A look-dump post featuring the items from Diego Dalla Palma's AW 2013 collection reviewed and swatched here.
Creamy Blush 60 Glow Baby Pink on cheeks -- see what I mean by this wearing as a(n impresively pigmented) pop pastel? Both bright and definitely light, even on my pasty skin :D
Liquid Lipstick 104 Cyclamen in lips.
(Foundation is Illamasqua Skin Base 02 foundation, because I need to remind myself annually that I hate hate hate its powdery matte deadness.)
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Kind of painfully clashy, I know. But once I blot down the liquid lipstick to its freaky warm rose stain mode, it plays much more nicely with the peachy pink blush. (Also, slapped on half a bottle of RBR Sea of Clouds to try and revive my Illamasqued skin.)
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Look 1. Wear all teh things!
Smooth Eyeshadow 165 Storm Violet as a one-shade smokey eye -- the complex glitters in this catch the light to add a great deal of dimension depending on how the light hits. Not naturally a minimalist, I then got very lashy with L'Oreal Telescopic False Lash WP mascara.Creamy Blush 60 Glow Baby Pink on cheeks -- see what I mean by this wearing as a(n impresively pigmented) pop pastel? Both bright and definitely light, even on my pasty skin :D
Liquid Lipstick 104 Cyclamen in lips.
(Foundation is Illamasqua Skin Base 02 foundation, because I need to remind myself annually that I hate hate hate its powdery matte deadness.)
Better angle for the blush:
Kind of painfully clashy, I know. But once I blot down the liquid lipstick to its freaky warm rose stain mode, it plays much more nicely with the peachy pink blush. (Also, slapped on half a bottle of RBR Sea of Clouds to try and revive my Illamasqued skin.)
Look 2. Just the lip
Without the distracting tones of the peachy blush, Liquid Lipstick 104 Cyclamen paired with Addiction Rose Bar cheek stick. On the eyes, a very nothingy application of the rose/pewter/brown shades from THREE 09 Star Guitar quad, and natural lashes with one solitary slick of Maybelline Rocket WP mascara.
Look 3. Led by the lips...
If you know me from these frivolous archives or from makeupalley, you may know that my comfort zone does not really encompass a lip colour as cool as Cyclamen. The warm rosy red stain it leaves was an easy goes-with-any-look instant love, but the full-on, fresh-from-the-tube colour? EEEEEK. Periodically I try out of bloodymindedness (and hey-y-u-scared-tho?-makeup-washes-off-ness) to step out of this comfort zone, so when I came across this Diego Dalla Palma summer 2012 Electric Soul collection ad, which paired a cyclamen-ish lip with lime and blurple on the eyes, I jumped at the chance to give the full-on lacquer another shot.
Working from Beautylandia's swatches of the Electric eyeshadow trio, I used Addiction Soda Lunch for the blurple and off-white shades, and the yellow from that quad mixed with Addiction Silent Scream single to make the lime.
Also obviously a very different eyeshadow placement :P RBR Gracilis, very lightly, on cheeks; Fasio Full Dynamic Volume mascara.
4. The lipstick is dead. Long live Lipstick!
This look employs the creamy blush and smooth eyeshadow without the liquid lipstick, but is confusingly inspired by 'Lipstick' (the music video to a song by K-pop trio Orange Caramel), in particular, this look of Nana's:
Which I'd been hankering to imitate for ages, but couldn't properly, being stymied by lack of real jewelled purple before Storm Violet came into my life. ....Then of course I threw fidelity out the window by replacing the orange socket shading with creamy blush Glow Baby Pink's peachypink instead, in the interests of showing you that it doubles up as cream shadow :P And it does, blending effortlessly without looking powdery, but with enough grip to stay only where you place it.
Also, aint no driveller got time for falsies or jewel stickers or earring shopping or orange wig or epic duckpout. Sorry.
Lip is Guerlain Champs Élysées glossed up with Malin&Goetz balm -- which btw marks the limit of my cool-lip comfort zone. Cheek is a lighter application of DDP Glow Baby Pink blush than that in the first look, and dewy base is Shu Uemura Underbase Cream Pink with RBR Sea of Clouds to highlight.
Eye close-up: apart from the two DDP products, I used Topshop Kohl Pencil in Sable and RBR Abyssinian Catbird shadow, with Fasio Full Dynamic Volume mascara.
Artificial light pic to show that there was sheen, honest.... it's just been eaten by my terrible weather / lighting conditions:
In all looks: Bobbi Brown Tinted Eye Brightener in Light Bisque under eyes, Shu Uemura Hard 9 Brow Pencil Stone Grey. In the second and third looks I'm wearing Koh Gen Do Maifanshi Moisture Foundation 001.
Thanks for looking! Jury's still out on the scarycool Cyclamen liquid lipstick, but both Storm Violet eyeshadow and Glow Baby Pink cream blush will be joining my regular rotation :D