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Your skin tone/coloring: Under my name.
Most used lip product this month? Dior 674 Midnight Rose and Sisley Le Phyto Rouge in 42 Rio
Go-to cheek products this month? I have used Chanel Reflex the most.
Favorite eye palette this month? I have been doing a lot of basic neutral looks this month and going with a bolder lip. My most used palette, if you could call it that since it is only 3 shades, is the Inglot Freedom System Rainbow Matte in 117 which is a trio of matte cool toned browns. I will then add a shimmer shade just to the ball of the eye and usually it has been something from the Natasha Denona I Need a Nude palette or a shade from the Dior palette Intesif Eye.
Your skin tone/coloring: Under my name (blue-green eyes, dark hair)
Most used lip product this month? Probably PMG Omi and She’s Heaven, Fenty Gloss Bomb in Fenty Glow and ChocoLit, Nyx SLP in Earthtone and Mahogany. Also, Tower 28 Seseme lipgloss.
Go-to cheek products this month? MAC Blushbaby, Fenty Rose Latté, PMG Desert Orchid blush, and the highlighters in both a PMG cheek trio and ND Love Cheek Duo, Huda Beauty Tan-Light bronzer.
Favorite eye palette this month: Been hitting hard on a very consistent basis both the Huda Beauty Pretty Grunge palette and the Danessa Myricks Lightworks 5 palette! (They actually work really nicely together, too)
Your skin tone/coloring: light-medium, warm olive
Most used lip product this month? Hourglass At Dawn with Kiko Milano Lost in Amalfi 02 Pencil
Go-to cheek products this month? Kevyn Aucoin The Contour Book vol 3
Favorite eye palette this month? Pat McGrath Subliminal Platinum Bronze
Most used lip product this month? Urban Decay lipstick in Manic plus anything glossy.
Go-to cheek products this month? I tried ColourPop cream blusher and…I think it will work better when it’s not 40 outside. Trying to get it to spread was a battle.
Favorite eye palette this month? ColourPop Petals en Pointe with Quartz palette for some definition! (I wish those were just 1 palette….
YOUR SKIN TONE/COLORING:
Under my name; copper hair; hazel/green eyes.
MOST USED LIP PRODUCT THIS MONTH?
Haus Labs La Riot Lip Gloss in Ethereal; ColourPop Lux Lipstick in Bloom 2 Bloom; various lip balms.
GO-TO CHEEK PRODUCTS THIS MONTH?
MAC Nippy’s Pink Rose Powdered Blush
FAVORITE EYE PALETTE THIS MONTH?
Pat McGrath Lunar Nightshade; Lurella Cosmetics Silent Night
Your skin tone/coloring: Very fair, cool undertone
Most used lip product this month? Fenty lip oil, Fresh Advanced Therapy balm
Go-to cheek products this month? Give Me Glow Party Favor, Gucci Rosy Beige, Tom Ford Rose Irise, MUFE Wherever Pearl, ColourPop Spotlight
Favorite eye palette this month? Vieve Ninetease and Natasha Denona midi Xenon
I’ve been thinking of getting ND midi Xenon, how do you like it compared to Nineteaze?
Can you give me a short review?
I really like the look of Xenon and it may be the thing I’ll buy when all treatments are done sometime next year. I mean, a little pick me up palette is good for the soul, right?
I love the midi Xenon! The formulas are great. Below is the review I posted to Beautylish.
Although I can dupe this color story many times over in my entirely cool toned collection, I bought this palette for the formulas and I have no regrets. The cream to powder and mattes apply beautifully with my natural hair brushes as the formulas are pigmented but buildable and blend effortlessly. The shimmers, best applied with fingertips, are a mix of smooth, high shine metallics and wet looking sparkly toppers. I always use an eye primer, either Nars Pro-Prime or Hourglass Veil, and other than some minor fallout from the toppers, the shadows last all day with minimal fading or creasing. The color story is more versatile than it appears, with shades ranging from bright white to deep charcoal and navy, as well as iridescent ivory, pale pink, taupe and champagne. Unlike traditional grayscale palettes, I’m able to create many different looks for daytime, night and special occasions and I think it will work for a variety of skintones. This is a beautiful palette and as someone that’s vampire pale and can’t wear warm tones, this is what I wanted Glam to be. I can’t recommend it enough.
Thank you so much, Cara!
This is what I hoped you’d say, I’m absolutely going to buy midi Xenon later this year.
I’m not cool toned as you, I’m neutral, so I can use warm tones, just not really, really warm ones for example pale golds are OK, warm yellowy golds are not. I prefer cool to neutral eyeshadows.
I think you’ll really enjoy it!
My review of midi Xenon is below but I accidentally forgot to login when posting it. It’s very different from Ninetease and I don’t see any overlap. I highly recommend both!
Ninetease is gorgeous. As if LC Venus Immortalis and A couple of d/c’d Lunatick coffin palettes had a baby. Bring on more cool choices!
My most used lip product for December 2023 is the GXVE by Gwen Stefani clean lip gloss in all of my love. It was my go to product.
Go to cheek palette this month?
The new Hourglass medium tone cheek palette. Love the colors.
Eye palette for this month? A close tie between Colour pop 11:11 palette and Natasha Denona I need a nude palette.
I’m light/medium tone
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Your skin tone/coloring: light, MAC NC 20
Most used lip product this month? Perricone MD No Lipstick Lipstick, Saint Jane Lip Oil in Bliss, Lancôme Color Design Lipstick in Pale Lip
Go-to cheek products this month? Rare Beauty Liquid blush in Wisdom & Virtue, Tom Ford blush in Wicked
Favorite eye palette this month? Makeup by Mario Ethereal Eyes, Charlotte Tilbury Super Nudes Eye Palette
Your skin tone/coloring: Porcelain, with pink undertones
Most used lip product this month? I guess this was the month I purchases/received quite a few new lipsticks, so I have been wearing those: YSL’s Desert Sun and a Givenchy one, but also my old standby’s of Maybelline’s Spice for Me, Mauve for Me, CP’s Drama Much, Trending and Party Mix.
Go-to cheek products this month? Benefits Schelle blush. After the disastrous MAC one, this is proving to be perhaps something I would buy again.
Favorite eye palette this month? Most definitely Pat’s Sublim Blond Ambition palette, with the 6 pan Platinize Bronze palette as well. For pops of colour I used my trusty SG Temptalia On the Horizons palette.
Your skin tone/coloring: Above, grey-green eyes, right now very short hair of an undecided colour. Used to be dark brown.
Most used lip product this month? MAC Beam There, Done That.
Go-to cheek products this month? MAC Breath of Plum.
Favorite eye palette this month? I mostly used singles this month.
Your skin tone/coloring: pale, cool
Most used lip product this month? MAC Dallas (ha- bet you thought I’d say Craving! Fooled ya!)
Go-to cheek products this month? TheBalm Downboy. I haven’t used it in years but it’s really nice for this time of year when I’m pretty pale and don’t want to look like my cheeks are ON FIRE!
Favorite eye palette this month? Hmmm – tough one. A tossup between MUFE Nudes You Need and UD’s Game of Thrones palette (if they would release a palette of their former excellent quality shadows in the shades Winter Is Here, Casterly Rock, House Targaryan, Stormborn, with Frozen North, Weirwood Leaves, Dothraki and maybe The Sight and Nymeria thrown in – they could give them all new names – I would buy it in a heartbeat!)
Your skin tone/coloring: above with freckles, green eyes, brown hair.
Most used lip product this month? Probably my elf cosmetics lip oil in Honey Talks.
Go-to cheek products this month? My Charlotte Tilbury Lightwands and SG Luminous Light palette.
Favorite eye palette this month? Three way tie between Blend Bunny Sugar and Grunge, Danessa Myricks Lightwork V, and Ensley Reign Harvest Moon.
Your skin tone/coloring: Light neutral skin tone, green eyes, salt & pepper hair
Most used lip products this month? Rouge Dior Matte in Mitzah and Charlotte Tilbury Matte Revolution in Pillow Talk (I hated the formula of this one, but instead of returning it, I threw it in a drawer where it stayed for most of the year, but I decided to give it another chance this past month…and now I love it!)
Go-to cheek products this month? Clinique Cheek Pop in Pink Honey
Favorite eye palette this month? I only used single shadows this month.