Sunday, January 25, 2009

Lunasol X'mas coffret, Chanel glossimers

Sorry for the absence! I haven't been around much lately...mostly because of other complications. Thanks for voting on the poll, I appreciate the feedback because its good for me to know what you like reading. From the current results, it looks like there'll be more reviews coming up. Of course, if you'd like to see something else just drop me a line in the comments or email me :)

For today I'm going to post another haul from December, haha. I ordered the Lunasol X'mas coffret from Facial-Shop HK after seeing Lotus Palace's review on it. Also got some Chanel glossimers to go with it since I'd never tried Chanel's glosses before. Its nice how Facial-Shop will give a 5% discount if you buy 3 items (no matter how much each item costs).

Here is the set - it contains a gorgeous bronzy clutch with the following items:

Soft Silver Lightning EX04 eyeshadow palette
Soft Silver Brown Geminate Liner in EX02
Soft Silver Rose EX01 blush
glitter nailpolish

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The eyeshadow palette and nailpolish are full size, while the liner and blush are smaller versions.

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Chanel glossimers:

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Swatches:

L-R: Soft Silver Rose blush on the left, followed by the 4 shades in the eyeshadow palette.

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The blush is very light, its more of a highlighter. I used it with a duo fibre brush the first few times and it barely shows up. I'll have to try it with a traditional blush brush and see if it picks up the colour better.

The eyeshadow colours are typical Lunasol - soft understated colour with fine shimmer. The bottom right shade has larger glitters though without much payoff. The diagram on the box shows its meant to be layered over the other colours in the center of the eyelid for a shimmering effect.


L-R: Soft Silver Brown liner, Chanel Galactic, Chanel Amberlight

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The liner, as with my other blue Geminate liner is gorgeous. Its a shiny brown colour with shimmer. As for the glossimers, I'm not too fond of Amberlight...its a bit too warm for my taste. I like Galactic a lot though, it has a faint pink opalescence, and contains multicoloured fine shimmers.


Look using some of the above products:

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(not including the face products and mascara)

Eyes
Shiseido Hydro Powder in Bare Pink as the base
Pink shade from palette all over lid
Outer 1/2 of lid with the dark brown shade
White highlight under the brow
Finished off with the geminate liner and Lancome Oscillation mascara

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Forgive the shine - I only got the chance to take these pictures after a few hours of wear.

Love this shade of brown :)

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See how the blush doesn't show up at all in the photo? I'll probably just use this as a highlighter in the future.

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Chanel glossimer in Galactic:

No flash
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With flash - brings out the multicoloured shimmer
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If the set interests you, check out Fuzkittie's look with the same eyeshadow palette and blush.

Guess thats it for tonight :) Have a great week!

P.S. Whoops almost forgot to say, Happy Lunar New Year! :D

P.P.S. I just noticed this blog has pictures of the upcoming Lunasol 10th Anniversary set! Check it out here.

12 comments:

AskMeWhats said...

I saw this at HK facial shop too and been lemming for this! You look great! this is a lovely purchase!

Anonymous said...

Happy Lunar New Year to you too!! All the Lunasol items look so nice and elegant, especially the liner, that shade of brown is gorgeous on you!

Unknown said...

Lunasol for Lunar New Year!!

YOu look gorgeous!!

Grayburn said...

Galactic and the eyeliner are both gorgeous. I've got to go get me some!

happy lunar year too!
x Grayburn

Yumeko said...

this is one of my fave purple palettes from them so i am glad to see u got it ^^

♡ Nic Nic ♡ said...

They have a 10th anni set outtttt!!

I am really tempted.. must resist!! its about 10、000円

really pretty but Lunasol is an expensive brand :/

fuzkittie said...

The liner is gorgeous, now you don't need the brown Noble Shade Liner, haha.

I find the blush shows up well after a few layers using a flat blush brush...

iamgrape1119 said...

It is really rich, but it gets absorbed rather quickly. It doesn't smell like anything...Wait, it smells a TINY bit like honey. It really is great.

psychoexgirlfriend said...

Happy new year to you too! :D Love the pink glossimer! BTW, how do you like Bare Pink? It was recommended to me as an eyeshadow to wear on the days I'm feeling lazy but I'm not quite sure about it yet. Haven't really tried anything from Shiseido.

MiuMiu said...

the lunasol set is so pretty! i definitely have to get the anniversary set

cheryl said...

what a great buy! i got a lunasol palette from a swap. my very first japanese palette! this brand makes the prettiest kind of brown shimmer.

theChas said...

Sweet gorgeousness!

I love it! And it's perfect for spring too! MUST RESIST!

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