PINK BLUSHES! Swatches, comparison & reviews! ☆

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Posting on last day of 2010, lol! But, I have to be at work, even thought  there is NOTHING to do, so I might as well post, right? 暇つぶしね Anywhoo~ Today I will be sharing a pink blushes comparison and swatches with opinions! Most of them are in heavy rotation in japanese fashion magazines and since I have them and use all of them I thought someone might be interested! So here we go! 

I will be comparing (original prices in brackets):

REVLON blush in color 202 Just Peachy (~19 usd)

MAC Mineralize Blush in color Dainty (21 usd)

Canmake powder blush in color PW20 (550 yen)

Canmake cream blush in color 01 (580 yen)

Candy Doll blush in color: Peachy Pink (1260 yen)

All of them pink right! lets open!

When we open them, it's easy to see that the Candy Doll and Canmake blushes are cool shades, while MAC and REVLON blushes are warmer

Canmake's cream blush is most similar to MAC's blush, Candy Doll and Canmake PW20 fall into the same category of super light cool toned pink with blue undertones, while Revlon is most peachy rather than pink. 

swatches in daylight (winter) with flash

BTW, my skin is NC20 and lighter on my arm, between NC15 and  NC20 in MAC coloring

swatches in winter (no flash!)

I dunno, another photo with swatches XD I also included Canmake Cream Blush in color 04, vitamin orange just to show how cool the pink tones are better. 

Now I'll try to sum those blushes up in a couple words:

☆☆☆ REVLON blush in color 202 Just Peachy

Pigmentation in this blush is medium, which means with a couple strokes you will still get a delicate and natural effect. Also there is a super tiny silver sparkle powder in it, so it also gives your cheeks a cute glow. Great for beginners with blush imo! The case also has a useable good quality blush and a pop-out mirror, so it's perfect on the go too. Over good blush.

☆☆☆ MAC Mineralize Blush in color Dainty (21 usd)

This blush when you swatch it with your finger looks not very pigmentet - rather very sheer with tons of fine glittery sparkling parts (I see golden, silver and  pink sparkling powders in it), but on cheeks it actually creates a super natural adorable blush, both the color and the pigmentation are great on cheeks and it is also highly sparkly, but not is an obvious way. It will really show off your cheeks and make them look "higher" if you apply it to the right parts of face. :D I like it tons, but I think it is easy to go overboard with this one, because it seems so sheer. But then you go outside and it turns out you made yourslef look like a clown, lol. So use with moderation and you'll get wonderful effects! (The swatch on arm is super heavy, I applied way too much, but I wanted to show you the color, on cheeks you apply less and it looks a bit different.) More pics here.

☆☆☆ Canmake powder blush in color PW20 (550 yen)

I got this one because all japanese gyaru magazines were raving about it from EGG to JELLY, even Vivi. It is a very cool tones, very light dolly pink. It not pastel nor neon, it is like strawberry ice cream kind of color? Hard to describe!! It has silver glitttery particles (I like blushes with a little bit of sparkle ^^) and a brush in the case, but in my opinion you might as well throw it away, completely not useable, too thin and the bristles too long, useless! The blush is quite well pigmented and you get a nice color even with just one layer. It will give you this super cute super sweet baby/dolly pink cheeks. I really recommend it, the price is unbelieveable and the quality really good! (But be carefull, I have another color from the same series, and it is completely different, I never use the other one cause I don't like it :o)

☆☆☆ Canmake cream blush in color 01 (580 yen)

Very well pigmentet cream blush, which after application turn into powder formula! :D I loooove the way it applies, so smooth like butter, bur then it turn powdery - very easy to use and can be applied with fingers or a brush (a small duo-fibre brush would be perfect!) It has super tiny silver sparkles, but they are very delicate and not obvious in person. This is also a very cute and good blush for a cheap price, especially if you are new to cream blushes there would be no harm if you tried this one first. :) I also have better swatches and review on this one here.

☆☆☆ Candy Doll blush in color: Peachy Pink (1260 yen)

The raved about Matsuwaka Tsubasa's brand.... hmmm.... Honestly I am not sold on this one! Doen't look like in Tsubasa's photos :/ At first I thought "What! This doesn't even show up on my skin!" and then I changed my mind when I put it on my cheeks in sumemr and I had a little bit of a tan and somehow the light made it look exactly like on Tsubasa. But then... I dunno, it is well pigmented, but the color is so light and honestly doesn't show!! Also it is a matte blush and it can look chalky if you apply too much - which is very easy to do, because I try to add more and more to make the color show, but it doesn't, it just makes your cheeks go more chalky.... OTL Mixed with other blushes it is really nice as it gives a kind of pale canvas for the other blush, but on it's own? Nah, not impressed. :P The swatch I made on my arm is SUPER HEAVY, but you can hardly see it... I think it would be great as a base cheek color for people with darker skin, so you can apply a candy pink on top and it will show better!

In artificial light - if you click and see the original size, you can see the sparkles

Swatches in artificial light.

What is this!? Candy Doll blush disappeared! :P

Which one was your favourite? Can you recommend me some good pink blushes? :D Now thinking about it, I forgot to bring and photograph my MAC Azalea Blossom blush, it is also pink!! OTL I will make a separate post for it, lol! I also have a separate post about MAC's Mineralize Skinfinish in Porcelain Pink here. :D 

 Lets enter the new year with cute pink cheeks and be cheeky in 2011 too! 

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!!せ～の (o￣▽￣o) わ～い ＼(￣▽￣o)／

PS. Don't forget to join my giveaway!!!!! :D

PPS. A couple nights ago I was bored and slapped on full gyaru makeup! 8D I also took photos so I will post a tutorial for this look soon! :D I am wearing Diamond Lashes in Celeb (top) and Princess (bottom) styles. :) Also, I got a twitter account only for this blog, since I don't want my random tweets to appear here, lets keep it all about cosme! Follow the new twitter here: http://twitter.com/#!/cossssme よろしく

Ichibankao.com mini haul

The announced mini shopping haul from Ichibankao.com arrived and I went home to pick it up last weekend!

I got Visee Blackish Forming Eyes in color B-4 (ichibankao's price, includes shipping already, ¥1900), Candydoll Cheek Color Peach Pink (¥1900) and Rohto Lycee eyedrops for Contact Lens (¥1100). So together all that was ¥4,900, including shipping.

The Visee Blackish Forming Eyes palette is really nice! The colors work perfectly together and I will be definitely using it for a party look, with lots of eyeliner and lashes, or for day looks, just a little bit or top-right violet ot bottom-right plum-beige-y kind of violet instead of eyeliner, for example! The black is generic matte black, good for applying over your pencil eyeliner, to help it stay in place. The lightest shade has a lot of opacity and some sparkles and works really cute as a all over base or highlighter color. It could be just used as the main shadow as well!

Now, I myself was wondering too, as probably some of you have, what is the difference between Blackish Forming Eyes palettes and Brilliance Forming Eyes palettes from Visee. Well, the main difference is, in Blackish, the bottom left shadow is a matte, opaque black. In Brilliance palette, the bottom left is a cream eyeshadow - in shades of golden & beige and it is meant to use as a base to make your eye makeup look more sparkly! (Review and swatches of A-2 here.) Also, from the names of the series, Blackish is for creating a dark, dramatic look, and Brilliance for a light, day-time, sparkling eye! :D

(The 3 shades go toghether so perfectly! <33 They are not as much as spakly, but have a little bit of pearl iridescence to them. As always click and zoom in the photo, they are big!)

I kind of want all of the Brilliance palletes now... 8D

Now, I already have tons of blushes, but I talked myself into getting this one, because I didn't have a shade like that yet... right??? xD Well, buying this Candydoll Peach Pink blush was a great choice!!

It is sooooo light and at first I was applying it was going like "wth, where is it?!", but then I went to the bathroom to wash my hands and on my cheeks it looked like the perfect baby pink cheek that Matsuwaka tsubasa always wears! :D It looks like you were outside all day long and your cheeks are a little bit pink from the sun! OMG!! I love this blush! <3333333 Absolutely a must buy, and if you like Popteen or Popsister you will love it! My only complain is it seems a little bit small for the price. It is a powder blush, not cream blush, and I like super pink cheeks so I apply quite a lot I think, and I wonder how long it will last.... It will look amazing on darker skin colors <3 and it would create a porcelain doll look on pale girls! (I am currently around MAC's NC20-25 on my face)

So overall, LOVE IT, get it, share the love 8D

And last but not least, the eye drops, Rohto Lycee eyedrops for Contact Lens....

Weeeeellll..... xD I didn't know they were those menthol eye torturing eye drops you guys!!!! D: I hate those kind of drops! Damn! xD But! Since I bought them, I will try as much as I can to use them! xDD I must admit they are not that bad actually. On the "freshness" scale on the packaging it said they are around 3 out of 5, so they don't burn your eyes out imidiately. ;D And the fresh feeling is kind of nice. I will be definitely trying to use those drops after whole day of worl in front on my computer. Do you know those menthol eye drops? Love them or hate them? Ughh... I was hoping those will be just sth like candy scented cute eyedrops, not those suitable for a penalty game! xD lol

In other news. I moved, I am enjoying it a lot, going out a lot too, I was watchign all the semi-finals and the WORLD CUP finals yesterday, all in bars, which is a lot of fun, but I need to pick bars where there is air conditioning and preferably no smoking rule.... My eyeeeesss.. (T_T')

                      

Anywhoo, congratulations to Spain, even though the final wasn't pretty and had so many fauls and the judge was crazy!!! D: Spanish goal keeper, Casillas, did an amazing job though! I still think it should be Germany though, I fell love with Die Mannschaft <3333333  And especially Özil, heeey~ xD (I find him super cute though, seriously 8D) But I love the whole team and not for their looks, but for how they play! And there are also so many Polish players, I love them! Podolski, Kloze, Trochowski are all of Polish descent! And they kick ass <3 And Muller is cute too, Schweinsteiger, omg! Amazing! I can't believe how young the players in Die Mannschaft are, but they played soooo well. Much love, World Cup was great and exciting! :D

(ah my babiess!! 8D) Football is a really great sport! Also all the crazy football tumblrs bring me sooo much LOL!!! xD Torres on Torres or David take me to your Villa... xD Lol forever!

Some recent shopping and music I like!

Hello!
Sorry for not writing much - last two weeks at work were rather busy (workign saturdays too!!) and I went out more and more as well, and generally I have a lot going on right now xD I will be moving to my own apartament for the summer this saturday! Yay, can't wait. *^^* I did some shopping and will write reviews when everything arrives and I use it a couple times.

From Ichibankao.com I got:

Candydoll Cheek Color Peach Pink / ¥1900 JPY

I saw reviews on blogs, and I don't have wnything light like this one yet, so I went ahead and got it! (I already have those Canmake blushes for a while now and I really like them, especially the pink one!) I was of course super tempted to get some fake lashes too, but recently I rarely wear fakies and I have tons of them at home and the yen / polish zloty rate is ridiculous (!!!) so I passed on lashes this time.... Next time though... ;D

Kose Visee Blackish Forming Eyes / ¥1900 JPY

in B-4, violet! I already have Visee Brilliance Forming Eyes in A-2 - I just had to get it after seeing it in JELLY so much, and I like it a lot, all the colors are great and it's affordable and good quality! And I'vee been wantig a purple eyeshadow for a while now. (you can search my blog for older reviews, the A-2 palette review is here too, with photos ^^)

Rohto Lycee eyedrops for Contact Lens / ¥1100 JPY

I am on accutane-like acne treatment, and my eyes are what's killing me most, they are so dry, makes me want to scratch them out (Y^Y') Even when I wake up in the morning they are dry and won't open.... So uncomfortable... I have some regulat eye drops with hyaluronic acid (Hyal-Drop from Bausch&Lomb), but I think those will work better. Oh, and I am not wearing lenses of course. I wore them once in a while before, but I got a bigger medicine dose and the dryness is terrible. D:

From eBay I got this Weleda Skin Food cream, which is great according to this blog: http://whitneycummings.tumblr.com/ (the entry is here)xD She is rather hilarious.
 

But back to the cream. The paraben-free and all natural ingriedients slogan convinced me! And my skin is dry (thank accutane! :P) and Embryolisse cream is nice (not moisturising enough for me currently though) and so hard to buy here... it's made in France, why can't it be distributed in Poland, UK, Germany, etc? Weleda Skin Food cream is also 75ml and cost me about 13$usd from eBay, from UK seller. I will test it and let you all know how it works. If I like it maybe I will try more Weleda products, looks like a nice skin care brand!
 
Active Ingredients:
Weleda Skin Food contains:Water, Sunflower Seed Oil, Lanolin, Sweet Almond oil, Alcohol, Beeswax, Glyceryl Linoleate, Hydrolyzed Beeswax, Viola Tricolor extract, Rosemary Leaf extract, Chamomile extract, Calendula extract, Cholesterol, Fragrance, Limonene*, Linalool*, Geraniol*, Citral*, Coumarin* (*from natural essential oils).


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I also bought a blouse, button up knee lenght skirt and a white floral print maxi dress, all from ZARA. I will try to post photos of all that when I get back home today. Tried taking photos from ZARA website, but it's not working at all on this computer.

Also, one of my more casual work outfits:

Don't worry, I am wearing black shorts and this is not my room. xD I wore the high heeled black sandals from 2 entries earlier with this and a big gray Gilfy bag. :D My workplace is pretty lax about how I dress anyway, but I try to keep it simple and cute and OL appropriate. xD I love that jacket though, it is from VERO MODA. :) Leggins are Vivienne Westwood and the white top under H&M, white top on top, I don't know, maybe from Korea? Don't remember. :) It was such a comfortable coordinate! It's getting hot, close to around 30C here in Poland this week! :D

 
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Also, some music I like a lot recently! Try listening to Ratatat and Miike Snow! I love both bands! I am also listening to SIA's new album, We are born.


Other nice tunes:

Sunday Girl and Diplo!

And:

Kid Cudi & Ratatat

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So, 'm moving on saturday, so next post will be from another place I guess! Wish me good luck! Have a great day everyone! <33333333333 Take care girls :)
PS. Also, to the person who asked me a stupid question at my formspring - hilarious. xDDD I will not gratify such stupid questions with an answer, tadah! None of your business anyway, geez, trolls everywhere! ;)