It's such a lazy blog cliché, but I really have no idea where this month went. It's already the last Saturday of April, which means a Femme Boulevard post, and thankfully it too is a lazy one, incorporating the oldest and newest products we own into a look.
Be sure to check out Lily's take over at ChloeAsh too!
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The oldest: Urban Decay Pallor single, circa 1998 and well loved. Pastels are perennials for spring, of course, but this particular lavender satin perfectly encapsulates that late '90s efflorescence of pastel-lid-washes for me, and I admit to a bit of 'saving it for best' for fear of using it up.
Close-up -- Pallor has a complex rainbow iridescence constituted of very fine microshimmer, and in ye olde UD's gorgeous silky texture, which enables pleasingly neatly-shaped pan; drier, more loosely packed shadow formulas tend to crumble into dust as soon as you look at them after hitting pan, or grow unsightly hardened warts that require scraping off -- check out some MAC satin or Nars duo testers at a busy counter if you don't know what I mean.
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The newest: Lancôme Lip Lover 336 Orange Manège, a hybrid balm-gloss formula in a hybrid shade of juicy coral-orange. My haikiewlet:
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![Lancome Lip Lover 336 Orange Manege swatch]()
For swatches of other shades in the line, see Wondegondigo and Quirky, Busy and Beautiful. Mostly Sunny has reviewed316 Rose Attrape-Coeur.
The buffers completing the look: Kiko Stick Eyeshadow in 04 Golden Chocolate (my Kiko sticks are swatched here) and Visée Blend Colour Cheek in OR-6 (review STILL forthcoming because I suck).
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Shadow placement was inspired by a THREE spring promo: pattern B, here, and looks like this up close:
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Other products
Eyes: Kiko white kajal layered heavily on waterline, Max Factor Clump Crusher Water-Resistant mascara. Za Everbrow 03 through brows.
Base: another newest, a sample of Bobbi Brown's new Skin stick foundation in 00 Alabaster, with Bobbi Brown Creamy Corrector in Porcelain Bisque under eyes.
Pretty straightforward and, a subtly '60s-referential spring look, I think?
Enjoy the last weekend of the month, and I hope it's a sunny one where you are! I'll be shivering and ironically sewing up breezy sundresses in the forlorn hope that it will stop raining one day :P
Be sure to check out Lily's take over at ChloeAsh too!
The oldest: Urban Decay Pallor single, circa 1998 and well loved. Pastels are perennials for spring, of course, but this particular lavender satin perfectly encapsulates that late '90s efflorescence of pastel-lid-washes for me, and I admit to a bit of 'saving it for best' for fear of using it up.
Close-up -- Pallor has a complex rainbow iridescence constituted of very fine microshimmer, and in ye olde UD's gorgeous silky texture, which enables pleasingly neatly-shaped pan; drier, more loosely packed shadow formulas tend to crumble into dust as soon as you look at them after hitting pan, or grow unsightly hardened warts that require scraping off -- check out some MAC satin or Nars duo testers at a busy counter if you don't know what I mean.
The newest: Lancôme Lip Lover 336 Orange Manège, a hybrid balm-gloss formula in a hybrid shade of juicy coral-orange. My haikiewlet:
click: candied rose tang
amusingly bendy wand
jelly corange tint
i.e. nice but tain't no Fluid Stick. And why the sneaky microshimmer? >:C
For swatches of other shades in the line, see Wondegondigo and Quirky, Busy and Beautiful. Mostly Sunny has reviewed316 Rose Attrape-Coeur.
The buffers completing the look: Kiko Stick Eyeshadow in 04 Golden Chocolate (my Kiko sticks are swatched here) and Visée Blend Colour Cheek in OR-6 (review STILL forthcoming because I suck).
Shadow placement was inspired by a THREE spring promo: pattern B, here, and looks like this up close:
Other products
Eyes: Kiko white kajal layered heavily on waterline, Max Factor Clump Crusher Water-Resistant mascara. Za Everbrow 03 through brows.
Base: another newest, a sample of Bobbi Brown's new Skin stick foundation in 00 Alabaster, with Bobbi Brown Creamy Corrector in Porcelain Bisque under eyes.
Pretty straightforward and, a subtly '60s-referential spring look, I think?
Enjoy the last weekend of the month, and I hope it's a sunny one where you are! I'll be shivering and ironically sewing up breezy sundresses in the forlorn hope that it will stop raining one day :P