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The New Smashbox Be Legendary Lipsticks Answer the Question, “What Are Legends Made Of?”

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Wearing Smashbox Be Legendary Lipstick in Chai

Ugh. Projectile sports. You know, the ones that involve airborne objects like baseballs? I’m just so bad at them. Whenever I see something flying at me at high speed my first instinct is to run away, but if there were a projectile sport involving lipsticks and perhaps cute uniforms, well, that I might play. 🙂

Especially if the lippies were as pigmented as the new Smashbox Be Legendary Lipsticks ($19 each).

The new line of 20 bold lipsticks in matte and creamy finishes recently launched at Sephora stores, on Smashbox counters and also online, and I’ve been wearing three of the creamy shades for about a week — Chai (a caramel nude), Fig (a red grape) and Vivid Violet (a bold berry).

So far, I am totally impressed; I think they’re great!

How great? — well, how about Oreo cookies dipped in milk? Yeah, that great.

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From the left: Fig, Chai and Vivid Violet

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Swatches from the left: Chai, Fig and Vivid Violet
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The Smashbox Be Discovered Spring 2012 Collection Is Ready for Its Closeup in These Pics and Swatches

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One, two, three — cheese!

Um…no, not gouda, although I am a big fan of stinky cheeses (especially the blue veiny ones, yum!). I’m referring to the new Smashbox Be Discovered collection, available now at Sephora stores and sephora.com.

Since I’m a shutterbug, I love Camera themes, so I was pretty eager to point my lens at this new eight-piece collection for eyes, lips and cheeks.

Today I talked four of the pieces into sitting still long enough for me to capture them on film. Have a quick look, and let me know what you think (reviews coming soon).

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Smashbox Be Discovered Eye Shadow Palette, $44

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Smashbox Be Discovered Eye Shadow Palette

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A quick look at the new Smashbox Be Discovered Eye Shadow Palette, $44. Available now at Sephora and also online.

The Smashbox Be Discovered Collection for spring 2012 includes…

  • Smashbox Be Discovered Eye Shadow Palette, $44
  • Be Discovered Cream Cheek Trio in Show Biz (a raspberry, bubble gum and cool highlight), $29
  • Be Discovered Cream Cheek Trio in In Lights (a warm coral, sparkling rose and warm
  • highlight), $29
  • Be Discovered Jet Set Eye Liner & Brush in Intrigue (a dark slate), $22
  • Be Discovered Jet Set Eye Liner & Brush in Idol (a deep brown), $22
  • Be Discovered Be Legendary Lipstick in Pink Petal (a hot pink), $19
  • Be Discovered Be Legendary Lipstick in Honey (a rosy nude), $19
  • Be Discovered Be Legendary Lipstick in Melondrama (a soft peach), $19

You’re Destined for Fame (and Fallout) with the Smashbox Be Discovered Holiday Palette

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I doubt Hollywood’s even looking for a short, sassy Filipino chick without any acting experience to star opposite Ryan Gosling in an upcoming romantic comedy, but if, perchance, I’m ever stopped by a famous director at Petco and asked to play the wind beneath Ryan’s wings, you can bet I’m putting down those 20 cans of gravy, girl, because we’re going to Hollywood! 🙂

Logic places the chances of this happening somewhere below 0.000001%, but ya never know… Maybe the new limited edition Smashbox Be Discovered palette (about $60, from the new Snappy Holidays 2011 collection) will improve my odds.

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Maybe…?

Okay, well, a girl’s gotta have dreams, and if yours happen to involve holiday kits brimming with color, Smashbox would like you to consider this: the 66-piece Be Discovered palette, with its four mini-makeup brushes and shades for eyes, cheeks and lips. At $60, it works out to less than $1 per piece.

Not too shabby, tabby.

For more on the Smashbox Snappy Holidays collection, check out…

The bulk of the pieces in the palette consist of products for eyes — 45 powder shadows and nine cream liners, to be exact. That’s more color than a girl could shake a blending brush at!

But (there’s always a but), like the eyeshadows in the company’s Click You’re It palette, also out for holidays, these like being babied. Some of them require lots of layering to show up on my tan skin, and more often than not, I also end up sweeping away a considerable amount of fallout.

A few thoughts on the rest of the kit…

  • Cheek Products — My favorite pieces in the palette! The Bronzer, Blushes and Soft Lights Highlighters apply smoothly with commendable color, yet despite being packed with pigment, they remain easy to blend.
  • Cream Eyeliners — I like the soft, dreamy lines I’m able to draw with these, as well as the variety of colors, but some of them migrate when I forget to pat a powder shadow on top.
  • Lipglosses — Preternatural pigment and a three-hour wear time for the win!
  • Mini Brushes — They get job done, but I wouldn’t depend on them for everyday use (unless I had a crush on scratchy bristles).

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The Smashbox Be Discovered kit: click here to see more product pics, and here to see oodles of swatches
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A Smashbox Holiday 2011 Face of the Day with the Click You’re It Palette

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Because Smashbox bestowed numbers upon the pans of powder eyeshadow and cream liner in their new limited edition Click You’re It kit, following the included tutorial card for the “Golden Smolder” look this afternoon was a little like painting by numbers.

But not exactly. It was like a weird class combining math and art…and I’ve always kinda struggled with one of those disciplines, LOL!


Click You’re It is part of Smashbox’s new Snappy Holidays collection

I got a little carried away with the olive green eyeshadow, No. 15 in the palette, so my version of the look turned out more green than gold. I like the outcome, but it definitely didn’t go exactly as I’d planned.

Since the shadows in the palette aren’t highly pigmented — I’d give ’em about a six on a scale of one to 10, with 10 being “amazingly pigmented” — I ended up having to do quite a bit of layering. And it was a good thing that I had some makeup wipes nearby, too, as I experienced some wicked fallout with the green shadow.

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Eyes and lips are from the Smashbox Be Discovered kit, also from Snappy Holidays
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Swatches of the Be Discovered and Click You’re It Kits from the Smashbox Holiday 2011 Collection

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Is your pet waiting to be discovered? If your feline friend or canine companion longs for a life of international celebrity, the Tabs the Cat School of Modeling can help. Call 1-800-555-5555 today.

And speaking of being discovered, here are those swatches of the Be Discovered and Click It You’re It kits from the new Smashbox Holiday 2011 collection.

Now I’m sitting here on the couch covered in cat hair and glitter. Yup, it’s business as usual here for a Saturday night… 🙂

Click You’re It: Swatches

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Eyeshadows 1 through 5 in the palette above

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Eyeshadows 6 through 10
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With the Smashbox Holiday 2011 Collection, Smashbox Is Making the Holidays Snappy, One Palette at a Time

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Now pose for the camera.

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My inner-shutterbug has developed quite a crush on Smashbox lately, and they’re back behind the camera again with another photography-fueled collection (remember fall’s Girls on Film?), this one for the holidays.

They’ve kept their lens zoomed in on kits and palettes this time around. The new Snappy Holidays collection features kits for the face, lips and eyes. Here’s a close look at two of the sets, Be Discovered and Click You’re It, of which the former isn’t listed on the Smashbox website yet.

Be Discovered Palette: Details

  • Price and availability — Unknown at this point, but I’ll update you as soon as I know. Smashbox’s larger palettes typically sell for around $59.
  • What you get — 45 powder eyeshadows (WOW!), three powder blushes, two powder highlighters, one powder bronzer, nine cream eye liners, six lip glosses, four mini brushes and a booklet with three tutorials.
  • First impressions — This kit is MASSIVE and could be a little intimidating. I think Smashbox could have done folks a favor by making the tutorials easier to follow because they don’t reference specific shades. It’s just like, “Grab your favorite nude,” but what if you don’t know which of the many shades are nude? Props anyway to Smashbox for keeping the cream and powder products separate, though. That’s always appreciated.

    So far, I can say that I definitely dig the blushes.

Click You’re It Palette: Details

  • Price and availability — $49. Available now online and coming soon to Sephora and Ulta stores.
  • What You Get — 15 powder eye shadows, five cream eye liners, an eye primer and three doubled-sided how-to cards with instructions for six different eye looks.
  • First impressions — The way Smashbox numbered these pans was GENIUS! It makes following the how-to’s easy.

    I do wish they would have placed the cream liner on a separate tier, but still, I can’t wait to play with this palette!

Click You’re It Palette: Pics

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