Showing posts with label Carbon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Carbon. Show all posts

Monday, October 25, 2010

Greed EOTD : Wet & Wild palette

EOTD : Greed palette from Wet & Wild
Colors I used :
pale shimmery purple color all over the lid
black shimmery color : outer V and crease
peach matte color : to blend
beige matte (top of the palette) : Highlight

a whole look with a single palette : hooray !


Dupe alert again for MAC :

Carbon : the black matte
Black tied : shimmery black
Samoa silk : matte peach (but I don't have it so it's just a guess !)
Vex : shimmery purple-grey (again a guess but pay off is VERY bad so I wouldn't consider it a good dupe)


feline khôl liner (MAC) and Mascara Marcelle Volume precision in black were used. Nobody was injured in this particular sequence of events...


FOTD :
Annabelle Skin true foundation
Annabelle Zebra bronzer
NYX Angel blush
Brow-zing in dark from Benefit for the brows


JOTD :
earrings from ten thousand villages
little black Onyx elephant given by Vicky



First impressions on the Greed palette :
The bad : The pay off in 2 colors is really poor : the shimmery peach and the shimmery pale grey-purple . It's a shame cause they look gorgeous in the pan.
The good : ...But if you don't have Carbon (MAC) or Black Tied (MAC), it's definitively worth it for the price of the palette... I like the matte peach color and I don't have nothing looking like this particular color in my collection so it's a nice addition. The highlight matte color is interesting because I tend to use paler colors. I noticed that using a "darker" highlight was good to "warm" my look (in this case a very dark smokey...Nice find !)

Caro-dark knight xxx

Sunday, September 26, 2010

I am alive but did I kill my blog ?



catchy title , heh ? I' ve been away from the blogging world 2 months ....2 MONTHS , people...so I guess we could say that my blog RIP ! But like a phoenix, I'll try to revive it ...We will see how my Harry Potter talents will work ;-)

SEPTEMBER : I am the lucky mother of 2 wonderful kids so I had to face the tornado of "back to school"in September. Hence my lack of posting this same month. Little rant here : why Oh why do we receive a list of items to buy in summer for school but on day 1, appears another list of "absolutely necessary" items that are impossible to find and kiddo needs them ASAP ?...Try and find the Staedler lumicolor pencil ref. 3a4r in fine writing , black, permanent in a Staple was like an Indiana Jones quest for me....No need to say, I had no time left for blogging....

AUGUST : lot of family drama....no really interesting but taking so much energy from me that pictures of me pouting was not really worth publishing !

OCTOBER : Here I come! a new me with 26 lbs left on the side of the road (on a vicious cycle at the gym to be true !). I am really proud of me so I'll probably brag about it, publishing outfits of the day, be ready !

Caro-ready for Autumn xxx
PS : Can't remember at all what I use for the EOTD : probably Carbon (MAC) on the lid over a black base (L'Oreal HIP liner), Twinks (MAC) in the crease, Wedge (MAC) to blend into highlight Helium (Annabelle)