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NARS x Guy Bourdin Color Collection for Holiday 2013

NARS x Guy Bourdin Color Collection
NARS x Guy Bourdin Color Collection

As a child, NARS Founder and Creative Director François Nars discovered Guy Bourdin’s work in the pages of French Vogue. It was then that Nars was first inspired to become a makeup artist. Today François Nars honors Bourdin’s legacy with an entire limited edition collection for Holiday 2013, created in the spirit of Guy Bourdin: bold, uncompromising color and high-impact finishes in shades that launch us into his intriguing, high-fashion world.

Cinematic Eyeshadow ($24.00) (Limited Edition)

  • Wishful Thinking Macaw blue
  • Rage Electric orchid
  • Bad Behaviour Deep pewter
  • Cambodia Pink Copper
  • Mississippi Mermaid Champagne

Cinematic Lipstick ($26.00) (Limited Edition)

  • Future Red Cherry
  • Short Circuit Fire coral
  • Last Tango Dusty rose
  • Goodbye Emmanuelle Hot pink
  • Full Frontal Rose violet

Blush ($29.00) (Limited Edition)

  • Exhibit A Matte, vivid red
  • Coeur Battant Magenta
  • Day Dream Peachy pink

Nail Polish ($19.00) (Limited Edition)

  • Tomorrow’s Red Scarlet flame
  • Follow Me Deep fuchsia
  • No Limits Bright pink violet
  • Union Libre Blosso pink

Availability: The Color collection launches on October 15 at NARS boutiques and www.narscosmetics.com.

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NARS x Guy Bourdin Color Collection
NARS x Guy Bourdin Color Collection

NARS x Guy Bourdin Color Collection
NARS x Guy Bourdin Color Collection

NARS x Guy Bourdin Color Collection
NARS x Guy Bourdin Color Collection

NARS x Guy Bourdin Color Collection
NARS x Guy Bourdin Color Collection

NARS x Guy Bourdin Color Collection
NARS x Guy Bourdin Color Collection

NARS x Guy Bourdin Color Collection
NARS x Guy Bourdin Color Collection

NARS x Guy Bourdin Color Collection
NARS x Guy Bourdin Color Collection

NARS x Guy Bourdin Color Collection
NARS x Guy Bourdin Color Collection

NARS x Guy Bourdin Color Collection
NARS x Guy Bourdin Color Collection

NARS x Guy Bourdin Color Collection
NARS x Guy Bourdin Color Collection

NARS x Guy Bourdin Color Collection
NARS x Guy Bourdin Color Collection

NARS x Guy Bourdin Color Collection
NARS x Guy Bourdin Color Collection

NARS x Guy Bourdin Color Collection
NARS x Guy Bourdin Color Collection

NARS x Guy Bourdin Color Collection
NARS x Guy Bourdin Color Collection

NARS x Guy Bourdin Color Collection
NARS x Guy Bourdin Color Collection

NARS x Guy Bourdin Color Collection
NARS x Guy Bourdin Color Collection

NARS x Guy Bourdin Color Collection
NARS x Guy Bourdin Color Collection

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Alexis Avatar

I’m really excited to see the face kit; maybe a change to try out different NARS products? I don’t own any. Also the mini lipstick set. I am a mini lipstick addict!

Katherine Avatar

Sometimes Sephora NARS Exclusives are exclusive to Space NK in the UK (I think this was the case with Soulshine). Space NK ships to Europe, I think.

xamyx Avatar

Put “nars guy bourdin” into your search engine, and it’ll take you to a couple of sites that have pics… There are also 5 eyeshadow singles in a new, exclusive formula, and a highlightin blush…

The shadows are supposed to have a pearl, metallic finish, and from what I can tell, will be a bright blue, a gunmetal, a bright eggplant, a vanilla, and a coppery orange.

Gena Avatar

I really want to check out the cheek palettes. I bought Danmari last year (year before?), and I LOVE it. I have quite a respectable collection of NARS blushes going. 😉

Shelby Avatar

Fingers crossed that the blush palette is awesome. I already own deep throat, orgasm and sin so it would be awesome if it didn’t have any of those. I’m still upset with myself that I decided against the DanMari palette (2011?)

Lauren @ TheLABofLuxury.com Avatar

Christine, do you hear more about future product launches form WWD, or a brand’s PR? Also, are you subscribed to the online version and/or print version of WWD? I would think you’d get more content from the online subscription, but i want to find out more before subscribing. Thanks in advance for your input! 🙂

Christine Avatar

Hi Lauren,

I find the subscription to be mostly a waste of money for my purposes, so I don’t subscribe currently. The information I needed was maybe two or three times a year. I would also never get the print edition if you don’t live in NYC – I would get 3-7 issues all at once, rather than daily. Usually the brand supplies the WWD article. Only really big launches go through WWD as an exclusive – but primarily brands send information. Honestly, an overseas outlet usually leaks the information well before any U.S. print/online outlet actually puts out their exclusive article about it. If you’re interested in the industry and/or fashion, it may be worth trying once. I just couldn’t sign up at full price after my first year was over – I didn’t use it enough to justify the price.

fancie Avatar

The packaging is cute! I really want the One Night Stand palette. I’m interested in the other palette as well. Also is that bright fuchsia product in the far left a blush or eyeshadow? It looks gorgeous!

stacey Avatar

I dont buy NARS anymore. But I do give NARS credit for having something new each season. NARS did not do that before. It has step up the game where I feel UD has went back wards since Loreal bought UD.

Indigo Avatar

Looking forward to the collection… especially the blush palettes although I had hoped Orgasm and Laguna weren’t included. Oh well… The whole collection looks interesting. I hope they are as good as I’m hoping them to be. I do like that lip purse(?) too.

Tasha Avatar

This really does look intriguing but I have not been impressed with some of the Nars collections in the past. I am hoping for a good review/swatches when they come out! The lips were the first thing that caught my eye though!

Esme Avatar

Coeur Battant is blowing my mind, and I can’t wait to hear more about the Cinematic Lipsticks–it’s about time that NARS came out with a new finish. Lip pencils aside, they don’t have a lot of options between sheer and matte/semi-matte.

Stephanie Avatar

I’m a Nars blush collector, excited to see new colors! And I’m happy they aren’t 41 bucks like the most recent LEs. HEHEHE
Now, if i could only get my hands on that Nars Strawberry Fields LE lip gloss. Thanks for the post!

Jessica T Avatar

Have you seen some of the photos and images they are using on the packaging? such as a woman laying naked face down in the grass? How that is appropriate marketing for a cosmetics line beats me. I will not buy anything from this collection and will probably not buy from NARS again in the future. Think of the impressionable young girls and women who will see this packaging. I don’t get what the point is. If you want to call his photos art then fine, but don’t commercialize them and market them towards women. I won’t support a company objectifying women and glorifying violent images.

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