NARS Melusine
I love talking with Fieran and Pinchy about nothing and everything, even though we tend to have quite bad influence on each other - enablers as we are, all three of us. When Fieran came back from her trip to San Francisco I asked her about some of the products she'd ended up getting, and she showed me pictures and stuff. She also told me she was really sad about skipping one of the holiday eyeshadow duos from NARS, namely Mélusine. I couldn't remember having seen it, so I did a little research on Google - and what do you know, it instantly settled amongst the top three items on my List of Lemmings. She should have know better than to tickle my curiosity like that!
As I've said many times before I seriously think these NARS eyeshadow duos are a bit on the expensive side, although their shadows have amazing texture and great quality, but I've still managed to accumulate a few of them. They are not what I go hunting for when I'm buying eyeshadow, but sometimes I discover a duo I'm having a hard time forgetting, and I end up buying it. Mélusine was one of them, and seeing that it was a holiday item, I didn't dare wait particularly long before I jumped on it. I now know that this is a permanent item. On NARS' website it's described as pale silver lilac and bright deep purple. Unfortunately I found it impossible to make the camera pick up the lilac in the silvery shadow, but it's pale lilac indeed.
It's no secret that I prefer purple and brown shades when I'm doing my eye makeup, even though I own just about every color available out there. This duo is no exception, it's plain out gorgeous! By coincidence I stumbled upon a German blog named Bluebell's Beauty Blog when I was searching for swatches and looks with Mélusine. Take a look at her amazing FOTD - and this is the look that actually made me decide to purchase this duo.
Photo © Shamini Thevarajah '10
Mr. Postman never fails me!
The last couple of days I've been feeling a little better, and I'm hoping it's going to last - although every time I dare to think the thought I go back to feeling lousy. I called my doctor for an appointment as I said I would, but I couldn't get one until December 13th. Oh well, I'm not on the verge of dying so I guess I can wait another three weeks.
Mr. Postman always knows how to cheer me up, so today he brought me no less than four packages for me to enjoy! The most important of the four was my Logitech Wireless Trackball M570, which I bought to see whether or not it'll make a difference for my shoulder, and then also my neck. I've been suspecting that my shoulder's hurting because of my extensive use of a computer mouse, and that the pain continues up into my neck. Hopefully I'll get accustomed to using a trackball again soon, because at the moment it's pretty much impossible to use for precision work like photo editing.
The remaining three packages were not as important, but equally fun! When I opened up the first package I found two NARS eyeshadow duos in Cheyenne and Wicked. If you ask me NARS eyeshadow duos are way too expensive, but I chose to get these mainly because I wanted to when Sephora recently had a $10 each offer on them. I didn't bother using a personal shopper service for only $20, so I decided to get them off eBay for $14.95 each instead - pretty OK price for a NARS eyeshadow duo, if you ask me. Unfortunately I'm a little disappointed in Wicked, it being a lot lighter than I imagined. Cheyenne on the other hand is really nice!
In the second package I found four M·A·C pigments in Chartreuse, Golden Olive, Cornflower and Violet which I bought through Specktra. I really enjoy plowing through the clearance bin on Specktra, buying items like eyeshadows and pigments from collectors. Genius when it comes to pigments, especially if you prefer them in the old original jars, like I do.
And from the last one I pulled out a .925 Sterling Silver necklace personalized with my name. I absolutely love it, even though I'm one of those girls who can't stand Sex and the City where these personalized necklaces gained popularity because of the one "Carrie" wore. Oh well, I don't really care. Mine says "Shamini" and I adore it!
The image of NARS Wicked has been flipped for design purposes
Photos © Shamini Thevarajah '10
Goodies from NARS, MUFE, Lancôme and M·A·C
I have no idea why, but I'm having serious problems expressing myself nowadays. I feel like all my posts regarding any received mail all start the same way, and it's bothering me. Even my heading feels useless. Oh well, today Mr. Postman came knocking with a package from Amira. She's always a sweetheart, and this time she'd sent me some goodies from NARS, M·A·C, MUFE and Lancôme.
- NARS Sheer Glow Foundation in "Punjab"
- NARS Blush and Bronzing Duo in "Sin/Casino"
- NARS Monoï Body Glow II
- Make Up For Ever Aqua Cream in 2 (steel), 11 (gold), 12 (golden copper) and 14 (satin brown)
- M·A·C High-Light Powder in "Marine Life"
- M·A·C Eye Shadow in "Sweet & Punchy" (bright yellow green)
- M·A·C Eye Shadow in "Firecracker" (frosted mid-tone red orange)
- Lancôme Sparkling Cherub Illuminating Palette
The NARS Monoï Body Glow II was a free gift with purchase, so I'm actually quite excited that Amira told me about this limited time offer - if you are to order it from their website it costs $58, or about 376,- NOK with today's exchange rate! The Aqua Cream from MUFE is a fairly new product, a waterproof cream shadow in many different and bright colors. The four I received were originally Amira's, but when she turned out to be allergic to them she decided to sell them off - and they ended up in my hands instead. I promise to give them a good home!
I've been talking about the NARS Sheer Glow Foundation for quite some time now, and Ingrid helped me look for the most suitable color for my skin tone. She suggested "Punjab" even though I thought it was a little strange since that the color TiffanyD uses, but I decided to trust Ingrid and go for it. I haven't tried it on my skin yet, but when I hold the bottle up to my face it looks pretty much as an exact match. What does this tell me? I'm winter pale, and horrible.
"Marine Life", the high-light powder from M·A·C To the Beach, is an altogether different story. It was sold out from M·A·C two days before this collection was even officially launched, and it all happened within three hours from the first sighting. Crazy! Thankfully it launched in France before it hit the US, and Amira was sweet enough to order one for me there instead, together with the two interesting eye shadows in that collection. I'm forever grateful, it's such a treasure! From all the swatches I've seen of this high-light powder, it's much more a blush than anything else. The gold overspray will go away after a couple of sweeps, but since I don't have the heart to ruin mine I'll keep it untouched.
I'm a tiny bit sad that I didn't get "Hipness" blush and "Temperature Rising" lip pencil, but what the hell. It's not the end of the world, although it would have been a couple of months ago. I'm feeling proud here!
Apart from that I got an e-mail telling me that my mirror had been shipped - finally! - and that I should expect it to arrive on Tuesday. Due to this frigging strike that's been going on, it was majorly delayed. Oh, and I've also gone ahead and ordered myself a few bottles of Bath & Body Works Body Splash in Country Apple, Fresh Pineapple and Sunset Mango. I don't know if any of these are something I'll end up liking, so if not.. I might just organize a little contest or giveaway for my readers. I'll tell you more about each of them when I've received them.
Photo © M·A·C Cosmetics
Organizing Reorganizing
I didn't think of my already planned rendezvous with Mr. DHL when I said that I didn't expect much more mail in a while, and I'm sorry about that. I didn't mean to lie to you. He came knocking on Monday, and the shipment he brought me contained items from my latest M·A·C splurge, which I mentioned briefly here. It was mainly a Give Me Liberty of London-haul, but the package also held one Blush Ombre Vintage Grape and the Eye Colour 3 quad (Mink Pink (veluxe), Bruised Plum (veluxe pearl), Black Tulip (frost), Jungle Moon (matte)) from Spring Colour Forecast, Naked lip pencil from Too Fabulous, powder blush pro palette refill pans in Pinch Me (sheertone) and Dollymix (sheertone shimmer), four empty M·A·C palettes, and least but not last my Stila haul.
It also held a few items that I'd agreed to CP for someone else, and I really enjoy making others happy whenever I have the chance. It's also a nice way of saying "thank you" for helping me getting my hands on products I couldn't have gotten elsewhere when someone has done a CP for me a couple of times. I'm happy to help!
Now I'm doing some organizing again, trying to sort out what I have and what I might need. Who am I kidding? I don't need anything. I've decided to reorganize my M·A·C palettes once again, and update my pictures - I have added a few eyeshadows to my collection since the last pictures were shot. When that is done I'm planning to use one palette for the 15 colors I use most frequently, and that way I don't have to bring out three or four different palettes every time I'm doing my makeup. See, I'm smart (I wonder how long it actually took me to realize that that would be a good idea). I'll just leave open spaces in the different color palettes, and this makes it easy to pop them back into the correct palette when I decide to switch them around a little, without having to reorganize everything once again. The problem returns whenever I buy another eyeshadow pot which requires depotting, and therefore also a space in a palette, and I have to rearrange them all to make room. Why do we bring these problems down on ourselves?
My latest lemming is the NARS Sheer Glow in Stromboli, although I'm not completely sure that Stromboli would be the correct color for my skin tone. I'm thinking that I'll check it out when I go to Paris in July, at least I can have it matched instead of ending up buying the wrong color online - and flushing the $42 down the drain. If anyone has something to add, maybe a tip or two on choosing the correct color, please slip me a comment.
Photo © M·A·C Cosmetics
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