SMASHBOX - Full Exposure Palette - Check out the shades!

I have a new blog over at Wordpress called COLOUR OF MY KISS - while I won't be getting rid of UNAPOLOGETIC I am hoping that they will run alongside one another.  So if you want more shots of the palette and hear about how its made up, whats in it and what I think please head over here:

This link will take you straight to the page with the blogpost on this palette xx

This blog will focus on each of the shades individually - while the top row - which is glittery and shimmery is not as pigmented, it does apply better with a brush, and better still with a damp brush - i use MUA pro setting spray, this helps the shade perform better, adhere better and just last a lot longer on the eye.

So here we go.... first this is what the palette looks like

Now lets break it down - lets start with the top row - the SHIMMERS/GLITTERS

This is a very richly pigmented milk chocolate glitter colour, one of the best pigmented shades from the top row.

This one almost has a caramel shade to it, decent pigmentation and colour payoff - very pretty.

This is my least favourite colour, its a yellow gold colour - and i am not a fan of yellow golds.  This has a nice colour payoff but isnt too strong.

This one is a shimmer, and the only shade without glitter in it - it looks ivory but has a champagne shimmer about it, its very pretty and will look great on the brow bone and/or inner eye.

This is a cool toned gold, much more my thing, the glitters in it are more of a true gold and this shade is not very pigmented at all, the glitter bits are more visible than the colour but with water i think this one will perform better.

This is another cool toned colour, a silvery grey with silver shimmers - poor in pigmentation colour wise, but with water may perform better.

This is a dark charcoal grey with glitter, it has lovely pigmentation and will perform amazingly wet because it already has great pigmentation and I can see me using this a lot.

So now, lets move on to the bottom row, the MATTES

This is a gorgeous matte warm toned milk chocolate colour - nicely pigmented and will look great in the crease with its partner above it on the lid.

Here is the caramel glitters partner in crime, a perfect caramel colour that I will use a lot for crease work, very pretty, warm toned and I would normally go cool toned in the crease, but this is gorgeous.

This almost has a peach tone to it, its a lovely almondy sort of colour - pretty and nicely pigmented, something I haven't already got in my collection so I love this one.

This is a lovely ivory matte shade, less champagne than its glittery counter-part and great for an all over lid colour, blender for us pale girls or a matte highlight for the brow.  Super pigmented and soft.

First of the cool tones, this is nicely pigmented but not a strong colour - its nice that as we reach the cool tones they didnt feel the need to make them super dark to make a colour graduation - this is a nice light colour that will look amazing in the crease and I will use it a lot even if I use it alongside other palettes.

A lovely rich dark milk chocolate, buttery and pigmented and I cannot wait to wear this.  I could see this flipping well and being a lid colour with the glitter as the crease colour.

For all this picture makes the colour look quite grey, this is actually a very pigmented black - it is a matte but glitter from the top can fall in to it and show up when you swatch it.  I love this and can't wait to use it.

The shimmers swatched

The mattes swatched

Watch out for a review on my youtube channel soon and some tutorials and GRWMs, and dont forget to check out my other blog for a detailed look at the palette and read what my first thoughts are xx

MAC Punk Couture Lipstick Haul (comparison and swatches)

I was very excited for the latest of MACs collections, if not a little disappointed with its timing, and I missed out on all the lipsticks i wanted when it went on sale early - however, i was lucky enough to find it on Selfridges website and was able to get what I wanted.  

I was looking forward to this collection as i am a huge fan of vampy lipsticks and in particular purple lipsticks and this collection did not disappoint.

I got 3 of the 4 as the black lipstick Hautecoure was ordered for me by my friend in America when it came out on Black Friday, so i am currently awaiting that dropping through my door.

But enough talking, and lets get to the lipsticks.....

PUNK COUTURE

Punk Couture the collections namesake is a beautiful true bright purple colour, its so vampy and incredibly eye catching on.  Its lighter than smoked purple, is a matte so doesn't have the frost of Violetta and is not as bright as Heroine - in short it's definitely something new to my collection.  I got 2 of these because i knew that this was going to be one of my favourites - I so love a purple lip.

This glides on so well, wasn't patchy on me at all and felt creamy and soft on the lips.  It lasted at least 4 hours on the lips and left something of a berry stain on them.  It also had a slight sheen to it, so not a complete matte finish.  I love it!!  Below are some comparison swatches of some of my other purple lipsticks so you can see the difference.

As you can see I really have nothing quite like it, nothing as deep or as jewel toned.  (These are all MAC lipsticks)

STUDDED KISS

Hello, Lady Gaga, this instantly made me think of the Bad Romance song, and this is such a gorgeous colour.  A deep true red wine colour, and somewhat different to my latest deep reds, darker than Viva Glam 1 and brighter than some of my other matte dark reds.  Check out the comparison photo beneath these images to see the differences - some may be subtle, but i love how studded kiss looks.

This also glided on well, was creamy, long lasting and i loved the colour!  It had a slight sheen to it and looked very glam - i do love a deep dark red lippy!

As you can see with most reds there are always similarities, its not so easy to do a different red as it is a very different purple.  For me fixed on drama comes the closest but on the lips is darker than studded kiss and more matte, and hang up is fairly similar to if not a little more berry toned.  (These are all MAC lipsticks).

The last and my surprising favourite...

INSTIGATOR

Wow, this one blew my mind, different to anything else i own and Im not sure what to compare it to - Instigator is the darkest of the collection and a true deep matte plum.  It is gorgeous!  I got 2 of these as well and so glad I did because this one is going to be a firm favourite of mine.  

This one was the driest of the three but was still creamy and didn't drag at all, thought it did take a little more work to get even on the lips - probably because it is so dark, but that said the end result is amazing.  Its dark, dramatic and the perfect dark plum colour, its an amazing, perfect, and perhaps my fave purple lip I own.  This stained my lips more than the others, and definitely left a berry hued stain on my lips, it came off with a face  wash and some makeup remover, but it did stain.

Not much in my collection to compare this to, deep plums are somewhat new to me, but i feel MAC may be releasing more - they are gorgeous.  

Not much in my collection to compare here, all I had that was remotely plummy was Rihannas Talk that talk, but it was still more raspberry toned than Instigator - so for me Instigator is a stand alone shade in my collection and one I don't already own something similar to.

So there you have it, once I receive Hautecoure I will do another blog post to show you that, including a comparison to the black lipmix and Black Knight (a previous Black Friday MAC special lipstick)

Hope you have enjoyed this blogpost, and if you did check out my video via the link below for swatches, lip applications and a close up look at the lipsticks.

Thanks for stopping by, and remember, your opinion is yours, stand by your thoughts and feelings and be UNAPOLOGETIC xxxx