Loving nudes #10: NARS Audacious Lipstick Anita

Tags

#loving nudes, #narsissist, Charlotte Tilbury's Lip Cheat Re-Shape & Re-Size Lip Liner Pillow Talk, NARS, NARS Audacious Anita, NARS Audacious Lipstick Anita, nude lipstick, review, swatches

Yeah, I know! You feel free to consider me rather late to the party, but this NARS Audacious Lipstick in Anita is nothing like any other nude lipstick I have tried before!!! And, let’s be honest here! It’s never too late to brag up and down about a gorgeous nude, right!?

There’s no surprise to many ( wether you’ve been following me for a while or not ) how much I love the NARS Audacious Lipsticks! They have been featured constantly in countless blog posts throughout this past year, and they were the stars of some of my most loved articles on this blog. Here you have a few, just for your entertainment:

• NARS Audacious Lipsticks – One Week in Spring Colours OVERALL THOUGHTS
• NARS Audacious Lipstick Ingrid How dark will I go?!…
• NARS Audacious Lipstick Deborah

Back to my Anita now!

Anita was a courteous gift from a lovely blogger-friend – Michelle, who was kind enough to help me get my hands on Anita and her “sister” Lana. See Lana in action here!

While Lana is a fiery-red, bada** chick, Anita places “herself” on the other side of the spectrum, playing “the good girl”… A nude, awesome everyday colour, that works amazingly worn on any occasion and with any type of makeup, from the most neutral to the most sophisticated.

Anita is described as an “antique rose”, a medium rose pink, with warm brown-ish undertones which makes it the perfect MLBB ( my lips but better ) shade – if you were looking for one!

But from all the MLBB shades of lipsticks that I have tried ( and trust me, they were more than “a few”!?!?!!!!! ), I would definitely have to recommend NARS’ Anita as a first pick!… Simply because it’s one of the most beautiful creamy, pigmented formula that literally coats your lips with the most pigmented of colours, that also lasts a very long time on your lips without drying them.

Keep in mind that all NARS Audacious Lipsticks come in that lovely creamy-matte formula, which I was astonished to discover isn’t everyone’s cup of cake!?

Here you have a swatch comparison of Anita to some other nudes in my collection.

The closest dupe to it I find to be Tom Ford‘s Collin, from the Lips & Boys Collection and Estée Lauder‘s Intense Nude, which I will review soon.

One more thing! I do love to wear Anita on its own on my bare lips and it wears exceptionally well!… But for the sake of this review and to make it look more professional, I will add that THE ONE lip liner that goes absolutely fabulous with Anita is Charlotte Tilbury‘s Pillow Talk.

This is the combination I would definitely recommend with my eyes closed… If you were on a hunt for the perfect nude lip colour, that is!

Review done! So… What were you up to lately my beautiful ones? What new discoveries you have to share with me?

Anyways, it feels so so good to be back to YOU and your complete awesomeness!

See you soon, Beautiful!

xx, Annie

 

 

 

 

To hear it first, make sure you follow me on

Instagram   |   Twitter  |    Pinterest   |   Facebook   |   Bloglovin’

Current favourite lip liners: CHARLOTTE TILBURY Pillowtalk and Pink Venus, BURBERRY #02 Dusty Rose and DIOR Universal Lip Liner

Tags

Burberry, Burberry Lip Definer #02 Dusty Rose, Charlotte Tilbury, Charlotte Tilbury Lip Cheat Pillow Talk, Charlotte Tilbury's Lip Cheat Re-Shape & Re-Size Lip Liner Pillow Talk, Charlotte Tilbury's Lip Cheat Re-Shape & Re-Size Lip Liner Pink Venus, dior, Dior Universal Lip Liner, review, swatches

For such a long time I’ve considered using a lip liner before applying the lipstick an extra, useless and rather annoying step in my makeup routine. For sheer laziness, to be honest!

That’s why having your makeup done by a professional it’s the best thing to do! You discover that the minimal step you always underrate makes a whole lot of a difference in how your makeup looks and how long it lasts on your face.

Now that I’ve found some amazing lip liners that are truly staples in my makeup routine I want to share them with you.

For me a good lip liner has to be the perfect balance between a creamy consistency and a “hard” one, to glide on the contour of your lips, to have enough pigmentation to be worn under a lipstick without altering its colour but also to be worn easily by itself and to be long lasting for the lipstick to also last longer on the lips.

I was lucky enough to find quite a few lip liners that respond to all the criteria and those are: Charlotte Tilbury’s Lip Cheat Re-Shape & Re-Size Lip Liner Pillowtalk and Pink Venus, the Burberry Lip Definer #02 Dusty Rose and the one that goes with everything, at any time – the Dior Universal Lip Liner.

I will start with my most recent discoveries the Charlotte Tilbury’s Lip Cheat Re-Shape & Re-Size Lip Liner Pillowtalk and Pink Venus, because these are fairly recent launches in the beauty world and they still have a lot of hype around them. And for such good reasons!

They are Charlotte Tilbury‘s most appreciated “cheating” backstage weapons. Velvety and rich, they glide on well without tugging your lips and you can create an amazing long wearing base for other lip products. There are five colours in the range Pillow Talk ( pink nude ), Pink Venus ( peachy nude ), Iconic Nude ( true nude ), Savage Rose ( rosy red ) and Kiss ‘n’ Tell ( true red ).

I only own these two, for now…

Pillowtalk – a beautiful neutral pink colour that would work for so many lips. Great for retouching uneven lips ( hence the name Re-Shape & Re-Size ), amazing to create a true nude lip look. It’s not the most unique of colours but the long lasting formula and the pigmentation are amazing! There is a drugstore dupe for it, the Rimmel Exaggerate Lip Liner in East End Snob, which is pretty close but obviously not the same!

And…

Pink Venus – a nude pinky peach and less pink than the name suggests. This will definitely be “the one” I’ll be using on my lips in the warmer months when I will wear more coraly, bright lipsticks.

Like all the lip liners I’ve tried these aren’t too moisturizing so keep in mind to prepare you lips before the application, as I advised you to do in my previous post Red Lips, Dark Lips – DO’s and DONT’S…

– wearing Charlotte Tilbury’s Lip Cheat Re-Shape & Re-Size Lip Liner Pillowtalk on it’s own

– wearing Pillow Talk under the Charlotte Tilbury’s K.I.S.S.I.N.G. Lipstick in Stoned Rose ( see post here )

The Burberry Lip Definer in #02 Dusty Rose is pretty similar to Pillow Talk, only that it’s a bit rosier and the formula is a bit dryer, I find. This was the lip liner that changed my whole lipstick game, when a makeup artist used it to do my makeup on a Burberry counter in Milan, a few years ago. I went through a couple of these already and I have a few more shades, but I picked this one because this is still a favourite after all this time!

I already used it in a post, in a summery lip combination with the Burberry Lip Glow in #19 Mallow Pink ( see full post here ).

In the picture below you can see swatches of all my favourite lip liners including…

… the Dior Universal Lip Liner. I saved “the best for last” as they say!

This is a creamy, soft, colourless lip liner which truly goes with everything you want to wear on your lips. It’s my favourite to use with red and dark lipsticks, because applying a richly coloured lip liner can be as tricky as applying the lipstick itself! To avoid all that struggle you take this one, you go swish! swish! and your contour is done flawlessly! This lip liner is the one I used in my every single red, bright or dark lipstick swatch I did this far on annie’s beauty….

– wearing the Dior Universal Lip Liner under Tom Ford’s Lips&Boys Patrick ( see post here )

– wearing the Dior Universal Lip Liner under the Tom Ford Crimson Noir ( see post here )

 – wearing the Dior Universal Lip Liner under the Dior Addict Fluid Stick in Pandore ( see post here and here )

You’ll see no traces of bleeding or a wrong application… And I already told you I’m not a pro! It “behaves” so well with all the different formulas of lipstick I’ve tried it with! This is my most used lip liner and I go through these as if they were Maltesers Mini Chocolate Bunnies. I hope you can see it in the swatches too even though there’s no much to see!

Are you using lip liners? Please share your favourites!

See you soon, Beautiful!

xx, Annie

 

 

To hear it first, make sure you follow me on

Instagram   |   Twitter  |    Pinterest   |   Facebook   |   Bloglovin’

 

 

 

 

Remember that you still have today and tomorrow to enter my Diptyque anniesbeauty1yeargiveaway! Good luck lovelies!

 

 

Loving Nudes #5: CHARLOTTE TILBURY’s Confession, Stoned Rose and the infamous Lip Cheat Lip Liner in Pillow Talk

Tags

#loving nudes, Charlotte Tilbury, Charlotte Tilbury Confession, Charlotte Tilbury KISSING Fallen From The Lipstick Tree lipstick, Charlotte Tilbury Stoned Rose, Charlotte Tilbury Supermodel Makeup Collection Confession, Charlotte Tilbury's Lip Cheat Re-Shape & Re-Size Lip Liner Pillow Talk, limited edition Confession, nude lipstick, review, swatches

Not a month passing by without talking about my gorgeous nude discoveries!

My latest ones are part of the Charlotte Tilbury‘s K.I.S.S.I.N.G Fallen From The Lip Stick Tree signature lipstick range which was inspired by modern icons like Kate Moss, Cara Delevigne, Adriana Lima etc.

Confession is a new, limited edition lipstick that came out in fall, last year as part of Charlotte Tilbury Supermodel Holiday makeup collection. It’s a dusky, tawny, nude; a muted warm pink with slight hints of peach, enriched with subtle gold particles which will give this shade a particular festive vibe, making it special compared with the other nudes of the range.

 – detail Confession

Thanks to the amazing ingredients the lipstick it’s easy to apply, the coverage is almost opaque and it feels lightweight on the lips. It really feels cashmere soft and hydrating as well!

Stoned Rose is more of a warm, modest pink-brown shade, very natural and soft on my pigmented lips if applied in one swipe, and with some more character if intensified with another application.

 

 – detail Stoned Rose

With the same formula as Confession, Stoned Rose feels also very smooth on the lips, it’s not drying at all, it applies evenly and it doesn’t “gather” in the creases of my lips.

How I like to wear these two colours is mainly applied over the “infamous” Charlotte Tilbury‘s Lip Cheat Re-Shape & Re-Size Lip Liner in Pillow Talk, an amazing my lips but better lip liner, so creamy, easy to apply, non-drying at all and so, so long-lasting.

 – detail Pillow Talk

Have you tried the K.I.S.S.I.N.G Fallen from The Lipstick Tree collection lipsticks yet? What about the Lip Cheat lip liners?

See you soon, Beautiful!

xx, Annie

 

 

 

To hear it first, make sure you follow me on

Instagram   |   Twitter  |    Pinterest   |   Facebook   |   Bloglovin’