Come back tomorrow to see this beauty open, with swatches! Many thanks to the lovely Isabel at Annabelle (I just love how that rhymes — I hadn’t noticed it before now!) for giving us a sneak-peek of these shadows ♥ Can anyone can guess what they are? (Hint: looking through the “.Annabelle” tag might help!)
On a totally unrelated note, I recently figured out how to make those adorable little hearts on the computer and I just can’t stop.
*sigh*
I’m lemming thirteen (of course,) fourteen, eight, and five the most — but at $25US/$29CAD, I’ll be trying to hold myself back.
Rae: [muttering] Goddamn no-buy.
What it is: the shadow I just can’t shut up about — Annabelle‘s B-Ray.
The quick gist of it: B-Ray is in the process of being discontinued, so get to Shopper’s STAT and pick up a pan of it, Canucks! It’s insanely pigmented, buttery, easy to blend… everything you’d want in a shadow. Check out the swatches below; the left is a dry swatch (gorgeous, right?) and the right is a wet swatch (the perfect inky blue liner-shade.) The pigmentation’s accurate, but they’re a little more blue in real life!
The verdict? I’m already thinking of buying a backup, and I just got this today! I’ve never fallen so hard for a shadow before, and I’m including the Alice palette that I had the opportunity to photograph. We’re serious about this, guys — never will you find another navy this gorgeous!
Note: like all the other highly pigmented mattes that I’ve tried, this DOES stain quite a bit. I’m guessing it has to do with the fact that normal (shimmery) shadows can use micas and so fourth, whereas mattes rely on dyes, which leave behind a bit of a mark.
(Can you believe that my computer is STILL out of service, so I still can’t post photos? Yah… me neither.)
Anyhow, I had the opportunity to check out Annabelle’s new spring offerings today — and I have to say, I’m impressed! They certainly live up to the Annabelle standard, and are even more gorgeous in person that they are on the screen.
I’m going to say it one more time, though: if you were interested in the shadows they’ll be discontinuing, get on that NOW. I checked out B-Ray and Vivid Violet today (my god I want to show you those swatches!) and they’re simply amazing. While Vivid Violet was adorable (more on the “vivid” than the “violet,” it’s like a plummed-pink with gold shimmer,) B-Ray really took the cake. The violet shadow needed to be foiled to release all of its beauty, but B-Ray’s a stunner both foiled and dry! Not to mention it’s insanely pigmented — you know how Make Up For Ever’s 92 is like purplepalooza? Imagine a navy blue vesion of that, but even more pigmented.
That’s right. B-Ray is more pigmented than MUFE 92. And when you foil it, it’s a delicious inky blue, as opaque as a good liquid liner.
(Stains like hell, like most high-pigment mattes, but it is SO worth it.)
The moral of the story is that you should go pick up B-Ray (RIGHT NOW!) before they’re all gone ;)
I was superexcited (seriously, like, SUPER excited) because I thought this Tarte ad featured a new shadow case with a pretty glammed up rose-like top.
Upon second glance, I realized that, nope, those were just some crumbly shadow pans.
*sigh*
Bag images credit “stilahmazing” on livejournal. This is the Cyndi bag, obviously! Stilahmazing’s store got the bags in earlier today and started selling them — an error on their part, perhaps? I’m definitely under the impression that they were NOT supposed to have sold bags early!
Either way, here are the photos! As predicted, the bag is in the shape of lips, has her autograph printed on it, and features the same stripes as the promotional poster. The bags are approximately the same size as a 15-pan palette, and contain no separators/pockets inside.
So: what do you think? Love/hate?
(Personally, I was expecting something a little more… awesome.)
Ohmygod that is one long name.
But I digress. I saw this in the Sephora catologue about a week back and I knew it would call to me the second it hit the online site. Clinique + AAE + serum + rollerball?
Want.
I love you. I do. And I love the lingere in this ad… but don’t you think she looks just a tad uncomfortable? And underfed?
(Cute shoes, though, and I do like the soft lighting of this shoot.)
…can anyone help me pick out a quotation? I need to have one chosen by tomorrow night, and I just can’t seem to settle with one of them! Just let me know which one resounds the most for you =)
The three quotations in the running:
And, lastly — if anyone for whatever reason knows the originals of the translated quotations, please let me know what they are! I feel wrong using translations, and I don’t want to simply translate them back (as things may have been lost in different ways to translate words,) but I can’t seem to find them in the original French. Thanks lovelies!
