The Chanel Ratonas Off-topic Thread

[Bonitinha]

Very pretty HG -- love your dress! You are hot as a blonde!!

 

[User38]

Thank you Michelle.. I just got the same text from the Rrrrrrrrrrramon.. he says I look HOT.. lmao.

 

[Bonitinha]

^^ He is an astute man! You got it goin' on

 

[Miss QQ]

I got my Shines this morning!

I love them both -- Chance and Evasion. I tried them both quickly and they are both really pretty. Except now I need Romance and Adventure. I did get 2 samples with my order, but no sample blister pack. Darn, because I wanted to try the other colors!

Good to know you love them! They should give you the sample pack, there's Aventure so you could try. I wore Chance yesterday and I really like it. It's a cute pink I can wear without having to line my lips or top with any gloss.

I've tried 3 of the colours in the sample pack and Liberte is final one. I will let you know when I have tried it, HG. It looks like a peachy orange.

 

[Shypo]

I shopped my stash briefly this morning and discovered that I have LM City Pink and Lotus Pink Second Skin cheek colors....so needless to say, I'll be showing these some love soon. I think City Pink was LE but it's still available on the LM site - it's a really pretty 'reddish' pink color - when I swatched it before I bought it I fell in love - it will be a great summer color for me!

I'm still seriously disturbed by that man chair - every time I think of it I giggle out loud -

 

[Bonitinha]

I've tried 3 of the colours in the sample pack and Liberte is final one. I will let you know when I have tried it, HG. It looks like a peachy orange.

I actually emailed Chanel to see if they could send me a sample pack. Since I don't live anywhere near a Chanel counter, you think they could free up on a sample pack. We'll see!
Have you liked all of the colors you have tried so far??

 

[elegant-one]

LOL on the manchair - it is so disturbing & unbelievably hilarious to me too

HG - your pic was so hot last night that it burned up my laptop's wireless card while viewing

either that or I have a really hot lap

hubby is not finding it so funny this morning trying to figure out how to fix it

 

[elegant-one]

C - what Lotus Pink like on & do you like it? Is it worth it?

 

[Miss QQ]

Michelle, hope they give it to you! I was very lucky, I went to the counter and asked for the blister sample without buying anything, and the SA gave it to me. Let's see, I've tried Monte Carlo, Aventure, Boy, Elise, Antigone, Rebelle, Flying Cloud and Chance, which I purchased. Love them, but I can probably live without Rebelle, Boy and Elise. Overall, I'm very impressed with the line. Didn't try Romance because I definitely want it!

I saw EL starfish bronzer swatch at karla. Beautiful, I think I need it! Very excited about Guerlain's summer collection too. Someone has put up a link with swatches at the guerlain thread. I know Dior is having a third bronzer this summer in Asia, but it looks so pale I think it's like a highlighter. It's the 2nd last pic here.
http://www.atouchofblusher.com/2011/03/dior-summer-2011-electric-tropics-makeup-collection.html

Not feeling Dior's but I like the rest. But I don't think I need so many bronzers, EL, Chanel, Guerlain... lol

 

[Miss QQ]

I also tried on Sari D'eau and love it.

 

[Bonitinha]

Michelle, hope they give it to you! I was very lucky, I went to the counter and asked for the blister sample without buying anything, and the SA gave it to me. Let's see, I've tried Monte Carlo, Aventure, Boy, Elise, Antigone, Rebelle, Flying Cloud and Chance, which I purchased. Love them, but I can probably live without Rebelle, Boy and Elise. Overall, I'm very impressed with the line. Didn't try Romance because I definitely want it!

I saw EL starfish bronzer swatch at karla. Beautiful, I think I need it! Very excited about Guerlain's summer collection too. Someone has put up a link with swatches at the guerlain thread. I know Dior is having a third bronzer this summer in Asia, but it looks so pale I think it's like a highlighter. It's the 2nd last pic here.
http://www.atouchofblusher.com/2011/03/dior-summer-2011-electric-tropics-makeup-collection.html

Not feeling Dior's but I like the rest. But I don't think I need so many bronzers, EL, Chanel, Guerlain... lol

Fingers crossed that they'll send me the sample pack! I know, I don't know why I think I need so many bronzers. I think they just all look so summery!! I was checking out the Laura Mercier bronzing duos on line and they are gorgeous, too. Decisions, decisions . . .

 

[katred]

ok, spring is sprung pic up..

see it now or forever hold yer peace

YOWZA! You are gorgeous! No wonder Rrrrrrrrraaaaaaaaaaaammmmmmmmooooooooonnnnnnnnn is so besotted!

 

[Shypo]

Elegant, Lotus Pink is close to BB Maui in color, but Maui has the gold microshimmer that LP does not have. LP has more of a 'sheen' than sparkle. It's really very pretty, but maybe not a 'must-have'.

I'm also considering picking up a LM palette for the few items of hers that I have. I'm palette-possessed.

During my stash shopping I also dug out my Fafi Hipness and HK Fun and Games blushes. And Tippy is one of my all-time faves. Move over Pink Cult (though that one is still in my Top 3).

 

[elegant-one]

Elegant, Lotus Pink is close to BB Maui in color, but Maui has the gold microshimmer that LP does not have. LP has more of a 'sheen' than sparkle. It's really very pretty, but maybe not a 'must-have'.

I'm also considering picking up a LM palette for the few items of hers that I have. I'm palette-possessed.

During my stash shopping I also dug out my Fafi Hipness and HK Fun and Games blushes. And Tippy is one of my all-time faves. Move over Pink Cult (though that one is still in my Top 3).

Thanks darling!

OHMY - I agree I Love ALL of those blushes too. Especially agree on Tippy!

Heya, I posted pics & swatches of Sari d & Antigone in the Chanel ls thread

 

[User38]

Tippy is one of my loves.. I hoard it.. lol.

C! I have a palette fetish too.. I have MAC, BB, LM, Kryolan, and assorted misc brands which I throw into palettes.. I just find them so convenient and keep them in colour families with two light highlite colours in each.

katred.. ty... poor Rrrramon is almost on his death bed.. lol. Just kidding, he says he is taking vitamin tonic.. lmao

 

[User38]

omg omg.. RATONAS

26 pages of pure yakkin and non stop !!!

 

[Shypo]

I have a backup of Tippy, but just one. With all of the blushes I have, I seriously doubt I'll hit the pan on any of them! But it's nice to have that assurance.....I was able to get a backup of Mighty Aphrodite when I least expected it, so that was a bonus as well!

I want to check out the Kryolan palettes - I was looking at La Femme blushes today based on Goss's reviews - but I passed ultimately. I had recently purchased a couple of the Sleek palettes online, and wish we had those here. I get so bored with some of the drugstore lines - I don't know why. Maybe some new things will be coming up to change my mind......

I'm also awaiting the Dior Summer collection - I was aware that they're changing the eye shadow formula, and my connection is going to call me as soon as they come in so I can check them out. And I'll have to see the bronzer in person before making a decision about it. I ordered the Guerlain 00 Terracotta bronzer last week, so it should be here tomorrow. Anxious to see if I'm going to like that one. What is it with my bronzer obsession? Is it contagious?

Those of you who haven't tried Canotier need to seriously check it out - I may actually get a backup of this when it gets low - it is beyond gorgeous! I'm going to wear it tomorrow with Bleu Celeste eyes and an undetermined cheek. And the IT Cosmetics pore-less powder, which I will be trying for the first time. I got it to get the brush, but have heard good things about it as well. We'll see.

 

[User38]

strangles C!.. just when I am getting over my od of RCshines.. she reccs Canotier

I know it looks beautiful on Ingenue, I imagine her lips have pigmentation.. but I seriously don't like the look of no lip -- not nude, just nothing. nada. eww. not me at all.

I know what you mean about ever hitting pan, I will croak before I hit pan on anything.. lol. ANd I am palette obsessed too.. my niece is busy depotting every weekend!!
I do have palettes of LF blushes, and ES.. and they are great -- wet or dry, fully pigmented -- of course they are basic and don't have the sophistication of Givenchy, Guerlain, CHanel or CD. ... but there are a few which have an ultrapearl which are ginormous -- don't know if they are in production still.. but those were way ahead of their time.

I have assembled a full Kryolan ES palette in all nudes -- from white, bone, to putty.. no darks.. it's an amazing palette if I say so myself.

back to my skin -- I have upped my nightly Retinoic Acid to .10 -- three weeks on .05 and my spots are reacting well -- now this is the first day of the higher vol and it's a bit stingy.. but .. oh yea it feels so good!

 

[Bonitinha]

All of Elegant's strippin' has got me inspired -- I am on project home improvement. I am going to go through every single closet and drawer and get everything in perfect order. (I'm a 'lil OCD) I need to organize my makeup stash and everything else!! I am also going to work on "finishing" all my rooms with the little touches. Geez, how am I going to do this and keep up my makeup splurges??

I really wish Chanel would get the summer collex online so I can order . . .

 

[elegant-one]

Michelle, that's funny. Right now, redoing the rooms is therapy for me. All the work pays off in the end. I have 2 walls left to strip in our son's old bedroom &then I can start painting & redecorating. I will cry when I get to the last wall that is the wall that has his drawings on it that were under the wallpaper But he is happy that we're re doing it. Then I am going to be painting the bathroom...blah