buddypress styling

when using buddypress in aegaeus, I find the styling to be too bland, just black and white doesn’t look good imo. I like how buddypress looks in the default buddypress theme, is there a way to transfer that style to aegaeus? I tried copying the buddypress css file to the theme directory in several different places but nothing worked. I did the same thing with bbpress and that seemed to work, so I’m a bit lost here.