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[Medgal07]

I have no clue what to wear for eyeshadow. Any suggestions color-wise? Maybe I could do a brown smokey eye?

Hi there Meka!!! Which Chanel lippies did you buy??? Love the plans for the weekly look---i love bronze & gold with berry/burgundy/purple, but also a neutral eye works too. I love the MAC Her Cocoa quad w/a dark lip, as wells, the brown smokey eye!!

 

[meka72]

so, @Meka, how do you like the UD foundation? 11 huh? OK...

I've had it since the spring sephora sale and am just now taking it out of the box. But I had lots of samples and remember that it was probably the best foundation that I had tried. It gave me such a smooth satin finish. My coworker also said it was the best foundation that I had worn (and she should know because I asked her everyday "how does my makeup look?). I didn't have any blemishes then so I'm curious how much coverage my blemishes will get. 11,0 will be too dark/too orange for you. Is there a 10.5?

 

[sagehen]

I've had it since the spring sephora sale and am just now taking it out of the box. But I had lots of samples and remember that it was probably the best foundation that I had tried. It gave me such a smooth satin finish. My coworker also said it was the best foundation that I had worn (and she should know because I asked her everyday "how does my makeup look?). I didn't have any blemishes then so I'm curious how much coverage my blemishes will get. 11,0 will be too dark/too orange for you. Is there a 10.5?

Hmm, no 10.5, and 10 looked like I had been powdered with a donut in pics. I was thinking getting 11.0 and setting with their medium dark power (I am looking for an excuse to get the Naked powder). Maybe I will continue working through my stash. I just want a Naked foundation. This should not be so hard. We had such a go 'round about the best shade in one of the other WOC threads lol.

 

[meka72]

   [COLOR=800000] Hi there Meka!!!  Which Chanel lippies did you buy???  Love the plans for the weekly look---i love bronze & gold with berry/burgundy/purple, but also a neutral eye works too. I[/COLOR][COLOR=800000] love the MAC Her Cocoa quad w/a dark lip, as [/COLOR][COLOR=800000]wells, the brown smokey eye!![/COLOR]

Hey Meddy! I bought Chanel lip pencil in Mordoré Nude + Chanel lipstick in Ambiguê + Chanel glossimer in Giggle. Danielle at the style and beauty doctor had a blog post on how she layers these products and how this was her go to nude lip. So of course I had to try it. Lol. As an aside, I need to stay out of that Chanel thread. Whatever I wear on my eyes will be governed by time. Lol. I've been wearing Mac coil as a one and done eyeshadow look.

 

[Medgal07]

Sunday's PurpleBerryVamp Look


EYES:
MAC PP Quite natural as a base
Tom Ford Eyeshadow Palette, Burnished Amber
Deep Berry to lids and lower lash line
Golden Orange e/s to crease
Cranberry to transition
Pale Gold highlight brow
MAC Blacktrack to upper lash line


FACE:
Algenist Pore Corrector Anti-Aging Primer
Chanel Perfection Lumiére Velvet Foundation
YSL Touche Éclat’ Radiant Touch Luminous Pralinein small triangle below eyes, set w/Ben Nye Powder, Banana Visage
MACProSculpting Cream, Richly Honed to contour, set w/ Guerlain Terra Cotta Bronzing Powder
Tom Ford Cheek Duo, Softcore, highlighter (Pale peach)
Tom Ford Cheek Duo, Softcore, blush (Plum/berry)
MAC Mineralized Skin Finish-Natural
Skindinavia Makeup setting spray
Guerlain Météorites Perles d’Etoiles - (Med Beige w/Golden Shimmer) lightly dusted over entire face

LIPS:
Chanel Hydra Beauty Nourishing Lip Care
Chanel Orange Intense, Le Crayon Lèvres Precision Lip Definer

Chanel Rouge Allure Luminous Intense, Foudroyante (Pearlescent Choc) 148
Chanel Rouge Allure Colour & Shine Audace 20 (Deep Mauve-brown)​


NAILS:
Chanel Exception (Red-brown) 639

 

[sagehen]

Oh, to prettypackages and anyone who wants to read it lol, I would LOVE a Taupe e/s challenge. I am up to it. Tossing that out for future reference.

 

[Medgal07]

Oh, to prettypackages and anyone who wants to read it lol, I would LOVE a Taupe e/s challenge. I am up to it. Tossing that out for future reference.

​Do you mean wearing Taupe eye looks for a week? You'll have to help me with some shadows unless you're talking all neutrals---tans, taupes & browns???

 

[sagehen]

   [COLOR=800000]​Do you mean wearing Taupe eye looks for a week?  You'll have  to help me with some shadows unless you're talking all neutrals---tans, taupes & browns???[/COLOR]

Hmm, yes to taupe eyeshadow, but I don't know how this will work. I mean TAUPE, like silvery taupe or grey taupe purple taupe, but you know, taupe can be warm or cool. I say let's open it to anything we call taupe. Cargo Yukon, NARS Bali, Maybelline Tough as Taupe, Earthy Taupe, MAC Keep Your Cool (see here is a dark one!), MAC Smoke and Diamonds, French Grey, Satin Taupe, NYX Damage Control, Over the Taupe and Club Crawl. OK, maybe this is too vague.

 

[Medgal07]

Hmm, yes to taupe eyeshadow, but I don't know how this will work. I mean TAUPE, like silvery taupe or grey taupe purple taupe, but you know, taupe can be warm or cool. I say let's open it to anything we call taupe. Cargo Yukon, NARS Bali, Maybelline Tough as Taupe, Earthy Taupe, MAC Keep Your Cool (see here is a dark one!), MAC Smoke and Diamonds, French Grey, Satin Taupe, NYX Damage Control, Over the Taupe and Club Crawl. OK, maybe this is too vague.

I'll look some of those up to get an idea...no problem. Would we do this simultaneously with a lip week???

 

[sagehen]

  [COLOR=800000]​Sage you ar brave, courageous & bold!!!  Good for you!![/COLOR]

And you are kind, gracious and beautiful. I bow to thee (sorry, watching Hobbit films today lol)

   [COLOR=800000]I'll look some of those up to get an idea...no problem.  Would we do this simultaneously with a lip week???[/COLOR]

We could... taupe goes with anything. Let's toss it out for consideration.

 

[Anneri]

We could... taupe goes with anything. Let's toss it out for consideration.

Have fun watching the Hobbit!!!! I'm itching to watch all six movies in a row!


I'd love an eyeshadow month - just like we did the different colours for lipstick, we could do different weeks for different eyeshadows. I'd love taupe (I've soooooo many taupe e/s!!!), but also purples, blues, greens...


My first look for purpleberryvamp week!

Easy and quick, because I've loads to do today (and all week, really. Aaaaargh!).

FACE: Mac CC cream in Adjust, Mineralize Loose Foundation in Light, Artdeco Mineral Concealer & Maybelline Fit Me Concealer, Perfect Topping to highlight (yay, branching out!), Strada to contour, Clinique Black Honey blush

EYES: UDPP, Maybelline Browdrama (darkest colour), L'Oreal Infallible in Bronzed Taupe (just what it says), Orb to highlight and Clinique lash doubling mascara

LIPS: Mac Commotion (Huggable) - better for my dry lips than all those mattes and satins! I suspect the weather and my neverending cold (I've had it for ages now!) are the culprits for it.

 

[katred]

Soooo excited for putpleberryvamp!! I decided to break out Cuir Cannage for the first time, since I feel like it's meant to match with this sorts of shades. So today is a combo of Cuir Cannage (all colours used to make a sort of golden plum smoky eye), Nars Sin blush (highlights itself), and Guerlain L'Heure Bleue. This is one of my longtime favourites, a red-berry. I'm sorry to see that Guerlain seems to be phasing out this formula, since I like the colour assortment a little more than the Kiss Kiss one. Planning on grabbing a few that I've been waffling on for a while just to make sure I don't get skippers remorse.

 

[sagehen]

Have fun watching the Hobbit!!!! I'm itching to watch all six movies in a row! I'd love an eyeshadow month - just like we did the different colours for lipstick, we could do different weeks for different eyeshadows. I'd love taupe (I've soooooo many taupe e/s!!!), but also purples, blues, greens... My first look for purpleberryvamp week! Easy and quick, because I've loads to do today (and all week, really. Aaaaargh!). FACE: Mac CC cream in Adjust, Mineralize Loose Foundation in Light, Artdeco Mineral Concealer & Maybelline Fit Me Concealer, Perfect Topping to highlight (yay, branching out!), Strada to contour, Clinique Black Honey blush EYES: UDPP, Maybelline Browdrama (darkest colour),  L'Oreal Infallible in Bronzed Taupe (just what it says), Orb to highlight and Clinique lash doubling mascara LIPS: Mac Commotion (Huggable) - better for my dry lips than all those mattes and satins! I suspect the weather and my neverending cold (I've had it for ages now!) are the culprits for it.

I watched the first three films yesterday in preparation. Today I am watching the second trilogy in IMAX 3D. The Battle of the Five Armies will be seen by my eyes today! Then of course another binge watch when it comes out on dvd! My purpleberryvamp thing for today is MAC Gareth Pugh lipstick in Fervent topped with Outrage gloss.

 

[Medgal07]

We could... taupe goes with anything. Let's toss it out for consideration.

I'm cracking up Sage!!! You're probably to young to know this but ' brave courageous and bold' is
from the theme song to an old western TV show called Wyatt Erp. Why that popped into my head, is yet
another mystery of life!

Consider your idea tossed----If anyone would like to add an eye shadow challenge to our
weekly lipstick challenge, please feel free to jump right in and participate. Sage will
give us the particulars of her great idea!!!

 

[Anneri]

Soooo excited for putpleberryvamp!! I decided to break out Cuir Cannage for the first time, since I feel like it's meant to match with this sorts of shades. So today is a combo of Cuir Cannage (all colours used to make a sort of golden plum smoky eye), Nars Sin blush (highlights itself), and Guerlain L'Heure Bleue. This is one of my longtime favourites, a red-berry. I'm sorry to see that Guerlain seems to be phasing out this formula, since I like the colour assortment a little more than the Kiss Kiss one. Planning on grabbing a few that I've been waffling on for a while just to make sure I don't get skippers remorse.

L'Heure Bleu is a Rouge Automatique, right? I've got only one, Reflex, from the 'Crazy' Collection, and was quite disapointed by it because it settles in my liplines like crazy! Are there some that you would recommend? Which ones are the creme de la creme? (I hope that's a saying in English as well as over here...)

I watched the first three films yesterday in preparation. Today I am watching the second trilogy in IMAX 3D. The Battle of the Five Armies will be seen by my eyes today! Then of course another binge watch when it comes out on dvd! My purpleberryvamp thing for today is MAC Gareth Pugh lipstick in Fervent topped with Outrage gloss.

I saw BOTFA last week and really liked it! Enjoy! I'll have to go and see it again before Christmas.

 

[sagehen]

I dunno if I have particulars I was just thinking that January would be a nice time, after the holidays, to have a challenge that is sort of laid back, and opposite to all the holiday fuss and red lipstick. Taupe eyeshadow is easy, work appropriate and we can all shop our stashes in advance of the Sephora Spring sale. It goes with any lipstick. It is good with lots of colored eyeliners. SHOW STARTING! BE BACK LATER!

 

[Medgal07]

Have fun watching the Hobbit!!!! I'm itching to watch all six movies in a row!


I'd love an eyeshadow month - just like we did the different colours for lipstick, we could do different weeks for different eyeshadows. I'd love taupe (I've soooooo many taupe e/s!!!), but also purples, blues, greens...


My first look for purpleberryvamp week!

Easy and quick, because I've loads to do today (and all week, really. Aaaaargh!).

FACE: Mac CC cream in Adjust, Mineralize Loose Foundation in Light, Artdeco Mineral Concealer & Maybelline Fit Me Concealer, Perfect Topping to highlight (yay, branching out!), Strada to contour, Clinique Black Honey blush

EYES: UDPP, Maybelline Browdrama (darkest colour), L'Oreal Infallible in Bronzed Taupe (just what it says), Orb to highlight and Clinique lash doubling mascara

LIPS: Mac Commotion (Huggable) - better for my dry lips than all those mattes and satins! I suspect the weather and my neverending cold (I've had it for ages now!) are the culprits for it.

Love that idea Anneri, and yes, yay for branching out!

Love the eye shadows you selected! too!!
I hope you get rid of that cold!!!!

 

[Medgal07]

SHOW STARTING! BE BACK LATER!

I like Anneri's idea of weekly eyeshadows to go with the lipstick weeks too. ENJOY the show!!!

 

[Prettypackages]

I like Anneri's idea of weekly eyeshadows to go with the lipstick weeks too. ENJOY the show!!!

I like that too.... I had a bunch of ppl quoted, work got busy and I forgot what I was going to say..... SO, there's that.

I wanted to put in my other coral/orange week looks.

Wednesday
E/S: Saddle on the lid, saffron in the crease, outre in the transition.
blush: make you mine
l/s: Strange Journey

Thursday:
I wore a shadow in the Tarte palette I complained about.
E/S:
targe Gorgeous Getaways
green lid
grey in crease
tan color transition.
Worked out a lot better, but it reminded me of some greens I own. Every review said they were soft, buttery and pigmented, and I agree, it's just not translating well on my eye...
So Vain with Toast.
Poised blush (did I tell you all this already?)


Today

Foundation: Laura Mercier's new foundation in Praline. It's a sample and I actually loved the wear time. I'm still going strong 6 hours later, and only my nose is shiny... HOWEVER, the color match is limiting, out of all the shades she has, they are all too yellow and they either lean to light, or to orange. I'd recommend it, if you can find your match.
I did the powder first trick with Nars LRP. and set everything with a lil Marc Jacobs pressed powder.

Blush: vibrant grape.... it is still on! You all know how much Mac blushes work with me.

lipstick: Boyfriend stealer... I started off lining it with Stone lipliner and it gave me that dead look, and it made me wonder, why in the hell do I have this LOL. But then I paired it with plum liner... loved it! Nice and vampy. I'm realizing I don't have as many vampy purples as I thought. (Shopping trip)?

E/S: The Tarte palette again, I am trying to see if I like this, and I'm leaning towards no. It could be user error and I'm okay with that. I am tempted to give it to my Aunt, but the blushes are on the lighter side, and I don't want to throw her off.
but I wore buckingham palace, which is a satin taupe color
Rocky Mountain, a light cool grey, in the crease.
Bobbi brown Taupe in the transition.


As always, sorry for typos... typing too fast and at doing too many things at once.

 

[Medgal07]

I like that too.... I had a bunch of ppl quoted, work got busy and I forgot what I was going to say..... SO, there's that.

I wanted to put in my other coral/orange week looks.

Wednesday
E/S: Saddle on the lid, saffron in the crease, outre in the transition.
blush: make you mine
l/s: Strange Journey

Thursday:
I wore a shadow in the Tarte palette I complained about.
E/S:
targe Gorgeous Getaways
green lid
grey in crease
tan color transition.
Worked out a lot better, but it reminded me of some greens I own. Every review said they were soft, buttery and pigmented, and I agree, it's just not translating well on my eye...
So Vain with Toast.
Poised E/s (did I tell you all this already?)


Today

Foundation: Laura Mercier's new foundation in Praline. It's a sample and I actually loved the wear time. I'm still going strong 6 hours later, and only my nose is shiny... HOWEVER, the color match is limiting, out of all the shades she has, they are all too yellow and they either lean to light, or to orange. I'd recommend it, if you can find your match.
I did the powder first trick with Nars LRP. and set everything with a lil Marc Jacobs pressed powder.

Blush: vibrant grape.... it is still on! You all know how much Mac blushes work with me.

lipstick: Boyfriend stealer... I started off lining it with Stone lipliner and it gave me that dead look, and it made me wonder, why in the hell do I have this LOL. But then I paired it with plum liner... loved it! Nice and vampy. I'm realizing I don't have as many vampy purples as I thought. (Shopping trip)?

E/S: The Tarte palette again, I am trying to see if I like this, and I'm leaning towards no. It could be user error and I'm okay with that. I am tempted to give it to my Aunt, but the blushes are on the lighter side, and I don't want to throw her off.
but I wore buckingham palace, which is a satin taupe color
Rocky Mountain, a light cool grey, in the crease.
Bobbi brown Taupe in the transition.


As always, sorry for typos... typing to fast and at doing too many things at once.

Both looks sound really nice. I'm impressed that you did the powder before foundation method. I totally forgot about trying it but I really do want to!!!