The Clarins Neo Pastels Collection Turns Down the Lights - Makeup and Beauty Blog

I wonder what would Neo from The Matrix would think nigh the new Clarins Neo Pastels Collection. Would he consider ditching his black cloak and heart-searching persona for its uplifting makeup in pink, purple and peach?

I highly doubt it, just ya never know. 🙂

SCI-FI SIDE NOTE: Now, my girl Trinity would probably dig that pop of black liner the Neo Pastels model is wearing on her lower lash line, but I digress…

Back to makeup in three, two, one…

Available now on counters and online at clarinsusa.com, the new Neo Pastels Collection features 21 new and repromoted items consisting of an middle palette, vi blushes, 12 lipsticks, one mascara and a wrinkle-smoothing primer in a palette of primarily soft pinks, purples, peaches, with a sprinkling of neutral brown, beige and black thrown in for safety mensurate. To me the colors seem similar typical (in a proficient fashion) spring/Easter shades.

With the collection, Clarins says they wanted to gloat the annual spring renewal by interpreting pastels in a new way. Like Chanel did with pearly finishes in Les Perles de Chanel, Clarins tried to play with varying degrees of sheen, shade and shine to requite faces, eyes and cheeks a subtle radiance — almost like a halo of colour.

At least that was the idea. Looking at the swatches now, the concept might have been lost on me, but I wouldn't say that'south a bad thing. I do similar many of these colors, only they're darker than typical pastels — a good affair, perhaps, if darker also makes them wearable on a wider range of pare tones.

Take the Eye Colour & Liner Palette ($xl), for case, and I'm hoping its brown, pink and violet shades will be wearable by pale princesses and tan temptresses alike.

Even so, gals who had their hearts set on pure pastels might want to expect elsewhere, like to Dolce & Gabbana's Secret Garden, with its more traditional pastel greens, violets and pinks.

Grays have been showing upward in several of this jump's collections from lines like Chanel, Dior, Dolce & Gabbana and Laura Mercier, but I was quite surprised not to notice whatsoever in Neo Pastels. Nada. Zip. Zero. You won't find whatsoever gray here, folks!

But while you won't notice any gray, you volition probably spot some fingerprints. I can already tell that trying to keep this packaging pristine will exist a useless attempt considering prints are easy to notice sitting on the surface of these shiny gold compacts. Not a big deal, just it might be something for the super spies with secret identities to consider. 🙂

The first time I saw the model in the promo picture show at the peak of this post, I fell in love with her eyes. The ethereal purples and pinks suck y'all in and then Prisoner of war! — there'southward that blackness liner along the waterline. She's like a biker angel. All she needs at present is a leather jacket to ride her winged hog into the sky…

It was awesome of Clarins to include so many blush (six) and lipstick colors (12), too. Each of the blush pans contain four blushes (like kitchen tiles?) designed to work either separately or together. You could use the matte blushes to contour and sculpt, and the shimmery ones to highlight. Cool, right?

The product I'm least excited about is the new Instant Polish Line Correcting Concentrate ($32), a creamy, colorless primer for filling wrinkles.

I like the idea of the pen, but it has that polish, slippery texture I see with products containing a lot of silicones (ahem, Smashbox Photo End Primer); I'yard not a big fan considering I can feel the product sitting on my skin (my pores are suffocating!).

Clarins Neo Pastel Swatches on NC35 Skin

Middle Color & Liner Palette with the flash, $forty

Without the wink

Rouge Hydra Nude Smoothing Foam Lipstick swatches with the flash from the left: 01 Nude Rose, 02 Nude Coral, 03 Nude Beige and 04 Nude Caramel, $24 each

Blush Prodige Illuminating Cheek Colour swatches with the flash from the left: 01 Lovely Rose, 02 Soft Peach, 03 Miami Pink, 04 Sunset Coral. 05 Rosewood and 06 Spiced Mocha, $28 each

Acme row Jolie Rouge Perfect Smoothen Sheer Lipsticks swatches from the left: 02 Rhubarb, 03 Guava and 08 Pink Sugar (not pictured are 01 Melon, 04 Praline, 05 Papaya and 06 Fig), each $24; bottom: Instant Shine Line Correcting Concentrate, $32

Wonder Perfect Mascara with the flash, $24

Swatches with the wink, offset row: Rouge Hydra Nude Smoothing Cream Lipstick; 2nd row: Chroma Prodige Illuminating Cheek Colour; third row: Jolie Rouge Perfect Polish Sheer Lipsticks; and fourth row Instant Smooth Line Correcting Concentrate

Swatches without the flash

And because I can't get enough sci-fi…

Have y'all seen Being Homo still? It's a new (I retrieve it's new) show on the Syfy aqueduct. Pic Three'south Company if Three's Company starred a werewolf, a vampire and a ghost. They share an flat and help each other through the kinds of day-to-mean solar day troubles that plague supernatural creatures, similar, ya know, trying to resist killing relatives/coworkers, etc., etc.

In that location's a British version of the prove with a different cast. I've seen that one, also, but not surprisingly I get more of the popular civilisation references in the American one. In terminal night's episode the ghost asked the werewolf and the vampire if they were "gonna become all Twilight on each other." Hehe… 🙂

I'd recommend it, just what do I know? I watched the entire offset season of Bailiwick of jersey Shore (three times).

So what take yous been watching lately? Anything I should know about?

Your friendly neighborhood beauty aficionado,

Karen

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