What to buy in winter: 10 holiday collections of cosmetics
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On the eve of New Year and Christmas By tradition, we look at makeup collections in which you can find luxury gifts for friends or yourself. The main theme of the year is glittering textures in dozens of options: today it is not only the expected gold, but also holographic highlighters and metallic colors for all parts of the body: celebrating an era when being dressed up like a New Year tree is finally cool.
MAC Snow Ball Holiday Kits
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The MAC Christmas collection, as usual, is huge: it includes not only individual funds, but also sets that sum up the bright year for the brand. This time we are spoiled with textures, not colors: calm, light and weightless tones prevail in the main selection - a neat attempt to move a little further from the traditional Christmas “explosions” of red and gold. But Snowball Shimmer & Spice lipstick shimmers, and creamy shades based on the motives of the Extra Dimention collection in shades from frosty to pink gold on the eyelids shine like foil. This includes the duets of lipstick and fragrance Shadescents and several compact and solid brush sets.
NARS Man Ray 2017 Holiday Collection
Available from November 2017
Francois Nars makes faces of his collections of intellectual characters of pop culture and constantly turns to the history of art - it turns out always beautiful. The brand’s New Year’s collection is also devoted not to parties and champagne splashes, but to the photographer and artist Man Ray, one of the most important figures in the avant-garde of the 20th century. The bas-reliefs on the cases, the famous outlines of Lee Miller's lips from the painting "At the Hour of Observation: Lovers" and the palette of The Veil Cheek Palette deserve special attention - even the drawing on the tool beats the veil pattern. Shades of glitter and shadows are such that a couple of words cannot be described: it seems that they will be liked even by those who are indifferent to makeup.
Chanel Libre Numeros Rouge Makeup Collection
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We continue to enjoy the new life of Chanel after Lucia Peaks came to the post of creative director: the New Year collection, like the others released during the last year, is devoted to rethinking favorite colors with the brand. In particular - red. The collection includes four red shades of classic Rouge Allure lipsticks in matte and glossy textures, they are packed in red limited tubes. Blush Chanel Blush Joues Contraste made in explosive color closer to coral, perfect for shadows and ideal for dripping. The five-color palette of the Trait De Caractère looks too calm against this background, but it is not without chips in the form of a complex green tint that has just become fashionable.
Yves Saint Laurent Dazzling Lights
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Officially the most festive collection coming to the end of the year. The palettes and lipstick cases are decorated with images of fireworks, the filling does not lag behind the theme: the colorists of the brand practice very rich shades of pink and gold. Despite the fact that all means are perfectly balanced in terms of the balance of elegance and practicality, the main decoration of the dressing table will surely be La Lacque Couture lacquers in shades of Red Lights and Gold Fire: they sparkle the glitter in them with generosity, while the pigment Enough to get a rich coverage.
Dior Precious Rocks Makeup Collection
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Another brand whose limited collections delight unexpected turns. Precious Rocks - a set of beautiful toys: in addition to the next release of five-color palette of shadows (catch a golden-green set, which will probably come in handy in spring and summer) and gold-polished varnishes and lip gloss are waiting for you, for example, a nail liner with gold glitter and “kayal for lips. " Of course, Diorific Khôl Lipstick is already a familiar matte lipstick, but its peculiarity is in the pointed form of the stick, which is convenient for drawing the contour of the lips. You can appreciate it by trying dark shades, such as purple Bold Amethyst - suitable for punks and noir lovers.
Too Faced Chocolate Gold Collection
Available from December 2017
The iconic American brand is now sold in the "Il de Bothe" Christmas collection will also come to Russia. Those who have long been familiar with the culinary quirks of Too Faced, the favorite brand of "chocolate" theme will not surprise. What does not negate all the merits of the festive meeting, in the concept of which they added the good old New Year's gold: only one palette of the Chocolate Gold Bar Eyeshadows can provide for itself a couple of months of various make-up in the style of the 80s.
The real jewel is the holographic highlighter Chocolate Gold Diamond Highlighter, the packaging of which resembles a vintage box. Chocolate Gold Gold Melted Lipstick lipstick in a shade, rectilinearly called Liquid Gold, can be worn on your own or combined with other colors. All means branded chocolate flavor, knocking down.
Kiko Milano Arctic Holiday Makeup Collection
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A budget Italian brand also throws all its strength at the shine - and it turns out well. An interesting Taup hue was noticed among the metallic lipsticks, and the actual holographic effect was added to the lip balm. Perhaps, this collection really will please everyone: there are basic blush and four-color palettes of shades of interesting shades from bronze to midnight blue in it, and those who like to have fun should pay attention to the sets of glitter and fixing gel. Among the monotenas in metal textures there is an iridescent dark red Burgundy Aurora - if you haven’t found your tool for the very “fatal” makeup, you should try it.
Pat McGrath LiquiLUST 007
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Surprisingly, this time, the Christmas sets of Pat McGrath’s own brand have not yet been bought - you can even have time to figure out which one you like more, and not snapping up the rest. The seventh edition of the brand includes six shades of liquid matte lipstick and two options for a shining pigment, golden and fantastic lilac. In fact, this very lilac pigment, a transparent shine for fixing and lipstick in shades of fuchsia, red and dark purple, got into the Color Blitz set. The noble dusty range from the Skin Show set is offered to be combined with gold. Apparently, at the request of fans, the make-up artist put on sale and the everything kit for those who do not want to choose, but it was expectedly taken apart long before the first snow.
Fenty Beauty Makeup Collection Holiday 2017
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Rihanna became the main beauty newsmaker of the year, so we cannot ignore the Fenty space Christmas collection in any way - although we have to admit that it is possible to hunt for it only for the sake of collectors' comforts. Only thirteen products were included in it - the design of packages in the first place makes them flinch in front of them, but the funds themselves look at least at the level. Galaxy pallets are sensibly collected nude, pastel and bright shades, in which poured glitter - it is in eyeliners, and lip gloss. The theme of the cosmos is played with shades from blue and purple to poisonous pink, and product names: how do you, for example, shine, signed with the phrase Plutonic Relationship?
Lancôme Smoky Eye Makeup Collection Holiday 2017
After an extensive and thoroughly thought-out autumn collection, made together with Olympia Le Tan, the Christmas edition of the new products looks modest - but in the best sense of the word. So, as if it does not seek to surprise anyone, but wants to really come in handy on New Year's Eve.
So, the collection turned out to be the most basic palettes for contouring and strobe Matte Contouring Palette and Glow For It Palette. Shining shades of saturated colors are designed for classic Smokey Eyes, and the Smoky Eye Duo Pen double-sided pencils are responsible for their lighter and playful version: at one end are shining creamy shadows, on the other - a complementary shade liner. About the appearance of the "Smoky collection" in Russia so far nothing is known: by the New Year, the brand focused on a variety of gifts.
ILLUSTRATION:Dasha Chertanova
Photo:MAC, NARS, Chanel, YSL Beauty, Dior, Too Faced, Fenty Beauty, Pat McGrath, KIKO, Lancome