Color Club Back To Boho Collection Fall 2011 Swatches and Review

Color Club's fall 2011 collection, Back to Boho, is not too different from the fall collections we've seen so far. Except... It has pastels. I'm missing one color (the dark grey creme, Rad Nomad) but have a look at the rest:


Artsy Crafty. A dark hunter green creme. This one has that smoky/dusty finish that's apparently very big this fall. There was a Massini color a bit like this that came out last fall... For the life of me, I can not remember the name and I think I lost my bottle. Know which one I'm talking about? It was a dark blue-toned dusty hunter green quite a bit like this, but not exactly the same.


Blue-topia. Inky midnight blue jelly. In bright sunlight this looks almost purple. Looks black unless it's in sunlight. Similar to most of the other dark blue cremes/jellies (namely NARS Midnight Express, Illamasqua Propaganda) but with a much nicer formula. This was so easy to apply. Perfectly smooth, no streaks. Still stained my hands blue when I took it off, but it wasn't runny, thick or super sheer. This is two coats.



Boho Mojo. Platinum frost. This is a super super light silver, not as blue as it looks here, more of a whitish silver with a hint of grey. Extremely frosty. I had a hell of a time applying this... It's thick and runny like early 3-free formula and it's very streaky. Once it dries it doesn't look so bad because most of the streaks disappear, but the application puts me off of this one.



Earthy Angel. For a nude, this is actually pretty nice. This is a light brown with peachy/fleshy and purple tones. Creme finish, a little muted looking. I don't normally do nudes, but this looks so cool on my hands, I'm just drawn to it for some odd reason.


New Bohemian. My camera picks this up as a bright sky blue, but it's not. It's the most pure, bright, clean, beautiful pastel turquoise ever. I'm in love with this. It's similar to China Glaze For Audrey, but brighter, creamier, more greenish. It really stands out against the drab colors in the collection. If you like colors like China Glaze For Audrey or MAC Peppermint Patti, you might like this.


Nomadic In Nude. A pale putty nude. Maybe more taupe, less nude. Pastel grey with a bit of mousy neutral brown? I'm having a hard time describing this. I love it, though. I think this is my favorite one out of the entire set. It reminds me a lot of another polish I liked, Essie Playa Del Platinum.



Nouveau Vintage. The only true shimmer in the collection! What's with all the shimmerless fall collections this year? Anyway, this is a red-toned brown shimmer, borderline foil. It has a green duochrome depending on the angle. In sunlight, the foil-like shimmer particles sparkle in all different colors and the green becomes less dominant. This is like MAC Green Brown pigment in polish form.


Rebel Spirit. Very dark brown with a slight plum tone. Creme finish. This one isn't dusty/smoky like the other blackened browns that have come out this fall. It's soft, but it's still cleaner looking compared to the others.


Red-ical Gypsy. BERRY.


Shabby Drab. This one didn't want to photograph properly no matter how many pictures I took of it. The color is almost right, but the faded/dusty/smoky finish doesn't translate. It's much less bright and saturated in real life. It's like a dark periwinkle that looks extremely faded. Very cool color, you might have to see this one for yourself if you get a chance.


Voodoo You Do. This is a frosty grey-green. Reminds me of Wild At Heart from the Fall 2009 collection, but a bit more green. Better formula than Boho Mojo. Not as frosty.


The formula on most of these was amazing. The two frosts gave me trouble, but the rest of the colors were perfection. Smooth, thick but not thick thick, very even, very nice. Good pigmentation, good even-bristled brushes (small, though)... Pretty much perfect. Good dry time, too.


Like the other collections I've seen this fall, I feel mixed about this. When I look at the collection as a whole, I feel so indifferent toward it. It looks disjointed, like a jumble of random colors all thrown together into one collection. Nude, grey, red/berry, pastel turquoise, green-brown duochrome... It seems so random, like they don't belong next to each other.

But, when I look at the colors individually and not as a collection, I like it a lot more. I like green creme, I like grey creme, I like shimmery duochromes. There are a lot of good colors in here.

Though, overall, while I do like a big portion of the colors, I feel a little let down. Color Club usually wows us with great colors in the fall (and the rest of the year as well) like crazy shimmery purples, duochromes, rich glitters, sometimes the occasional holo... But this collection is almost entirely cremes and there are very few unique shades. I don't know... I think I expected something more like the Dance To The Musique or Wild At Heart fall collections.

My top picks are (in order of preference): Nomadic In Nude, Nouveau Vintage, New Bohemian, Shabby Drab, Artsy Crafty, Earthy Angel.

Seems like almost all the fall collections have the same theme this year. Creme-heavy collections of earthy drab colors with smoky finishes. I miss the rich autumn gem tones and glitters of fall collections past!

(This was sent to me for review.)