The Hourglass Vol. 6 Eye Palette in Neo-Classic, $58. It includes five matte eyeshadows and one shimmer eyeshadow in universal colors. Available now at Hourglass counters and online.
Would you rock this?
Hourglass Vol. 6 Eye Palette
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Hourglass No. 28 Primer Serum
I can’t wait to take the new Hourglass No. 28 Primer Serum ($65) out on a test run this weekend! I love the original Hourglass Veil Mineral Primer and hope this is just as great.
Hourglass Veil Mineral Primer SPF 15 Keeps Makeup Going On and On Till the Break of Dawn
5 things you might not need but are really nice to have around…
- A bag of delicious Bali’s Best Green Tea Latte Candies. I sucked on six of these, which are like green tea-flavored Werther’s Originals hard candies, while doing this post!
- A surfboard (because it’s a reminder of summer)
- Boys
- Fresh-cut flowers
- An excellent makeup primer
Regarding No. 5, have you met my new primer crush, Hourglass Veil Mineral Primer SPF 15 ($52)? It’s an oil-free liquid primer from Hourglass’s permanent line, and let me tell ya — it’s quite the charmer!
While it’s not a brand new product, Veil is new to me. I only recently got to know it well while visiting and staying with family over the past few days, when I was doing my makeup early in the mornings and needed something to help my looks last from dawn till dusk. This month, that something was Veil.
Before I settled on Veil, though, I tried a number of other primers from MAC, Make Up For Ever, Smashbox and Cover FX over the month or so since Thanksgiving. Veil’s been my favorite so far.
A lot of primers feel thick and heavy to me, like they’re smothering my combination dry/oily/acne-prone skin, but lightweight Veil quickly absorbs and doesn’t feel like it’s just sitting on the top layers of skin like a lake of pore-suffocating product. It also hasn’t caused any breakouts, near as I can tell, and I’ve heard from other girls who love it specifically for this reason.
Hourglass designed Veil to do more than increase the wear time of makeup. It also absorbs excess oil, softens the appearance of fine lines and pores, and provides some protection from sun damage through the addition of naturally-derived zinc oxide and titanium dioxide. And the company managed to do all that without the use of parabens, synthetic fragrances or dyes, sulfates or phthalates.
Bravo. 🙂
A Veggie Burger, Fries and Vanilla Shake Face of the Day
Since all I really had to do today was eat, I decided not to go all out with my makeup. I went with a mostly neutral look using products from NARS, MAC, Buxom, Tarte, Boots, Hourglass, Urban Decay and Madina Milano.
I guess I’d describe this as neutral with a side of sparkle… I think the eyes are probably sparklier in person than they might appear here because the sparkles from NARS Eyeshadow in Night Star are shy in front of the camera.
They are there, though, doing their sparkly thing.
I wore this out to lunch with the fam today to a local Redding institution, a great little burger joint here called Damburger, which has been around since 1938! El Hub has a relative who’s been getting burgers there since about 1946.
I opted for the vegetarian menu and the chipotle black bean veggie burger, fries and a vanilla shake. The veggie burger had tons of flavor, and I loved the texture. It wasn’t gummy or dry (like how some veggie burgers are), and was made with corn, rice, beans and some very yummy spices.
Delish!
Hourglass Holiday 2011
It’s a tiny collection this year with just one kit — the new Extreme Sheen Set ($45; available exclusively at Bergdorf Goodman).
Swatches and review coming soon. 🙂
Pretty colors, yah?
New Hourglass Film Noir Lash Lacquer Nails the Color, But the Formula Could Use Some Help
Hourglass Film Noir Lash Lacquer sure is interesting. I’ll give it that.
In my ceaseless pursuit of products to transform my mousy, stage-fright fringe into the lash equivalent of Cher on tour (complete with crazy wigs and pyrotechnics), I’ve tried a lot of different mascaras, but I can safely say I’ve never tried one quite like this.
Lash Lacquer comes in a single shade, inky black Kohl. Not quite a mascara, Hourglass says it does for lashes what top coat does for nails (at least one of the things), giving them an almost wet look that’s supposed to ramp up the intensity of bare lashes and other mascaras when layered on top. Ya know, the old false lash look.
Basically, it’s supposed to perform like a thickening, jet black liquid mascara top coat that you apply with a brush. The brush, incidentally, looks like a nail polish brush, and it’s supposed to be used kinda like one, too, held horizontally, with each lash painted one by one.
For the most dramatic affect, pair it with a lengthening mascara, rather than a thickening mascara. I tried it with several lengthening mascaras (including Hourglass Film Noir), and basically got same effect with all of them. In these pictures I applied it over one layer of my current lengthening mascara crush, Urban Decay Cannonball.
A Mid-Week Date Night Look with Chanel, MAC and NARS
When it started to look like cereal for dinner, El Hub and I decided at the last minute to go on a mid-week date last night (fish and chips, and beer… romantic, I know!). I went with this quick, sparkly look using a mix of new pieces from NARS, Chanel and MAC (and very little blending) and sprinkled it with some permanent products from Jouer, Hourglass, Buxom and Urban Decay.
Here’s a product breakdown of the look…
EYES
- Chanel Illusion D’Ombre Long Wear Luminous Eyeshadow in Fantasme ($36) on lids and crease
- Chanel Le Crayon Yeux Precision Eye Definer in Khaki Platine ($28) on lower lash line
- Hourglass Script Liquid Liner Pen ($32) on upper lash line
- Urban Decay Cannonball Mascara ($20) and Buxom Amplified Lash Mascara ($22) on lashes
CHEEKS
- Jouer Peony ($24) on apples
LIPS
Now Here’s a Tip: It’s Atop the New Hourglass Script Precision Liquid Liner Pen
So tiny and cute! I don’t think I’ve ever seen a liquid liner tip as teeny as the one atop the new Hourglass Script Precision Liquid Liner pen ($32).
The pen’s extra fine 0.5mm nib would make drafting pens jealous. New for summer, it’s built for the ultimate in line drawing precision and lays down fine, thin lines along my lash line with very little skipping. It did, though, take me a couple of minutes of fiddling to find a good position to hold the pen, as the tip is shorter than most liquid liners and feels a little awkward in my hand.
Jett, the single color available, looks like a shiny grayish black with blue undertones on me.
Hourglass Script Precision Liquid Liner (bottom) and LORAC Front of the Line Pro (top)
