today i decided to share with you my complete eyeshadow (powder & cream) and partial blush (powders only) stash.
recently i depotted everything into palettes, to receive some free goodies using the back to MAC program.
all my eyeshadows are either MAC (brights, unusual colors) or bobbi brown (neutrals, mattes), and all my powder blushes are NARS (brights, iconic/cult favorite colors) or bobbi brown (neutrals, mattes), with the exception of 1 cargo quad which i received as a gift.
i'm a sucker for organization, and these brands generally allow for your eyeshadows & blushes to be depotted and placed into palettes/purchased as pans (MAC), or come individually packaged but able to "click" into palettes (bobbi brown). NARS blushes are generally not depot-able, but come in sleek, rubberized compacts (the rubbery stuff rubs off a little if you've had them for a while, but no biggie) with mirrors, which is a plus.
today i excluded my cream blushes & bronzers as that would probably be another gazillion pictures, but i do plan on sharing the rest of my stash (including my full lip product stash) in a future post.
so, here it is:
PALETTE 1 - MAC 15-pan pro palette (BRIGHTS & DRAMATICS)
this palette holds my MAC brights & dark colored eyeshadows. my favorite finish is veluxe pearl (soooo buttery, smooth & pigmented), but there are a few that are frost or lustre finishes as well.
PALETTE 2 - MAC 4-pan pro palette (HIGHLIGHTS & BASES)
this palette holds my MAC highlights & base colors. these shades are more unusual than my typical neutrals from bobbi brown.
from L to R, top to bottom: phloof! (champagne, frost), vex (beige with green & pink, really unusual, frost), seedy pearl (lavenderish pink, frost), sugar dust (palest pink-purple, more purple than seedy pearl, an annabelle shade provided by the manufacturer)
PALETTE 3 - MAC trip: 5 warm eyes
from L to R: whistle (pastel pink, satin), da bling (warm pink with gold, veluxe pearl), leisuretime (plum with fuchsia, veluxe pearl), cassette (dark aubergine purple, veluxe pearl), parfait amour (blue-violet, frost).
PALETTE 4 - MAC too dolly hello kitty quad
from L to R: yogurt (pale pink, matte), romping (strawberry pink with blue pearl, frost), too dolly (aqua, frost), stately black (blue-black with glitter, lustre).
PALETTE 5 - bobbi brown 6-pan palette (COOL NEUTRALS)
from L to R, top to bottom: bone (off white/cream), champagne (flesh-beige), pink pearl (ballet pink with shimmer), heather mauve (greyish purple-brown), fawn (ashy cool brown with pearl), gunmetal (dark grey-black with bluish shimmer), all shimmerwash except pink pearl, which is metallic.
PALETTE 6 - bobbi brown 6-pan palette (WARM NEUTRALS)
from L to R, top to bottom: champagne quartz (peachy-gold, more peach than champagne), burnt sugar (warm golden brown shimmer), java (dark chocolate brown with shimmer), all metallics; nude eye shadow palette clicked into the bottom half - pebble/navajo (silvery beige, beigey pinkish white), beige linen/chino (golden beige, khaki beige), caviar/maple sugar (brownish-black, amber bronze), all matte/shimmerwash duos
PALETTE 7 - bobbi brown 6-pan palette (MATTE NEUTRALS & CHEEKS)
from L to R, top to bottom: baby pink (literally, baby pink), flint (grey brown), mahogany (dark ash brown, great for lining, crease & eyebrows), all matte; blushes - slopes (flushed neutral-fleshy pink), nectar (warm coral-pink), both matte; bahama brown (pinked brown with golden shimmer), shimmer
PALETTE 8 - cargo toronto quad (BLUE SMOKY)
from L to R, top to bottom (shades don't have names): denim blue metallic, silvery blue-grey metallic, muted teal-grey metallic, black with silver glitter
loose eye items - cream shadows, eyeshadow singles
cream shadows, from L to R: MAC fresco rose (medium pink shimmer) & bare study (champagne-white shimmer) paint pots, benefit birthday suit (beigey-taupe shimmer) creaseless cream shadow-liner pot
the only loose eyeshadow in my collection currently, mainly because i don't use it very often: bobbi brown copper sand metallic eyeshadow (dark reddish brown) - i find this one a little bit too ruddy on most people except for the very tan/dark.
loose cheek items - NARS & bobbi brown
my NARS blush stash. i will name the colors using the bottom picture, from L to R, top to bottom: orgasm (medium peachy-pink with gold shimmer), cactus flower (poppy-red with gold shimmer - looks darker than orgasm in real life, but the flash washed it out a little, note: this is a cream blush), deep throat (light peachy pink with less shimmer than orgasm, more delicate & demure), angelika (cool candy pink with white gold shimmer).
my loose bobbi brown shimmer blush (this will remain loose until i have 4 more shades to put in a 6-pan palette) - pink sugar (cool clean pink with gold shimmer, very interesting because it's a cool base with warm shimmer, suitable for a lot of skin tones for a perky effect, warmer than angelika)
finally, here is my kitty, makeup assistant & blog mascot, cha cha, lording over the NARS blushes to show them who's boss (and plotting the demise of the human race/world domination)!
how do you organize your eyeshadows? do you prefer palettes or singles? what shades do you wish you had less/more of?
TGIF,
lareinarumbera
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6 comments:
Gorgeous Colors! Now I feel obligated to collect some Bobbi Brown Eyeshadows..they are so beautiful. I think my favorites are flint & heather mauve.
..and I would never, ever let my kitten by my eyeshadows/blushes/breakable products. She really loves swiping things off the counter. :P apparently yours is nicer. :)
bobbi brown has SUCH an impressive range of neutrals... and all of them are so smooth and silky. the pans are HUMONGOUS, and that's especially useful for all the base shades, like baby pink and champagne.
flint is so versatile, and it's even more goreous layered with heather mauve. the organization freak in me also loves the "click in" type palettes (available in 3, 4 and 6-pan sizes).
cha cha loves knocking things over too, but only if he feels he's not getting enough attention... in that picture he was super happy because i was pointing the camera at him!
It's ok, I'm an organizational freak too. I think I get it from my mother. She's that person organizing our kitchen cabinets at 5 a.m. :P
If you have time could you possibly do a look with your Bobbi Brown eyeshadows?
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Lovely colors! I really like the veluxe pearl finish as well :)
I like palettes (I have several unii palettes) because I can switch colors in and out for better organization.
@phyrra: welcome to the blog!
i loooove the veluxe pearl finish - so smooth and buttery. i also love the matte2 - i've only started getting into matte shades (as i've started doing my friends' faces for photo shoots) - do you know some good matte shadows other than MAC or bobbi brown?
i really really love anything that lets me customize my shades and/or save space!
Yes! Get some Sugarpill! Their mattes are gorgeous. Sugarpillshop.com
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