Today’s blog post is my contribution to Finnish Beauty Bloggers Advent Calendar. Today we are also celebrating Independence Day and Finland’s 100th Anniversary.
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Category: Brands
1 Palette 10 Bloggers – NYX Professional Makeup Perfect Filter Rustic Antique
Happy Monday! My blog has been pretty quiet lately but if you follow my social media accounts you know I’ve still been around. I’m going to try and write a “How I’m doing” post soon enough but let’s get the show running again with this post.
I got an opportunity to join “1 palette 10 bloggers” -challenge for Finnish beauty bloggers and I was excited to take part. The awesome idea for this challenge came from beauty blogger Charlotta Eve and pretty.fi – cosmetics webstore made it possible for us to do this.
There’s already been two palettes past two weeks on this challenge and today it’s time for NYX Professional Makeup Perfect Filter in Rustic Antique.
I have to admit I totally stayed on my comfort zone when choosing this palette. Lately I’ve been absolutely crazy over warm tone palettes like this. Rustic Antique didn’t let me down either. There’s a good amount of pigment on these shadows and they apply and blend smoothly. You can also mix the shades together to get even more variations. Very lovely palette that I will continue to use often!
If I chose the palette from my comfort zone I also stayed there with my eye makeup look. Warm tone palettes like this can really make blue eyes pop and stand out beautifully. This kind of look has very much been my go-to-look lately. I decided to do something a little different with my lipstick though to shake things up a bit.
Dark green lips were a fun addition and looked great with the shades from this palette and my red hair. I also again proved to myself that I can be forty and still play with colors ;)
I can’t even remember what shades I used where in this look. I also mixed some shadows together to create more shades. There was enough variation on this palette so that I was able to do my whole eye look with it and didn’t have to reach for another palette for more color options.
I really did like this look. Unfortunately I had again eaten something that made my allergies break out the skin on my face and it looks pretty pump-y and uneven under the foundation. You can also see my blogging break on these photos. I had really hard time taking photos I was even remotely happy with. But this is what I did and this time it has to be enough. At the end of the day I had fun and I loved taking part in this challenge.
I will list the products I used at the end of this post.
You can also see the nine other makeup looks done with this palette using the links below:
PAKOLLISET – TAI AINAKIN MELKEIN
PRODUCTS I USED FOR THIS LOOK:
Baby Skin Instant Fatigue Blur Primer Warm Apricot
Diorskin Star Fluid Foundation – 023
Essence All About Matt! Fixing Compact Powder
Rimmel Bronze Perfection – 002 Medium/Dark**
NARS – Torrid
Becca Shimmering Skin Perfector Pressed – Champagne Pop
Anastasia Beverly Hills Dipbrow Pomade – Medium Brown
Urban Decay Eyeshadow Primer Potion
NYX Professional Makeup Perfect Filter Shadow Palette – Rustic Antique
Maybelline Lash Sensational
Lancome Le Crayon Khol – Noir
Essence Kajal Pencil – 27 Samba Green
Urban Decay Vice Lipstick – Junkie
In the last photo I also added Cosmoholic gold shimmer lip gloss
**PR-sample
The palette was sent to me free of charge for this challenge
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