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The Looks of January 2010

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The Looks of January 2010

With January wrapping up today, make sure you haven’t missed any of this month’s looks… from bright to bold to smoky to neutral to red lips!

What was your favorite?

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Melinda Avatar
Melinda

Hi Christine :o) You always look Amazing in all your looks.. How do you find the time ?? I <3 You.. & Appreciate All the Hard Work you Do for Us.. Wish You always The Best! Know that It is Greatly Valued oxox Melinda

Angelique Avatar
Angelique

I absolutely loved the Glitter Makeup: Stila Jewel Eye Palette Look!! The colors are amazing, your blending is superb and the whole look is gorgeous on you. Very well done!!

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Anitacska

I think it’s a great idea to recap as sometimes I struggle to find looks I wanted. By the way, did you ever do any looks with the Guerlain holiday (Bal de minuit?), Brun mordore and the Slavic beauty quads? I could have sworn you did, but could never find them. 🙁

Out of these my absolute favourite was the All warmed up look. I’ve printed it out for reference too. 🙂 I also loved the pinks, purples and teals. Those are the colours I wear the most anyway. 🙂

Christine Avatar
Christine
Light Medium, Neutral, slight yellow undertones. Normal-to-Dry skin. View Christine Full Profile

I don’t think I ever did any looks with those three, but I did one with the spring quad – http://www.temptalia.com/spring-makeup-light-pinks-purples

I want to say I did do one with the holiday quad, but I can’t find photos, so maybe I dreamt that!

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Basak

It would be great to link the pictures to the posts! I thought the same when you did the red lippy recap. It’s a bit hard to go up and down to see the names of the looks :/

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Christine
Light Medium, Neutral, slight yellow undertones. Normal-to-Dry skin. View Christine Full Profile

Hey Basak,

I’ll see what I can do to make it easier, but one of the problems is just getting everything to line-up and evenly spaced, which is much, much easier to do with one big graphic than 17 different graphics + text/links underneath (since some titles are long, some are shorter, etc.)!

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Amanda

My favorite is “Summer Makeup: The Bright Sunset.” I think it looks gorgeous with brown eyes. Hopefully I will be able to buy all the eyeshadows so I can wear a similar look this summer.

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aradhana

wow! you have been busy! it was great to come to your site after a couple of days and get to see a bunch of brand new looks!

it’s a tough choice, but i’m tending towards the smoky tarnished look…but i did love the stila jewel look and the extremely bright sunset one!

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Ceriene

I love how you cover a wide range of looks, Christine. It goes the lot of us a lot to choose from if we ever feel like trying something new. I just wanted to tell you thank you for all the work you put into it and congrats on a job really, really well done. 🙂

Would you mind a really vague request for a look though?

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Ceriene

Thanks, Christine. It’s no problem if you can’t fulfill it. 🙂 You’d be way too busy, if you took every request you were given.

Most of your looks that have color are… very bright and bold. I’d really like to see a look done with some matte/satin shadows, that have some color, but aren’t necessarily bright. Like a wearable every-day look, that isn’t done in just nudes and neutrals. I… hope I’m making sense?

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Hyzenthlay

My favorite is definitely the Golden Berry look, though I love some of the other more neutral looks. I went to MAC last weekend and got the colors that you used in the Golden Berry look, and on my list of things to do today is to try and replicate it! I am REALLY excited to try it 🙂 Whenever I wear cranberry colors, I receive a lot of compliments, so that look should go very well with colors I wear frequently. Last weekend I also got Lancome Voile de Rose (from the Spring Season) and I LOVE it! I use it with Sheer Raspberry lipliner and a little clear gloss . . . I like wearing it even with the gloomy weather we’re having in northern California, because it makes the clouds not so dark somehow 🙂

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Andrea

I loved all of these looks, but my favourite is a toss up between the Stila Jewel Eye Palette look and the Tarnished Gold look with the Alice in Wonderland Palette!

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Grace

Christine, I really appreciate the summary. I luv your posts, but I particulary enjoy your looks. Thanks for summarizing your looks in one post — that way I don’t have to flip thru all my emails to find “that one look” I was looking for. Thanks again!!!

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Luisafer

We can see all the time and hard work you put to keep this site as interesting, useful and amazing by the way!!!
Love ALL of the looks, so many ideas, Thank you!!!

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Linda

My favourite is the Valentine’s day makeup, because I really adore Dragon on you! I like it so much that I have just bought it for my Valentine to be unforgettable 😉

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Amy

My favorite is definitely the “Glitter Makeup: Stila Jewel Eye Palette Look.” I love the rich purples and, of course, the glitter! Anything purple and sparkly is a win-win for me!!!

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