em michelle phan: day life palette: day dreaming

hi all! here's the first installment of my swatches and impressions of the em michelle phan's day life palette: the day dreaming quadrant. (to see the original haul post, click here. for the day dreaming sampler post, click here.)

instead of doing one whole swatch-fest post of the entire palette, i decided to make a post about each quadrant individually. so for this post and the next three installments (when i can get to them, school and work come first unfortunately), i'll have a face of the day photo with a recreation of the look on the card that was included with the palette, swatches of the pans in that quadrant, and my initial impressions of the quadrant. ~Lindsay-chan ^.~

 

eyeshadows 6 to 1, blush, lips 2 & 1 (corresponding names are below); shadows are swatched over milani eye primer

impressions:
eyes:

1. onyx dreams -- i'm not so sure about this one. it's not quite as dark as it seems in the pan. i think that as a "liner" color it needs some help when applied, like a fixative or a wet brush to make it darker. but if you apply it dry, it looks gray and just kinda fades away..
2. storm kiss -- this also isn't all that great of a liner color. again, if some sort of fixing agent was used, i think it would go on a stick on a lot better. i prefer this in the outer v to darken that corner
3. fantasy -- i really like this as a center of the eye to outer corner color it's such a pretty duochrome purple/gold
4. silver lining -- i really like this color as a base it's a pretty blue/purple/silver type duochrome that's prefect for softer looks
5. light violet -- this is a pretty shell pinky-purple kind of color, i really like it. i think it's a great highlight-type color and the pigmentation is pretty decent.
6. french kiss -- i applied this to my eye with my finger, but it's ok. it's a pretty chalky pink kind of color but it's not very pigmented. i had to swipe it quite a few times to get it quite right.

lips:

1. one more -- it's a really pretty clear glitter gloss. the glitter flecks are reddish and it's nice how it reflects off the lips. from afar, it'll probably look like just a clear gloss though, which is lame. feels nice and balmy; not sticky at all.
2. misty mauve -- it takes a few swipes of the finger and a few dips to get complete coverage, but overall not too bad. i love this color. i like that it's a my lips but slightly pinker shade. not too emollient but ok. but i think if this had a different formula, i'd love it more. (i'm too lazy to use and clean a lip brush). (click for comparison to the misty mauve lipstick)

cheeks: day dreaming -- this is a really pretty pink blush, it's a nice light/sheer wash of color that looks relatively natural

fotd: i didn't particularly like how muted this "look" looked on me, so i added some liner to the top and bottom lashes. i also added some bronzer, highlight, and the misty mauve lipstick.

 

other products used for fotd:

• eyes
• milani eye primer
• cover girl clump crusher mascara
• cailyn gel eyeliner in iron
• rimmel london eyeliner in nude
• urban decay eyeliner in stray dog (discontinued, mushroom is similar)
• face
• too faced primed and poreless, original
• wet n wild cover all foundation in fair/light
• revlon photoready concealer in light
• theBalm sexy mama
• too faced chocolate soleil in chocolate
• nars satellite of love
• lips
• eos lip balm in vanilla
• em michelle phan lipstick in misty mauve
• brushes:
• real techniques expert face, powder, blush, buffing brushes
• elf small tapered brush
• mua E3
• sigma E05, E55, E65