High Shine

My poor high shine eye shadows have been neglected so I thought I would do a look with a couple of them. I really need to work on using more of my eye shadows.

EYES:

Too Faced Shadow Insurance,
50/50 mix well rested/clear radiance all over,
Strawberry Mousse under brow,
High Shine Electric lash into and above crease on outer 2/3,
High Shine Flash on inner 1/3 blended into electric,
Cat Woman in outer corner and lower crease,
Big and Bright liner in Black Sea lined on top and bottom,
Falsies Flared mascara.


CHEEKS: Pink Tourmaline blush with Turn On as highlight.
LIPS: Rose gloss.

Sorry it's blurry

Buxom Lip Tarnish: Wardrobe Malfunction and Caught on Tape

I finally got my Buxom Lip Tarnish!! I have been wanting to try these since I first heard about them. I bought two, Wardrobe Malfunction (light pink) and Caught on Tape (darker pink). I was excited to try these because I thought they might be similar to Tarte’s Lipsurgence lip stains and they are to some degree. Tarte’s original lipsurgence product is very glossy in texture. I really like that formula. The Buxom Lip tarnish does not have the very glossy texture that the Tarte product has, instead it is more like a thick lip balm (think Burt’s bees lip balm). The Lip Tarnish does have a somewhat glossy appearance, more than a lipstick does. I think the lip tarnish applies smoothly and looks good on. It has a slight buxom tingle but not as strong as the buxom gloss. Caught on Tape is a vibrant pink that might be too much for some people but once you blot it looks more natural. Wardrobe Malfunction is a light pink and if you just apply it once it is sheer, I applied it 3 times for the pictures below.



The lip tarnish is supposed to be a stain. If you are expecting it to last all day looking like it did when you first applied it, you will be disappointed. However, it looked exactly like when I applied it for a few hours with a little drinking (sipping water) but after lunch it had faded a bit. I did have colour on my lips all day, it never completely disappeared, it just became much lighter by the end of the day. I like the fact that it left some colour on my lips all day.

As of now I like the lip tarnish and if they expand the colour selection I will probably buy a few more. I’m not sure I like it more than the buxom lipstick. I do love that it has a slight glossy-ness. I do think they need to make more colours. I think they leave more colour on my lips than the Tarte lipsurgence and I like that. Overall I like it so far but I’m not in love yet.

In the first picture I'm basically wearing the Bare Escentuals Sweet Escape Kit (nouveau, exotic tara, Buxom mascara and Eva buxom) minus the Eva buxom.

EYES:

Too Faced Shadow Insurance,
50/50 mix well rested/clear radince all over,
Nouveau under brow,
Exotic Tara lash into crease,
Big and Bright liner in Oz,
Buxom mascara.


CHEEKS: Avant-garden blush
LIPS: Buxom Tarnish in Caught on Tape (blotted twice)

 
 
 

EYES:

Too Faced Shadow Insurance,
50/50 mix well rested/clear radince all over,
Blush under the brow,
Buxom Stay There (BST) Husky lash to crease,
BST Peekenese in crease and outer corner,
BST Black Lab in lash to crease in outer corner,
Big and Bright in Black Sea lined on top,
Flawless Definition Volumizing Mascara.


CHEEKS: Pink Petal blush
LIPS: Buxom lip Tarnish in Wardrobe Malfunction

Bare Minerals: Introducing Color Shift Eyecolor

Today I’m wearing the new Bare Minerals Insider: Introducing Color Shift Eyecolor kit. This is the third color shift eye shadow that Bare Escentuals has released. The first two were released earlier this year on QVC, they are Lilac & Grey and Gold & Green. This kit contains:

Gold & Blue colour shift eye shadow
Big and Bright liner in Black Sea
Flawless Definition Volumizing mascara (full size, it looks like a mini in the picture)
Boost Blush
Starfruit 100% Natural gloss
Double ended Color shift eye shadow brush

I was a little bit worried about the new colour shift eye shadow because many people on various forums have said that they had a hard time getting the gold to show up. People said that the slightest touch would make the eye shadow turn from gold to blue and some said it turned blue in the cap or before they could get it on their eye. I played with this a little on my hand first to see if I would be able to get swatches. As long as I patted the colour on I did not have a problem with it turning. Based on my experience with the other colour shift colours I always do the blending out first and then pat on the eye shadow where I want it to stay gold. If you don’t want the shadow to turn you cannot swipe it across your eye or even pat over the same place multiple times without reloading the brush. In order to get it to stay gold I gently picked up the shadow with the brush, tapped it, and then patted it on my lid. It does not make a thick even layer so I needed to go back and repeat the procedure 2-3 more times to get full coverage with the gold. Overall I really like the effect, I think this might be my favorite colour shifting eye shadow so far. The blue is very pretty and gets darker the more you buff it.


I also love Black Sea. It is a dark teal that looks much lighter on than it does in the pictures on the box. If you look carefully at the look I did you can see that when applied over the colour shift eye shadow black sea looks brighter than it does when applied alone, as I did along my lower lash line.

Boost is a repeat. It was in another kit earlier this year. However, I still love it.


Starfruit is a nice light pink gloss. I have others that are similar but nothing exactly like it.

EYES:

Too Faced Shadow Insurance,
50/50 mix well rested/clear radince all over,
Rock Crystal under brow,
Gold & Blue colour shift buffed in crease and outer corner,
Gold & Blue colur shift pressed on lash to crease on inner 1/2ish,
B&B Black sea lined top and bottom,
Flawless Definition Volumizing mascara (FDVM).


CHEEKS: Boost blush
LIPS: Starfruit gloss