Welcome to another edition of Makeup Fakeup!
Featuring my distant desired object du saison, Suqqu's limited-edition summer quad, EX-20 Natsubotan. As, uninspired by the promo images, I foolishly waited until day three after release to saunter over to the counter and swatch... and fall... and hear it was long goooooone, and then to throw a three-hour keening'n'hair-pulling tantrum over the multi-A4-paged waiting list which had already accumulated by then. Y'know, the usual.
But being all indomitable and womanful and the owner of *coughmumble* eyeshadows already, as well as a pre-existing blog tag for this very eventuality....
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I worked from a combination of how the actual palette looked on my skin, and reference swatches at Color Me Loud (truer-to-tone for me) and Swatcharama! (truer-to-texture). On my pale, neutral skintone the top left shade in the palette read as predominantly pale, cool gold sparkle, for which I used the bottom right pan from THREE 4D Eyeshadow Palette 08 Spirit Light (swatch). The pale pink base comes from Suqqu EX-12 Hisuidama (review). For the main-event pink and plum, Chanel Illusion D'Ombre in Rose Des Vents, and a roughly equal mix of Ebloui (feature) and Diapason (review).
Blush is Kjaer Weis Lovely (feature), lip Suqqu Creamy Glow 02 Kyoganoko (swatch), finally back in stock in the UK.
Basic unimaginative placement: the hybrid plum to line, split and opened at the tail of the eye; prime-event pink blended over mobile lid and outer half of lower lashline; pale satin pink on inner corner, blended up through inner half of socket; gold sparkle dabbed on inner half of lower lashline. L'Oreal False Lash Telescopic WP mascara. [I forgot brows!]
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*recites 'I don't need no summer peony' mantra*
Hope you've all had a lovely week! Any cravings slaked or slayed recently?
Featuring my distant desired object du saison, Suqqu's limited-edition summer quad, EX-20 Natsubotan. As, uninspired by the promo images, I foolishly waited until day three after release to saunter over to the counter and swatch... and fall... and hear it was long goooooone, and then to throw a three-hour keening'n'hair-pulling tantrum over the multi-A4-paged waiting list which had already accumulated by then. Y'know, the usual.
But being all indomitable and womanful and the owner of *coughmumble* eyeshadows already, as well as a pre-existing blog tag for this very eventuality....
I worked from a combination of how the actual palette looked on my skin, and reference swatches at Color Me Loud (truer-to-tone for me) and Swatcharama! (truer-to-texture). On my pale, neutral skintone the top left shade in the palette read as predominantly pale, cool gold sparkle, for which I used the bottom right pan from THREE 4D Eyeshadow Palette 08 Spirit Light (swatch). The pale pink base comes from Suqqu EX-12 Hisuidama (review). For the main-event pink and plum, Chanel Illusion D'Ombre in Rose Des Vents, and a roughly equal mix of Ebloui (feature) and Diapason (review).
Blush is Kjaer Weis Lovely (feature), lip Suqqu Creamy Glow 02 Kyoganoko (swatch), finally back in stock in the UK.
Basic unimaginative placement: the hybrid plum to line, split and opened at the tail of the eye; prime-event pink blended over mobile lid and outer half of lower lashline; pale satin pink on inner corner, blended up through inner half of socket; gold sparkle dabbed on inner half of lower lashline. L'Oreal False Lash Telescopic WP mascara. [I forgot brows!]
Base: Koh Gen Do Maifanshi Moisture Foundation 001, set with Paul&Joe bird balls; Bobbi Brown Porcelain Bisque concealer pot under eyes.
Eyes open, at a slightly more human distance :P
*recites 'I don't need no summer peony' mantra*
Hope you've all had a lovely week! Any cravings slaked or slayed recently?