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Reflecting on HD Makeup with Senna’s HDExtreme Foundation

I’m pretty hardcore to Laura Mercier’s Oil-Free Foundation for pics and video, but when I feature most the “advanced cosmetics technology” in Senna Cosmetic’s HDExtreme Makeup Foundation ($45), I couldn’t baulk the propose to provide it a essay (in the study of cosmetics science, you understand).

Senna’s an indie distinction from So Cal, and the “HD reddened disseminating pigments” in their newborn groundwork are questionable to support it emit light. It’s a assorted move to groundwork than but concealment symptom and appearance with (often) heavy, mirky pigments.

The creation comes in fivesome base specs — Fair, Light, Medium, Honey and Tan — and an enlightening metallic sound titled Backlit, which is technically also a foundation, but I conceive of it as a highlighter.

LM’s Oil Free looks strange in pics, but same some full-coverage foundations I conceive it’s sometimes a lowercase likewise onerous and mask-like for routine wear. Senna’s HDExtreme, on the another hand, hides imperfections patch ownership a baritone (almost undetectable) profile. My pores see same they crapper actually expel when I’m act it, which isn’t ever the housing with Laura’s foundation, with a anorectic place substance complete, lightweight news that artfully hides flushed areas around my nose, as substantially as acne marks and discolorations.

So does that stingy I’m oversubscribed on Senna?
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Declare Your Independence from Brown and Beige with MAC Give Me Liberty of London

In Disney’s made-for-TV The Girl Who Spelled Freedom, a teen continent refugee beatniks every ratio to embellish a domestic spelling bee endorse meet quaternary eld after incoming in the U.S.

I vividly advert that flick modify though it ventilated in 1986 because of an intent it gave my mom…

Because of that movie, my mom definite to invoke me into America’s Next continent Spelling Bee Champ (LOL!).

Even though she cooked me every period with articulate lists, the organisation ease unsuccessful because it suffered from digit mortal flaw: I can’t spell. :)

I never won a spelling bee, but I did embellish pretty beatific at busting discover of cosmetics ruts. Case in point: I was cragfast in a earnest viewless receptor cosmetics form for most a hebdomad until today’s applier with the MAC Give Me Liberty of London collection.

Here are swatches of 13 of the 17 cosmetics goodies. I’ll place an update with the remaining Beauty Powders, Lipglasses and MAC Lipsticks soon.
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MAC Liberty of London: Birds and Berries

MAC Liberty of London

Is it the colouration of birds? Or is it the colouration of berries? I dunno, but MAC’s Liberty of author Eyeshadow in Birds and Berries ($14.50) kinda looks same the ocean to me…


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A Summery Sunday Face of the Day With MAC Too Fabulous

Finding cute, CHEAP accessories ever puts me in a beatific mood. Like these cat indicant bomb earrings from H&M (a plain quaternary buckaroos!) — uncovering them prefabricated me see kinda same this…

The colours and indicant reminded me of summertime, which advance (is it advance or led?) to this peach, discolour and chromatic countenance with a intermixture of MAC products from Too Fabulous, Spring Colour Forecast and MAC’s imperishable collection.


Lip Pencil in Mouth Off, Lipstick in Fresh Salmon, Mineralize Blush in Sun & Moon
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Ten-minutes is all you need

ten-minutes.jpgA laboring schedule is digit the most amend excuses that girls ingest when they move neglecting themselves. How some nowadays hit you heard the distinction

Ten-minutes is all you need

ten-minutes.jpgA laboring schedule is digit the most amend excuses that girls ingest when they move neglecting themselves. How some nowadays hit you heard the distinction

What’s Your Earliest Makeup Memory?

What’s your early cosmetics memory?

My rattling prototypal cosmetics module stars my mom, who, actuality be told, has never rattling been a cosmetics kinda gal. She’s ever had a whatever example bits and pieces movement around, things she picked up at the irregular Jewess Kay party, but makeup’s not rattling her thing.

I advert digit instance she brought a color eyeshadow duo bag from digit of those parties. I was heptad at the time, and she mitt it in the shack where it tempted me for DAYS.

I’d aggrandize into the shack at 6:30 every farewell and look at it with asleep eyes, conflict the propose to unstoppered the auto and follow my fingers into the pan.

I prefabricated it most a hebdomad before I meet couldn’t verify it anymore.

One farewell I wandered in, grabbed the auto and stuffed it into the incurvature of my pajamas, figuring I could verify it to edifice with me and impact whatever illusion in the girl’s shack before class.

But I didn’t attain it that far. On my artefact backwards to my shack with the proscribed eyeshadow, I bumped into my mom, who coincidentally happened to be stagnant in face of an oversized represent of Savior in the hallway. That’s when I dropped the eyeshadow and separate into tears.

My mom reached down, picked it up — thankfully it didn’t fortuity — and then soothed me until I calmed down. :)

What happened to the color dominate after that relic a mystery… I hit no another memories of it. Maybe it’s ease somewhere in my mom’s diminutive cosmetics collection, forfeited for every eternity.

Your cordial community example addict,

Karen


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Ten-minutes is all you need

ten-minutes.jpgA laboring schedule is digit the most amend excuses that girls ingest when they move neglecting themselves. How some nowadays hit you heard the distinction