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Midnight blues: FOTD featuring Laura Mercier Deep Night Eyeshadow

Hello there!

I’m sitting in the Crowne Plaza lobby at this moment using their free wifi and giving myself a pat on the back for having these posts drafted before I left for the Northern Territory.

It’s our last night here in Darwin, and I fly back to Melbourne tomorrow afternoon. I’ve had an amazing time exploring Darwin, Katherine, Kakadu, and Litchfield in Australia’s ‘Top End’ – and of course had a fantastic time working in the Aboriginal Eye Clinic in Katherine. It feels about time to go home to Melbourne though- I’m missing Phil, Dizzy, and decent pho.

Anyhow, here is a FOTD I did a few weeks ago, using my new Laura Mercier Deep Night eyeshadow (reviewed in the previous post here)

As you can see- at that point, I hadn’t gone in with my DIY balayage correction yet so my hair here has that strange brown roots- blonde mid length – orange ends colouring to it. Bad hairdresser experience.

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Posted by myfunnyvalentine on Feb 11th, 2013 in Eye shadow, FOTD, laura mercier | 0 comments.

Tags: Rouge Bunny Rouge

Laura Mercier Deep Night, Bamboo, Topaz Eyeshadows: Review and Swatches

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Hello from the Northern Territory!

It’s day two of working in an incredibly well set up eye clinic within an Aboriginal health care centre in Katherine, NT. We’re in a rural setting, but the town is big enough for a YMCA with Les Mills classes, and a cinema so I consider the area well serviced where it counts Having a blast!

And thanking heavens for drafting this post before I left

In the last 6 months or so I’ve fallen in love again with my Laura Mercier Topaz lustre eyeshadow, a product that had languished untouched in my makeup drawers for at least 2-3 years. It has been a staple ‘every day’ eyeshadow, and it’s versatility is reflected in the many FOTDs I’ve used this in ( here, here, and here)

I knew I had to get my hands on some more Laura Mercier shadows, and when I saw a swatch of Deep Night on The Glitter Geek, I made up my mind to pick one up for myself.

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Posted by myfunnyvalentine on Feb 5th, 2013 in Eye shadow, laura mercier, Reviews, Swatches | 0 comments.

Emerald City: NYE Makeup Inspired By Pantone

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Pantone announced that their 2013 Color of The Year is ”Emerald’ – a vivid green which works brilliantly with brown eyes. I really don’t wear green enough, and given that I own so many beautiful green eye shadows I really need to give them more lovin this year.

I thought it would be fitting to do a Pantone Emerald inspired eye makeup look to start the new year, and this was what I wore to see the fireworks on NYE in Melbourne. I only realised this afterwards, but I wore a tangerine coloured dress that night- coincidentally Pantone’s colour of the year for 2012.

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Posted by myfunnyvalentine on Jan 4th, 2013 in Eye shadow, FOTD, laura mercier, MAC | 0 comments.

Tags: Burberry Lip Mist, Estee Lauder

Back to the gipsy… that I was: a NARS Gipsy FOTD

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NARS Gipsy with LM metallic creme color 'Gold', Benefit e/s 'Fawn Over Me'

FOTD with NARS Gypsy, LM metallic creme color ‘Gold’, Benefit e/s ‘Fawn Over Me’

I only just noticed that NARS Gipsy is spelt the way it is, rather than gypsy. weird.

NARS Gipsy is a semi sheer berry red. It is a very wearable red that suits pretty much any skin tone (I hate the term ‘beginners red’ because it sounds almost derogatory, but yes- it can be considered a ‘beginner’s red’). I wore this to death last winter because it is fairly moisturising and looks great against a ‘just out of the cold’ flush on the cheeks.

Texture: It is a reasonably moisturing lipstick with a slight glossy finish. Wear time is about 3hrs, which is pretty good for a semi sheer lipstick on me.

You can find swatches and product photos of NARS Gipsy in my previous “Seeing Red- My red lipstick collection” post.

lip swatch NARS Gipsy

The makeup:

Eyes:

-Laura Mercier metallic creme eye colour ‘Gold’ on lid to crease.

-Benefit ‘Fawn Over Me’ e/s patted on top of ‘Gold’
-MAC Omega e/s in crease.
-UD 24/7 liner in zero top lash line.

Cheeks:

-MAC Blushbaby blush

Lips:

-NARS Gipsy lipstick

FOTD with NARS Gypsy, LM metallic creme color ‘Gold’, Benefit e/s ‘Fawn Over Me’

Hope everyone is having a good week so far. I’m super excited about the Bobbi Brown event tomorrow- can’t wait to learn from the pros and meet up with some awesome Sydney based bloggers.

Posted by myfunnyvalentine on Mar 14th, 2011 in FOTD, laura mercier, Lipstick, NARS, Reviews | 6comments

Laura Mercier Translucent Setting Powder Review

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I’ve never worried about powders until I started blogging. Seeing my own face on my computer screen in HD in my FOTD posts has made me a little bit paranoid about all the imperfections that I’ve never noticed before. Like how shiny my forehead was.

So I found my very first translucent loose powder!

I chose this because I really had no idea about loose powders, and it was Christine from Temptalia’s favourite setting powder. (I go to her blog for most of my makeup decisions lol).

After a few weeks of use I’m well and truly converted. It controls the shinies on my T zone without looking cakey, makes me makeup last longer, and minimizes the look of pores.

It is a semi-matte finish and still allows a little of the ‘glowiness’ of my NARS Sheer Glow to peek through.

I like to dip my large powder brush (not my kabuki LOL) into the product, swirl it around the inside of the cap to distribute it evenly on the brush, and tap off the excess so ensure I don’t overapply. Then I lightly dust it on my T zone and the area around my nose.

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I got mine from StrawberryNet.com for $22.50 for the mini jar (9.3g/0.33oz)

Ingredients: Talc, Magnesium Myristate, Nylon-12, Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Ethylhexyl Palmitate, Zea Mays (Corn) Starch, Tocopherol, Ascorbyl Palmitate, Sodium Dehydroacetate, Polymethyl Methacrylate, Lauroyl Lysine, Methicone, Glycine Soja (Soybean) Oil, Methylparaben, Propylparaben, Butylparaben, Ultramarines (Cl 77007), Iron Oxides (Cl 77491, Cl 77492, Cl 77499).

What powders have you tried? Likes/Dislikes? Enlighten me fellow beauty addicts!

Posted by myfunnyvalentine on Jan 25th, 2011 in laura mercier, Reviews | 4comments