Nars Autumn 2010 mini haul and swatches

Hi everyone, here's a mini haul on one of my favourtie cosmetic brands, Nars. I find myself always looking forward to the release of their new collection, and their Autumn 2010 collection was no exception.

This collection was describes as Victorian vies with femme fatale. I bought 3 tiems from this collection; duo eyeshadow in Tzarine, Strawberry Field lip gloss, and blush in Douceur.

The Tzarine eyeshadow is a highly pigmented, gold infused with silver reflections and a bold, stell grey.

Swatches of the colours:

Strawberry Fields lip gloss, is very much like a glossy lip stain. I love it, and it's my favourtie of the collection!

The colour is a bright raspberry stain:

And lastly, I also bought the blush in Douceur. It's a beautiful nude like pink-brown, which I used to bring a little warmth to the face.

The texture is really soft and blends well with the skin (almost too well, as you can hardly see it in this pic!):

That's all for now, nut i'm already eyeing the Nars Holiday Collection that I've read about some some blogs. Especially a beautiful baby peach-pink blush called Sex Appeal. Swatches can be found in Lipglossing Blog.

MAC To The Beach mini haul

How exciting! Mac To The Beach products are out online in the UK, and will his the stores in a few days time. I bought the Lustre Drops in Pink Rebel, Bronzing Powder in Golden, and Blush in Hipness. I also wanted to get the highlighting powder with the seahorse, but they've already completely sold out online!

L-R: lustre drops, bonzer and blush

Here is a close of of the Pink Rebel Lustre Drops:

This is my favourtie of the three. It's a beautiful ight pink with gold pearl.

Here is a swatch after it's been spread out:

The blush in Hipness, a pinky coral.

..and the bronzer in Golden, a tan beige with golden shimmer:

Here are swatches of them both, wth the bronzer above and the blush below:

Can't wait to try these products out, for a lovely summer look!

Dior Extase Pinks swatches and review

I've recently bought the new Dior 5 Couleurs eyeshadow in 804, Extase pinks. I was trying to cut down on the amount of makeup I buy, but I couldn't resist this as the colours were so pretty!

It came in the usual glossy dark blue casing ...

.. and contained 5 shades of:

shimmering pink with sparkles
dark grey shimmer

irredescent silver-grey

irredescent violet with pink undertone

pale pink shimmer

I've numbered the colours to correlate with the sawtches below:

L-R: colours 1 and 2 (you can see the silver sparkles in the pink)


L-R: colours 3, 4 and 5 (5 being a great highlighter colour)

Dior's new eyeshadow palettes are said to have been made from Dior's new and improved formula to create a soft , melting texture which glides across the lid, creating a smudge-proof application (according to Sephora).

I did find the texture of these eyeshadows to be silky smooth, though no more than my older Dior palettes (and they do not glide as easily onto the eyelid as I would have liked.) However, the colours were long-lasting, fairly pigmented, and blended together quite nicely. I also like the versatility of the palette, how it can be used for all occasions throughout the day (with the light, pale colours for a pretty daytime look, and the darker colours for an evening smokey eye.)