dorni
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Thanks liba, I will give this a try. Sounds like a good every day alternative, the SF Concealer / MUFE Camouflage routine is time consuming.
MAC Pressed Pigment Collection Discussion (December 2012)
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lilinah
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Quote: Originally Posted by liba
These guys: http://www.maccosmetics.com/product...ssories/Applicators/Eye-Applicator/index.tmpl
Ah! Thanks. I've picked up a few of the tiny hard white spatulas they have out for makeup testing in sephora, but i've been using them to get skin and eye creams out of jars.
I'll look for these the next time i'm in my MAC store.
These guys: http://www.maccosmetics.com/product...ssories/Applicators/Eye-Applicator/index.tmpl
Ah! Thanks. I've picked up a few of the tiny hard white spatulas they have out for makeup testing in sephora, but i've been using them to get skin and eye creams out of jars.
I'll look for these the next time i'm in my MAC store.
lilinah
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Quote: Originally Posted by liba
I like P&P Vibrancy Eye because it depuffs my bags a TON - as good as the Fast Response cream but so much better texture. It also is a great, light-weight base for eye makeup, plus I actually prefer it to concealer, because it's got luminizing particles in it and my eye issues are bags and texture smoothing, not darkness - most concealer just enhances the fact I've got the bags, while meanwhile, I put a little extra of this on next to the bags (not directly on) and it gives the amazing illusion of filling out the whole area so the bags aren't so obvious - it's a much more natural look on me than concealer.
I still use serum and moisturizer too, but I put the Vibrancy Eye on after both of those have sunk in - I even use it if I'm not wearing any eye makeup that day.
Quote: Originally Posted by Naynadine
I'm going through the same right now. I used to just slap on my Moisturecover concealer and my eye area looked great. But over the past year I have developed dark circles and some puffiness and nothing seems to really help. The dark circles are still showing through the concealer and I feel like I look tired all the time. I'm trying the Vibrancy Eye at the moment, which I like a lot, but it's not doing as much as I hope it would. I still have puffiness. And I need to find a concealer with better coverage, which is difficult since I'm so pale and I have very dry skin plus my eye area is very sensitive, so the products can't be scented.
I recently bought the Touche Eclat - love the formula, it blends very nicely into the skin, definitely less cakey than MAC concealers, but I wish they had a really light shade. I got No1 and it's very close to my skintone, but not lighter unfortunately, so it doesn't highlight.
I don't have puffy eyes, rather, my under eye is a little bit sunken with some fine lines. And i don't exactly have dark circles, it's more that the skin beneath my eyes is fairly transparent, so i have a little curve of dark blue-ness from the bridge of my nose a little way into my under eye, no doubt a blood vessel visible through my sheer skin.
Plus the skin on my eyelids and under eye is so very sensitive, and not only to products. If i don't put rich moisturizers on there day and night, my skin will just hurt all by itself.
I find that MAC foundations and concealers are too dry for my skin. But i recently got P+P Vibrancy Eye and i'm liking it. I still need a moisturizer, but P+P VE brightens my dark lids and smoothes things out a bit in my under eye. I actually haven't put e/s over it yet, although i gather it works as a primer. I just wear it out as is. As for concealers, I tried some DS brands and either they weren't emollient enough (hurt to put on and made my skin look drought-stricken) or they made my eyes burn terribly. Then i tested my way through concealers at sephora. The Touche Éclat was a bit too illuminating for my under eye. I ended up buying Lancome Maquicomplet. It's moisturizing enough, blends well, and gives good coverage without being cake-y, but it's a bit expensive. And with the opaque black tube, i have no idea how much is in it nor how quickly i'm using it up.
I'm looking forward to testing some of these Pressed Pigments. I like some shimmer on my lids, it brightens my eyes and makes them look more alert. Doing a look with nothing but matte eye shadows makes my eyes look dull and dead. I use mattes in my crease sometimes, but otherwise i skip them.
I like P&P Vibrancy Eye because it depuffs my bags a TON - as good as the Fast Response cream but so much better texture. It also is a great, light-weight base for eye makeup, plus I actually prefer it to concealer, because it's got luminizing particles in it and my eye issues are bags and texture smoothing, not darkness - most concealer just enhances the fact I've got the bags, while meanwhile, I put a little extra of this on next to the bags (not directly on) and it gives the amazing illusion of filling out the whole area so the bags aren't so obvious - it's a much more natural look on me than concealer.
I still use serum and moisturizer too, but I put the Vibrancy Eye on after both of those have sunk in - I even use it if I'm not wearing any eye makeup that day.
Quote: Originally Posted by Naynadine
I'm going through the same right now. I used to just slap on my Moisturecover concealer and my eye area looked great. But over the past year I have developed dark circles and some puffiness and nothing seems to really help. The dark circles are still showing through the concealer and I feel like I look tired all the time. I'm trying the Vibrancy Eye at the moment, which I like a lot, but it's not doing as much as I hope it would. I still have puffiness. And I need to find a concealer with better coverage, which is difficult since I'm so pale and I have very dry skin plus my eye area is very sensitive, so the products can't be scented.
I recently bought the Touche Eclat - love the formula, it blends very nicely into the skin, definitely less cakey than MAC concealers, but I wish they had a really light shade. I got No1 and it's very close to my skintone, but not lighter unfortunately, so it doesn't highlight.
I don't have puffy eyes, rather, my under eye is a little bit sunken with some fine lines. And i don't exactly have dark circles, it's more that the skin beneath my eyes is fairly transparent, so i have a little curve of dark blue-ness from the bridge of my nose a little way into my under eye, no doubt a blood vessel visible through my sheer skin.
Plus the skin on my eyelids and under eye is so very sensitive, and not only to products. If i don't put rich moisturizers on there day and night, my skin will just hurt all by itself.
I find that MAC foundations and concealers are too dry for my skin. But i recently got P+P Vibrancy Eye and i'm liking it. I still need a moisturizer, but P+P VE brightens my dark lids and smoothes things out a bit in my under eye. I actually haven't put e/s over it yet, although i gather it works as a primer. I just wear it out as is. As for concealers, I tried some DS brands and either they weren't emollient enough (hurt to put on and made my skin look drought-stricken) or they made my eyes burn terribly. Then i tested my way through concealers at sephora. The Touche Éclat was a bit too illuminating for my under eye. I ended up buying Lancome Maquicomplet. It's moisturizing enough, blends well, and gives good coverage without being cake-y, but it's a bit expensive. And with the opaque black tube, i have no idea how much is in it nor how quickly i'm using it up.
I'm looking forward to testing some of these Pressed Pigments. I like some shimmer on my lids, it brightens my eyes and makes them look more alert. Doing a look with nothing but matte eye shadows makes my eyes look dull and dead. I use mattes in my crease sometimes, but otherwise i skip them.
erine1881
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liba
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a combo of not wearing any makeup for years, then getting back into by the time i felt a little too old for pure glitter mixed in with the local Pro store being in the worst neighborhood for parking anywhere in L.A.
I do like all the new-fangled stuff, so I keep myself busy anyways
Icecaramellatte
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So the 215 brush is being repromoted with this collection? I really like that brush for regular shadow and would like a back up.
aradhana
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i don't own any glitters either, but today when i went back to the store to get absolute power, bunch of the sa's were wearing different shades of glitter in the centre of their lids over a black base. it looked awesome! i really liked the copper one...i don't know what it's called but i think i'd like to try it out sometime...(dunno where i'd be wearing it, but it's a minor detail...)
tattletale
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omg @ernie!!! do you have the crystalized one!!! i have been trying to find those everywhere i want all of them!!!
erine1881
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I sure do!!! I glitter!!!
tattletale
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im so jealous!!! if you ever sell them let me know im dying for the crystalized ones!!! i want them for drag!!! btw thanks for all the love on instagram
Prettypackages
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the mineralize concealer is the best, but does not last long enough for me.
I'm going to try it again with the p&p eye. I've been sick this week, so I couldn't conceal my dark circles aat work at all on Thursday, but today they covered nicely. I used the 217. I wonder if that was it.
I guess the PLW is too drying for me. I'm going to stop trying to make it work.
erine1881
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Oooooh what's your IG username!? This way i can put a face to a name! I love meeting (stalking) other artists on IG
froggybella
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Did anyone pick up any pressed pigments along with Apres Chic or Strength haul?
I already hauled Apres Chic from my Pro store on Friday. I picked up pressed pigments in Smoky and Jet Couture. I love the way these showed up on my skin, and they're not the glitter bombs of pressed pigments past.
Naughtyp
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i prreordered two, but cant pick them up until wednesday. i got the off white and the purple one
aradhana
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i picked up jet couture.
chi1216
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Yep. I did.
Prettypackages
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Nope, forgot all about them, I'll have to wait until I can see them in person.
