Hey folks! Here is the second half of BB Couture's A Touch of Greece collection. The colors are named after the deities of Greek mythology, which happens to be one of my favorite subjects!
Hemera is the Goddess of the daytime and like Apollo, her color is vivid and bright. She is a deep carrot orange packed full of light silver shimmer. I thought this might be close to Catalina Cutie, but they're pretty different. This is two coats.
Actually a Titan, Selene is the Goddess of the moon. I prefer the Olympian Roman derivative of Artemis, Goddess Diana personally, but I like the name Selene--too although I'm not sure how to pronounce it. This loud fuchsia has a pinky-purple flash with lots of green and gold glitter *edit: and holographic glitter! Two coats.
Cybele is the Goddess of nature and fertility, also known as an overseer of caves and mountains. This polish really stood out to me among the other colors. She looks like a swirling vortex in a bottle! I would describe her almost frosty sheerish base color as muddy rose clay with a green sheen. It is also chock full of green glitter. This builds up nicely with three coats. I could see using it as a topcoat as well.
Gaia is the Earth mother Goddess, so 'natch, she's green baby! This mama is a shiny glisteny light kiwi green with a slight shimmer/frost. Pretty unique in my collection. This is two coats.
Perhaps the most well known Greek Goddess is Aphrodite. Of course there had to be room for her in this collection! She is the Goddess of love and beauty and the polish embodies that through the color of pink! There are also candy floss shimmer strips of silver weaving through the icy pink polish making it very girly. It's actually a bit lighter than this, but the flash makes it a little darker. This is two coats.
Last we have Nike, the Goddess of victory. Not just a brand of sports gear ;) This polish is a medium, red based purple with lots of silver, blue, and red shimmer. This is two coats.
Whew, what a collection eh? I am very happy with the formula on all of the polishes, for both the men's and women's colors. You will be able to purchase all of these from BB Couture's website for $9.95 each.
P.S. I will be taking daylight swatches of this entire collection as soon as possible to show the colors more true to life. My flash photos are just not up to my standards lately, and I apologize for that. However, I did want to get these posted quickly to highlight the collection for Cindy over at BB Couture. Cheers!
xoxo,
kelliegonzo
These were sent for review.
Hemera is the Goddess of the daytime and like Apollo, her color is vivid and bright. She is a deep carrot orange packed full of light silver shimmer. I thought this might be close to Catalina Cutie, but they're pretty different. This is two coats.






P.S. I will be taking daylight swatches of this entire collection as soon as possible to show the colors more true to life. My flash photos are just not up to my standards lately, and I apologize for that. However, I did want to get these posted quickly to highlight the collection for Cindy over at BB Couture. Cheers!
xoxo,
kelliegonzo
These were sent for review.
LOVE both of the collections, I want all the women's and most of the men's. It's amazing, I think they're all so pretty
ReplyDeleteI think the ladies part of collection is a lot stronger. I like 3-4 of them, have to think about Cybele a bit. ;) Hemera, Gaia and Nike look fantastic though. Thank you for the review of the collection, is fantasic to see a new one from BB magic factory of awesomness for nails. :D
ReplyDeletehemerna is gorgeous!! I really love the unique color
ReplyDeleteOMG all the colours from this collection looks fabulous! My favourites are Selene and Nike, such pretty colours :D
ReplyDeleteYess, this half is much much better than the men's.
ReplyDeleteSelene, Hemera and Cybele will be mine. >D
Cybele is gorg, but the rest of the collection I much prefer the male counterparts. It always seems I prefer the mens collections.
ReplyDelete@elizabeth & @Ulmiel i'm happy you're happy!!
ReplyDelete@Jess right? it doesn't look like any other color i have :)
ReplyDelete@Cel they are so girly and fun!
ReplyDelete@ChaosButterfly haha glad you like them!
ReplyDelete@Scandalous i have to agree, haha. there are usually one or two of the women that are must haves for me but i usually NEED every one of the men's!
ReplyDeleteWOW! These are all stunning! I love all the shimmer and the richness of all the shade. Gala is especially stunning!
ReplyDeleteI'm just waiting for the go ahead before I can offer them. I LOVE Cybele!! You did an awesome job, I couldn't get the color right when I took photos. I got Hermera going on right now..
ReplyDeleteThese colors ROCK!
ReplyDeleteI absolutely love Hemera. It's gorgeous. The rest are pretty, just not my style.
ReplyDeleteAwe man!! These are gorgeous!! Cybele, you will be mine!!!
ReplyDeletei like the men's collection so much more than this. cybele is pretty amazing though.
ReplyDeleteThese ones are simply amazing! I want all of them! :D
ReplyDeleteI really like celene and cyble so much! gorgeous swatches kell :)
ReplyDelete@Dori thanks sweets! for some reason i haven't been getting your blog updates! i thought you stopped! AAAGGHh!!
ReplyDeleteMy gosh, I love BB Couture! So many I want from this collection (as well as every other) sigh. My poor credit card.
ReplyDelete:(
Those lovely ladies will be mine!
ReplyDeletewow i LOVE the idea of polishes named after greek gods/goddesses.. i'd have to say my favorite out of these is nike.
ReplyDelete@kelliegonzo
ReplyDeleteI think it's because I switched from blogspot to my own domain.. other people mentioned having the same problem but I thought that I fixed it. What kind of blog updates (is it through email?) arent you getting cause I'll look into it and see if I can fix it!
@Dori i just resubbed in google reader with the new url :)
ReplyDeleteMost of these look frosty to me:(
ReplyDeleteGreat swatches, but tbh I'm not really impressed by this part of the collection. After the awesome colours in the men's collection, I was expecting more.
ReplyDeleteGreek geek in the house:
ReplyDeleteNot to steal your thunder, but actually Diana is not greek per se, she is the latin equivalent of Artemis, Goddess of hunting and wild animals ;)
I actually think it is a bit odd, BB chose some of the more obscure goddesses, when they've chosen very known male gods for the male collection(Plutus is the only lesser known, at least for me - though the fact that Zeus isn't there really baffled me :D).
I would think Artemis and Athena are more commonly known than Selene and Cybele - but I agree, their names are really, really beautiful.
Hemera is the really odd one with me, since she sort of got blended in with Eos, who was the goddess of Dawn. I acctually would have gone with Hera, Goddess of Heaven and Zeus' wife - a b***h if you ask Herakles and other greek heroes that were Zeus' spawn ;)
But those are just minor beefs for someone who loves greek mythology ;) - and if anyone of your readers are interested in greek mythology, this is the place to be: http://www.theoi.com
As for the colours: I tend to agree with Madita, nothing really special here, I would go for the guys if my purse would allow me.
@lauriestrode thanks for schooling us all :)
ReplyDeleteOh no, I did sound like a prim school Ma'am there *embarrassed smiley* - didn't mean to, but I get so excited when I can geek out in greek :D
ReplyDeleteHopefully you'll all just laugh a bit about it.
@lauriestrode oh don't worry, i welcome the knowledge :D
ReplyDeleteI love Cybele <3 totally getting that one.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Laurie, I found the goddess choices quite odd as well :/ But oh well, they are pretty!
Oh wow, that last colour is beautiful! <3
ReplyDeletexxx