Kiko - Blooming Origami - Sheer & Creamy Lipstick Duos + Eyeshadow Palettes

My first makeup post only for makeup! Scared... Why? I'm a total newbie about makeup: I was a spartan teenager not so interested into "things for female", and when I grew up I worked a lot and absolutely my time in the morning was for sleeping as much as I could, not for painting my face, not at all. But... Last two years are quite strange to me, because my sucking health, so... Free time... No physical efforts... Need to see me a bit healthy... Time goes by and It's time to ask for a help... So... Why not? ;)

Actually this "therapy" is working quite well: I'm learning to improve my look with poor things; it's funny searching for perfect products for me spending as less as I can; and I can pour out my love for arts, finishes and colors, reflections, packagings, customization, bricolage, and so on.

Let's end this boring speech (before you fall asleep) with a few disclaimers: I don't claim to teach anything (because I know nothing, like Jon Snow); I don't own many things (and I'm not going to be a makeup hoarder!) so I could be a bad reviewer; just... Hope you may see my love for these little things that I really wished and I really use (not just to collecting them) and I really love. :)

KIKO - BLOOMING ORIGAMI LIMITED EDITION

Let's start with my four items from a recent KIKO limited edition, the Blooming Origami collection. You can find them on sale in KIKO stores these weeks, so I thought it could be useful a fast review before they go discontinued. ;)

SHEER & CREAMY LIPSTICK DUO

This items are lip pencil duos with a part of lipstick and the other part of lipgloss. I've chosen a cool rich red and a more discreet warm plum, and I passed on other shades because they were too orangey to me or not enough pigmented or boh! Full price was € 8.90 each and now is € 3,00 each on sale. 

04 TRUE RED & CRIMSON

"True Red" is the perfect name for this lipstick, and it's really a lipstick: a creamy, opaque, durable, crazy cool red (full of red!!!), lipstick! The gloss part is still a cool shade, not so sheer and not sticky at all. Together the gloss doesn't change the tone of the first one, just it adds a subtle luster. Duration won't be altered at all, and the duration of this lipstick is something the physics can't explain: I put on my lips the lipstick part. Ok. I ate and a lot of color moved on my fork. Damn. I drank and a lot of color moved on my glass. Sigh. Came back to home hours later. Went in my bathroom. A mirror. And my lips were perfect as I've just applied the lipstick. Magic? A+ for this duo!

05 - WINE RED & RED

This one has a warmer shade than the previous one. The lipstick half is more creamy and moisturizing, but a bit less pigmented and opaque than the number 04, but still rich and with a great formula. Duration is more than decent, but impossible to reach the 04 level (magic is not for everyone). The gloss part has the same color and it's wonderful on lips, like ripe cherries. Wearing them together is not necessary; they won't add nothing more, since the lipstick is enough shiny alone. By the way, cute both!

EYESHADOW PALETTE

The packaging of these palettes is something I love very much. Classy but still peculiar, I really think they are gorgeous and I'll surly use the boxes for other things as soon as I'll finish the products. In the beginning I was in doubt because colors haven't got separate pots, and I thought they could accidentally be mixed. At the end, nothing of this is happened, and I've used these palettes a lot. Full price was € 12.90 each and now is € 6,40 each on sale. Keep an eye on KIKO stores for them!

01 SWEET PASTELS

This palette is weird, I'm aware of it... And colors don't match so well, not all of them, at least... By the way, I've chosen it for a simple reason: there are colors I don't own! I didn't wear them together so far, but I wore it very often separately, combined to other colors from other palettes. 

BABY PINK and LILAC are mattes, quite sheer and don't love so much brushes, so it's better applying them with your finger. These 2 colors are quite shy and don't show themselves on all skintones, so you'll need to try them before deciding if they love you or not. The wonderful ACID GREEN is a very pigmented and bright satin, definitely the star of this palette! TURQUOISE is also satin and well pigmented but it doesn't match so well with my skin, maybe I'm too yellowish... The glitter CHARCOAL is delicate, semi-opaque but applies evenly, very good for blending a darker shade. 

All of them are a bit chalky, tend to some fall out, but not so much to giving you problems of application. I'm satisfied from this palette. Actually I wouldn't have bought it for the full price, but I'm very happy for sales! ;P

One more pic swatched on primer to pull out the brightness of these colors! How much amazing is that frakkin green?!?!?!? So beautiful... *___*

If you have some doubts about colors from this palette, there's a very useful and gorgeous tutorial on Mr Daniel Makeup youtube channel! Take a look to this video and enjoy it! Actually take a look to the entire channel of Daniele Lo Russo, it's one of my favorite channels! ;D

04 FLATTERING BERRY

Ahw! My love for this palette is huge. First time I've seen it I felt a little bit... Mmmh... Boh... Beh... Bah... Next time I had more time and patience and there were less people in the store, so I could dipping my fingers with a lot more delight and I had to admit that this pinkish palette was a little treasure. It's a passe-partout and you could even use it for all your face. How? 

The CREAM color is a matte, perfect as base or highlight: you can't see it well from my pic because it's almost the same color of my arm skin, but it's very pigmented and silky, I swear. The CHAMPAGNE has a delicate shimmer finish wearable alone for a nude look or combined to other colors for a more complex effect. The PINK/FUCHSIA has fine glitters into it, but they are not visible on lids, by the way the color is bright and super pigmented, and it's also easily blendable, so you may use it as blush with no problems. The PLUM is my favorite, you'll need for just a minimum amount of it, amazing! And I'd like to try it with lip balm to create a lipgloss... The last one is a matte warm MILK CHOCOLATE BROWN that I use for my eyebrows most of times. You can really use this palette for aaaaaall your face!!!

Nothing more to say about it: if you find it on sale these weeks, give it a chance, please! I guess this one worths the full price of € 12,90, but for € 6,40... It's a great deal! I own this palette for a month and a half, more or less, click here to see how much I've already used it!!! :D

AND LAST... HOPING YOU DIDN'T COME THIS FAR...
An EOTD made with the berry palette and an... Embarassing (at least!) FOTD with the lipstick duo 04.
I'm sorry. I'm REALLY sorry. REALLY.

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Labels: eotd, eyes-shadow, fotd, kiko, lips-pencil, makeup, tools-palette

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TOTALLY RANDOM SUNDAY #13

HAULS

KIKO SALES!!!

I recently  decided to learn wearing makeup (better late than never!), but I realized that my beauty-case is more empty than my refrigerator (they have both an echo inside of them... *emptyyyy mptyyy ptyyy tyy y* XD), so I need to fill it with a few medium-high quality things, but still affordable. KIKO sales arrived at the right time! Yay! è_é/

*Click on thumbnails to see bigger pictures*

On sale for € 2,00, could I resist to this? More I really enjoined the time I've chosen them: I had my arms totally full of ALL lipsticks from the display in front of me and me and the salesgirl passionately discussed for long long time before the final choice, so funny, really! :D

- KIKO - SMART LIPSTICK - 66 DARK COPPER + 88 BURNT RED +  95 BEIGE

They are so lovely, don't you think? *__* The first and second ones have a metallic finish and the shades are not boring at all, amazing both! The third is a basic color that I needed for, because my nude lipsticks are  a bit... "elderly". I guess I could die wearing them. :P

- KIKO - VIBRANT EYE PENCIL - 601 GOLDEN BEIGE + 602 BRONZED BROWN

I missed for gold and bronze pencils and I preferred to choose from this pencils series because they seemed softer than other collections. On sale the price was € 3,90 each. Metallic effect get lost when you fade the color, but I bought them as liners so it's not a big problem to me. P.S. the smudge brush at the end of the pencil is pretty good but I saw out anyway because I didn't need of it, but I needed of space in the beauty case :P

- KIKO - CHIC CHALET LIMITED EDITION 

Such a stunning collection! I'm not an expert at all, so maybe I'm not able to have an opinion about cosmetics, but I think KIKO is growing up about quality of formulation more and more since a half a year, and this limited edition is my favorite. Just... Prices are quite high for me, for this reason sales are my seatbelt. The pic above shows you allt he items I own from Chic Chalet collection.

- KIKO - ULTRA LIGHT MAT LIPSTICK - 04 SOFT CRIMSON + 05 ROSE MAUVE

These lipsticks are indelible, you can wear them for aaaaaaall day long without feeling them and eating and drinking and... No... I guess in "that" case the lipsticks fade away a bit, but just a bit... First color is really a soft crimson shade, and the second one is really a rose mauve shade, as their name suggest. KIKO chooses perfect name for cosmetics, but the person who chooses the polish names HAS TO be another person, for sure... XD The second one is a strange color, I aware of it, and couldn't fit so well on blondes or whoever like just standard colors. I've read various reviews about them and I absolutely don't agree with the most of them. I think the "problem" is about application: first of all, you need to moisturize your lips before, or do a lip scrub, then, I guess it's much better apply them with a brush to spread the color more evenly. In this way, aaaaaall day long!

- KIKO - ADJUSTABLE COLOUR BLUSH - 04 SUMPTUOUS BURGUNDY

How it's possible this one was the only one blush left? I can't believe that! But... Whatever, lucky me! :P I don't remember the sale price, sorry. The color is stunning, dangerous to apply, you have to be veryvery careful, but it's amazing even as eyeshadow, it's smooth and pigmented enough for this. Beautiful!

- KIKO - COLOR FEVER EYESHADOW PALETTE - 02 LUXURIOUS GOLD AND PLUM

This is a gift from my cousin, a huge surprise that I didn't expect at all. This palette is... No words... Pics speak by themselves, they are as beautiful as you can see: the packaging, the texture, the pigmentation, everything is perfect. I love it, love it, love it!

- KIKO - LIGHT IMPULSE LIMITED EDITION
Another limited edition, but not so amazing as the previous one, except for these fabulous eye pencils. I already showed you number 05 and 08, but I also fell for the 09, since they are basic colors I missed. :)
- KIKO - DOUBLE GLAM EYELINER - 05 EMERALD AND AMETHYST + 08 SILVER AND PEARLY BLACK + 09 PLUM AND WOOD

Nothing more to say: they do their job perfectly and the colors are stunning, hope KIKo will release other of them with new shades.

- KIKO - BLOOMING ORIGAMI LIMITED EDITION

I was pretty cold in front of this collection. The packaging is a piece of art again, but I need for "easier" products, since I'm a total newbie. For this reason I wasn't interested in stick blushes or highlighters. My attention was all for these creamy and crazily pigmented lip pencils!

- KIKO - SHEER & CREAMY LIPSTICK DUO - 04 TRUE RED & CRIMSON

There's a lipgloss and there's a lipstick in just one pencil. And not a "lipstick" but a REAL lipstick, really creamy and really long lasting and really but REALLY pigmented! There's a mystery about it: I applied it (am I getting crazy to wear a SnowWhite lipstick? XD yes, but it's sooooo cute!!!), then I drank a fanta and color  was on the glass but also on my lips... Then I ate and a lot of red moved on the fork, but there was also on my lips as before... And again and again, on dishes but also still perfect on my lips... How much color there is into these fucking pencils!??!?!!? This reminds me to Willy Wonka...

What do you think of my haul? Actually it wasn't a single haul, I bought all these items in 2 or 3 months, but I preferred to show you all together ^__^

That's all for this week. See ya! ^__^/

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Labels: eyes-pencil+liner, eyes-shadow, face-blush, haul, kiko, lips-lipstick, lips-pencil, makeup, tools-palette

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