Makeup, Skincare, Fragrance and a Bit of Fashion
I was disappointed with the lack of the limited-edition star item in Dior‘s holiday 2011 makeup collection, and I had been looking forward to seeing what Dior was going to bring out for this holiday season. Dior’s holiday 2012 Grand Bal makeup collection features warm-toned shades for the eyes and rich reds for the lips. (It is good to see new Diorific lipsticks and nail colors.) The star item is the Grand Bal palette, and I decided to get it with my Boots points.
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10th: Dior
(image from www.cosme.net)
Dior’s fall 2012 makeup collection features a variety of neutral and green tones. With most of Dior’s seasonal collections, the limited-edition star items were the ones that grabbed my attention first. However, with this collection, I prefer the 5 Couleurs palette in 774 Golden Savannah (above), the 5 Couleurs Designer palette in 308 Khaki Design (below), and the 3 Couleurs Glow palette in 651 Nude Glow (below) to the Golden Jungle palettes.
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Have a look at images of Dior‘s holiday 2012 makeup collection at BeautyPlus. (I like the look of the limited-edition makeup palette in the gold case.)
More information to follow.
Updated on October 27th, 2012:
Images of some of the collection items (including the seasonal limited-edition star item, the Grand Bal palette):
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(combining two trends: Nars Trio Eyeshadow in High Society)
(image from beautyplus.iswii.net)
(images from www.cosme.net unless otherwise noted)
Purple and green have emerged as the dominant colors for fall 2012. Continuing from the spring 2012 makeup trend, green is still a key player. On the other hand, I am glad that purple is back on trend.
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(images/info from i-voce.jp)
Here is a look at Dior‘s fall 2012 makeup collection. The limited-edition star item of the season is Golden Jungle, which features three eyeshadows and one lip gloss. It is available in two variations: 001 Golden Khaki (golden beige, olive green, and khaki eyeshadows and fresh pink lip gloss) and 002 Golden Brown (golden beige, caramel, and dark brown eyeshadows and copper pink lip gloss). At the moment it is not looking very exciting to me.
The rest of the collection includes:
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6th: Lunasol
(image from www.kanebo-cosmetics.jp/lunasol/)
Looking at all the pinks and peaches in Lunasol’s spring 2012 makeup collection, I feel as if I were looking at colors from Jill Stuart packaged in Lunasol cases. It is a very spring-like, coherent, and wearable collection, but I think it is a little too safe and that it lacks the flair and imagination that many of Lunasol’s past collections had. This is mainly why Lunasol is not among my top three collections this season.
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(images/info from www.cosme.net)
Here is a look at Dior‘s summer 2012 makeup collection. The collection includes:
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(image from www.parfumsgivenchy.jp)
After purples for spring 2011 and blues for fall 2011 (as well as warm-toned and cool-toned neutrals, which have been taking turns to be on-trend in the last few seasons), we have green in its various hues for spring 2012.
Givenchy‘s spring 2012 Instant Bucolique makeup collection features a strong visual (above) and makes a statement with a fresh and spring-like minty green in Le Prisme Eyes Quartet in 79 Bucolic Blossoms. A very similar shade is seen in Venis Please in 178 Bucolic Lily.
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(image from www.dior.com)
I had a chance to see Dior‘s Diorsnow Icy Halos Collection in person. The shades are generally soft and airy. The darkest shade of the entire collection is the medium silvery gray in the 5 Couleurs Iridescent palette, which is far from overly intense. The finishes of the eyeshadow shades are (pleasantly) not too frosty.
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(images from www.dior.com,
info from www.dior.com & i-voce.jp)
Dior has released Icy Halos Collection in Japan on March 2nd. This is a limited-edition makeup collection released under the Diorsnow whitening range. The collection includes:
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Lunasol Spring 2025 Makeup Collection (image from www.cosme.net)
