Smash box Exposure Palettes

Smashbox have really been doing their thing recently and I have been loving it. I just purchased the full exposure palette and the double exposure palette and I am loving them. It may seem slightly excessive to have both but deciding between the two is like choosing a favourite child (I mean look how pretty they are!) 

The pigmentation of the eyeshadows are incredible and I think it's great the choice between the mattes and shimmers. Also I've recently been wetting my brush before using the shimmers as I find this way you get a bolder more striking look which is great especially for events or if your going out anywhere. Also the double exposure palette comes with a sheet telling you what will happen to the shadows once wet which is incredibly helpful if you haven't trailed a look before.

 

This is one look I did using the double exposure palette using colours quartz all over the lid, flushed in the centre and fig in the outer corner. 

On my face I used the shape matters palette also by Smashbox to give more of a contoured look. Lastly my lipcolour is by Aeron in the colour 07 red velvet which is a beautiful deep red that has an amazingly good long lasting power. I wore this out to dinner the other day and I swear by the time I got home the colour still looked as bold as ever and it hardly came off on the glass I was drinking from.

Overall I think these palettes are amazing and definitely need more hype! I would definitely recommend these as a gift to any makeup lover! 

Hope you've had an amazing weekend and come back from more looks using these palettes. 

Lysette xo 

Makeup haul!

Just a few bits and bobs (not) that I've purchased over the last couple of weeks. I thought I'd share with you my last purchases and then gradually give you reviews if I really love a product. There's a mix of different brands and products so I'm excited to share with you my thoughts and opinions.

Lysette xo

The other side of me

I like many of you reading this now I am one hundred percent addicted to makeup. I'm a hoarder whom loves pretty things and never feels completely satisfied with her current makeup collection (however I'm ok with this!). 

The other side of me that not many of my friends and family know about is my obsession with the ugly. I love playing with SFX, blood, gore and being able to create creatures out of story books. I'm the girl that can't watch a film without critically analysing the makeup and prosthetics on the actors. I love looking at a creature of pure imagination and wondering how I could recreate it myself. 

So from now on I will be posting both the pretty and the fantasy side of makeup and I hope you'll enjoy it! 

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Hope you had a lovely day!

Lysette xo

Smashbox Shapematters palette

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The beauty that you see before you is Smashbox's new shapematters palette which I have been drolling over since I got it. It contains 2 brow colours, 1 brow wax, 4 contour colours, 6 eye shadows and an eyeshadow brush.

I've only been using this for a couple of days but I already love it. The pigmentation in the eyeshadows is amazing and they're so blend able as well. I feel like the colour choice in the eyeshadows caters for pretty much everyone and all different coloured eyes as there's the brown/neural trio, purple/pink trio and silver/cool tone trio. Plus there's a variety of shimmers and mattes. 

At first I wasn't sure how the contour and bronze colours were going to look on my skin tone as some tend to look too red toned on me however both of these colours suit my tone well and are lovely and build able so if you can decide between a natural look or a heavy contour. This palette has both a matte highlight and a shimmer highlight again enabling you to either go subtle or full on.

  (From top row to bottom, contour,  bronzer, matte highlight, shimmer highlight)

The only weeny complaint I have about the palette is I wish it had a third brow colour as I have found that the colours in the palette are too light for me. I've been using them in the front of my brows to give a natural gradient but I have been having to use a darker colour just to go over the top.   

 

So here's one of the looks I did using the palette! I love how subtle you can get the contour and how much of a difference it can make to your face shape. Plus I love the eye look and how the colours bring out blue eyes. I used the pink shades for this look and then the lightest cream shadow to highlight the inner corner of my eyes. 

I hope you had an amazing weekend wherever you are in the world! 

 

Lysette xo