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Warming Up to the NARS Spring 2011 Collection

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Lip Gloss in Nana atop Pure Matte Lipstick in Madère

I got so fired up playing with NARS’ new Lip Gloss in Nana, Pure Matte Lipstick in Madère and Soft Touch Eye Pencil in Celebrate that I momentarily forgot just how cold it is outside.

The three are from the NARS Spring 2011 collection we looked at the other day, and right now they’re keeping me warmer than toe socks, turtlenecks and argyle blankets do.

A few bangin’ brights bring the shy neutrals in the new NARS Spring 2011 collection out of hibernation. The 11-piece release for eyes, lips and nails features earth tones with shimmery metallic finishes, cool purples and pinks, and a couple of unexpected blues and greens. Find it now on NARS counters and narscomestics.com.

Lip Gloss in Nana, $24

No, this wasn’t named after grammy. 🙂 It’s a French slang for “chick” or “girl,” and it’s the only new lip gloss color in the collection (the other two shades, Angelika and Super Orgasm, are repromotes). The deep creamy purple is much more pigmented than I thought, and a little goes a long way. I feel like it might be a little too dark for me, so I’ll probably layer it on top of lipsticks more often than I use it by itself.
MAKEUP AND BEAUTY BLOG RATING: B+

Pure Matte Lipstick in Madère

WOW! This matte pinkish beige couldn’t be much lighter. I have a hard time wearing it by itself because the pale, cool tones look ashy on my warm NC35 skin (hello, zombie girl ). It might work better on girls who wear cooler pinks well. Oh, I think it’s also a bit more drying than the other Pure Mattes I’ve tried.
MAKEUP AND BEAUTY BLOG RATING: B

Soft Touch Shadow Pencil in Celebrate, $24

Celebrate makes me want to bust out the Kool & The Gang, yo. This creamy matte neon green appears to borrow its color from Kermit the Frog, but that’s a huge plus in my book. When I wear it worn alone on my lids without a primer, however, it migrates like crazy, homing in on my fine lines. I LOVE the color, but the way it wears? Not so much.
MAKEUP AND BEAUTY BLOG RATING: B-

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Lip Gloss in Nana on top and Pure Matte Lipstick in Madère on bottom

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Pure Matte Lipstick in Madère on left and Lip Gloss in Nana on right

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Soft Touch Shadow Pencil in Celebrate

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NARS spring 2011 Celebrate Madera Nana swatch arm
Swatches from the left with a flash: Celebrate, Madère and Nana
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NARS Spring 2011: Lip Gloss in Nana and Pure Matte Lipstick in Madère

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A couple of limited edition lip items from the NARS Spring 2011 collection. That’s Pure Matte Lipstick in Madère on the left and Lip Gloss in Nana on the right. Swatches coming soon!

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For more collection details see When NARS Springs for 2011, He Won’t Be Blushing and NARS Spring 2011: Super Orgasm and Angelika Lip Glosses Usher in the Season Early.

NARS Spring 2011: Super Orgasm and Angelika Lip Glosses Usher in the Season Early

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NARS Angelika Lip Gloss

They say that patience is a virtue…but I don’t have patience for proverbs, LOL! Not when it comes to makeup. When it comes to putting on le war paint, I’m all about instant gratification. 🙂

And today I satisfied the urge to splurge with two glosses from NARS, specifically the collection for spring 2011.

But NARS spring 2011 isn’t out yet, is it? Nope, it’s not (it rolls onto NARS counters soon); lucky for us, two of the upcoming lip glosses are. They’re repromoted colors, and both are available now at Sephora, NARS counters and NARS online.

Have you met Angelika and Super Orgasm ($24 each)?

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Angelika (left) and Super Orgasm (right)

These girls are the lip gloss versions of two famed NARS blushes, which themselves go by the names Angelika and Super Orgasm.
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When NARS Springs for 2011, He Won’t Be Blushing

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Since I have a weak spot for NARS blushes that’s right up there with my weak spot for Häagen-Dazs dulce de leche ice cream, I was shocked, and a wee bit disappointed, to hear that Francois left the blushes out of his collection for fall.

But I wiped away my tears today when I saw these pics for the small 11-piece collection for eyes, lips and nails. The shimmery earth tones with metallic finishes; the sheer, sparkly cool purples and pinks; and even a couple of unexpected greens and blues? NARS started with safe neutrals but sprinkled them with just enough brights to keep a girl on her toes, and what he came up with looks to be a lot of fun.

Plus, almost all of the colors are new (two of the lip glosses are repromotes).

NARS SPRING 2011

Trio Eyeshadow in Calanque (new), $45 — This earthy trio can do the splits, meaning it’s flexible, yo. It contains a shimmery gold-infused platinum with silver glitter, a light matte caramel and a shimmery antique-ish golden bronze. Wear the products individually, using one as a base, one as a highlighter and one as a liner, or mix and match them with the other eye products from the release (or something else entirely). Neat, right? I can already see this trio getting a permanent place in my makeup bag.

Eyeshadow Duo in Bateau Ivre (new), $32 — I feel blue 🙁 but in a totally good way. I’m eager to try Bateau Ivre’s rich sky blue and deep denim. FUN FACT: This duo took its moniker from the Arthur Rimbaud poem of the same name.

An excerpt from Le Bateau Ivre (The Drunken Boat)

“As I was floating down unconcerned Rivers
I no longer felt myself steered by the haulers:
Gaudy Redskins had taken them for targets
Nailing them naked to coloured stakes.

I cared nothing for all my crews,
Carrying Flemish wheat or English cottons.
When, along with my haulers those uproars were done with
The Rivers let me sail downstream where I pleased.”
— Arthur Rimbaud, Le Bateau Ivre

Eyeshadow Duo in Nouveau Monde (new), $32 — One word: WANT! Nouveau Monde, French for “New World”, NARS poetically pairs a silvery metallic lilac with a rich olive gold.

Soft Touch Shadows Pencils in Celebrate (new) and Hollywoodland (new), $24 each — Both Celebrate (a festive parrot green) and Hollywoodland (a pale gold) can be worn as bases upon which to layer powder shadows, or alone for a dash of pigmented shimmer.

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Lip Glosses in Nana (new), Super Orgasm (repromote) and Angelika (repromote), $24 each — There they (NARS) go again. They can’t sincerely expect me to be able to resist shiny pink and purple glosses, right? I mean come on.
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