These palettes packed with Autumn colors will ensure your makeup selection is a snap. The best part? Your entire collection of Fall color is completely portable.
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Raging Rouge Beauty Blog: For Makeup Lovers Everywhere!
These palettes packed with Autumn colors will ensure your makeup selection is a snap. The best part? Your entire collection of Fall color is completely portable.
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Ladies, ladies, ladies! Mark your calendars now… in mid-October, Lola Cosmetics will release its 2007 holiday collection. These luxe palettes can NOT be missed!
I had the honor of previewing these palettes recently, and I’m still giddy. Lola’s new "Joy" laptop colors are a collection of metallic shadows, a brick red gloss and a clear gloss with a golden shimmer. I applied each shadow in a haphazard manner to test the colors and was floored that despite my imprecision I still looked holiday-party ready. The shadows are extremely high-pigment, and glide smoothly onto the lid. The gloss shade is an excellent compliment to the eye color: a decadent brick red that can also be applied lightly to look more like a stain. Top it off with the golden shimmer gloss for show-stopping New Years Eve lips.
Lola’s holiday season Spellbound Color Clutch contains 18 shades of shadow (you read that right– 18!) conveniently organized into 6 color-coordinated trios to make selecting colors a snap. The shadow colors included range from white to deep gray, some matte and some sparkling. Three nourishing gloss shades (with a hint of mint), two creme blush colors to enhance your cheeks and a generously-sized mirror make this elegant palette all you’ll need for the boardroom or the ballroom.
Lola Cosmetics Laptop in "Joy" will retail for $36. Spellbound Color Clutch will retail for $38. Retailers include Sephora.com, Ulta and other fine beauty stores.
Even on a 90-degree summer day, my young son refuses to slow down. While running in the heat, his cheeks flush a gorgeous deep pink that makes him look young and vital. This blush shade by E.L.F. mimics my son’s flush to perfection, no running necessary!
As with all of their product, E.L.F. Natural Radiance Blusher retails for $1. If you haven’t already, be sure to check out E.L.F. Cosmetics extensive selection, available at the E.L.F. website, or at online retailers like Beauty.com.
Givenchy was brilliant to sign the gorgeous Liv Tyler as their spokeswoman. Her skin has this ethereal glow that makes her just leap off the pages of a magazine. Liv’s gorgeous face reminded me… I HAD to try the Prisme Libre Loose Powder Quartet!
I’m a fan of Givenchy product, and have been for over a decade. Back in my "frequent flier" days, I reveled in the fact that I could buy Givenchy product for a fraction of the retail cost via duty-free shopping. My all-time favorite beauty product by Givenchy is the Prismissime Face & Eye Powder palette. I love it so much, I have purchased these palettes as gifts for many a friend.
My color choice of the Prisme Libre was Pastel. It contains loose powder in white, pink, green and blue shades. Seems like a strange assortment of colors for a face powder, right? Shades like blue and green minimize redness and even the complexion, while shades like white and pink provide skin with highlights and glow.
Sadly, this loose powder product falls flat. The packaging is the problem, not the powder. The loose powder in the Prisme Libre is stored in four small compartments, and a small powder puff is provided for application. The directions instruct you to use the powder puff to blend the colors on the skin. This method simply doesn’t allow for even distribution of the product. A better way to apply them is with a large makeup brush, but this makes it impossible to regulate how much you get of each color. When the balance is even slightly off, your skin takes on a sickly, oxygen-deprived hue.
The Prisme Libre Loose Powder Quartet is a great-looking beauty product to display on the vanity, but its eye-catching appearance is wasted on it’s complete lack of usability. My advice would be to pass on this one unless they change the packaging. Or, opt for the traditional Prismissime format of the Givenchy powder.
Physician’s Formula certainly hit the nail on the head with their new summer product, Shimmer Strips. This 6-color square blush combines highlighter, blush and bronzer into one product. Similar to Cargo’s BeachBlush, the striped style enables you to easily use this product as an eyeshadow too! I’m loving the highlighter in the inner corners of the eye, and under the browbone.
Physicians Formula Shimmer Strips retails for $11.95 and can be found at most local drugstores, drugstore.com, and the Physicians Formula website.