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Make-up Tutorial - Palette D'Antoinette #02

PRIMER:
    Too Faced Beauty Balm - Vanilla Glow

FOUNDATION:
    Mac Mineralize Foundation: NW20

CONCEALER:
    MAC Concealer - NW20
    Benefit - Boi-ing Concealer 02

EYE SHADOW:
    Lime Crime D'Antoinette Palette : Royal Flush, Absinthe-Minded, Macarooned, Ribbonesque, Mercurious

EYELINER:
    Revlon - Colorstay Liquid and Creamliner

LASHES:
    Ardell - Hotties
    DUO Glue - Black

BLUSH / BRONZERS / HIGHLIGHTERS:
    Benefit - High Beam
    Too Faced - Candlelight Glow
    Lime Crime D'Antoinette Palette : Royal Flush, Macarooned, Mercurious

POWDER:
    TEMPTU - Invisible Powder - Shade 2
    Merle Norman - Ultra Powder Foundation - Chiffon

MASCARA:
    Plā Beauty - Black Mascara

LIP LINER:
   Pla Beauty - Pretty in Pink

LIPSTICK:
    Lime Crime Lipstick - Airborne Unicorn
    Plā Beauty Lip Gloss - Showgirl

Make-up Tutorial - Palette D'Antoinette #01

PRIMER:
    Too Faced Beauty Balm - Vanilla Glow

FOUNDATION:
    Pla Beauty Foundation - Porcelain

PRIMER:
    Lime Crime - Eyeshadow Helper

EYEBROWS:
    Pla Beauty - Superwear Definer
    MAC - Shadow Omega
    MAC - Fling Pencil

CONCEALER:
    MAC Concealer - NW20
    Benefit - Boi-ing Concealer 02

EYE SHADOW:
    Lime Crime D'Antoinette Palette : Royal Flush, Absinthe-Minded, Macarooned, Ribbonesque, Mercurious

EYELINER:
    Pla Beauty - Onyx
    Revlon - Colorstay Liquid Liner

BLUSH / BRONZERS / HIGHLIGHTERS:
    Benefit - High Beam
    Too Faced - Candlelight Glow
    Lime Crime D'Antoinette Palette : Royal Flush, Macarooned, Mercurious

POWDER:
    Merle Norman - Ultra Powder Foundation - Chiffon

MASCARA:
    Pla Beauty - Mascara Primer
    Plā Beauty - Black Mascara

LIPSTICK:
    Lime Crime Lipstick - Centerfushcia
    Rimmel - Kate Moss #14
    MAC - Pretty Plush Gloss

Make-up Tutorial

Makeup from the Dreamwater follow-up post.





PRIMER:
    Too Faced Beauty Balm - Vanilla Glow

CONCEALER:
    MAC Concealer - NW20
    Benefit - Boi-ing Concealer 02

FOUNDATION:
    Temptu S/B Foundation - Shade 3

EYE SHADOW:
    MAC Eyeshadow - Shroom
    Plā Beauty - Super Wear Eyebrow Definer - Light Taupe
    Lime Crime China Doll Palette : Parasol, Jade-o-lade, Lotus Noir

EYELINER:
    Plā Beauty - Onyx

POWDER:
    Merle Norman - Ultra Powder Foundation - Ultra Cameo

BLUSH / BRONZERS / HIGHLIGHTERS:
    Benefit - High Beam
    Plā Beauty - Blush - Pink-a-Boo
    Smashbox - Soft Lights - Smashing Hightlight

MASCARA:
    Plā Beauty - Lash Primer
    Plā Beauty - Black Mascara

LIP LINER:
    Rimmel - East End Snob

LIPSTICK:
    Lime Crime Lipstick - Airborne Unicorn
    Plā Beauty Lipstick - Kinky Girl

TOOLS:

    Alcone Non-Latex Sponge

    MAC Brush 217

    Q-tips

Make-up Tutorial

PRIMER:

    Lime Crime - Eyeshadow Helper

CONCEALER:

    MAC - Select Cover-up - NW20

    Benefit - Boi-ing Concealer 02

FOUNDATION:

    Mary Kay - Medium Coverage Foundation

EYE SHADOW:
    Mary Kay - Honey Spice

    Lime Crime China Doll Palette : Parasol, Jade-o-lade, Lotus Noir, Goldfish

EYELASH GLUE:
    DUO Adhesive - Dark
EYELASHES:
    Ardell - Wispie Lashes

EYE BROWS:
    NYC Brow Blender & Liner - Blonde

EYELINER:

    Revlon Colorstay - Liquid Liner - Black
    Mac Eye Kohl Pencil - Smolder

POWDER:

    Colorescience - Mineral Powder Foundation

BLUSH / BRONZERS / HIGHLIGHTERS:

    Benefit - High Beam
    Lime Crime China Doll Palette : Fly Dragon Fly

MASCARA:
    Benefit - Bad Gal

LIP LINER:

    Rimmel - East End Snob

LIPSTICK:

    Lime Crime Lip Gloss - Cherry on Top

TOOLS:

    Alcone Non-Latex Sponge

    Q-tips

Lime Crime Review - Part I - Eyes

First and foremost, thank you very much to Lime Crime for sending me such a wonderful goodie box.  I was so excited to get my purple box and when I opened it up I got even more excited when I saw all the contents of the box, as you can see in the video above.  I also photographed each item, wrote my conclusion for each product below and in two more posts linked at the bottom.

I would also like to note, apparently Lime Crime has had a lot of controversy in the past concerning their products and customer service.   If you have negative feelings towards them, please take your negative energy and focus it elsewhere.  I base my opinion on my personal experience with a company and my personal use with their products.  I will say, the Lime Crime representative that I have been in contact with was more than great to work with and was in constant communication with me.  Which to me, communication especially speedy communication is so very important and I always appreciate people who feel the same way.

I had actually never tried any Lime Crime cosmetics before and honestly I was a little scared of all the bright colors, as I tend to usually stick to more neutral colors.  But after playing around and testing them out, I'm not scared anymore and I want to order more colors.  Thank you again to Lime Crime for giving me this opportunity....I had so much fun.

This little sticker was the first thing I saw when I removed the tissue paper.  I'm a sucker for stickers so now I have to find a cool place to stick this rad little unicorn.  It is holographic, so depending on where the light hits it, it changes colors.  

A sample size jar of the Eyeshadow Helper.  It blends in very nice and helps hold your shadow on.  I haven't had the chance to try it on a model yet, but that will be the true test.  Personally, I rarely use eyeshadow primer.

Lime Crime's latest palette, China Doll.  I thought the yellow was going to be my favorite, but the blue (Parasol) and the green (Jade-o-lade) ended up being my favorites.  As you can see from these make-up tutorials: (Tutorial 01) (Tutorial 02) I used the palette in various ways....especially the red (Fly Dragon Fly).  The shadows are pressed powder but have a slight cream like feel when you apply them.  They blend fairly easily.  To have such va va voom in color I wouldn't expect them to be the easiest to blend, but they were much easier than I had anticipated.  Also to be so pigmented, the shadows came off very easily with make-up remover and did not stain my skin.  I thought for sure the red would stain, but much to my surprise, it did not at all.

After taking pictures, the color palette slightly reminds me of the Olympic ring colors....of course a bit brighter and much more sparkly!  The other great thing about this palette is it contains the three primary colors, red, blue and yellow....meaning you can make the rainbow.  All in all, after using the shadows I would buy future palettes from Lime Crime.  I actually love the colors in the new palette coming out May 1st, the "Palette D'Antoinette".  I know after testing the shadows out for myself, that the colors don't disappoint and are just as bright and bold when applied to skin.

As far as pricing, I do believe their prices compete with luxury brands.  To have branded packaging, highly pigmented colors and quality products, I think they are in an acceptable price range.  I think they also offer a 40% off Pro Discount. Lime Crime also offers random promotional codes on Facebook & Twitter! For instance like 15% off everything RIGHT NOW 04/20/12 till 2:30 PM PST with code "UnicornsRule15".

This palette is available for $34.99.

Click here to read "Part II - Lip Gloss" or "Part III - Lipstick"