I’m doing a rose and foral/fruity mix with Korres and Dolce & Gabbana today.
What scent are you wearing?
The Scent of Valentine’s Day: Korres Japanese Rose Body Butter and Dolce & Gabbana Pour Femme Eau de Parfum
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These Glam Liners Are Baroque! The Dolce & Gabbana Animalier Collection Glam Liners Are Loose on Lids and Tempting Black Liner Lovers
It happens to every black cat liner lover eventually…
The rut. You fall into one. One day, there you are, just going about your business and finishing up those TPS reports at your desk, when you peer into your makeup bag and ask yourself, “Hmm…what liner should I wear?”
And then you snap. “Oh, yeah. Black Liner! Again! For like the umpteenth time in a row!”
I’m definitely guilty of falling into that rut. On the one hand, “Cat eyes are classic and never go out of style!” But on the other, sometimes you just gotta paint yourself out of that corner, which is where these new metallic Dolce & Gabbana’s Glam Liners ($34 each) come in.
Like makeup made for angels, these long-lasting liquid liners shimmer and shine. Glittery gunmetal gray Baroque Silver, glittery burnished copper Baroque Bronze and gilded gold Baroque (not shown here) burst on the scene with the new Animalier holiday collection, bound and determined to break up the beautiful monotony of black liner.
And, hello, lazy brigade! — they couldn’t be a whole lot easier to use. Dolce & Gabbana included a soft, skinny brush with just enough give to it to give me (and hopefully you) lots of control over your line weights.
They also developed a quick-drying liquid formula that doesn’t creep…into fine lines.
The result? How ’bout crisp, sharp edges like a samurai’s katana — and perfect cat eye flicks requiring next to no effort.
Oh, and then there’s the tiny flecks of multicolored glitter, which I find pretty hard to resist… 🙂
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Is the New Dolce & Gabbana Animalier Bronzer The Cat’s Meow?
Alright, people, before we load up the Land Rover and head out on this safari, let’s run through a quick cosmetics checklist.
Lipstick? ✓
Eyeliner? ✓
Powder? ✓
Shimmery golden bronzer decorated like a spotted big cat?
…
I repeat, shimmery golden bronzer decorated like a spotted big cat?
No?! Well, that’s not right. Don’t worry though. We’ll fix that.
Locals refer to these wildcats as Dolce & Gabbana’s Animalier Bronzers. They’re $57, part of the new Animalier holiday collection, and recognizable by their distinctive spotted patterns.
A similar cat was sighted prowling makeup counters back in the summer of 2011. That one was also called Animalier.
This specimen’s spots, just like last year’s, are an overspray.
When we find one for you, I want you to mix the colors together. That should give you a cool-toned bronzy brown perfect for chiseled ’80s music video cheekbones.
Now, I have some experience with this cat, so I should warn you — it can be dangerous, especially while it’s still an overspray. I wore it around the house this week and felt very Flashdance, without the high-cut leotard and leg warmers, of course.
The overspray doesn’t deliver the most natural look, so I wouldn’t wear it every day, but luckily, I don’t have to. The overspray wears off, revealing a velvety soft, finely-milled powder beneath it.
How soft is it? Well, to put it in perspective, it’s softer than a tabby’s low-hanging tum. 🙂
Once you get through that overspray, this cat will lavish your skin with warm, golden orangey brown kisses.
I think this year’s kitten is more pigmented than the Animalier Bronzer we saw last year, which was pretty sheer. I think it’s also a little more golden than orange.
The New Dolce & Gabbana Animalier Collection Classic Cream Lipsticks in Iconic, Desert and Caramel Are Like Makeup ThunderCats
When boredom threatens your makeup bag, whom do you call?
Batman? Nope, he can’t help.
Spidey? Sorry, not this time.
Jeremy Renner?
Yes…you call Jeremy Renner. 🙂
But seriously, you call Dolce & Gabbana! With their fierce leopard-print caps, the three new $34 limited edition Dolce & Gabbana Classic Cream Lipsticks from the Animalier collection are so wild they’re practically feral.
Cat lady says what?
(What?)
Iconic (a warm-toned tomato red), Desert (a shimmery bronze) and Caramel (a sheer beige) will go purrfectly with some of my favorite accessories, like my leopard-print dress, the husky tabby often draped across my arms, and the golden neutral shades in D&G’s new Desert eyeshadow quad.
All three have Dolce & Gabbana’s faint rosy lipstick flavor and scent and a creamy, luxuriously smooth formula that lasts on my lips from 3-4 hours.
Dolce & Gabbana’s $67 Desert Is a Hot Eyeshadow Quad With Leopard-Print Packaging That’s Driving Me Wild
It’s a jungle out there. Thank goodness for makeup…and cats (what, you couldn’t tell I was a cat lady?).
And whenever my two favorite interests collide, let’s just say, I have a moment.
Like a straggler gazelle on the African savanna in the crosshairs of a hungry lion, I fell prey to the new Dolce & Gabbana Animalier holiday collection… It was inevitable — the cycle of life as it pertains to the new Eyeshadow Quad in Desert ($67).
Leopard-print packaging, golden neutrals and flawless performance? Yes, this is the quad I’m bringing with me when J.Renn and I get stranded on that deserted island (that incidentally also has modern conveniences like plumbing, air conditioning, a Sephora store and Internet access).
Granted, the $67 price tag is like a deep, painful cat scratch for wallets, but that’s Dolce & Gabbana for ya. They may charge borderline redonkulous prices, but when they get a product right, they knock it out of the park…
…and all the way to the Dolce & Gabbana Eyeshadow Quad in Desert. 🙂
The leopard-print packaging
Even if I wasn’t a cat lady, I’d love this limited edition quad’s packaging. Not only do I like the way it looks on the outside, but the colors inside it are based on the print! How cool is that?
The colors
Three of the quad’s four neutrals — the matte beige, shimmery gold and matte light brown — have golden, mid-color temperature tones, which should make them flatter a wide range of skin tones.
The darkest shade, the plummy reddish brown, is a touch warmer than the other colors, and because it’s the darkest, I use to smoke out the other shades and as a liner (works well on lash and water lines).
If you have very cool-toned skin (quick tip: if the veins in your arm appear blue, you’re probably cooler toned; if they’re greenish, more warm), the darker shade might be a little tough to pull off, but it could still come in handy as a fallback liner.
The performance
Man, these eyeshadows should get Hollywood agents because they’re superstars! They’re everything I could ever hope for and expect from a high-end makeup line (that charges $67 for a quad).
I have no idea how D&G managed to make them this pigmented and yet keep them so easy to blend. And the fallout? — what fallout? Zero, nada, zilch. And they last all day long for me without creasing or fading.
Dolce & Gabbana Holiday 2012
A few more noms from the gorgeous Dolce & Gabbana Holiday 2012 collection.
Jungle Cat
MRRROW! The new Dolce & Gabbana Animalier Bronzer ($57), available now at Saks Fifth Avenue stores and saksfifthfavenue.com.
It’s a Pleasure to Kiss These Bold Brights: The Dolce & Gabbana Passion Duos Summer Pleasures Collection
Should you ever find yourself under doctor’s orders to refrain from wearing eye makeup “for a day or two” while your allergies subside, and you’re kind of a beauty nerd, you may also find yourself debating whether filling in your brows constitutes “eye makeup.”
I came to the conclusion that it does not… 🙂
I KNOW! But I couldn’t resist doing at least a little something.
My eyes don’t seem to mind, and they’re certainly enjoying gazing at three of the bright, shiny lipsticks from the new Dolce & Gabbana Summer Pleasures collection.
These $34 beauties, three of 10 new Passion Duo Gloss Fusion Lipsticks, are available now at Saks stores and saksfifthavenue.com (there are also five Nail Lacquers in the collection priced at $20 each).
The 10 new shades range from summery, soft nudes to bold, glamorous brights.
Clockwise from the dark shade in the lower left: Royal 110, Exotic 50 and Tropical 140
Dolce & Gabbana’s Gloss Fusion Lipsticks are among my favorite products in the entire line. Each has a shiny, moisture-filled core of gloss wrapped in a rich coat of pigmented lipstick.
I remember when they first made a splash on Dolce & Gabbana counters… Oh, the intense colors, the high-gloss finish, the texture so smooth it would give Ryan Gosling a run for his money.
As for the three new colors I’ve been ogling this morning? Just as fab. 🙂
Royal 110
Tropical 140
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