Bare Escentuals

FOTD: Hard Candy Blush Crush "Living Doll", Bare Escentuals High Shine Sand Dune, Opal & Drama

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I think I found my new favorite pink blush...Hard Candy Blush Crush Baked Blush "Living Doll".  Yesterday I posted pictures of the two HC blushes I picked up, and today I wanted you to see how it looks on.   Living Doll is such a beautiful cotton candy pink, and although it isn't extremely pigmented, a few passes with a dense blush brush gives the perfect glow.




Face:
Bare Escentuals Foundation "Light"
Bare Escentuals Multi-Tasking "Bisque"
Bare Escentuals Mineral Veil
Hard Candy Blush Crush Baked Blush "Living Doll"

Eyes:
Fyrinnae Pixie Epoxy - all over lid
Bare Escentuals Glimmer "High Shine Sand Dune" - inner corner
Bare Escentuals "Drama" - outer corner, crease
Bare Escentuals "Opal" - brown bone/high light
Mary Kate & Ashley Liquid Eyeliner "Black"
Rimmel Volume Mousse Mascara "Black"


Lips:
Smashbox Lipstick "Express"

Below is a close-up of the eyeshadows.  I really do love Drama, and I think this is the first time I've liked Opal - it must be there Pixie Epoxie! :)







Hard Candy

Hard Candy Blush Crush Baked Blushes - Living Doll and Honeymoon Peach

8:00 AM

Good morning!  This weekend I had some time to upload a bunch pictures I've been meaning to post, including the Hard Candy Blush Crush Baked Blushes I purchased while grocery shopping at Walmart a week or so ago.  After my original post about the Hard Candy eyeshadow and glitter mascara I bought, a lot of you mentioned how great the blushes were, so I took the opportunity to grab a couple of them.   The two picked up were Living Doll and Honeymoon Peach.  I also grabbed two of the Maybelline Color Sensational lipsticks and the new Sally Hansen Complete Salon Manicure nail polishes (which are AMAZING!).  The lipstick and nail polish will be in a later post.



My first thought when I saw these baked blushes were MAC Mineralize Skinfinishes or Laura Geller's Baked Blushes.  At $7 a piece, I am hoping these will be an inexpensive version of the high end blushes we all have come to love!

The blush "Living Doll" is a beautiful, cotton candy pink with swirls of golden shimmer.  I'm not going to lie, I was drooling over this color from the get-go.  It reminds me of a similar shade as MAC's Love Joy, which is an extremely pigmented Mineralize Skinfinish (below).  



I will say, Hard Candy's Baked Blushes aren't nearly as pigmented as the MAC Skinfinish, but I'm not sure that's a bad thing.  This is definitely a workable shade, where you can create the desired amount of blush by applying one or two applications.  I would also suggest that you use a denser blush brush.  At first I tried using my Bare Escentuals tapered blush brush, but it didn't pick up enough to create the right color on my skin.  Instead, I switched to my e.l.f. blush brush, and it works perfectly with these blushes!



Honeymoon Peach is a beautiful frosty peach with pink swirled through it.  This color works really well as a highlight on over the blushes as well!  GORGEOUS! :)



Swatched side-by-side, you can see how beautiful these colors are.  I haven't tried out the bronzers, but plan on it during the summer when I wear more of those types of shades as blushes.



Have any of you tried these?  I would love to hear your thoughts and favorite blush!

LA Splash

EOTD: LA Splash Unsolved, Regal and Nude Diamonds

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A while back I wrote about the new LA Splash Cosmetics I found at Meijer and have been meaning to post more pictures of them on, and just haven't gotten around to it.  Well, I finally did, so I wanted to show you how beautiful these are.

The color I use the most is Regal.  It reminds me a lot of Bare Escentuals Sex Kitten, but just a hint lighter and with a bit more pearl shimmer to it.  This shade makes a great liner and crease color.  It is truely a deep copper penny color, and has all the shine and shimmer of a new penny!  Unsolved is a very different color.  It isn't quite as dark as Regal, but has the same depth of color.  Unsolved is a very shimmery plum/copper shade - again, this would make a great liner as well.  Finally Nude Diamonds is exactly what it sounds like.  If you could combined crushed pearls and crushed diamonds, this shade would be exactly that!  A beautiful high light, I also use this to add a little shimmer anywhere (lips,cheeks, and eyes).





EOTD:
LA Splash Unsolved - inner corner of lid
LA Splash Regal - outer corner, crease and wet as eyeliner
LA Splash Nude Diamonds - highlight
Rimmel Volume Mousse Mascara Black

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