A quick excerpt & photo below (because it’s late, I’m tired, and I’ll be damned if I have to come up with more unnecessary words).
With the 2012 Pantone Color of the Year being the bold, punchy Tangerine Tango, Spring and Summer are the easiest times of the year to wear it. Compared to 2011′s Honeysuckle (a dark, vibrant pink), I’ve been finding the orange hues of Tangerine Tango harder to get away with – it’s a very obvious, stark colour on my complexion, and the saturation makes it difficult to integrate it into the rest of a makeup look.
Remember when my brain wasn’t a chaotic mess, and I used to post FOTDs each and every Monday?
… yeah, I don’t really remember it either.
I wanted to create a (mainly) Lust Quest eye this week; something a little more “up my alley” than last week’s melon and teal eye. The result? This thing! While doing it, I decided one very important fact: my favourite part about this collection is totally the finishes of the eyeshadows. There’s just something about the shimmer of Silver Fox that’s just so on-the-nose that I had to use it in a look to show you – that fresh, shimmery, wet sort of effect.
Anyhow. Maybe I’m just crazy, but I hope you get what I’m talking about! Enjoy the look :)
After seeing the models’ eyes on the Chanel Fall 2011 runway, I knew that I had to try and dupe it. I absolutely fell in love with the gorgeous Épatant (one of three upcoming Illusion d’Ombre shadows) – it’s not quite green, not quite aqua, not quite blue… basically just perfection; undefinable perfection.
I can’t be the only one who’s currently revering Peter Phillips, right?
To get the eye…
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While prepping a FOTD post for later this week (you can check out a teaser here), I realized that my go-to favourite shadow, Senna Kinetic, has been discontinued. In retrospect, I’m actually pretty sure I found this out before, but that doesn’t make my suffering any less legitimate!
(At least… that’s what I keep telling myself.)
Kinetic was actually a duo shadow in a fairly large pan, and I’ve shown you the violet side in the past, but it’s really only the silver that I’m going to miss. Like all Senna shadows, it was buttery and blendable, and even though its frost finish could be a little *too* much sometimes, I still absolutely adored it.
Oh, and here are two old looks that I’ve used Kinetic in:
- Smokey blue-grey eyes (aka the “sex kitten eye,” thankyouverymuch Arianne),
- I’ve got the silver-blues (scroll down)
Are there any LE/discontinued shadows that you just love? And more importantly: can you think of any dupes for Kinetic? :P
I’ve actually been doing a lot of looks recently, but for whatever reason, I feel like we haven’t posted one forever. So, to change that…
A few months back, I stumbled on the most gorgeous Versace dress while flipping through Monika Jagaciak images (LOVE her). I wanted to mimic the white/pink/violet gradient of the fabric, and added three tiny pieces of glitter to translate a sort of toned-down version of the sparkle. Here’s the dress:
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Read on full-face photos, more close-up shots, and a product listing!
