The Estee Lauder Pure Color Nail Lacquer French Nudes Collection is a new for summer 2013.
This collection comes in five flesh colored shades, created by Tom Pecheux, Creative Makeup Director for the brand. He wanted something like a “foundation for nails”, instead of intense colors.
Zoya PixieDust is the latest collection from the brand for spring, and it’s not like anything we have seen from Zoya before – it’s textured!
Indeed, I think we are going to be seeing a whole ‘lotta textured polish in the near future, and I for one am on board!
PixieDust features six new shades in the pebbled, sand-like finish. It’s a rather fine texture, so no worries about your nails looking like they have large chunks of sand stuck to them! It’s finer and not as gritty as say the OPI Liquid Sand ones.
No base or top coat required, and you get a matte yet still sparkly finish. I used three coats on the first three shades, and then two coats on the last three (the darker shades).
Nicole by OPI and Twentieth Century Fox recently collaborated to make the Modern Family collection, based on the hit ABC TV show. A show I’ve been watching since it started in fact!
This collection features fourteen new shades that run the gamut from cremes to glitters, from beige to blurple. All of them are named after characters on the show as well.
For most of these I had to use three coats to get the desired saturation. A couple were two coaters though. Quite a few had some streaking issues, mentioned below.
MAC Après Chic is a new limited edition collection featuring some new Mineralize goodies.
Inside Après Chic you will find five Lipsticks (Warm Companion, Cozy Up, Haute Attitude, Après Chic, Hot Chocolate), five Mineralize Tinted Lip Balms ( Stay Warm!, Slightly Nude, Pure & Tender, Nice & Simple, Rosy Romance), two Nail Lacquers (Hangin’ Loose, Dangerously Fun), five Pro Longwear Eye Liners (Black Ice, Rich Experience, Mountain Air, Night Trail, Snow Shadow), five Mineralize Eye Shadows (Ice, Winter Pursuit, Silver Birch, Frost At Midnight, Fireside), three Mineralize Blushes (Amber Glow, Alpine Bronze, Gentle) and two Mineralize Skinfinishes (Porcelain Pink, Stereo Rose).
I have just a few items from the collection so let’s dig in!
Frost At Midnight, Ice
MAC Strength is a new and somewhat small limited edition collection out right now.
This collection includes two Eye Shadow quads, three Eye Liners (Penultimate, Kohl & Technakohl), two Powder Blushes, two Nail Lacquers, five Lipsticks, two Lip Pencils and two Brushes (168 and 275).
Eye Shadow x 4 Inner Strength
