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| Ellis Faas Creamy Eyes |
The seven new shades (shown above) are Navy Blue, Bordeaux Red, Purple, Lilac, Mint Green, Light Blue and Yellow Ochre.
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| Mally Beauty City Chick Smokey Eye Kit in Plum Chelsea |
The Style Page hand-picked Plum Chelsea, as plums and purples are often more sensuous than browns and grays.
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| Mally Beauty Evercolor Poreless Face Defender |
Mally Beauty Evercolor Poreless Face Defender is a colorless, powderless alternative to translucent powder. According to the Mally Beauty website:
Mally’s Evercolor Poreless face Defender is the perfect finishing touch for your Makeup look. This remarkable technology yields a waterclear, featherweight product that diffuses the look of pores and fine lines, helps makeup last and last, and helps protect your makeup look. Finishes a look, mattifies and smoothes, without the dry, ashy look of powder.
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| Mally Beauty Perfect Prep Poreless Primer |
Mally Beauty Perfect Prep Poreless Primer is Mally Roncal’s creation because she couldn’t find a primer that actually worked when she was working on her celeb clients. Reportedly, she used to mix 7-8 primers to find a solution that worked.
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| Laura Mercier Eye Basics |
I reach for Laura Mercier Eye Basics everyday.
Eye Basics in Flax is a perfect match for my light skin tone. It covers discoloration on my lids, thereby providing a canvas to apply eye shadow. The product has some pearlescence, but otherwise, eye shadow stays true and lasts all day. I prefer applying a thin layer on my fingers, and applying it with my fingers rather than using the doe foot applicator. Eye Basics sets quickly.
Laura Mercier Eye Basics also comes in Buff (medium pink beige), Cotton (light yellow), Eyebright (pale brightening blue), Linen (light ivory), Peach (sheer orange peach), and Wheat (light medium beige).
Now Laura Mercier has come out with Eye Canvas. Still waiting to learn via the lauramercier.com web site how Eye Canvas differs from Eye Basics …
You may shop Laura Mercier Cosmetics at high-end department stores (Neiman Marcus, Saks, Nordstrom, Bloomingdale’s), Sephora stores, lauramercier.com, and Sephora.com.
IsaDora Eye Shadow Quartet is a find! Although each set of four colors has at least one shiny shade, the texture is magnificent: a creamy-feeling powder that is not the least bit dry, dusty, or flaky. It glides over lids and allows precise blending. The pigment level is higher than usual, so you get stronger color and more coverage than you do from most powder eyeshadows, not to mention long wear. For a professional makeup design, these work great and the price is more than fair. The best combinations (which include a dark color for use as eyeliner) are Pearls, Classic Brown, Crystal Mauve, Pearly Minerals, Silvery Gray, Antique Gold, and Chocolate Brown.
I can certainly vouch for the Eye Shadow Quartet in Antique Gold. Bronzing Plums have deep shades that are great for the outer corner. You may shop Isadora at CosmeticMall.com or Apothica. Unfortunately, there are itty-bitty thumbnails (no enlargement or swatches) so you can’t get a good sense of the shades.
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| NARS Spring 2012 Collection |
Here’s the product from the NARS Spring 2012 Collection that I covet (from group shot, above, lower right):
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| NARS Single Eyeshadow in Lhasa |
NARS Single Eyeshadow in Lhasa is described as a “shimmery lavender-gray.” NARS often names its shades after exotic locales, and Lhasa is particularly evocative for me, as I’ve had the distinct privilege of visiting Tibet.
Shades of purple are more sensuous than grays or browns. See my eye shadow picks from NARS’s “permanent” collection:
NARS matte eye shadow in New York is a plum brown.
NARS eye shadow in Ashes to Ashes is a “Shimmery violet based brown”
P&G (Cover Girl) has been more honest than L’Oreal (which also owns Maybelline) about enhancing images for its ads: for example, in its LashBlast mascara ads featuring Drew Barrymore, it provides fine print that lash inserts were applied before mascara.
Now comes news that P&G has pulled its ad featuring Taylor Swift for its NatureLuxe Mousse Mascara, after the US Council of Better Business Bureau’s National Advertising Division requested that P&G substantiate its claims and called into account P&G’s enhancing the image to mislead the consumer about how much the mascara enhances the eyes:
The issue of Photoshopping images has been a hot topic on online fashion and beauty forums. Are we ready for more realistic advertising? We claim we are, but as ExtremeTech notes,
“… humans are incredibly sensitive to visual stimuli — and multiple trillion-dollar industries, including advertising, cosmetics, movies, and TV, all stand to gain by making their products look more appealing. There is a reason that digital manipulation and post production is so prevalent, after all — and indeed, it could even be argued that non-manipulated images now look ugly to our eyes.”
Eye glasses!
Greek singer Nana Mouskouri made them her signature.
Sue Devitt Beauty’s Eye Intensifier Pencil is one of the best products I’ve ever received. I’ve never had much luck with eyeliner pencils, but Sue Devitt Beauty’s Eye Intensifier Pencil doesn’t need “priming” and goes on smoothly and easily. With smudging, Sue Devitt Beauty’s Eye Intensifier Pencil in Pointe-Noire is great for recreating the sooty kajal-rimmed eye that I so admire on Indian women.
Now Sue Devitt Beauty has come out with the fine-tipped Defining Eyeliner pencil, which complements the jumbo Eye Intensifier Pencil. Like the Eye Intensifier pencil, the Defining Eyeliner pencil goes on very smoothly and easily. I received the Defining Eyeliner pencil in Hvita, a shiny silver that looks like Christmas tree tinsel. It is great for rimming the lower eyelids and illumining the inner corner of the eye. Sue Devitt Beauty Defining Eyeliner pencil in Hvita would be great applied over black eyeliner and smudged. For holiday parties, wear a simple LBD and complement the look with sparkly earrings and hair accessories.
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| Sue Devitt Beauty Defining Eyeliner Pencil in Hvita |
Items in Sue Devitt Beauty’s holiday makeup look (her products, of course!) are:
Luxury Lash Mascara
Eye Intensifier Pencil
Balanced Matte Lipstick
Lip Intensifier Pencil
Sue Devitt Beauty is available through Bloomingdales stores, Nordstrom.com, Beauty.com, and www.suedevittbeauty.com [The Style Page is an affiliate of Beauty.com through LinkShare and receives a nominal commission for products purchased through this blog – ed.]
The Style Page wishes to acknowledge Tractenberg & Co. for sending me Sue Devitt Beauty products for my review.
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Use these expert tips to treat and camouflage your annoying eye issues the right way |
 When eye cream or concealer alone won’t do the trick, you may need to look into other options when it comes to treating and masking dark circles and puffiness. Whether they’re a result of genetics or lack of sleep, too much sun or alcohol, these tricks — courtesy of dermatologist Dr. Heidi Waldorf and New York City-based makeup artist Tina Turnbow — will help you zap them for good, and disguise them like a pro until they’re gone. |
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