New make up geek colours!

Four new Make Up Geek (MUG) colours arrived into my life this weekend! I ordered a few colours and a Z palette for my mum to try and decided to add a few more to my collection. I mean, it would be rude not to as been as the parcel was coming all the way from America haha.

I have been trying to expand out with my colour range as I seem to have loads of blues and nude colours. I decided on Chickadee, Prom Night, Poison Ivy  and Burlesque.

As you can see below, I had a mix of the old and new style packaging in my order. The new style is the one with the lines and the older style is the swirls.

(far left Poison Ivy, 

top middle Burlesque, 

far right Prom Night, 

bottom middle Chickadee)

A little bit about the colours: (www.makeupgeek.com)
Chickadee is a Matte Yellow Orange shade.
Poison Ivy in a shimmery medium green
Burlesque is a metallic muted burgundy with warm undertones (and is my favourite out of the four)
Prom Night is a pale purple with hints of grey and a shimmery finish
                                                                

Below is a swatch of a four colours. I have to admit, if them all, chickadee seemed to have the least pigment. For the other three I just has to run my finger in them once to get the colour swatch you can see. With chickadee I had to rub it three or four times to get the colour and it isn't that intense. But to be far I see a lot of people use this as a transitioning colour so I'll see how I get on with it when I d a make up look. 

(With Flash.

Left to Right:

Chickadee

Prom Night

Burlesque

Poison Ivy)

(Without Flash.

Left to Right:

Chickadee

Prom Night

Burlesque

Poison Ivy)

First impressions:

I love Burlesque. Out of all four this is my favourite. It's so deep and instese. Poison Ivy has so really nice undertones and I think is going to be really beautiful on as I have a touch of green in my eyes. I really like Prom Night, but I'm not sure how it's going to look on me. And finally, Chickadee. This was the colour I was most looking forward to as its so different to anything else I own. The pigment wasn't a strong as I was hoping so fingers crossed it doesn't let me down when to comes to make up looks  

Short a sweet blog post today my lovelies. Cannot wait to start creating some new looks with these colours and those already in my palette! 

DLJ

Xoxo

My 'go to' eye shadow palettes

There is nothing better than a palette which has a range of nudes and colours that you can mix and match to your hearts content. 

So here are three of my favourite palettes. 

Two of them are from Estée Lauder and the third one is from Bobbi Brown. 

As you can see the nude colours in my Estée Lauder palettes have taken a bit of a beating over the months. I love to use these colours as my base for most eye looks. 

The reason I love palettes so much is because you have so many colours all in one place. (In one place being the key here). I travel back and fourth, here and there all the time, so for my having so many colours in one place is a god send. Not only is it easy to cart them around, but it also means you don't have loads of little tubs to sift through and you never forget a colour. Life is just so much easier. 

Of course there are down sides to these palettes. You can't always choose the exact colours you want. I know lots of brands are happy to make up palettes from their range to suit you, but as far as I know Estée Lauder don't offer this as an option (yet). I believe that Bobbi Brown may do (but don't hold me to that) 

Now the great think about the Bobbi Brown palette is that it also has a range of lip glosses that suit the eye shades. I know that sounds a bit crazy, but no matter what look I create with these colours, all of the lip glosses just match perfectly. A match made in beauty heaven :) 

Palettes also provide quite good value for money. They do always seem quite expensive at first, but when you do the boring maths, they actually work out really 'cheap' vs if you brought every colour separately. 

On the flip side, if you know for a fact you just arnt going to use half of the colours and there are only two or three in the palette that you like / want, then you are of course much better off just buying the colours you want instead :) 

DLJ 

Xoxo