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Mar 22, 2013

Sephora Outrageous Prisma Chrome Swatch

March 22, 2013 By Carleenp 7 Comments

The Sephora Outrageous Prisma Chrome Eye Shadows are simple incredible. With eight beautiful high shimmer shades, it is hard to choose just one. Since I love taupes, that is the one that I settled on. The shadows remind me a lot of some Laura Mercier Art Deco Collection limited edition shadows that were out around the holidays that quickly sold out. Those were awesome and this is equally so.

This is a wonderful taupe shade that is a perfect balance of purple and gray. The shadow wore nicely for me and can be worn alone quite well, or paired with other shades. It is great for making a smoky eye with taupe and gray or taupe and purple.

Below is a swatch of the Sephora Outrageous Prisma Chrome shadow in Taupe.

Get it at Sephora.

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Mar 15, 2013

Purely Pro Cosmetics Swatches and Review

March 15, 2013 By Carleenp 1 Comment

Purely Pro Cosmetics offers some quality and attractive makeup items. The company sent me several products to try and I was happy with all of them. Right off, I love this travel bag. You can see it featured in this recent Makeup Wars feature on how beauty bloggers travel.

The company provides cute shadow palettes and some really nice cream highlights, which Purely Pro spells as Hilites.

This eye shadow palette, the Glamazon Palette, has 5 neutral/nude shades and is very pretty.

The shades are neutral, perhaps ever so slightly on the warm side.

Below are swatches of the shadows. All had decent pigment and wore well for me. I got full day wear with no creasing.

The hilites were my favorite items. Here they are in Flirty and PopTart. The Hilites have enough pigment and are buildable that I can wear them as a blush on my fair skin. They also work well applied lightly as a true highlight.

Here is a look at the Purely Pro Hilites with the shadow palette.

Below are swatches of the Purely Pro Hilites with Pop Tart on top and Flirty on the bottom.

I was also sent a fixative, but I haven’t tried it yet. Look for a review of it sometime in the future.

Buy Purely Pro Cosmetics at their website or at Dermstore.com.

Disclosure: This post is based on products given to me by a representative of the company.

Filed Under: Blush, Eyeshadow, Makeup, Palettes and Collections Tagged With: Blush, Eyeshadow, Highlighter, Palettes, Purely Pro, Swatches

Mar 14, 2013

Sephora Pantone Emerald Eye Look Tutorial

March 14, 2013 By Carleenp Leave a Comment

Here is a video tutorial on using the Sephora + Pantone Universe Shadow Box Eclipsed to create a soft smoky emerald eye look. This is perfect for anyone who loves the emerald shade and it would be great as a St. Patrick’s Day makeup look. Also included is a transcript of the video.

Video Transcript:

The Sephora Plus Pantone color of the year eclipse look diffuses color up to the center of the brow bones, giving this soft everyday smoky eye a futuristic feel. It's all about constraining color to the outer half of the eyes. Sweep the nude tones all over lids and along the lower lash lines with a dampened brush for a rich luminous face. Intensify the corners with a second layer.

Next, diffuse the emerald shade from the other corners to the center of the lids, brushing downwards at an angle. Deepen the lash lines by sweeping on the dark green shadow with a dampened brush, working outward from the center of lash line. Drag color around the edges and onto the bottom lash lines. dust on emerald shadow from above the middle creases to the edges, sweeping an extra flash of color along bottom lashes.

Finish with black mascara on the upper lashes.

Looking for emerald or green for St Patrick’s Day or to get in line with the newest trend? Shop the Sephora + Pantone line.