LOTD & Tutorial: Eye Make-up to Match a Grey Dress

A few days back I did a post about matching or rather complementing our makeup with our outfit. Well in continuation to that post today I plan on doing an EOTD to match a grey dress. Of course if it would have been a look for a night out, I would have gone for a heavy smoky look but as I was interested in doing a look for a daytime event, I settled for a shimmery green look with a slight smoky effect to it. It looks something like this:

Soft Green-Grey Smoky Eye

The products I have used for this look are as follows:
1. NYX Eye shadow base
2. MAC Peacocky Collection Eye shadow in EGO
3. Coastal Scents 88 Original Eye shadow palette
4. Maybelline Gel Eyeliner
5. Maxfactor False Lash Effect Mascara
6. Maybelline Colorsensational Lipstick in "Coral Crush"

The way to do it:
1. I first primed my eyes with the NYX eye shadow base.
2. Then I dabbed MAC eye shadow in EGO in a dab dab motion with a flat eye shadow brush

MAC Peacocky Collection: Eye shadow called EGO

3. Next, I took the matte taupe eye shadow from my coastal scents palette and using a Faces blending brush applied it to my crease area and blended well.

Coastal Scents Original 88 Palette

Using the matte Taupe eye shadow in the crease area

4. Finally, I lined my eyes with Maybelline Gel Eyeliner and applied mascara and lipstick...

The final look was this:

Hope you guys liked the makeup here :)

For the complete look including the dress and the footwear, visit isimplylovedressup.blogspot.com 

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REVIEW & LIP SWATCH: Colorbar Lip Pot in Coral Crush

Since the time I got to know about the launch of Colorbar's Lip Pots, I have been covetting them and well unfortunately they are just not available in Pune. Therefore I asked my co-sister who was to be visiting us for a while to get me a lip pot in Coral Crush from Delhi. The moment I lay my eyes on it I haven't really been as ecstatic as I had hoped to me.

Well I shouldn't really be unfair to the product (or to my co-sister for that matter), but Colorbar's Lip Pot don't impress me much (a-la Shania Twain, if you didn't really get it!) and well i don't think I'll be getting myself another shade in it. No doubt the packaging is really cute (I am a sucker for lil dibbis) and the product swatches wonderfully on my had and the quality is good but that is exactly where the fell-good factor ends.. Am I being too choosy? Well you guys be the judge then :)

First off the "dibbi" is really tiny! You get a mere 6gms of product for INR 495/-... Ok 6gms isn't all that less, MAC Paint Pots give 5gms of product for INR1200/- but then the consistency of the two products are so not comparable! :P The lip pot no doubt is very moisturizing but Colorbar could seriously have worked on the pigmentation as well! I found it more like a tinted lip balm :(

I know I know the Indian blogosphere is teaming with praises and oohs and ahhs about the lip pots... Maybe it's just me that I am so not impressed with the product!

Here is a point-by-point review of the product...

Image of the Product

Colorbar Lip Pot in Coral Crush

 

Swatches

Colorbar Lip Pot in Coral Crush (without flash)

Colorbar Lip Pot in Coral Crush (with flash)

Lip Swatch

Oooohhsss and Aaahhss!

1. The product is extremely moisturizing and is not drying one small bit.

2. The shades in the range are simply gorgeous.

3. The packaging is very cute.

4. Does not cause any reactions or allergies.

5. Nice and creamy consistency.

Ouches!

1. The shade range is pretty limited.

2. The lip pots have a distinct artificial smell that is also present in Colorbar's Velvel Matte Lipsticks.

3. Poorly pigmented.

4. Doesn't stay on for long, max for about 40 mins to an hour.

5. The dibbi is very small and contains very less product

6. Could and should have come with a lip brush.

Price

It costs INR 495/-

Repurchase?

No, I will not purchase it again and the same goes for the other shades in the range. I get a similar consistency and a hydrated experience with NYX round lipsticks and they stay on for longer :)

Would I recommend it?

Again, no! I would not recommend lip pots to lipstick lovers. Yes connoiseurs of lip glosses may just love it :)

Overall Rating

6/10

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