♥Lorac Unzipped Gold♥

 

Hi dolls! I had been lusting for the Lorac Unzipped palette forever! I went to my Ulta to get it but sadly, it was sold out. But, I found the Unzipped Gold palette! I had been on the fence on if I wanted to buy it or not, but one look at it in person.....well....obviously I'm doing this post about it! 

 

 

These shadows are so pigmented and true to Lorac's formula, a bit powdery too. I don't mind though because of how pigmented and blendable these shadows are. Let's look at the swatches!

 

 

TOP ROW:UNDRESSED (Matte) UNINHIBITED (Shimmer)UNPREDICTABLE (Shimmer)UNDENIABLE (Matte)UNEDITED (Matte)

 

 

BOTTOM ROW:UNLOCKED (Shimmer)UNLIMITED (Shimmer)UNLEASHED (Shimmer)UNWIND (Matte)UNAFRAID (Shimmer)

 

All these swatches were done without primer or building them up. This is just one good swipe at each color. I have used this palette so much already but unfortunately, I don't have a photo of myself wearing it yet. I will update this post when I do though.

 

I'm so pleased with the Unzipped Gold! I recommend it to anyone who loves golds and neutrals. You can get so many looks with this palette. I love how buttery the shadows are--there's not a single dude in this palette.  It has a good mix of matte and shimmer shades. What's your favorite color?

 

Until next time,

Stay NV'ous!

 

 

 

 

FTC Disclosure: This is not a sponsored post. I purchased this with my own money.

 

 



Replica Makeup?

Replica makeup is a hot topic in the beauty community today. Some people are all for it as many brands have products with a high price tag that many cannot afford while others are appalled and worried ingredients could be harmful to their health.





I recently won a giveaway from Brandy Lynn on YouTube. She gave away Lorac Mega Pro replica palettes, along with a few others, in a giveaway. She reviewed several replica palettes here, if you want to check it out. I won't go over everything she shared, but she did say she tried out her replica palettes for a few months before reviewing them. She also searched her higher end makeup products and many things are made in China.

This palette is sold for significantly less than from if you bought a real palette. I believe you can find this for around $15. With this lower price tag, you can expect the quality to be not a good. Here's some pictures of things I would call defects.

The glue has come undone on the bottom side of the palette.

In several places on the palette the lettering is rubbing off. One of the color names is even printed incorrectly. Instead of Lilac, it says Ulac.

But how does it perform? Some colors swatch amazing with a buttery texture similar to the real Lorac shadows. Others, however, had very little pigmentation.

The top is row is completely matte. A lot of these shades are similar to my skin color, so they aren't showing up well in the picture. The second row had to be swatched heavily to show up. The bottom two rows were the best in pigmentation. They were, for the most part, very creamy and blended very easily. In each row, the last color was a blackish color. You can see the last two are extremely pigmented. I thought I wouldn't like the other two, but I find that those two are useful when I want to deepen my outer v ever so slightly.

Here's a look I achieved with this palette:

I did feel like I had to pack the color on for the opacity that I wanted. But the colors build and blend well. I did not find that they irritated my eyes at all. It wore just like any of my other eye shadows. I did wear a primer, as I would with anything else.

Overall thoughts:

I still prefer to spend the money for authentic makeup and support the brand, but if you are on a very tight budget but you want to get similar looks, then you may want to try a replica.

FTC Disclosure: This is not a sponsored post.

Lorac Pro Palette

My wonderful hubby bought me the Lorac Pro Palette I'd been lusting after for this past Christmas. I just adore this palette and I use it often. Pictured above is one of my go-to looks recently! Check out the swatches below!

I do hate that the outside of the packaging gets so dirty. It's similar to the NARS packaging in the way it feels. But I do love how compact it is and takes up little space in my collection.

Color at the top of the palette are all 100% mattes! This isn't like a lot of matte palettes that say they're matte and aren't. If you've heard these eye shadows are powdery, you heard right. Even the mattes. That is the only thing I would change about this palette.

From left to right: white, cream, taupe, lt pink, mauve, sable, espresso, black

White: Just as it's named, a white matte shadow. This one is a bit chalky. It's honestly not one that I go to often.

Cream: Again, named it spot on. This beautiful cream is the perfect matte highlight for my skin tone. This one is as smooth as butter dolls!

Taupe: I would have called this medium brown. It's a great crease color. It's darker than Naked from Urban Decay which I love. It gives me more of a defined crease. Smooth as butter too!

Lt. Pink: Yep, it's a light pink alright! I've used this a few times. Smooth texture and blends out beautiful.

Mauve: I love this mauve color! EmilyNoel83 did a  beautiful tutorial with this palette and this color was key! Check it out here! It's a gorgeous look using all matte colors and it's amazing!

Sable: I love this for deepening up my outer-v when I don't want to go black.

Black: You guessed it, it's matte black! This one feels buttery, but I feel like you really have to pick up a lot to really get it to go on smooth. Perhaps it's my brush or technique, not sure. But I rarely go for black unless I'm setting my eyeliner-which I rarely do. If I had to pick a favorite matte black though, it would be Urban Decay Blackout.

From left to right: nude, champagne, gold, lt bronze, pewter, garnet, deep purple, slate

Nude: I love this bright shimmery creamy white for in inner eye highlight!

Champagne: I love to use this shimmery champagne color all over the lid. It's definitely my most used shadow on the bottom row.

Gold: This is a fantastic gold! I do think it looks better on skin tones darker than my own though. Perhaps I can rock it more this summer!

Lt. Bronze: I adore this light bronze color all of the lid! It's very flattering on my blue eyes.

Pewter: The picture doesn't pick up on the beautiful purple undertones of this color. To look at it in the pan it may not seem that special. But boy once it's swatched, it's amazing! I think this would  be an amazing lid color for a super smoked out look for a girls night out!

Garnet: A beautiful warm copper color. I've used this in the crease to make my blue eyes pop!

Deep Purple: I would call this a blacked-purple. It's much darker than Urban Decay's Rockstar that you can see swatched in my last blog post. This is a fantastic color for the outer-v or smudged along the lash line.

Slate: A dark gunmetal. I haven't really used this one admittedly. I do think it's a beautiful color though and will have to find a way to wear it soon!

All of these shimmery colors are amazingly pigmented, though again I have to point out, very powdery! I like to tap my brush over the color so that I can use the fallout on the second eye! ;-)

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Overall, I love this palette and when it's used up, I will repurchase! If you already have similar palettes like either NAKED palette, you can probably skip this. But if you are a super beauty product enthusiast like moi, pick it up doll!