Pout Cheek to Cheek in coral nymph/bronze siren

I went in for lipgloss and I came out with a bronzer/blush. I can be such a sucker sometimes, but it is my weakness. Shhttp://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=3581016
Blogger: The Royal Word - Create Postow me how to look healthy and full of life without having to endure the annoyance that is the sun and I'm sold. Put it in cream format so it's easy to work with and easy to correct mistakes and I'm bringing it home with me.

And that's how I brought home Pout's Cheek to Cheek. I love it so much that I didn't use another blush product for a week after purchasing it. It works best when you use a foundation brush to apply it, mixing the bronzer and the coral blush together. The result is a beautiful glow. Just the kind of glow you want to greet the return of the sun this spring.

HRH

Bobbi Brown: Gold Shimmer Brick Compact

Gold is all the rage these days. Blame Mike Meyers I suppose. The thing is, the warmth that gold gives you is unparalelled. This brick compact is a great way to give your face that something extra as the golden warmth of the sun retreats from our lives once again.

Using all the colours in the brick, you dust the powder on your face, concentrating on the places where the sun would hit you the most. This is something to always keep in mind when using bronzers or illuminators. Put it where it the light is going to go, otherwise it will look totally unnatural.

If you want to use it on your eyes, then you can apply the five colours individually. I'm not sure when you'll have occasion to go for a gold eye, but if you need to look like a 24 carat woman, this is the tool that you need.

Soon you'll be overheard saying "I love gooooold"

HRH

Pout: Eye duo (Miss September & Miss Scotland), Shiseido Bronze Flash

There was this page in the fall Sephora Czarina catalogue of a redhead done up with green eyeshadow and bronze blush that I became just a little obsessed with. Just look at it. Stunning.

It took me some time but I was able to assemble the colour components of this stunning look. Not to be hindered by the fact that I'm really not a green-eyed redhead, I made it a misson to get my hands on Pout's Eye Duo in Miss Scotland (and a packet of the duo in Miss September because it's my birth month and actually the right colour for brown eyes). Sure, it would look better on someone with green eyes, but it doesn't look bad on me. That's the cool thing about colour. Done right you can break out of your prescribed colour modes and have some fun.

The Bronze Flash from Shiseido (the company's name that I can NEVER, EVER pronouce without sounding like a hick) has become a staple of my makeup bag. Breaking out of my pink mold has been a slow and sometimes painful process. Bronze was something I never thought I would be happy with, yet this stick just gives me a wonderful glow.

HRH

Stila: Gold palette

There's no need to go into my ever lasting love of palettes. I love them, they rock and I got more for Christmas which has made me a very, very happy girl.

My most recent acquisition was the Stila Deluxe Palette in Golden Moon. I have so much makeup that's based in the cool tones that I felt it was time to explore the vast pantheon of colours in the neutrals and warm tones. To that end I decided to go for golds to warm up my pasty winter skin and soften my face.

As usual Stila has great colours (Four eye shadows in Starlight, Mahogany, New Golden Brown, and a new Bronzy Brown,a Primrose Cheek Color, a Golden Peach Lip Color, and Caramel Lip Gloss. Yay!)and great packaging (fits nicely in my makeup bag too!), and they very thoughtfully included three brushes with this palette as well (a Lip Brush, Eye Shadow Crease Brush, and an Eye Liner Brush).It's a really, really handy set for traveling too.

There's also a rose version of the palette if you're not ready to delve into the world of the warm.

HRH

Stila: Perfectly Plum

I like palettes. They make life really easy. For those in the world who do not enjoy mixing and matching shades of shadow and blush, palettes are really quite handy. And they usually only last a season or two, so they're great for when you're embracing something trendy.

Stila wins my heart over and over again because they put together the latest complimentary shades in absolutely adorable packaging. Don't try to tell me the packaging doesn't matter! I'll put my hands over my ears and drown you out by singing Keely Smith songs really loud until you shut up. You know I will.

Anyway, this set of palettes comes in four varieties: Sage, Peach, Gold & Plum. I purchased Sage for someone with dark hair, a rosy complexion and hazel eyes. She also loves tweed, so really it couldn't fail. Of course, I couldn't leave it at just getting one for her, so I asked the kind lady at the Stila counter which one she thought would be best for me. I had a feeling it would be plum, since people have been all about putting purple on me for the last 3 years.

And guess what? Perfectly plum it was. I can't say that I love the colour of the purple shadow in the palette. It does work with the other shades, but I find for my tastes, replacing it with the Cargo SmokyEye Liner Duo shadow Madagascar works a lot better for me. Regardless, it's a handy palette for days when I need to do a post-work touch up and don't feel like lugging 3 different shadows and a blush with me. Also the blush is a great colour, and the pigment is really intense. And that's pretty much always a good thing to me.

HRH