Stop Smoking: Harmless Cosmetics for Tobacco Fans
TEXT:Moore Sobolev
AUTHOR BLOG FIERCE & CUTEOnce a week, Moore Sobolev makes for us a thematic selection of products from his extensive collection of cosmetics. Lipsticks, shadows, eyeliners, fragrances and candles, named after tobacco or interpreting its smell, got into today's one.
Lipstick Tom Ford Sable Smoke
I foresee justified indignation at the lack of modern tobacco flavor in the selection of the most popular tobacco flavor, Tom Ford Tobacco Vanille, so I’ll say straight away - alas, I don’t have it. But there is Sable Smoke lipstick (Ford generally loves the word "smoke" and puts it just about everywhere). Lipsticks are considered to be a strong and at the same time weak side of the brand: Ford relies on aggressive sexuality, and lipstick here is the best assistant. At the same time it is very dense and can dry. My Sable Smoke has a so-called shade of foundation - I adore these, they turn the face into an alien - but I wear it only when the lips are in good condition: lipstick is merciless, and there are no scaly lips on the aliens.
Candle Oliver & Co. Tabacle
In relation to the brand Oliver & Co. I feel a mixture of tenderness and fanatic delight. I am impressed by the concept and aesthetic feeling of Oliver Valverde, who invented this brand, and the fact that he personally inspects his brand instagram and closely follows the hashtags devoted to him is invariably touching. The Tabacle candle has an obvious tobacco smell, but it is sweet and complex enough not to leave the sensation that it was as if they were smoking in the room — rather, they kindled some kind of incense. The elegant minimalist design of the candles is inspired by the spacecraft. Well, how can you not like such a brand and such an author?
Palette Urban Decay Smoked
I bought this palette recently to create color and classic smoky eyes. A detailed brochure is attached to it, no less impressive and useful than the palette itself. Initially, the brochure could be bought separately on the official website of the brand. A booklet demonstrating the capabilities of the palette tells us how to create a smoky make-up of the maximum degree of complexity, and it even scares me a little - a girl who used to paint rock and roll smoky eyes in two colors in five minutes. So far, I have been using Smoked in a more familiar manner, but someday I will certainly sit and draw all the luxurious things that the art director of my favorite brand suggests in the booklet.
TokyoMilk Clove Cigarettes Lip Balm
Balsam in a round lovely jar from my favorite series TokyoMilk Dark. There are many of them, all of them have the same composition and not unpleasant odors; my bitter smell is cloves and tobacco, very nice. The balm itself is made on the basis of petrolatum with the addition of various oils and beeswax; I, unfortunately, petroleum jelly for lips are not exactly perfect, so I don’t use balm every day, but for lovers of such compositions this is an ideal remedy - beautiful and useful.
Shadows Avon Smoke & Mirrors
Hue from the limited collection of about two years ago. Contrary to expectations, the shadows under this name are not gray-black, but very unusual and interesting: the Smoke & Mirrors quartet consists of shades of green and burgundy. I always enjoy interesting colors in make-up, and I am especially glad when interesting colors make brands of the mass market category. As for the shadows themselves, they could be more pigmented, of course, but the base under the shadow helps the shades to appear, and for the non-banality of colors the quartet can be forgiven for excessive tenderness.
Fragrance Evody Ombre Fumée
The novelty of the French niche brand Evody: this fall, the brand leaves the Collection d'Ailleurs of three powerful, heavy, rather oriental flavors. All three are very good and worthy of attention, but it is Ombre Fumée who is my favorite at the moment: he is dizzy, witch, addictive and nothing like. It smells like smoke and vetiver, no sweetness, only darkness and hardcore. I wear it in the evening, in the relatively warm Ombre Fumée weather, even for me a little too much, despite the clear green notes.
Shadows Chanel Smoky Eyes
I have a lot of quartets of Chanel Les 4 Ombres - like other items of the brand, I have been collecting them for a hundred years now and are happy to watch the formula improvements (although I also love my oldies). Smoky Eyes palette survived all the perturbations of the range and has not been removed from production for many, many years. This is perhaps the most classic of the Quartet Chanel, and I have particularly anxious feelings for her, because it was with her help (and with the help of YouTube’s educational makeup channels, which I then resorted to for the first and last time) that I learned to draw complete smoky eyes. And it seems to have learned.
China Glaze Smoke and Ashes
By the release of the adaptation of the first “Hunger Games”, the brand China Glaze, a well-known lover of cultural collaborations, made a collection of 12 varnishes - according to the number of districts in the book and film. Initially, the names of lacquers coincided with the names of districts, which was beautiful and logical, but then the concept somehow changed and the lacquers were assigned more romantic names, each of which is nevertheless associated with what the district is known for. Smoke and Ashes is dedicated to District 12, where the main character, Katniss Everdeen, comes from. It is a beautiful dark shade, consisting of a black and green base and a very small blue-green microglitter.
MAC Smoky Heir Liner
In the comments under the last column, I was accused of excessive sympathies for the brand MAS, which I, however, readily admit to myself - though, I love the brand for free, and not the way you thought. Thanks to the huge assortment of the MAS, it is easy to find a product even under the wildest topic of mine - and now, sorry for the uneven handwriting, we have a brilliant purple eyeliner with the romantic name Smoky Heir. For some reason, I don’t often talk about the Superslick MAC lines very often, but they are very good: in general, I’m not a fan of eyeliners with a felt tip, but I forgive the inconvenience for interesting shades.
Scent Demeter This Is Not A Pipe
A bottle of Demeter, named after René Magritte's painting "The Treachery of Images" (it shows a tube and the inscription "Ceci n'est pas une pipe" - "This is not a tube"), it smells so that you want to climb on your knees to your father and bury in his face. This is the smell of the father, not only my own, but in general - if I were asked to choose the smell, the quintessence of the image of the father, I would call such a set: wood, earth, damp tobacco. I had a very happy childhood, and an important part of it was a wonderful summer vacation, which I spent with my parents in hunting estates surrounded by such smells. This is not a pipe made me remember them in the smallest detail, for which he thanks.