Showing posts with label swatches. Show all posts
Showing posts with label swatches. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

NYC Blushable Creme Sticks - Swatches and Short Review

After all the raves on MUA, I decided to purchase 4 NYC Blushable Creme Sticks: Big Apple Blush, Berry New Yorker, Wild Berry, and Plaza Pink. I believe Wild Berry is the only one that is limited edition. I also wanted to pink up Pink Flash (a beautiful coral), but I couldn't find it anywhere! I gotta say, I'm very impressed with these blushes! They apply beautifully, and blend well.

Application: I like to just dot some of the product lightly on my cheeks, and blend it all out with a blush brush, or any large fluffy face brush. To get these to stay, I also set with powder.








above are the blushable creme sticks, just swiped a couple times. so creamy and pigmented!


blended out.



Big Apple Blush
- Not sure how to describe the color of this, but it reminds me of a nude-y pink color. It has a bit of frost to it, but nothing too noticeable. I think this would be a perfect everyday blush that would look great for most looks, and just gives a natural flushed look.

Berry New Yorker - With a misleading name, Berry New Yorker is a matte mauve-y blush. This gives my NC30 skintone a nice and natural glow.

Wild Berry - Perhaps my favorite one of the bunch, Wild Berry is a matte bright mid-tone pink with blue undertones. I just love bright colors so this blush easily is my favorite. I prefer matte blushes on myself, so I see myself using this one more than the others. Also, the perfect color for summer!

Plaza Pink - Not very pink at all. This one is more of a frosty peach color. Plaza Pink gives a beautiful sheen when blended out that can give you a great dewy look, imo!


Overall, I think these blushes are great quality. All are nicely pigmented and blendable. On my oily skin however, I find they don't stay very well and slip off after a couple hours, but these are also great to enhance powder blushes or change the tones and color slightly. Putting powder (either a different blush or even a setting powder) over these will also make them last much longer. When I use these blushes, I apply them right after foundation, then I put my setting powder on top. This will set the product betters and allow it to blend more easily.

I think cream blush fanatics will absolutely love this product. Personally, I would prefer using powder blushes over cream blushes just in general. Powder blushes just seem easier to use in my opinion. However, given the price ($3.99 at most drugstores), I will continue to purchase these in the future!

Saturday, July 24, 2010

This Week's Collective Haul + Swatches!

this week went to Nordstrom Rack, Target, and CVS!
Scored big at Nordstrom Rack and got a Too Faced palette for only $10! so go to your local one to see if they stocked up :)

also got the R&R blush (X-Rated) I ordered off hautelook a couple weeks ago in the mail yesterday. (did that sentence confuse anyone? lolz sorry) It's SUPER pigmented, so it'll probably take a lifetime for me to finish LOL. I've been loving it so far, but still not sure what to pair with it! I did wear it with a smoky eye and fuschia lips today, though.

also in this post, hot pink lipstick comparisons! :)

as usual, drag images to new tab to view them fullsize!


too faced french and fabulous palette ($10 at Nordstrom Rack!)
neutrogena highlighting blush in healthy
rock & republic blush in x-rated
revlon colorburst fuschia (wore this today :D)
revlon superlustrous glosses in lilac pastelle, pink pop (paired it w/ cb fuschia <3), coral reef, firecracker
stila blush in delicate (put in a mufe pan)
sonia kashuk creme blush in rosey (been eyeing this forever!)
sonia kashuk blush in melon
stila eyeshadow in ray







from l to r: pink leopard bronzer, totally toasted brown, totally toasted beige, poodle puff raisin, poodle puff pink, ooh & aah black, mess in a dress, sun bunny bronzer.










from l to r: revlon colorburst fuschia, revlon super lustrous lipstick fuschia fusion, mac show orchid, wet n wild 511b.
revlon cb is most wearable imo. (nc30)

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Fyrinnae Swatches

PLEASE VIEW IMGS IN NEW TAB FOR FULL SIZE!
all applied wet with water.
in the sun, in the shade, with flash.


from l to r
marshmallow puffs, pure sugar, city glam: lights of quebec city, nijiro, banana mochi, velociraptor, omgwtf, japan, bali mynah.


from l to r
1.22 gigawatts, new moons light, shinagami, nomi, parental advisory, sennyo, princess of darkness, christmas tree.


from l to r
kitten in heels, kamikaze, chaotic evil, cheeky, gilded wings, aztec gold, selkie skin.