Friday 6 July 2012

My Blues, Greens and Reds

The weather is so miserable outside that I felt inspired to do another colour grouping post. As I mentioned in my previous post, I'm not great at experimenting with colours but I wondered what a hunt for blues, greens and reds would uncover. I suspect that I'm repeatedly drawn to a single shade from a colour family rather than collecting a range from across the spectrum. So, no pretty rainbow of colours here.

Greens

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Eyeshadows: MAC Club, Rouge Bunny Rouge Olive Violeteare, Green eyeshadow from Le Metier de Beaute Penelope Kaleidoscope, Green from the Chantecaille Sea Turtles palette, Lancôme Erika F, NARS Dogon and Rajasthan.
Eye Pencils: Annabelle Smoothliner in Jade, No.7 Metallic Eyes in Green, Sue Devitt Eye Intensifier in Bangalore and MAC Kohl Power Pencil in Mystery
Nail Polish: Barry M Racing Green, YSL in Wintergreen, Le Metier de Beaute Dionysus and Athena, L'Oreal Innocent Green, Nails Inc freebie in an unnamed Teal colour

Blues

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Eyeshadows: YSL Pure Chromatics in shade #3, Sephora eyeshadow in Preppy Look (#41) and  L'Oreal Infallible Colour in Innocent Turquoise.
Eye Pencils: MAC Pearlglide liner in Petrol Blue and Annabelle Smoothie Crayon in Blubomb
Nail Polish: Joe nail varnish in Persian Blue, YSL Moonlight Blue, Lancôme Vernis in Love in Bleu de Flore (573B), China Glaze in Tempest, Orly Star of Bombay, Butter London Victoriana, L'Oreal French Riviera.

Reds

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Nail Polish: Butter London Knees Up, Orly Glam, Lancôme Vernis in Love in Miss Coquelicot (154M) and Lancôme Rouge Saint Honoré (22)
Lip Liners: MAC Cherry and Le Metier de Beaute Rose
Lip Products: Tom Ford lipstick in Smoke Red, Ilia Crimson & Clover, Max Factor Colour Elixir lipstick in Ruby Tuesday, Lancôme lipsticks in Rouge Faubourg and Rouge in Love (159B), Revlon Colourburst in Raspberry, Kevyn Aucoin Liquid Lipstick in Aquarouge, Illamasqua Intense Lipgloss in Fume and Ellis Faas in L303
Cheek Colour: W3LL People Universalist Stick #5

I thought I'd add this final picture, so you can see exactly why all the images are so dark. I know we really need the rain but, seriously, enough already!! Hopefully I will get opportunity to take some of these again when the sun finally reappears.

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Disclosure: The items shown here are a mixture of things that I have purchased myself, been gifted to me and PR samples. If you want to check the origin of any particular item, do feel free to ask.

7 comments:

  1. Lovely products :)
    There is nothing I love more than wearing a red lip with just eyeliner and mascara on the eyes :) It gives life to any dull day :)
    Im a new follower btw :) Love your blog :)
    hugs

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    1. Hi shortylegsbeauty, lovely to meet you. I love your description of how you wear red. I think that is such a chic look.

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  2. Well at least the windowsill looks happier now with all that lovely red makeup and nail polish! :D

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    1. Haha!! Yes, my window did look a lot brighter once I decorated it with makeup :D

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  3. I like the idea of these colour posts, its nice to see all the different tones together, I think I would have limited colour options though ;)
    This weather is all over the shop, went out today really hot in the morning then peeing it down in the afternoon and all dark and gloomy, right mare for taking pictures xx

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    1. It's a complete beast for taking pictures. I went out for a run this afternoon (get me!) and you would honestly think it was Autumn not Summer. So dreary! I hope you had a lovely day despite the strange weather xx

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  4. My red collection would be oodles of nail polishes and very little else.

    My green collection would be maybe 2 polishes but growing on eyeshadows.

    My blue collection would be the most well rounded since I like blue in both polish and eye products.

    I'm impressed that you could round this all up for the post.

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