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Review & Swatches: Illamasqua Generation Q part I (Lips)

Whiiiiii, Illamasqua has a new collection!

'Generation Q - is generation YOU!

It's what they tell you not to do; it’s what you see your true self through.

It's what is old and what is new.

What you know and what you knew.

It's what you feel and what is true”

- Alex Box, Illamasqua Creative Director -

Products in this collection:

Empower Palette ($42.50 / £34.00)

Synth Iridescent pale pink glitter

Fervent Reddish brown with multi-tonal shimmer

Blink Soft beige nude

Slick Charcoal grey metallic (Liquid Metal)

Complement Palette ($42.50 / £34.00)

Slink Soft champagne shimmer

Focus Cool brown metallic (Liquid Metal)

Forgiveness Rich chocolate plum

Queen of the Night Blackened plum

Powder Blusher ($24.00 / £18.00)

Allure Dusky rose pink shimmer

S.O.P.H.I.E. Golden coral shimmer

Gleam ($24.00 / £18.00)

Aurora Champagne

Intense Lipgloss ($20.00 / £14.00)

Boost Blueberry violet

Opulent Rainbow beige

Lipstick ($22.00 / £16.00)

Magnetism Deep raspberry pink

Underworld Iridescent blueberry violet, shimmer finish

Nail Varnish ($14.00 / £13.50)

Charisma Deep raspberry pink

Creator Magical black

Precision Ink ($27.50 / £17.00)

Wisdom Antiqued gold

I've been a bad blogger and I still don't have a good swatch pic of all of the products, so I'll start with the lip products and make another post later about the palette and eyeliner.

Intense lipgloss Opulent:

Opulent is amazingly beautifully glossy. It's sheer (because of the color, not because of the texture), sparkly and shiny.

It kinda reminds me of MAC's Resort Life lipgelée, which came out in Venomous Villains collection, but this isn't quite as "silvery" as it was.

Opulent has gold and red microglitters in it, and it's absolutely beautiful:

Intense lipgloss Boost:

Boost is really pretty and very intense lipgloss.
The color is a sweet fucsia/lilac duochrome, and it applies smoothly and evenly.

It's a fun color, you can apply it heavily to make it really intense like lipstick, or just a small amount to make a sheer glow on your lips.

Lipstick Underworld:

As many of you know, I've always been a big fan of Illamasqua's lipsticks. Sure they are quite dry, but because of that they also stay put well. They've also been really pigmented and quite easy to apply.

I guess there always needs to be an exception to the rule, and I'm really sorry to say that Underworld is that exception.

There's nothing wrong with the color. There's lots of wrong in the quality.

First of all it's dry. That's nothing new because almost all of the Illamasqua lipsticks are dry, but this is extremely dry.

It isn't very pigmented. It's quite sheer.

And when you combine the bad pigmentation and dryness, you'll get a lipstick that's nearly impossible to apply. You have to press it quite hard to get any color, and when you finally get some color, it blotches. And the result isn't that pretty.

Of course there's always a chance that I got a faulty product, but based on my experiece I'd suggest some caution with this one. If you like the color you may want to get Boost, which is almost the same color with wayyyyy better application.

Ok, that's it for now. I'm terribly sorry that I haven't been posting actively lately, but juggling between my work, my son and everything else, my time has been a bit limited.

Review & Swatches: Killer Lips - glitter lip tattoos

I found these interesting looking lip tattoos from our local clothing store (Seppälä), and since they were at sale I decided to give them a try. They definitely aren't for everyday use, but maybe they could work in photoshoots or similar?

Each package comes with two tattoos, so if you mess up the first, you'll have a back-up.

As far as I've understood, using these is quite identical to Violent Lips/Passion Lips/etc.

First the Champagne Sparkle:

First you pop the tattoo out of the card, and then by using scissors you cut it to the shape that is similar to your lips-:

Then you press them in place on your lips, and apply a small amount of water , so that the "tattoo" transfers to lips:

Then you peel the paper away, and tadah, you have yourself a glitter lip:

I maay have overestimated the size of my upper lip from the sides...

After some scrubbing and fixing the result looked like this:

At first it's smooth and nice...:

But after moving your lips (talking etc) it wrinkles and becomes dry looking:

Then the Pink Fizz:

This time with maybe a bit better cutting...

Before pressing it firmly in place...

and ready.

Overall opinion:

They feel horrible on my lips. It's like I'd dipped my lips into glue. These also aren't very lasting. Theoretically they are "eating proof", but I found that they start to peel of if something (air, water, oil) gets in between the tattoo in lip.

Personally I think these are great for photoshoots, where they can be applied quickly and they don't have to last all day.

You can get these from Amazon and Ebay if you want.

Finally one gold look (with Sugarpill Goldilux) where I used Chanpagne Sparkle lip tattoo:

Lush Emotional Brilliance

Lush invited bloggers to get a sneak peek of their new cosmetic line, Emotional Brilliance (or Tunteiden Loisto in finnish). Because I love Lush's products, I definitely wanted know more about their cosmetic line!

First we got candy!

Emotional Brilliance is about wearing the right color to match your psychological needs. There are 30 beautiful shades of lipsticks, liquid eyeliners and cream shadows along with mascara, translucent powder, highlighter and bronzer.

all the products, except the ones I forgot from the pic, like the translucent powder... :P

The process of selling the products is a game where you spin the Emotional Brilliance Color Wheel. You then choose first three colors that you're most drawn to. Each color represents and is named for a word used in therapy sessions and the colors you choose supposedly help you with your everyday life. I.e. using color called Strong makes you stronger etc.

First colour choice symbolises your strength or weakness, second resonates with your primary subconscious need, your third choice represents your talent, the thing that will help you to achieve that subconscious need.

As fun as it sounds, I didn't spin the wheel, so now I'll never know what's really going on in my head. :(

Somehow I believe that I'll still manage just fine without color reading ;D

Here's Piece of panda's three picks:

Pour some water under the picked colors...

.... and it's like magic, the water turns into mystic steam!

Like said earlier, the line holds 30 different colors, so there's really a lot to pick from (except that you're not supposed to pick the color you like but the color that... nevermind, carry on :P).

Every color can be used on the lips, lids and as a liner. At least theoretically.

Approximately half of the bottles come with lip brush, and other half comes with eyeliner brush. You can get separate brushes from Lush if you want to use your "eyeliner" as a eyeshadow, or lipstick as a liner or something.

Color range is wide. The ones marked for lips come in screaming orange, deep red, wild purple and electric pink for example, and the "eye colors" almost make Lime Crime uniliners jealous by coming in colors such as bright yellow, true green, metallic purple and sky blue.

Sensaisti's pants, candies and Lifted matches each other perfectly!

This batch of blue liners were totally dry, I was told that they were faulty.

"TRY ME", they screamed..

..and I tried. Please don't ask me what color is what, I have no idea anymore. :(

First of, most of them were pigmented. Extremely so. Especially the reds and blues and yellows really stained. I personally think that staining isn't good quality, but I guess somebody likes it.

This one was really pretty color , called Focus, it was pearly grey with beautiful blue shimmer.

We each got to choose one product from the collection, Piece of panda picked Intuitive, pretty shimmery yellow-green color:

I ended up picking Dynamic, which is beautiful gold-toned peachy color:

Today, the talent you have or need is: ‘DYNAMIC!’ Make waves with this aspirational colour and wear it to enhance your spirit. You know what you are today – to the point, effective and able to achieve in all that you do.