Here is what I know: no matter what I do, I will be doing you a disservice. I’ve run the scenarios again and again – there is no way for me to get it right every time.
Here is what else I know: I am as cruel as I am clever, and you are the only thing that makes me want to write.
This Lise Watier Urban Velocity makeup look is one that I put together weeks ago, and posted on Instagram in February. It got lost in the mess of my life (read: I mixed up these photos with these ones, because apparently my face looks the exact same always), and I couldn’t find the words for it until now.
The Lise Watier Urban Velocity collection
I can handle a breakup. I can even handle two. But, now, given the stress of four in fewer weeks than that: I may actually shatter.
This collection is a tiny capsule (a feeling that I know all too well.) It contains three baked and marbled products; each Lise Watier collection launching just a little bit farther from the norm. The brand picked a beautiful Asian model for this collection, with stunning pastel pink hair. (Annabelle, owned by the same parent company, also gracefully launched a Spring collection featuring a male model. Because I didn’t already love Group Marcelle enough.)
Lise Watier Urban Velocity swatches: Blush, Eyeshadow Trio, and Lipstick
I liked the smooth, plummy eyeshadow trio in the Lise Watier Urban Velocity collection, though it’s pricy at $44 CAD. The baked blush was a bit of a letdown; the colour just isn’t right for me, though the product itself is gorgeously pigmented. (If you’re looking for a gorgeous blush from Lise Watier, their Blush-On Powder in Libertine is spectacular. It came with me during my move in a separate bag from everything else, because I couldn’t bear to go a week without it.)
The lipstick was odd – gorgeous, with a semi-sheer finish that made my lips look full and kissable, but I just don’t get marbled products. I want to be reassured of consistency!
My limitations are as strict as my habits, and I want my lipstick to be the exact goddamn same in every swipe. I have spent so much time bending – I am almost out of energy, but I would to take everything I have left and put it in you. (I hate your dark wood fetish; the side panel that I always bruise my thigh on. They make me never want to leave.)
The Urban Velocity makeup look
The problem with this writing is that it is undefined. You are an ever-changing concept in a stream of thought; an indivisible many. You are all of my dark shadows–you are something I cannot stomach–you are my only good thing.
(You will waste away on library shelves, and I will be here, waiting to decay.)
(These photos don’t really fit this post any longer, do they?)
This look was mostly plum, so I paired it with something crisp: a chilly lace bralette (last season; similar) and a soft white button-up (this one). The lashes are my current favourite: Kiss Little Black Dress lashes ($5.99 USD). I’ve gone through three pairs – they look so natural on my small, monolidded eyes, but so full.
I used the base that I always do (Pür Cosmetics Eye Polish Eye Base + Topcoat in Satin, which keeps my eyeshadow from creasing), and topped the look off with a few Annabelle Chrome Eyeshadows.
You know the story from there: and then I mixed these photos up, got overwhelmed, and set them aside until I could start getting my life in order again.
