 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
 the beauty blog | |||||||
| |||||||
  | |||||||
Tag Archives: swatchesEstee Lauder Pure Color Gloss lip colour: swatches
A box! A box! What’s in the box?!
Lip gloss! Today just got about 46.76% better than it already was. (Also: cute little case, no?) This is Estee Lauder’s new Pure Color Gloss, which launches this month, and is available in 24 colours, six of which I’ve swatched for you below, in a photo I have to ask you to excuse the quality of: as you can probably see, this product has a super-shiny finish, which proved difficult to photograph, even in our opaque Scottish daylight:
The wet-look, high gloss look of all of these speaks for itself, but these actually come with three different finishes: SHINE (ultra-glossy finish), SPARKLE (a dramatic, metallic-based look) and SHIMMER (finely cut pearls provide mirror shine with intense shimmer). Of the shades you see above, the finishes are: SHINE: Tempting Tearose, Simply Pink SHIMMER: Electric Ginger, Praline Paradise, Mod Poppy, Passion Fruit In all honesty, I can’t really see a whole lot of difference between these, other than the obvious differences in the colour. They all have a juicy, shimmery look about them, which provides plenty of shine (and gives a lip-plumping effect), but which would be subtle enough in terms of the actual colour to be worn over another lipstick if you wanted to. The colours I was sent fall mostly into the brown/pink camp, and my favourites are Passion Fruit and Mod Poppy:
Again, it was hard to photograph these properly. Passion Fruit has come out pretty true to colour, but Mod Poppy is a more intense, plummy shade in real life than it’s shown up here. As these are glosses, I found they lasted pretty well until that first mug of coffee, but that’s to be expected. They’re comfortable to wear, however, and non-sticky, which is definitely in their favour, as the stick-factor has put me off many a gloss in the past. These are £15, available from Estee Lauder.
[Disclosure: this was sent to me as a press sample] P.S. If you’re on Facebook, I set up a page for Hey, Dollface, which you can join by hitting the ‘Like’ button below. Go on, you know you want to… Foundation for pale skin: Illamasqua Rich Liquid Foundation swatches – RF105 and RF120
Before my unexpected beauty blogging hiatus, I promised you a review of Illanmasuqa’s Rich Liquid Foundation, which I’ve been using for a couple of weeks now. Well, that’ll be along soon, but first of all, knowing how difficult my fellow palefaces find choosing the right shade of foundation, I thought I’d quickly show you some swatches of the two shades I’m using – RF105 and RF120. These are the second and third palest shades Illamasqa do – or so I thought when I ordered them, anyway. I’ve since read that RF135 may be paler than the RF120 I bought, so that may be worth bearing in mind too. The very palest shade – RF100 – is a stark white that’s basically only going to be of use for editorial or theatrical purposes. The next shade up – RF105 – also appears to fall into that category at first glance, although it does have a pinkish tinge to it. It’s far too pale for even me to wear on its own, but I actually think a shade like this is really useful to have if you tend to have problems buying foundation, because it can be mixed with other, darker shades, allowing you to dial almost any foundation down to your shade. I’ve used it almost daily since I got it, and this is because the RF120, which I’d assumed would be more or less the perfect colour for me, is actually quite a bit too dark. It’s billed as a pink-toned, pale base, but I found it a little more yellowish than I’d been expecting, and too dark for me to wear it on its own. Here are both of the shades blended in a little:
Posted in Face
Tagged foundation, Illamasqua, pale skin, rich liquid foundation, swatches
7 Comments
MeMeMe Colourama Long Lasting Cream Eyshadow – swatches[Sorry, the images on this post were lost when our hosts, Heart Internet, deleted the site by mistake. More information here.] I’ve had these MeMeMe cream eyeshadows in my “to try” box for absolutely ages now, but life has been increasingly hectic, as it always is in the last few months of the year, and I haven’t had a chance to try them out properly, so I thought I’d swatch the colours for you instead. This is a group of metallic colours, which is one of my favourite eye shadow looks, when I can be bothered to actually apply the stuff! The colours are Molten Brown, Sparkling Silver and Liquid Bronze, and you can see the swatches under the jump…  |
|||||||
|
| |||||||
