Thursday, April 9, 2015

Lavshuca Light Mix Eyes Part II

Having been surprised with the Lavshuca Light Mix Eyes palette GN-1, I very much looked forward to this BR-2 as it looks like a neutral taupe palette online. I got it for a really good price too, because it's quite old ^.^ It certainly looked very pretty and promising when it arrived.

The gradation of softness is slightly different with this BR-2 than with the GN-1 palette. With this BR-2, the base/highlighter at top left is still the driest, then the sparkling top wash at bottom right, then the liner shade at bottom left, and finally medium crease shade at top right is the softest. However, despite the high hopes I don't enjoy this palette. There's not a metallic shade, which is probably the biggest disappointment for me. And individually, the colors are pretty but they don't work well together at all as a palette. More details below.

All pictures taken in natural light without flash.

- BR-2: Let's just say the color scheme is a bit, umm, confused. It's as if the palette itself has an identity crisis and can't decide whether it wants to be cool, neutral, or warm. As a result, you have a palette that clashes and fights with...itself -.-"

Clockwise from top left:
- Base/highlighter: shimmer, very sheer. A silvery gray with blue flecks in the pan and goes on a silvery gray with a blue tint, definitely a cool color.
- Medium crease shade: shimmer, low intensity. A translucent taupe with very fine whitish shimmers. It would have been nice had they stop here, but no, they added larger rose gold shimmer particles, making this color lean warm. So already, a cool base/highlighter with a medium crease shade that leans warm. Also, this color is less pigmented than the lid shade in GN-1.
- Top wash: high shimmer, very sheer. A translucent champagne but gains some opacity and is very obviously yellow gold when seen from an angle. So despite its appearance in the pan, this is a warm color.
- Liner shade: shimmer, high intensity. A pretty and shimmery blackened taupe brown with a good dose of silver shimmers floating on top. I would say this color is neutral, and there you have it, a very confused palette with a mix of cool, neutral, and warm colors thrown together.

See my previous Lavshuca Light Mix Eyes post.

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