BB Couture Rhythm and Blues Collection Part 1

Hi everyone! Happy Fourth of July my American readers, Viva USA! I have a new collection from BB Couture, Rhythm and Blues. The Rhythm part is the the regular cylindrical bottles and the Blues are in the square bottles "for men". Today I'll show you the first part of the collection, a group of six colors inspired by music. And YAY their signature blue handles are back! Their last few collections have had white or black ones. The bright blue metallic tops make me smile :)

First up is Dance. This is a lovely sky blue with super subtle glass fleck shimmer. This one was a bit thick, but not unmanageable. I have a few polishes similar but not the same. I love the shimmer flecks! This is two coats.

Next is Frequency, a surprising combo of light mustardy yellow and hot pink shimmer. I love BB Couture because this is something so unexpected but totally expected for this subversive brand. They are not afraid of doing unique! This was a bit harder to work with than I would like, it was streaky so I recommend painting slowly and with care. This is three thicker coats.

Here is Pattern, a pastel peach with a mod feel. I have never been lucky enough to have this type of color look good on me but this one almost works with my skin tone! I think it's the whitewashed base. This one was also streaky and thick unfortunately. This is four coats.

This is Tempo, another bright white based color, this time in pastel spring green. It reminds me of a kitchen mixer from the 50's. This one also has a thicker formula, but it wasn't quite as difficult as Pattern to apply. I love how this color pops against my tan! Three coats.

Beat is really something. I absolutely ADORE this shimmery green. Now this is a true "mint" green in my opinion, reminds me of a delicious mint chocolate candy or something. I don't own anything close to this color and I love the gossamer silver shimmer running through it. By far the best formula in the collection. Two coats.

And last is BPM, a metallic mauve pink. I can't think of anything I have that is similar, but I love it! The finish is frosty but not ugly frost, very pretty metalllic. The formula on this was thicker too and I had to take care to minimize brush strokes on application, but when it dried they weren't an issue. This is two coats.

You can get these from BB Couture and Overall Beauty for $10.95 each. They are all lovely colors, most of them quite unique. I do wish the formulas on a few were better. The stand outs for me are really Frequency, BPM, and Beat. What do you think of these?

P.S. how do you like my new watermark?

Products provided for review.

FingerPaints Summer In the City Collection

Yay! New FingerPaints :) This is the new Summer in the City collection from Sally Beauty brand polish, FingerPaints. 4 creams, a shimmery foil and a glitter! Perfect brights for summer.

First is Flip Flop Fuchsia, a bright pink fuchsia cream. Thicker but still pretty easily applied. Two coats.

Here is Sexy Sundress, a yellow toned green. Similar to a few we've seen lately, like OPI Did It On 'Em. On the thick side, two coats.

Here is Movie in the Park, a lightly tinted purple base with purple, pink and blue microglitter. Nice coverage for a straight glitter! This is three coats.

Toe-teally Hot is another color we've seen a lot of this year, it's a bright, but not too bright, teal cream. Two coats.

This is Beach Bound, a grape purple cream. Nice addition to this collection, very wearable. Two coats.

And last is Late Night Rendez-vous, a metallic foily ocean blue. This is close to Orly Halley's Comet/OPI Catch Me In Your Net, but without the green leanings. Three coats here.

When I got these, they weren't packed very well so half of them had leaked out all over the others :( Oh well, I was able to salvage them with minimal damage! FingerPaints are sold separately for $4.99 and are available exclusively at Sally Beauty stores and on www.SallyBeauty.com.

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Lush Lacquer - Party Rockin

Today I have an indie brand, Lush Lacquer, polish to show you. I honestly have been kind of swept up in the whole indie polish scene lately and have been stalking multiple sellers on etsy and elsewhere like crazy to be able to snap up some homemade glitters. However, a good chunk of the ones I've purchased on whims have been disappointments. This one is not one of them, luckily.

Lush Lacquer is a mother daughter team that produces lots of fun glitter polishes. This one is called Party Rockin. It's a "a whimsical mix of vibrant colors with a bluish jelly base and a whole lot of glitter... fuchsia, gold, blue, purple and iridescent small glitters are used throughout... blue bar glitter for some twinkle... and bright blue larger hex glitter" I have to say, I think I would like this a little more without the giant blue hex glitters. And the description doesn't say anything about orange glitter but there is plenty in there and part of why I like this mix so much. This is two coats over a reddish purple from Sally Hansen called Cherry, Cherry, Bang, Bang!

Macro, courtesy of my new iphone lens (thanks Evonne!)

You can get this on their website, http://www.etsy.com/shop/lushlacquer. The minis are $4.75 and the full sizes are $8.75. Have you tried Lush Lacquer? I bought three minis from them they're all awesome. Will show you the others soon. The only gripe I have about LL is the shipping time was kind of ridiculous. Had I known it would've taken almost a month to get these I might've waited/not ordered. *shrug* Have a great rest of the weekend!