Bare Escentuals Color Wheel: Ell-if-I-know, Black Ice, Dove

In the most recent BE cataloge, BE included four tear out cards with looks on them. All four looks are from the colour wheel on BE.com. They are pretty looks so I thought I would do a few. I did the one with True Gold a while back already.

I don't have Patience which is the recommended highlight colour for this look so I used Dove instead.

Here are BE's instructions

Marrakech Buxom lipstick by itself:

Marrakech with Amber buxom gloss over it:

EYES:

TFSI, wr/cr,
Dove under brow,
Black Ice in crease,
Ell-if-I-know lash to crease,
B&B Intense black liner,
Tarte mascara.


CHEEKS: Pink Tourmaline blush
LIPS: Marrakech Buxom lipstick with Amber buxom over it.

MOST WANTED volume 2

Bare escentuals released the second edition of the Most Wanted kit during the June show on QVC. This one has four colours that were not a set and do not necessarily go together. I think there are ways that you could wear them together but I wanted to do a look with each colour seperately. I like all of the colours except Amber, but that is because I am not really a fan of pinkish/reddish/browns.

All the colours have a really interesting silvery sheen that not many of the newer bare escentuals colours have. You can really see the sheen in the swatch I did of Pacific. Moonstruck is beautiful and it seems to have a very very slight purple cast in some light--that's why I swatched ecstacy with it. You can't see the purple cast in the swatches. Hay is a beautiful buttery yellow. I think it is most similar to Banana Smoothie, but it defintly has a different texture. Many people have compared Pacific to Denim and I have heard that Denim replaced Pacific. I don't think denim and pacific are that similar. Denim is brighter and I like it better. Pacific is most similar to Ocean and ocean even has a similar sheen, just not to the same degree as Pacific. Amber is not exactly like anything I already have but it is similar to cocoa as others have mentioned.

I will put the comparison swatches before each look.

PACIFIC

EYES:

TFSI, wr/cr,

Meet The Stones Light lash to brow,

Pacific lash in and above crease on outer 1/2ish,

? liner lash to crease in outer corner and wet lined on top.

LIPS: Aveda Foxglove lip liner with Muffin top gloss over it.

MOONSTRUCK

EYES:

TFSI, wr/cr,

Moonstruck lash to brow,

Angel lash into and above crease outer 1/2,

Soul Sister in V,

Yoga wet lined on top,

Buxom mascara.

CHEEKS: Rose Radiance

LIPS: Thistle lip liner with Margarita buxom over it

HAY

EYES:

BPTFE,

Hay lash to brow,

Pond lash into and above crease on outer 1/2ish,

Gracious foiled lash to crease in outwe 1/3ish,

Sublime wet lined on top,

Buxom mascara.

CHEEKS: Optimist blush

LIPS: Lacy Buxom

AMBER

EYES:

TFSI,

Exquisite Diamond under brow and inner corner,

Amber lash into and above crease,

Bronze Leaf lash into crease on outer 1/3ish,

Sable wet lined on top,

Flawless mascara.

CHEEKS: Precious Pearl

LIPS: Wearable Rose lip liner with Strawberry Shortcake gloss over it.

Here is a swatch of the whole kit with the colours blended out a bit: