Every season there seems to be one particular collection that just nails the zeitgeist and pulls me back in to this makeup hobby. Since its 2009 launch, Kosé Addiction has consistently remained one of the ones to watch for innovative textures, colours and stories every season, and I declare their release of six eyeshadow quads in Basquiat cases the collection of summer 2013.
My pick from the six was the limited edition Soda Lunch, which features the most unusual colour-combo and the coolest case in makeup history. Don't even try to contradict me. Your argument is invalid because DINOSAUR.
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And many of my very favourite bloggers agree. For in-the-field swatches of all six quads (four to become permanent in plain cases, two limited edition), see my darling So Lonely in Gorgeous' pair of posts. For more dinophilia in particular, see and squee: Swatcharama!, Wondegondigo and Rouge Deluxe.
My pictures will just supplement theirs, because moar pron = moar better, always, amirite?
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I think you can tell from the pans alone that these are from the silky and tightly packed school of Japanese eyeshadow, with the white softest/creamiest and the yellow driest/firmest; this makes perfect sense to me because the white will usually function as a wash/base, and the yellow as controlled accent, uses which the textures facilitate beautifully. Also, DUOCHROME PAHRPAL ZOMG. This totally makes up for my disappointment with Suqqu Sumiredama, which also featured a blurple duochrome.
My pick from the six was the limited edition Soda Lunch, which features the most unusual colour-combo and the coolest case in makeup history. Don't even try to contradict me. Your argument is invalid because DINOSAUR.
And many of my very favourite bloggers agree. For in-the-field swatches of all six quads (four to become permanent in plain cases, two limited edition), see my darling So Lonely in Gorgeous' pair of posts. For more dinophilia in particular, see and squee: Swatcharama!, Wondegondigo and Rouge Deluxe.
My pictures will just supplement theirs, because moar pron = moar better, always, amirite?
I think you can tell from the pans alone that these are from the silky and tightly packed school of Japanese eyeshadow, with the white softest/creamiest and the yellow driest/firmest; this makes perfect sense to me because the white will usually function as a wash/base, and the yellow as controlled accent, uses which the textures facilitate beautifully. Also, DUOCHROME PAHRPAL ZOMG. This totally makes up for my disappointment with Suqqu Sumiredama, which also featured a blurple duochrome.
Swatches
(Comparisons will follow once I'm back in London and have full access to my stuff.)
As usual, swatches are made with the included sponge applicators onto my bare arm -- two swipes for the the teal, one swipe for the other three shades.
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| natural light, indirect |
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| full sun, deliberate fuzz |
From left to right:
turquoise satin base with sparse lime and periwinkle microshimmer
delicate rainbow sparkle that reads as an opalescent white rather than a metallic
primary yellow matte base with sparse silver and cool lemon microshimmer
purple metallic base with dense blue duochrome shimmer and sparse green and pink sparkle
While the blurple duochrome is the most attention-seeking shade, bless its pretty twinkly heart, the 'secret shimmer'* in the turquoise and yellow are for me the cleverest aspect of a very clever palette. With my unfortunate combination of garish-clown tastes and paper-thin, dry skin, I know through painful experience just how chalky and flat this kind of saturated bright can look sitting on top the skin, and yellows in particular tend to darken from promising lemoniness to muddy mustard; the secret shimmer in these shades barely registers as a satin finish, while keeping the tones true-to-pan, ensuring the kind of blendability more commonly found in metallics or frosts than mattes and retaining a pigmented translucency that melds beautifully with even my dry skin. In keeping with the playfulness of the colours and case, the overall effect is at once boldandlight -- graffiti.
*A trick that Sugarpill also employs -- if you look closely, you'll find a similar kind of secret shimmer lurking in their 'matte' brights -- but the finer milling, clearer bases and greater tonal complexity of these Addiction colours are more flattering on me; Sugarpill Burning Heart (with a warmer yellow and purple) is heading out to make room for Soda Lunch.
My first look with this quad uses all four shades, something I probably won't do that often in future. A bit scrappy, and built mostly around the rainbow white as negative space, because I wanted something graphic but not too precise or heavy. Also, no foundation because melting. But hey, I had fun :D
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Concealer: Burberry Sheer 01
Mascara: Majolica Majorca Lash Expander Edge Meister
Brows: SUQQU Brow Pen 01 Moss Green
Blush: Shu Uemura Sakura (LE, summer 2006)
Lip: Fresh Sugar Rosé
*A trick that Sugarpill also employs -- if you look closely, you'll find a similar kind of secret shimmer lurking in their 'matte' brights -- but the finer milling, clearer bases and greater tonal complexity of these Addiction colours are more flattering on me; Sugarpill Burning Heart (with a warmer yellow and purple) is heading out to make room for Soda Lunch.
My first look with this quad uses all four shades, something I probably won't do that often in future. A bit scrappy, and built mostly around the rainbow white as negative space, because I wanted something graphic but not too precise or heavy. Also, no foundation because melting. But hey, I had fun :D
Mascara: Majolica Majorca Lash Expander Edge Meister
Brows: SUQQU Brow Pen 01 Moss Green
Blush: Shu Uemura Sakura (LE, summer 2006)
Lip: Fresh Sugar Rosé