Lunasol Autumn 2011 swatches

So I was initially put off the Three Dimensional Eyes because they seemed gritty and dry in the early swatches. Having played with them in person, I declare them beautifully buttery and pigmented! The triple split-pans are not just a gimmick, it's easy to pick up just one strip so that you can avoid glitter altogether and create a completely satiny EOTD, or use the glitter judiciously. Or go nuts and foil it...

The textures are an improvement on previous Lunasol quads and this series now joins Star Shower and Ocean Scene Eyes as my favourites.

I bought 03 Mysterious Beige (HK$440, 4g), as the mix of colours is unique to my stash:

 with flash

natural light, no flash

Shades:
1. Sparkly white gold, satin-matte white, iridescent off-white
2. Neutral-warm bronze with gold and peach microshimmer (metallic finish)
3. Cool lilac with blue and pink microshimmer (shimmer)
4. Warm dark satin-matte brown, neutral iridescent black/brown, cool metallic black with silver shimmer

Swatches: I swatched the split pans separately, from left to right, then blended them together for the strip along the bottom. Bare arm, one swipe.

Natural light, cloudy

 Natural light + flash

Artificial light + flash

Fuzzy flash pic to show the complex multi-coloured shimmer

The rest.These are all swatches made in-store and taken in artificial lighting. Sorry, but the sky was like this (yeah, that'd be Typhoon Nestat a-gestatin')

(this is what he looks like now, don't they grow up fast?)

Anyway, 01 Neutral Beige and 02 Soft Beige are the warm quads.

Artificial light, no flash

Artificial light + flash

04 Cool Beige is, despite the name, neutral IMO. 05 Deep Beige is cool.

Artificial light, no flash

 Artificial light + flash 

 

There were also 5 new shades each of Full Glamour Lips G (lipstick) and Full Glamour Liquid Lips (liquid lipstick), all permanent additions to the line. All of the lipsticks had too much shimmer for me, so they were an easy pass. I prefer the lipsticks from Lunasol's drugstore sister-brand Lavshuca anyway...

However, the liquid lipsticks are one of my favourite formulas. Well-pigmented, non-sticky and weightless, scentless and with good wear-time. They aren't particularly shiny/glossy once applied on the lips, so they do a great job of making dry, cracked lips look plump without veering on porn-y. Also, if you have problems with lip products accentuating vertical lip lines, these don't. Even the pale pinks/nudes :)

Oh, and the angled doe-foot applicator is the best design I've ever encountered (in fact I'd never given them a second thought until trying this and realising the amount of engineering that had gone into it).

Shades:

11 Neutral Light Beige (more a warm peachy nude imo)

12 Soft Rose Beige (delicate baby pink without blue tones)

13 Pink Rose Beige (bright mauve rose)

14 Coral Light Beige (ok, no quibble)

15 Clear Red Beige (neutral strawberry red. Has the word 'beige' lost all meaning yet?)

Artificial light

 

Artificial light + flash

 Beige! erm...I mean 'bye'