montREALady
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Romantic Breakdown is very pretty.
MAC X Bao Bao Wan Collection (March 5, 2015)
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xxbluemoonxx
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Hopefully the orders go through. RB doesn't show very well on my pigmented lips so I have to play around with it a bit.
I'm excited to try it!
LauraLara
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Does anyone make a lavender lip liner? Preferably one leaning red not blue so I can pink up the colors I have a tad? I'd settle for anything though. I want to try an ombré with lavender jade in the middle and Bite Beauty Quince on the outer corners. I think I'll use Beet liner under Quince to keep it red, but I need a pinky lavender under LJ or it'll wear off and I'll look awful. Also, which eyeshadow is better with LJ, primary yellow or pale mint? I'm not sure if this is the right forum for "how to use stuff from this collection" posts, feel free to lmk if not! Oh also, I bought ALL of the mac lipmixes... Because I have a problem... I would like to try one on LJ but I don't want to lose the brightness of the color, just shift the tone. Anyone have suggestions or a rec for which thread I should ask that in? I'm sooooo attracted to LJ but it just looks funky with my muddy green eyes.
montREALady
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Have you tried it with a primer other than MAC's? One that cancels out your lip color a little?
MissElle12
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Colourpop Brills lipliner?
xxbluemoonxx
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I have an Ardency Inn primer and base, but I don't think I've tried it together. I'll see how that goes.
hitchcockblonde
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Maybe Nars El Agua.
LauraLara
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Just looked it up, that's BEAUTIFUL. I LOVE my mauvey colors and that would go perfectly. Unfortunately my skin is SO pale I don't think it would work under LJ on my lips. I think I need it anyway though. Oh man I could wear it under Dominique!
xxbluemoonxx
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Colourpop Brills is the closest I can think of to LJ. You can try Nyx's Purple Rain.
montREALady
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Great liner, very similar to Heroine lip pencil I've noticed. Slightly different finishes.
My own swatch. PR on top (https://www.pinterest.com/pin/346214290077517089/)
Vandekamp
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I love, love, love Brills. It is so pretty.Great liner, very similar to Heroine lip pencil I've noticed. Slightly different finishes.
My own swatch. PR on top (https://www.pinterest.com/pin/346214290077517089/)
LauraLara
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Okay so here's what I went with for now, I put beet and quince in the outer corners and LJ in the middle, then I temporarily solved my issue by blending quince in just a TAD all the way to the middle of the LJ. It darkened it SLIGHTLY, but mostly it gave it that hint of red I wanted. And I went with the yellow shadow instead of the mint because it just looked better with my skin today. Still looking for more ideas on how to wear LJ with green eyes so keep em coming! I'm checking out each of ur liner suggestions!
bunnypoet
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El Agua lip liner is perfect with Dominique! That's one of my favorite lip combinations. I'm a MAC NC15, and I like El Agua with LJ too. Brills and Grind lip liners by ColourPop are also nice complements.
Dolly Snow
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GorgeousOkay so here's what I went with for now, I put beet and quince in the outer corners and LJ in the middle, then I temporarily solved my issue by blending quince in just a TAD all the way to the middle of the LJ. It darkened it SLIGHTLY, but mostly it gave it that hint of red I wanted. And I went with the yellow shadow instead of the mint because it just looked better with my skin today. Still looking for more ideas on how to wear LJ with green eyes so keep em coming! I'm checking out each of ur liner suggestions!
Vandekamp
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Beautiful. Looks like you toned down LJ quite a bit.
montREALady
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Looks nice but did it really look that bad by itself on you? Is there a pic in the gallery?
LauraLara
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Thanks
It did tone down more than I wanted. It still had that intensity (didn't really show up in the pic ) but I didn't want it to blend THAT far. I think it's because I forgot to put chapstick under the lipliner so I put it over the lipliner, and that made the liner smeary and I overmixed. Maybe I could put Hip n Happy or Naked under the middle part?
LauraLara
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Well, it didn't look BAD, in fact I LOVED it at first, but then I took a selfie and realized it made my eyes look both excessively green and kind of muddy. I don't know how to describe it, it's like when you take a beautiful purple and a beautiful green and you put them together and all you can see is Barney. Sometimes two rights can make a wrong... There IS a pic in the gallery, I just reattached it in a small version. It doesn't help that I have no eye makeup. So I figure (based on advice from here!) if I can get it to lean a little more red than blue, it would look better.
DLuxJessica
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RB got here today! Planning tomorrow's outfit for work around my lipstick. ... not the first time I've done that.
