Tuesday recap: This ranges from soft pink, through two browns, on to a very pretty deep blue-gray. It gives a soft smokey look.

Eyes:
Shadows: Maybelline 20 Velvet Crush
Mascara: Pulse Perfection
These colors aren't true: the top two and the left are more brown, with the lightest having some pink.

This picture shows how nice the mascara is.
Lips: Avon Beach Plum

Karin
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Originally posted 2009-09-16 22:21:25.

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My Smokey Classics is a lovely palette. It actually is far prettier at home in good lighting and on my face, than I thought it was when I saw it in the store. (I had wanted to see these in person before I bought any. While in the store, I purchased My Sultry Blues, then ordered this one and My Fierce Violets online, taking advantage of F&F, all from Sephora.)

You can buy this set at Sephora for $37.

Here is Lauren Luke applying My Smokey Classics:
There is an annoying ad at the beginning, sorry!

The kit includes:

- 2 blendable primers - Nude Slip Dark & Nude Slip Light [the same shades in each kit]
- 3 flattering eye shadows - Antique Pewter, Twilight Ash & Cashmere Cream
- 1 defining eyeliner - Raven Black
- 1 contouring blush - Peach Glow
- 2 luscious lip shades - Plumberry & Cranberry Stain
- 1 My Glossy Lips lip gloss in Sheer [the same with each kit -- I like it a lot; one is now in my purse.]

Here's my look today:
I was very pleased with how this turned out. Some dark colors are too dark for me, and almost impossible to blend as my skin is both light and easily hurt if too much blending is needed. But this worked perfectly, and the mid-tone shade of brown is just beautiful. The entire palette had looked dark to me in the store, but it is nicely vibrant when on.

This makes it look as if my shadows are uneven, but in RL they look perfect. It is the lighting from the camera. You can see how deep and smokey it is.

Primer: I blended the two shades together, and the color exactly matched my eyelids. I have tried each color alone at other times.
Lids: Antique Pewter -- this is a gorgeous brown
Crease and dry lined: Twilight Ash, this is sparkly and very black, similar to a MAC that I have, but very nice to have all in one place for this look
Tightlined: Black liner from palette.

As you can see, the colors work very well together. I was surprised at how pretty the blush is, because it looked too deep for me in the palette. It was perfect on. Just the right balance to the eyes and lips. This is the lighter of the two lip colors, with the Sheer gloss on top. Later today I will show a LOTD with the other color.

Learning to work with her kits
Her kits are heavily pigmented, which I consider a good thing. Once you figure out how much to use, they are very easy to work with.

The easy coordination of colors: A complete look
I like that all the colors are together, for a complete look. And they really do work together, unlike many palettes offered by other companies that generally have some throw-away colors.

It is also easy to use other blush or lippies, so the kits have multiple uses.

Have you tried this palette? or any of her other palettes?
Do you have a favorite?

If you are looking for an easy smokey look, coordinated perfectly, this is for you. I rate it a 5 out of 5.

You can see my earlier posts:
My Sultry Blues Look 1
Look 2
Look 3
LOTD
My Fierce Violets
General information about her palettes can be found here.

Karin
www.savvythinker.com

LAUREN LUKE - MY LUSCIOUS GREENS - PALETTE FOR EYES/CHEEK/LIPS - NEW BOXED

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Originally posted 2009-11-05 10:56:33.

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Eyes:
Outer Lids and dry lined lower: Piqué en pointe
Inner Lids: Terpischore en pointe

Piqué: A lovely mauved purply brown with light-changing lustre, travels from purply-blue to blue-green. (Sheen)

I expected Piqué to be redder, from looking at it in the ziplock sample, but it is a lovely neutral just as described above.

I thought this was a very pretty look and one I would reach for more than once.

Karin
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Originally posted 2009-12-18 07:30:00.

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All products are from Arbonne.
Wednesday:
Mesmerized on lid. Graphite in crease. Slate pencil
I really, really loved this look.

Thursday:
Mesmerized on lid. Dusk, then Graphite in crease. Slate pencil
This was more brown.

I loved this look from Wednesday:
All the colors worked perfectly. I love Graphite, which leans a little gray vs. brown.
Blush lipstick is almost a red-pink or a pink-red.

Thursday:

Lips:
Blush:

Sunset:

This shows how beautiful Mesmerized is:

Karin
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Originally posted 2009-09-25 08:34:47.

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Eyes:
Base: Mac Luna, then BE Queen Phyllis
Shadows: Arbonne Audrey Eyes

Lips: Arbonne Delicious gloss

What do you think?
You can compare this to my look today with Arbonne. One I tightlined with white; the other I tightlined with blackgraph. It's hard to say which I prefer. They are just different.

Trish # 10 Tightlined with MAC Fascinating white:

Arbonne: Audrey Eyes
Tightlined with MAC blackgraph

Karin
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Originally posted 2009-09-18 12:28:46.

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I've played with this set for several days changing placement of the colors, but I didn't take any pictures until today. Generally I don't wear gold or brown shadows very well, but these are quite nice.

Maybelline Eyestudio 05 Give Me Gold
Lined lightly with MAC black graph (top and bottom) and earthline (bottom)

Lips:
MAC Jingle Jangle + Money Honey

What do you think?

Karin
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Originally posted 2009-12-30 16:58:43.

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I saw Collection 2000 (Hustle) glitter gel liner in a Lauren Luke video, and it inspired me to break out the glitter gel liners I have. For the most part, I haven't liked them as well as dry glitter in the past, because the glitter doesn't suspend equally so it goes on uneven, but I thought I'd give them a try again. Hustle is a gorgeous color on, and as near as I can figure, it is not available in the US. Collection 2000 is very reasonably priced. I did not try to dupe the colors Lauren used, which were brighter than these. I might do that tomorrow.

Still working through the samples I purchased.

Eyes:
Base: Nude Frost + BE Queen Phyllis
Outer lids: AL Moth l'orchidee
Inner lids: AL Dragon l'orchidee
Drylined upper and lower: AL Elegie en pointe

Mascara: Icing by Claire duo: violet + silver glitter mascara too
Tight Lined upper and lower: combination of glitter gels from Milano duo mascaras (turquoise; blue; white)+ used Claire glitter mascara as a gel liner too

Moth: Pale and delicate iridescent tones appear softly grey, always changing.
Dragon: Fascinating green, muted in tone but with a smoked base and pearl luster.
Elegie: A dark dose of shimmering jewels. Add to other shades to deepen and dramatize, use wet-lined or all-over for a magnificent, glimmering smokey eye.

Lips:
MAC Funtabulous (orchid dazzle gloss)+ Victoria Secret Roxie gloss (bright pink with purple/blue micro glitter)

Funtabulous: Purple with violet pearl

Karin
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Arbonne's Platinum palette, available for Holiday 2009, is very versatile. There are 4 shadow colors, all with some shimmer: off-white; pink; brown; purple-gray.

I wanted to try several color combinations over the last few days. Any of the colors could be used alone with or without liner. Or the light and darks could be used with each other or just the two light colors, as I did today.

The lip gloss is gorgeous with flashes of micro shimmer. I'm not able to show how pretty it is with my photos.

Monday
Purple-Gray on lid; Brown in Crease.

Tuesday
Gray-Purple on lids with a bit of pink

Wednesday
Off white on lid; pink in crease.
Used with Arbonne Slate pencil liner. This was exactly the right color to give definition without being dark like black would be.

This is used with Paris lipstick, not the gloss from the palette. Isn't it a gorgeous color! I hesitated to buy it, as it isn't something I normally wear, but I think it will be a favorite. I used a very small amount of Arbonne Naughty lip pencil to define the edge. It is darker than the lipstick, and I didn't want to change the color.

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Originally posted 2009-09-23 19:17:02.

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Smokey eyes for a warm fall day. These colors remind me of leaves.

All Arbonne colors unless noted.
Base: Nude Frost (not Arbonne), then BE Queen Phyllis
Lids: Linen, then a mix of Smudge and Inkling
Center of lid and crease: Charade (a sort of bronzey color, recommended by Arbonne for this look, but also used only in the crease in Cat Marnell's youtube I posted the other day.)
Drylined lower: Inkling
Pencil lined top: Mermaid
Pencil lined bottom: Slate

You can see lip info at my LOTD post.

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Originally posted 2009-10-24 11:35:37.

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Ever since they discontinued the Chanel foundation I loved, I've been on a hunt for a replacement. Recently a SA gave me samples of two different formulas and colors, and I've been comparing them either to the Olay foundation or the Maybelline Mousse foundation colors that I have. The discontinued shade was perfect for me. The replacement shades were way too yellow. The new colors are considerably toned down from the yellow.

Eyes:
Mary Kay Summer 2009 set (Turquoise, Brown, Lime)
I felt like trying this one again. Turquoise in crease and outer edge; Brown on inner lids; Lime in center and towards outer corners.
Lined with Prestige Denim Pencil (# 70)

Foundation Chanel (VITALUMIÈRE shade: Diaphane) on one side; Olay 210 Simply Ageless on the other. All else is the same. They are so close in appearance, no one can pick out which side is which. I think the Olay has a little bit more illumination.
Rouge under my sparkly mix of powder: Maybelline # 20 Mousse -- a light apricot
Rouge over my sparkly mix of powder: Mary Kay Pomegranate Cheek Glaze (new) a rosy red.
Highlight up the center of my face: Mary Kay powder highlight (both the sparkly and non-sparkly)

Lips:
Mary Kay Rose + Poppy (both are colored lip balms) then a bit of gloss

I was happy with the look today. I really like the colored lip balms, and I like the cheek glaze colors. More on the cheek glazes and the cream highlighter when I do a review of both. But for now, I really, really like them.

Karin
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