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2013 Favourites

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The past makeup year was marked more by endings than beginnings -- my favourite lipstick formula (Suqqu Creamy Glow) was discontinued, and I came to the end of some favourite products from my first forays into Japanese makeup several years ago (most notably some staple palettes from KATE, and Suqqu, and a handful of lipsticks), and also finished various Rouge Bunny Rouge products of a similar vintage. (Basically, extrapolate from this post.) New discoveries and purchases have been motivated more by "need" (to replace those discontinued staples, and to find colours I rely on in formulas that work on my increasingly dry, thin skin) than by "whee," but on the plus side, that made playing favourites with my pretties an easy task, for once :P


BASICS
Inspired by the attention to detail and the revelation (er, reminder, really) of the significant difference tiny tweaks can make in the Maquia 45º makeup tutorial, I made a mid-October's resolution to focus more on the basics, not necessarily taking more time but taking much more care over base, brow and lash products, rather than slapping them on in a haphazard rush to get to the sparkly colourful unicornpee makeups.
Three new discoveries this year have become absolute necessities in this push to polish:
Suqqu brow pen (02 Brown pictured, more details) for undetectable filling-in of entirely hairless areas, including extending my brow tails.
Fasio Full Dynamic Volume mascara (original review) which plays the fluttery sister to my more va-va-voom L'Oréal False Lash Telescopic WP option (my favourite mascara of 2012) -- see both featured in this recent post on lashes.
Koh Gen Do Maifanshi Moisture Foundation 001 (swatched alongside my other matches) is a miraculous matches-me-out-of-the-tube(-for-nine-months-of-the-year), alcohol- and fragrance-free kind-to-dry-skin Japanese cream formula with very good coverage and an elegant satin finish. It is my favourite foundation discovery not only in the past year, but possibly of my entire makeup-wearing life.


COLOUR
Both the By Terry Crayon Khol Terrybly (Royal Navy, reviewed here) and Face Stockholm Crème Blush (this obnoxious red is Milan; New York and Rhinebeck are reviewed here) were discoveries made during the course of converting all my blushes and liners to creams and pencils. Projects I'm now slightly second-guessing, but worth it for leading me to these two utterly faultless products alone.

The lipstick is, of course, a Guerlain Rouge G (this is the leprous-er-limited-edition packaging of the strawberry jelly shade Madame Flirte, reviewed here) -- my favourite lip formula of the year. While not strictly new to me, this year's changes in my lips (think sere dessication and linèdness etc.) meant that Rouge G's finally became unarguably 'worth it' to me (well, at the discounted escentual.com rate, anyway) and, unlike the also-excellent Japanese formulas (many here) I've discovered this year, its shade range includes more than one wearable option for me. Expect a roundup of my burgeoning Rouge G wardrobe soon.

If you've been visiting regularly, you'll know that this year was also the year I really fell entirely for the eyeshadows (rather than the creamilicious liners) from THREE, which has supplanted Suqqu as my 'core' shadow brand (swatches of my five quads here, and posts on my three duos here and here). Choosing just one as a favourite was totes soul-searing and stuff, but based on frequency of use alone, it had to be the 09 Star Guitar quad (more), which has has become my pinkyneutral tardis palette, supplanting:


TOOLS
It's been a quiet year for brushes, as I've mostly been acquiring backups/duplicates of those I use most frequently, but these two Sephorabrushes (#56 Pro Flawless Airbrush and #28 Pro Cream Shadow) have slotted into my daily brush caddy. Both dense but soft and fluffy synthetic blenders, with a lozenge-shaped cross-section, I adore the #56 for streak-free diffusing of cream blushes and the #28 for cream shadows -- the latter is the functional replacement for the MAC 217 I'd been hunting for over a year.



ONE YEAR ON...
Just for fun, I thought I'd revisit last year's favourites. While I still own and use all the products featured, there's nothing like packing for a three-month Asian stint for narrowing down which ones I really wouldn't be without.
Differences of packaging (note Shu and D&G depots) and shade (in THREE liners and Kiko eyeshadow sticks) aside, there are only two products absolutely absent from the original pic! Which I feel proves my constancy or summat. The Shu pink/purple mousse I find too drying in winter months, and, since discovering Koh Gen Do Maifanshi Moisture foundation (mixed with a tiny dot of an RBR illuminator for the very coldest days), I can rarely be bothered to work a sizeable amount of the Suki CC cream into my Vapour stick foundation to make it a reasonable match for my skin in winter.

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