“I wanted to create a collection for the woman who is sexy yet romantic. Pretty Naughty is very pastel, but also a little naughty in a gentle, discreet way.” ~ Tom Pecheux, Creative Makeup Director, Estée Lauder
Now, isn’t that an oxymoronic sentence? Pastels are romantic, we’d all agree with that but who’d ever associate pastel colours with sexy? Not me, that’s for sure. Sexy comes across as bold, strong shades, not colours of a macaron. But when I saw the Estee Lauder Pretty Naughty eyeshadow palette for Spring 2013, I suddenly knew what Tom Pecheaux meant.
I have to hand it to Tom Pechaux. For me, he has single handedly revamped the Estee Lauder colour makeup turning them around from a brand I’d associate with aunties and more matured women, to something that is actually eye catching and even, exciting. Or maybe its just that I’m at that age when I now am an aunty and therefore would not feel (or look) out of place at an EL counter 😀 Either way, I like what Tom Pechaux is doing with EL.
There are a couple of items in the Pretty Naughty Spring 2013 collection but my eye was not originally drawn to the eyeshadow palette. Oh no, I was irresistably drawn instead to the powder gelee blush. Are you surprised? Me… and a blush? I didn’t think so 🙂