L'Oreal Studio Secrets Eye Shadow Quad in Lavendar Smokes, Review and Swatches

You may remember me lemming the L’Oreal Studio Secrets Professional Color Smokes Quad Eye Shadow in Lavender Smokes in my post last week. I fell in love this quad when I saw that It was purpley colors coordinated for brown eyes. I'm happy to report that it was easy to find at Target, yay for no searching.

The colors are beautiful to look at but a pain in the butt to swatch. I had to dig to get the colors you see in these swatches. They were very easily blendable though. These were swatched without a base. I'll be posting a FOTD featuring this quad shortly but you'll see that with a NYX jumbo pencil as a base, the color from this quad pops.

I noticed immediately that there are two MAC dupes in this quad. Color number 4 is a dupe for All that Glitters and color 3 is a dupe for Retrospeck. For the $5 I paid for this quad in store, I'd say it's worth it to get the dupes especially since you can use color 4 for so many other looks.

Swatched in natural light. So much for pigmentation...

What do you think of these new quads by L'Oreal? I enjoy having premade quads so looks are easy to throw together. Speaking of drugstore makeup, has anyone bought the new ELF Beauty Book Palettes? They're only $5 and feature a slew of yummy colors that are surprisingly pigmented. Beverly from AFullBeat had me searching all over Target only to find them out of stock :( They will be mine, oh yes, they will be mine.

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MAC Dare to Wear Haul and Swatches

MAC's Dare to Wear collection launched today in stores so I got my butt over to MAC to check out them in person. I thought it was pretty cool that this collection was inspired by Lady Gaga. I was really feeling the rainbow aspect of these eyeshadows, but I'm really trying to hold off buying stuffie stuff until Fabulous Felines launches. I only bought Going Bananas and Sassy Grass (lol I love saying sassy!). The other three shadows are for my very preggo friend who kindly allowed me to swatch these for you guys.

Top: Aqua, Sky Blue, Crazy Cool. Bottom: Going Bananas, Sassy Grass

Natural light, Top row: Aqua, Sky Blue, Crazy Cool. Bottom: Going Bananas, Sassy Grass

Swatches with flash

Many of the shades in this collection were repromotes from the permanent or PRO collection. Aqua swatched well but was kind of chalky. Sky Blue took a little work to swatch but I liked the silver sparkle to it. Crazy Cool was very smooth in texture. Going Bananas took a little work but the payoff seems worth it and it also gleams. Sassy Grass is a matte and has great color payoff. I've never seen a green like it from MAC.

I decided against the lipglosses in this collection since I have my fair share of glittery glosses.

What are you lemming from this collection? Let me know in the comments!

ps don't forget to enter my giveaway!

Disclosure- products featured were bought by yours truly.

MAC Art Supplies Haul

I went a little crazy and hauled quite a few items from the MAC Art Supplies collection. I posted swatches here of all the liners and greasepaint sticks.

If I were to do a giveaway with this collection, what product would you want? I'm talking from the entire line. Let me know in the comments. I'm thinking of doing one...

Here’s what I got from this collection plus a couple other things :) As always, click on the photos for full size.



Top to bottom- Dirty GPS, Zinc Zone GPS, Petrol Blue e/l, Industrial e/l, Black Line e/l, Designer Purple e/l





With flash- Left to right: Petrol Blue, Industrial, Black Line, Designer Purple



I also bought transparent finishing powder, concealer (I'd heard good things about this one so I wanted to try it out), Mineralize Foundation in NW20, MAC 249 Brush, MAC 189 Brush.

I bought the 249 brush to use with the greasepaint sticks. Since they dry so fast I wanted to use something bigger than the 242 brush that I'd normally use. I also bought the 189 brush over the 190 since the 190 has a tendency to streak.

Disclosure- products featured were bought by yours truly.
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MAC Art Supplies Swatches

MAC's Art Supplies collection launched today! I can't wait to share with yall what I hauled in this collection, but alas, that's another post ;-) Sorry, I don't have swatches of the pro longwear markers.

As always, click on the photo for full size. Swatched on NW2o skin.



Greasepaint Sticks (GPS)- Left to right: Brown Now, Greengrease, Uniformly Blue, Zinc Zone, Charred Mauve, Slick Black, Below Ground, Dirty

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  Pearlglide Intense Liner- Left to right: Almost Noir, Undercurrent, Petrol Blue, Industrial, Black Line, Designer Purple

They're sparkly like Edward when they hit sunlight <sigh>



Did you or are you planning on hauling anything from this collection?

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