Laura Mercier Laura's Luxe Colour Portfolio
$78.00 ($170 value)
6 eyeshadow shades
3 Tightline Cake Liners
2 Second Skin Cheek Colors
Instructional Insert
Mirror included
*I purchased this palette at Sephora*
Morning Dew, African Violet, Violet Ink Lavalier, Grey Onyx, Expresso Bean |
Violet Ink-matte eggplant shade
Lavalier-light silver shade, satin finish
Grey Onyx- taupe/silver shade, satin finish
Expresso Bean-matte brown shade
Going into this purchase I knew this would be an everyday, wearable, nothing crazy palette. A neutral purple and grey eye...but I didn't expect it to be so...not that special. Don't get me wrong, the shadows were great...buttery smooth, pigmented, blends like a dream...I just didn't feel like I looked especially...special. The finished look, while pretty, did not feel high end or luxurious. I felt I could get the same look, from any other brand, for a much cheaper price. The only shade I felt wasn't like any other shade I had in my collection was African Violet...a purple/gold shade but I don't feel like this shadow alone was worth an $80 palette. Don't get me wrong, I love what I've tried from the brand and this certainly isn't going to stop me from trying more...I just need to be a little more careful with my choices.
Black Ebony, Bleu Marine, Mahogany Brown |
Barely Pink, Lotus Pink |
Lotus Pink-bright peachy/pink, matte finish
Overall, I was not wowed by this palette. I bought a neutral palette, and I got a neutral palette...as in nothing special or out of the ordinary...middle of the road...very safe. I am still very interested in this brand. I will still try products from this brand. This is a great brand...I know this...because they can have my Silk Creme Foundation when they pry it from my cold dead fingers...
The Look...
For this look, I used Morning Dew as a brow bone and inner corner highlight, African Violet on the entire lid, and Violet Ink through the crease and outer corner of my eye. I lined my top lash line with Black Ebony and ran the left over product on my lower lash line. I softened up the lower lash line with a small amount of Expresso Bean on the outer corner and African Violet to the inner part of my lower lash line. I finished with two coats of mascara on the top lashes and one coat on the bottom lashes.
I applied Lotus Pink to the apples of my cheeks and blended back into the hairline. On lips I applied Buxom's Big & Healthy Lip Polish in Gabby.
omg your eye makeup is gorgeous!! I wanna scream out why is there no comment?!
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and great photos. I can never take a decent picture for eye makeup :(
Ahh! thank you again! I'm a brand new blogger so I don't think anyone has even looked at my posts yet...but I'm glad you like it. I've found in my few short months of photography experience, I get better photo results if I take the photo from about an arm's length distance away from my face and then later crop the photo to zoom in. This seems to work better than taking the pic close up from the start...maybe that'll help! thanks again for the comments!
DeleteAha, I have to try it out! thank you for the tips :) good luck
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Your results look great to me. Very good photography, too. (By the way, you don't look "palest of the pale" to me. That phrase would describe me, but you look at least two shades darker than I!
ReplyDeleteThank you...and these pictures are a tad deceiving, bronzer and photo shop can do wonders!
DeleteCool! I like this palette!
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It's a really nice basic palette to have...I've had a lot of fun playing around with it!
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