Haul and Swatches- Pure Luxe Cosmetics

Hi beauties!! Today I'm going to introduce my Pure Luxe Cosmetics (www.pureluxecosmetics.com) collection. For all the shimmery, sparkley, glittery, mineral eyeshadow lovers, this is the line for you.

Pure Luxe Cosmetics was found by Christina Kocher and I was made aware of it by Jangsara (http://jangsara.blogspot.com/), a fellow blogger. Needless to say, after seeing a few of her makeup looks and swatches, I had to try these colors for myself. I was NOT disappointed.

Pure Luxe Cosmetics is an affordable line of mineral eyeshadows, liners, lip glosses and other makeup accessories. The shadows range from $2-$15. As I said, quite affordable.

I've purchased about 20 colors and I love them all. I'm still trying to decide if I like shimmery, sparkley, metallic shadows or matte shadows. Hmmm......thinking!

My swatches definitelyy don't serve any justice to these rich colors. You really have to try them for yourself.

BLUES

Glory- A completely matte dark blue. Looks like crushed velvet in a jar

Boy Toy- Deep, peacock blue with same shade flashy highlights in it.

Twisted- Bold blue (this is a liner powder. Apply wet and it will POP)

Shameless-A tropical blue with green interference (GORGEOUS COLOR)

Oasis- Bright, summery turquoise. Color changes from metallic, blue/green/ pearl biege/ silver

Pandora- Deep green. Metallic finish

BLUE PURPLES/ PURPLES

Blue Jeans- Medium blue with a brighter blue highlight

Utopia- Deep amethyst with charcoal base. Pink/purple interference

Love- Dark, dusty rose with light pink interference and red/pink shimmers.

Seduction- Shimmery burgundy with pink highlights. Works well as a beautiful blusher.

Jezebel- Dusty rose base with blue/ violet interference

Femme Fatal- Beautiful pink/ salmon with pink shimmer

Beauty Queen- SUPER sparkle peach/pink. Sheer base color.

BURGUNDY/ PINK/ GREY

Molten-True red shade. Deep red with brighter red highlights

Risque- Warm red/ brown

Ouch- A candy red with pinkish tone

Ravishing- Medium biege with very pearl finish.

Faceted- Dark taupe/ purple. Changes from red/copper/gold

Dusk- Soft dove grey. Completely matte

GREENS

Kinky- Very rich, medium green with yellow/gold highlight (another GORGEOUS, RICH color)

Tart- Very rich light green with lemony highlights

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Over Indulgence in Molten Grape

Doesn't that sound awesome.....yuuummmm, molten grape!! Well sorry, this isn't about food but simply about this look I created using Molten from Pure Luxe Cosmetics, nameless Purple from Coastal Scents and Arena from MAC

Eyes:

Two Faced Shadow Insurance (shadow primer over entire lid up to brow)
MAC Groundwork Paintpot (entire lid)
MAC Arena (inner lid & highlight)
Pure Luxe Molten (burgandy color mid-to-outer lid up to crease)
Coastal Scents Purple (outer lid into crease)
MAC Embark (brows)
NYX Black Liquid Liner (upper lash line)
Maybeline Volum' Express mascara
MAC Engraved liner (lower lash line)

Face:
MAC NC50 Studio Tech (Foundation)
MAC NW45 Studio Fix (Powder)
MAC Breezy (blush)

Lips:
MAC Over Indulgence Cremesheen Lipgloss

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Embarking Emerald

HAPPY BLESSED NEW YEAR to you and your loved ones. I hope this year has started off with positivity, blessings and resolutions that with positively enrich your lives.

I'm so sorry for not posting in such a long time but honestly, there are so many things happening toooooo quickly. I will continue to pray and trust that my Father will give me direction because at times I feel like a swaying ship in the wind of life.

I got home as quickly as I could this evening just to "play" with makeup and create a look. For me, lighter colors pop more in the daytime so I went for one of my favorite colors- GREEN which would show more in the night.

Green symbolizes so many different things- peace, calmness, regeneration, nature, unfortunately envy, greed and money.

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Blue Christmas....

I'm dreaming of a bluuuuueeee Christmas.

I'm from the Caribbean so we don't have white Christmases but we definitely have blue ones. The skies are usually blue and hopefully tomorrow won't be as rainy as it's been earlier this week.

I'll personally be having a blue Christmas :( because this is one of the most difficult holidays for me. Waking up and not having mom around is VERY hard but thankfully I still have dad who happens to be my hero. I wonder if he knows. I guess this would be the moment to tell him. This Christmas is also going to be unusual for me because this will be the first year in a very long time that my family isn't gathering at my grandmother's house for Christmas lunch :(. Honestly there's NOTHING better than grammie's cooking.

Anyway, I disappeared from the makeup scene because so many things were going on but decided that I better get back into the game so here goes....

You could also find this video for this look on my YouTube Channel at www.youtube.com/user/shadesmakeup

Products:

NYX Jumbo Pencil (Milk)- e/s base

Pure Luxe Cosmetics (Glory e/s)- outer lid

MAC Pure White loose shadow- inner lid

NYX Liquid Liner (Gold)- top lid

Maybeline Volum' Express mascara

MAC Espresso- brows

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