a fine alternative.

All of these swatches are two coats and photographs were taken indoors using an artificial light source.







Saturday, August 15, 2009

BB Couture for Men Grenade



Today's manicure is BB Couture for Men Grenade. BB Couture is a Los Angeles based company that sells directly from their website bbnailpolish.com. BB Couture is also available on overallbeauty.com; oddly, overallbeauty usually has more up-to-date and complete selection available than BB Couture's official site. I have ordered from Overall Beauty several times and I can heartily recommend it. BB Couture for Men was just released this past Tuesday, and consists of 6 colors - 3 grays, a black, a blue, and a green. I love BB Couture greens so I had to order Grenade.
BB Couture for Men doesn't seem to have any formula differences from their regular line - it's smooth and opaque in two coats. Grenade is a deep olive green shimmer with peach and green microglitter. This mani is one coat of Nubar Nu Nails, two coats of polish, and one coat of BB Couture Top Rock.



You may have noticed that my nails have shrunk. I didn't break a nail, but I just got fed up. I don't mind experimenting with different nail lengths, but I am a shorty at heart and I can't stand it when my nails get too long.
For your viewing pleasure, I swatched 4 other BB Couture greens along with today's mani polish.