8 elegant Christmas makeup collections
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Christmas collections for quite transparent reasons - the main among seasonal. Every year, many brands produce limited editions that must be outstanding not only inside but also outside to get your attention. In 2016, everything is as usual - a lot of gold, and everything that is not gold also glitters and shimmers. We carefully studied the offers of different brands and tried to choose only the best and the most beautiful - after all, the main idea of Christmas products is that they should be an excellent gift for yourself or your loved ones.
Tom Ford Winter Soleil
Home sales in Russia - January 2017
The brand, which belongs to one of the best people in the fashion world, has a clear, but not banal approach - the Christmas collection has budded off from the summer fragrance of Soleil Blanc. Press releases say the collection is inspired by a clear sunny winter day, so white and gold dominate the rest of the colors. We rarely have days that the collection creators had in mind, and there are fewer reasons to use a makeup base with a sun protection factor SPF 50 (!) In winter, but it's hard not to admit that the packaging of these products came out very stylish. . Laconic snow-white palettes in gold frames without prints and inscriptions, lipstick in restrained colors (and unrestrained texture: Lip Foil promises a foil effect that all brands seem to start going crazy soon) - Tom Ford turned out cosmetics for everyone and for all times , without unnecessary festive curls.
The most tempting part of the collection is the travel makeup brush set. For four miniature basic white brushes, you will have to pay $ 850, but always comfortable and high-quality brushes Tom Ford is an investment for the ages for those who can afford such luxury. Another not unhelpful winter product - dry perfumed body oil with a bright aroma of Soleil Blanc at any time of the year will remind you of summer, which we still have to wait and wait.
Dolce & Gabbana Baroque Night Out
International sales start - November 2016
Italians continue to make luxury cosmetics for luxury evenings - yes, most of the Dolce & Gabbana products can only be described with this word. In the Christmas collection course, of course, taken on the shine - and here it is so much that you can smear from head to toe. There is a versatile set of compact highlighter and bronzer, four colors of cream shades (white, nude, copper red and black - all very clean and sparkling), liquid eyeliners and shimmering lipsticks. The front of decorative cosmetics is played out perfectly: this, besides, is another story that you can look into a suite not only for classic colors, although most of the shades and textures are quite in the spirit of the constant range of the brand.
The stars of the line were lipstick - in addition to the predictable red, there is a golden Baroque Gold 47 and a black Baroque Black 190. Both are more likely to cope with the role of the top, because their color is not so pronounced. Liquid eyeliner is presented in three metallic shades (silver, gold and bronze), and as a bonus - one nude in tone of cream shades from the same collection. You yourself know everything about red shades of shadows, so if you are looking for an option that can be permanently settled in a cosmetic bag, pay attention to this small jar with complex contents.
Giorgio Armani Night Light
International sales start - November 2016
Giorgio Armani cosmetics all the time want to call thought out, and new brand products often become events. The Christmas collection turned out really "not like everyone else": only two new items, but which ones. The palette of shadows, powder and cream tonal basis, many have already noted for their versatility; also added three new shades to the Ecstasy Lacquer Lacquer Lip Gloss palette. It's nice that the funds are made with a hint of consistency: holidays are a good reason for release, and not just the reason for creating weekend products that will easily lose their relevance after returning to weekdays.
Holiday Palette palette is like a bottomless chest from a fairy tale, with its compactness it fits everything you need and a little more. There are a dozen matte and shimmer shades in shades that suit almost everyone (and gold too). Below them lies the powder, giving the skin a glow, and the rather dense base of Maestro Fusion Makeup in two shades, which are proposed to be used for contouring, is more than enough to depict full makeup on the face. Such is the set for overtaking parties.
Nars sarah moon
International sales start - November 2016
The NARS Christmas collection is a line of ultimate gift sets created in collaboration with photographer Sarah Moon, an outstanding master of artistic photography who once touched fashion (she made memorable pictures for Cacharel, Sonya Rykiel and Comme des Garçons). Red and nude lipsticks, naturalistic eyelashes, varnishes in the same red gamut - in a limited edition many products, but most importantly palettes, decorated with photos of Moon. In general, the emphasis is on appearance. Inside the shadows, rouge and lipstick, which pretend to be classic, appropriate that evening, that day. This is a release that will allow you to really beautifully update the basic set.
The most intuitive collection from the collection is the True Story Cheek & Lip Palette palette, in which four shades of blush (two of them are permanent hits, two more pink and beige are limited novelties) are complemented with a deep red lip pencil. And you can choose a whole box of lipsticks: eight shades from the NARS permanent collection, from here to wine, will be appreciated not only by the brand's fans, who, most likely, are already familiar with this wealth.
Bobbi Brown Wine & Chocolate
International sales start - November 2016
This year Marka turned 25 years old, and this year was associated with summing up - the main issue in 2016 was The Nude Library palette. The main color of the Christmas collection was brown, and the source of inspiration was that we all love and understand: food and alcohol. In the Wine & Chocolate collection, the main ones are obviously two palettes for eye makeup in warm and cold tones, which under the lid conceal four shades of shadows and three eyeliners in brown and burgundy tones. Separate products are also good, especially those that exploit the theme of chocolate: if you did not understand the brown color, then it would be worth starting with such moderately saturated shades.
Lucky Wine & Chocolate Nail Polish is so rare in the Christmas collections not red, beige or pink, but confident wine and dark brown. Brilliant monoteni not only look cosmically in a package, but are also distinguished by their actual (yes, golden too) colors. Especially beautiful and versatile seems pink, cast in gold.
MAC Nutcracker Sweet Color
Home sales in Russia - November 2016
The MAC series have already become collections not only in the production sense: there are fans who literally collect these products literally as rarities. The festive release of this year, most likely, is waiting for the same fate. Firstly, the choice turned out to be really huge: gift sets and palettes with completely independent content became addition to the main part. The main color is bright pink, surrounded by other candy shades. Still, this issue is not about a luxurious secular outlet, but about the unrestrained merriment and faith in Christmas miracles. The Tale of the Nutcracker with a recognizable punk MAC approach.
Two pink pigments outside the permanent collection stand out at once — Rose with a metallic sheen and Process Magenta — dominant in the concept of fuchsia production. Pay attention to the whole four sets of brushes from the gift part. Everything is collected for different purposes - there is a basic set, everything for contouring or feathering. Among the boxes with miniatures there are sets of shining pigments and glitters of the most necessary colors, which will last a year ahead.
By terry impearlious
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Another collection for those who believe that the holiday should be accompanied by things and decor of outstanding beauty. At By Terry, everything turned out to be completely caring and delicate: instead of lipstick, lip balms, instead of highlighter, a concentrate that gives skin radiance. There is nothing to complain about in the details: everything is packed in boxes with ornaments hinting at exceptional dignity.
Impearlious Baume lip balm in a round vintage box, resting among rosebuds, may not be worth buying for yourself, but as a gift it is the best candidate presented. The set of balms in the bottles with tassels is also good: these are five very beautiful limited shades, from the inconspicuous nacreous to bright purple for all occasions.
The Holiday Kiss Collection For Sephora
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Different brands this year have created separate holiday editions of lipsticks specifically for the American giant Sephora - each one has a unique shade and design. Smashbox, Urban Decay, Kat Von D, Too Faced, Bite Beauty and other equally famous cosmetic brands took part. Someone managed to show a truly special product, and someone in his repertoire, but the most remarkable thing in this collection is the composition of the issue itself. In one series, the brands that have already become iconic, the classics of the beauty industry and the representatives of the independent segment have gathered - the original results of the year in fondant equivalent.
It is worth paying attention, of course, to the agitated NARS Lipstick of All Andacious Lipstick in Rita shade. Worried, in fact, by the fact that not only lipstick was made in this shade, but also a package that looks deadly - NARS rarely pampers fans with this design. Urban Decay was distinguished by the design of this year's new Vice in the shade of the Troublemaker - the darkest among the presented colors.
Cover: Timur Zima
Photo: Tom Ford, Dolce & Gabbana, Hudson's bay (1, 2), NARS, Bobbi Brown, MAC, By Terry, Sephora