{"id":13655,"date":"2013-12-20T08:30:39","date_gmt":"2013-12-20T00:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mywomenstuff.com\/?p=13655"},"modified":"2018-12-03T08:53:23","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T00:53:23","slug":"laura-mercier-christmas-2013-mini-caviar-stick-portable-palette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mywomenstuff.com\/2013\/12\/laura-mercier-christmas-2013-mini-caviar-stick-portable-palette\/","title":{"rendered":"Luxuriating in my Laura Mercier Mini Caviar Sticks amongst the Christmas goodies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello hello! Just 5 more days to Christmas – are we all Christmas-gifted out yet? \ud83d\ude1b I didn’t do any gift guides this year (haven’t done so for the past couple of years because I’m disorganized that way hehe…) but I wanted to show you something I got for myself this year that I’m exceedingly happy about and if you like cream shadows, you may be too.<\/p>\n

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The Laura Mercier\u00a0Shimmer Effects Mini Caviar Stick Eye Colour Collection (RM155)<\/strong>!! I happen to love the formula for the LM Caviar Sticks<\/a>, even better than other similar cream stick eyeshadows<\/a>\u00a0and I had this insane idea of picking up more of the colours.<\/p>\n

It was opportune therefore that for Christmas 2013, there is a set of 4 mini sized caviar stick shadows in 4 colours that I’d been wanting to get in a value priced set. Win? Win! \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n

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To be honest, they aren’t all that mini. Each of the mini Caviar Stick Eyeshadows are about 1g while the full size version is about 1.64g so it is really quite a value packed set.<\/p>\n

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The 4 colours in this set are Rosegold, Pink Opal, Amethyst and Sugar Frost.<\/strong> 4 shimmer shades with Amethyst the deepest shade. They are all permanent colours so if you already have these colours then it’s not much of a set to consider. But if you don’t (like me) then it’s worth checking out. Is it any wonder it came home with me? \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n

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Left-Right: Rose Gold, Sugar Frost, Amethyst, Pink Opal\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Another item you may have seen me Instagram a video of, is the Colour-to-go Portable Palette for Eyes, Cheeks and Lips (RM189)<\/strong>. If you didn’t see it or aren’t on Instagram or Facebook then here you go!<\/p>\n

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The Colour-to-Go Portable Palette comes in 2 shades – Natural Nudes and Smokey Violets<\/strong> and come in a handy-dandy compact palette with literally everything you need in it to do a face for night or day! The only thing lacking is brushes, which I’m sort of glad about, because if they had brushes it wouldn’t have been impressive anyway I’m sure. Few included brushes are.<\/p>\n

Smokey Violets pictured here is a trio of 3 violet-purple toned eyeshadows, and a violet coloured cake eyeliner. You know, I thought it was 4 eyeshadows at first too. The first 3 from left swatch beautifully, with lovely fine milled shimmer in 2 of the shades and one matte shade to tie everything together. I’ve got the swatches below so you know what I mean.<\/p>\n

However, that colour on the right feels very hard to the touch and barely showed up. I was ready to pan this when I realised that it was the famed Laura Mercier Tightline Cake Eyeliner! They really DO have everything in this palette! To use the Cake Eyeliner, use an eyeliner brush, wet it and then dampen the product to pick up colour to draw your eyeliner or to tightline. I have one from a couple of years ago and I will tell you that it takes a bit of getting used to. But it never dries out unlike gel eyeliner, and gives a defined or natural finish, depending on how you use it. I’ll do you a review one of these days – someone please remind me if I forget \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n

On the bottom layer is a shimmer peachy bronzer-blush and a matte pink blush. The look ties together with a mini nude lip lacquer. The red one I have was a separate gift \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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Swatches of the Smokey Violets Portable Palette from left to right:-<\/p>\n