Whores Wear Rouge...Ladies Pinch Their Cheeks

A while back I remember coming across an image of a woman with her face beat (translation: makeup was flawless) In this image the artist used what appeared to be a skin tone shimmer eye shadow, the shadow looked phenomenal. The shadow was ORB by ILLAMASQUA, a London based company that till recently only had international shipping on their website but did not stores overseas. While on vacation in New York I went to sephora and was delighted to see Illamasqua's products in the stores window display. I grabbed their loose pigment in Orb and am happy to report it looked exactly on my skin tone (which was much different then the woman's in the image) as it did in the image I saw. This These cosmetics are great, they come in tons of wonderful colors, highly pigmented and come in sizable containers; a little definitely does go a long way. Unfortunately for Canadian residence(like myself) Illamasqua is not available in Canada, but you can definitely order products on their website www

NARS has released their 2011 Holiday Makeup collection! I recently picked up the eyeshadow trio in Arabian Nights. The palette comes with three shimmery shades - black with red glitter, black with purple glitter & black with green glitter. The shadows look great in the packaging but fall short when applied. The glitters you see in the shadow do not show up when applied and you end up with dark red, dark purple and a dark green matte shade with a slight sparkle instead.  I did find that if applied over a cream shadow base or with a eyelid primer the pay off is a bit better, but over all I was disappointed with my purchase.  ____________________________________________________________