Seasonal Favourites Spring 2015

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#narsissist, Charlotte Tilbury KISSING Fallen From The Lipstick Tree lipstick, Charlotte Tilbury Lip Cheat Pink Venus, Dolce and Gabbana Rosebud, First Aid Beauty Face Cleanser, First Aid Beauty Ultra Repair Cream, Hakuhodo Eye Brush, Kiehl's Midnight Recovery Concentrate, NARS, NARS All Day Luminous Weightless Foundation, NARS Audacious Lipsticks, Rancé Rose de Rose, seasonal favourites, Spring 2015

We’re almost mid summer already and it’s just about the right moment to bring you my most loved/modt used items, this past season. So here you have my Spring 2015 Favourites!

– NARS Michyio – NARS Greta– NARS Juliette – Charlotte Tilbury Coachella Coral– Charlotte Tilbury Velvet Underground – Charlotte Tilbury So Marilyn

My most loved makeup products were my lipsticks, this season as well! No surprise there, right!

The ones that had the most impact on me were the NARS Audacious Lipsticks which I adore and I wore almost every day for the past couple of months! My favourites were Juliette, Natalie and Michyio!

[ Well, I loved them this much that I had a marathon week of posts featuring a NARS Audacious Lipstick, every day of the week! Start reading about that here, with Monday of course! ]

When I wasn’t wearing any of these, the one I had on my lips was the Charlotte Tilbury K.I.S.S.I.N.G. Lipstick in Coachella Coral, a lovely Spring colour, amazing all by itself or over another Charlotte Tilbury favourite of mine – the Lip-Cheat Lip Liner in Pink Venus!

My base of choice was another one from NARS! The new and gorgeous All Day Luminous Weightless Foundation, a surprising discovery that has become a staple in my makeup routine in the shortest time!

Another makeup item and one I came back to this Spring as well was the Dolce and Gabbana blush in #33 Rosebud! This is such a lovely natural flush of colour, excellent for a natural, fresh look!

To take care of my skin I really enjoyed the First Aid Beauty Face Cleanser and the combination of the Kiehl’s Midnight Recovery Concentrate as a serum and the First Aid Beauty Ultra Repair Cream.

My perfume of choice was Rancé’s Rose de Rose, a “mature” rose scented perfume.

My makeup tools I enjoyed the most were, another no surprise, my Hakuhodo Eye Brushes especially my J5523 and J142.

This is it for this post lovelies! Make sure you check my other Seasonal Favourites here and here!

See you soon, beautiful!

xx, Annie

NARS All Day Luminous Weightless Foundation

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NARS, NARS All Day Luminous Weightless Foundation, NARS All Day Luminous Weightless Foundation Light 3 Gobi, review, swatches

The new NARS All Day Luminous Weightless Foundation embodies anything you might need and want in a foundation, from a sheer, easy to wear, no makeup-makeup, everyday look to a full coverage in a single drop.

I guess you all know by now what my makeup philosophy is – to enhance your natural beauty, rather than covering it under layers and layers of unnecessary products. I simply think that NARS came to support me with that, by creating this gorgeous, gorgeous product.

It claims to be a serum-like, oil free, 16 hours wear base product, that will give you the perfect finish whether you’re outside in natural beaming sunlight, or indoors under artificial lights. It was also made with fancy new technologies which neutralise redness ( which I’m so glad it does since that’s my major skin issue at the moment ) and discolouration, by using clever green pigments.

 – check out how liquid that is!

And believe me, it really does what it says! It is a high coverage foundation but at the same time manages to remain luminous and natural; nothing like the traditional high coverage foundations, which look heavy and often cakey, as if you’re wearing a mask.

For the state my skin is in at the moment, a single drop/a pump ( as advised by NARS too ) of this foundation is clearly enough to cover my entire face… And no joke! I’m talking fully full coverage here, even sheered out… Not the kind of coverage I’m usually after I have to admit, but this is a total exception because it feels extremely lightweight on the face, like pure pigment in a water-like drop and the finish is as luminous as my other serum foundation, the Dior Diorskin Nude Serum ( review here ). But for those with major skin issues ( active acne, scaring, severe discolouration etc. ), I think two pumps will definitely build up the right coverage to hide all that…

 – wearing NARS All Day Luminous Weightless Foundation Light 3 Gobi, without any concealer or powder

It is the perfect foundation for those with combination skin! I used this on and off for a good period of time, even when I was dealing with some dry patches, so my advice for those who have normal to dry skins or suffer from those pesky dry patches to thoroughly moisturise before applying it! As you should anyway!… Otherwise this foundation, for as light as it is it might still cling and accentuate them.

This is clearly a more mattifying foundation than the Dior Nude Serum, which is a plus for those with oily skins who can use it as well!

In the hot Summer days, this will make a fabulous foundation to wear especially for those of you living in hot and humid climates.

The application is the same as with my other serum foundation; see that here.

Overall thoughts:

I adore the consistency, even if before getting used to it I made a “bit” of a mess.

I love the fact that even if this is such a lighweight formula, despite that it manages to pack on the most coverage I’ve ever encountered in such foundation, AND without compromising that luminosity I prefer in my base products.

A plus is also the fact that with a bit more of attention to skincare it can be used on all skin types. 

My colour in this NARS All Day Luminous Weightless Foundation is Light 3 Gobi and it matches my fair skin perfectly, being a neutral shade – the perfect balance between pink and yellow undertones. I’m not worried it might look too pale in Summer since it offers me the best excuse to bust out my bronzers and properly use them.

So, these are my thoughts on this new NARS All Day Luminous Weightless Foundation. 

Have you tried it? Can’t wait to hear what you think about it! 

See you soon, beautiful!… And Happy April everone!

xx, Annie

PS: pardon the abrupt intro, but I didn’t wanted to waste my words and get straight to the review!

 

 

 

INTERESTING FACTS:

– it’s the first NARS foundation that comes with a pump

– it comes in such a variety of shades, 20 to be precise ( check the NARS website to see them )

– before you choose, keep in mind that it is possible that you might be a different shade in the All Day Luminous Weightless Foundation than your usual NARS face base… And this one tends to oxidise a bit during the day also. So you’d better visit a NARS counter before making your purchase!

– you might also want to prime when using this foundation if you have extremely visible pores, but it’s clearly optional

Recent launches I absolutely couldn’t resist!… feat. Chanel, Dior, Guerlain, Burberry and NARS

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Burberry, Burberry Eye Colour Silk Wet & Dry Eyeshadows, Burberry Eye Colour Silk Wet & Dry Eyeshadows #200 Tea Rose and #201 Rose Pink, chanel, Chanel Rouge Coco #440 Arthur, dior, Dior Diorskin Nude Air Nude Healthy Glow Ultra-Fluid Serum Foundation SPF 25 - PA++ #010 Ivory, Dior Vernis #244 Majesty, guerlain, Guerlain Météorites Compact Light-Revealing Powder #4 Doré, NARS, NARS All Day Luminous Weightless Foundation, NARS All Day Luminous Weightless Foundation Light 3 Gobi

They keep throwing new products on the beauty market casually, as if for them it’s just another day at the office!

Well, it definitely is… But for my poor-frail-beauty addict self resisting such amazing beauty goodies gets harder and harder every season, with every collection, with every smallest release!…

Here you have the makeup products that caught my eye and I had to have, that were released these past two months since the beginning of 2015…

1. Chanel Rouge Coco #440 Arthur

My first high end lipstick was a Chanel one.

There was a time when the Chanel lipsticks were the only ones I used for my lips. I loved the Coco Shines and the Rouge Allures, but I was never drawn to their Rouge Coco’s.

When I’ve heard about the new, reformulated ones I immediately went on the selfridges.com website and got myself a gentlemen: #440 Arthur. He kept me company while in Milan, and we had such great time together.

“Monsieur Arthur” will have his own complete review soon! I’m sure you can’t wait to meet him as well…

2. Dior Diorskin Nude Air Nude Healthy Glow Ultra-Fluid Serum Foundation SPF 25 – PA++ #010 Ivory

I’ve been waiting for this one to be released for what it seems like forever. Actually when I first heard of it was when I actually blogged about its launching soon…

I love lightweight foundations and Dior did an amazing job with their foundations lately, so I couldn’t wait to be able to give this one a go too! Do I love it?! I guess you will find out in a post coming up soon!

3. Dior Vernis #244 Majesty

From the Dior Spring 2015 Kingdom of Colours nothing caught my eye, so I decided to go for Majesty. I adore the formula of their nail polishes as you might have seen from my previous posts ( here , here, here aaaand here ), and where there are no new launches in a collection that I’m particularly interested in, the nail polishes are my safe choice.

From this collection I wanted the Dior Diorblush #536 Peach Splendor ever since I blogged about it being used by Peter Philips in the Ready-to-Wear S/S 2015 Colection makeup looks, but that one was nowhere to be found.

I might also go back and get the nail polish in Glory and the Dior Rouge Dior Baume Belle de Printemps ( see post here ).

3. Guerlain Météorites Compact Light-Revealing Powder #4 Doré

I’m very much aware of the hype around the Guerlain Météorites Perles. They look so pretty, they smell amazing but for practical reasons, I just couldn’t justify buying them.

But when I saw these new colours, in compact form from the Spring 2015 Les Teindres Collection, I was instantly sold! I love my Guerlain mainly for their bronzers, which I kind of have a few… and love them all ( read about my Guerlain  mini-collection of bronzers here, here and here ). So it shouldn’t be a surprise that I went for the darkest shade with the powders too, #4 Doré, which I intend to use as a flush of colour on my cheeks or as a light bronzer.

I’m highly tempted by #2 Fair, but I’m still debating on getting that one.

And weird enough I’m not attracted by their new Guerlain Météorites Perles de Blush Angelic Radiance…

4. Burberry Eye Colour Silk Wet & Dry Eyeshadows #200 Tea Rose and #201 Rose Pink

Burberry does the most amazing eyeshadows! They are so pigmented, they are buttery-soft but they apply and blend in with minimal-to-no fall out, and the colour selection is gorgeous! I have a few and I adore them!

The new Eye Colour Silk Wet & Dry Eyeshadows are no exception… But I already raved about them in this post here.

 

5. NARS All Day Luminous Weightless Foundation shade Light 3 Gobi

is another lightweight foundation which caught me completely off-guard! I didn’t expected it to match my complexion so well, to be so high-coverage and to really live up to what it claims to do… To resist on the face basically the entire day! Definitely recommend this one too! A full review with application details and swatches will be up soon!

What are your picks until now lovelies?

Wishing you an amazing Spring!

xx, Annie