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Beauty Blog (Archive)
Friday, September 12, 2003
posted by TheBroadroom.Net at
7:37 PM (Pacific)
First of all, your non-existent French is just fine. At least in that sentence... Second, if you want to be a Wizened Vamp, you'll need more than a handful of eyeshadows. You'll need Nocturnelle. And you'll need 80's clothes. Kind of punky. Anyhoo, you can be whoever you want. I should have written down the 7 looks though. I can only remember 5.
About the velluxe shadows, I tried the Mink Pink and it showed up quite well on me. I did build up the colour but only used a soft brush. A harder brush might deposit more colour and a teeny teeny bit of a cream shadow or concealor as a base would also make the colour more vivid. At least the MA at the event was gushing about the cream colour bases for this. I may try it out with my concealor.
Sophisto is a bit like Black Honey. Same sheerness but Sophisto has more shimmer. Not sparkle shimmer but it's like my lips glisten. Very nice. The colour, on me at least, is less red than Black Honey. More dark plummy pink than red-plum-brown. But the look is very natural.
You have a way of making me feel good :) I was thinking, why didn't I think of placing dark shadows in unusual places before? But then, workdays aren't exactly the right moment to experiment. Now, I'm feeling all cool and creative :) I'm sure you could do the same though. Imagine you have the Nars duo you and Carol have been talking about. You could use all these different colour placements they showed without it looking bizarre. The colour would be soft. Today, I did something like the Destined look on my eyes. The original look uses a shimmery orange in the center stripe and a very dark colour on the outside stripes. To make it more wearable, I just used to shades of purplish colours : MAC Digit in the center (light lilac) and Beauty Box Love at First Sight on the outside stripes (medium greyish lilac). It didn't look like too much but it was much more fun than Digit as wash and Love At First Sight in the crease! Also, one thing you have to keep in mind is you can go pretty wild on your lids because when your eyes are open, the shadow doesn't really show. Anyway, if you ever have the time, just try these new colour placements. I tell you, it'll multiply the number of eye looks you do as if you'd doubled or even tripled your eyeshadow collection!
Raphaelle
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