Sleek Saturday. Pepperminty {eotd}

I can't believe the last makeup look I posted was September 2011. Time I put back some makeup in this makeup blog, don't you think? Don't get your hopes too hyped up, it's only something very simple today. While the blogosphere is starting to buzz about the new ultra matte palettes, I am revisiting the Sleek PPQ palette, the last palette, I believe which featured the trademark waffle pattern on the pans.    



Is it still worth quoting the official description of the palette at this late hour? Ok, go on then:

It’s the ultimate collaboration of beauty and fashion: Sleek MakeUP has teamed up with fashion house PPQ to produce the makeup looks for PPQ’s London fashion week show. The Me, Myself & Eye I-Divine is the result of a mutual admiration of colour, texture and vibrancy! Taking inspiration from PPQ’s S/S 2012 theme, the palette is a heavy mix of pattern and colour to toughen up feminine summer silhouettes making it the ultimate accessory for every self-confessed fashionista and beauty lover! Packed with an array of brilliant bolds, with matte and shimmer eye colours, you can create endless looks from smoky black, to glistening and gold. The finishing touch is PPQ’s renowned naughty sense of humour, with eye shadow names like Lilac Allen, Primal Green and Barry White!

A lot of creativity has gone into this palette and the play on words for the names of the shades of the palette made me smile. Pigmentation wise, I struggled to make the colours show off on my skin very well (apologies for my pathetic swatches) and I couldn't envisage playing with this palette without a generous dose of 2 faced shadow insurance and nyx jumbo pencil in a bid to make the colour as vibrant as possible. I am trying hard to explain why my swatch of Chris de Burghundy looks like a bullet wound and I am going to pretend it's there for artistic purposes.





Had supernova been a little bit more pigmented, I think I would have reached this palette much more often rather than only twice. If you're a fan of mint colour, Salt and Peppermint would tick all your boxes and is the brightest colour of the set. Expect a true red from 'simply red' and you'll be sorely disappointed. Simply Red is nothing like red. Instead it will give a vibrant golden peach shade: superb colour to own, albeit a bit redundant if you own the 'avoir la peche' palette


For my look today, I've chosen 3 colours from this palette (golden shivers, salt and peppermint, supernova) vanilla from mac to blend it towards the eyebrow and a generous dollop of white eyeliner on the waterline.







There is no way on this earth that the Sleek palette is going to rival my bohemian, oh so special, acid and circus palettes, all including much better matte finish eyeshadows, but I still think PPQ is very special and is a nice item to collect.







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what: sleek makeup PPQ palette
how much: £6.49
where: Sleek Makeup online

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Sleek Saturday – Circus Curtain…

When I first saw pictures and swatches of the Sleek Circus Palette, I remember quite vividly how I felt about it. I thought the palette looked absolutely ridiculous, preposterous and I felt strongly about it that I wanted to write a post about 10 reasons why I wouldn't buy it. The lurid lobster/corally casing reminded me of a Fisherprice or ToysRus item for kids and the colours didn't impress me either.






One year and a half later on (or is it longer than that?) this was gifted to me by the lovely Terri and I am absolutely in love. In fact, I nearly love the Circus palette nearly as much as the Acid Palette which is my favourite palette thanks to its winning purple and green.


I am still learning a lot about makeup, about what textures and finishes I prefer on my eyes but one thing I am sure is that I am definitely more of a matte eyeshadow girl than a all shimmery one. Circus is delightful bright mix of mattes and shimmery shadows and this suits me better than many other sleek palettes which are predominantly shimmery.





A quick look at the swatches and you can't help but noticing the 'waste' of a precious sleek palette slot with the poor pigmentation of the lilac and the why-did-they-bother-at-all white. Other than that, all the colours offer excellent pigmentation. The yellow is a my favourite shade of yellow at all (so far, there is only one yellow eyeshadow in the whole world that I like, but this will have to be the subject of another post) but its pigmentation is flawless. The winning stars of this palette: the vibrant shimmery purple, the matte fuchsia, the shimmery light green and the oh so gorgeous shimmery blue.







I have yet to create a shimmery blue makeup look I am happy with. Until this day comes, I wanted to post a look using 3 colours from the palette: the shimmery purple, the black and the very light lime green.

As you probably know by now, I don't do shimmer in the crease but some for reason, which I genuinely fail to comprehend, this shimmery purple worked a treat in my crease. The gorgeous blue undertones of the purple are to die for. I can't believe how rich and easy to work with this colour has been. You'd think, looking at the crease that there about 4 colours in the crease. There aren't. The purple just blends by itself and somehow, which truly gobsmacks me, it's not overly frosty shimmery which makes me want to remove this look at once.













If I wanted to wear a purple crease look, I'd still prefer to reach for the matte purple from the acid palette but this multi dimensional purple is the bomb. Of course I had to go out with it. The guy from Londis liked it :)






On my lips, I have a little gem, a recent blog sale acquisition. Click here  if you want to find out more about it.





Joining me this week are 3 gorgeous girls. Please go and have a look at the Sleek Saturday of these lovely girlies. Click on their ‘pan’ to be directed to their look:

Ellie	Cynthia	Jessie

I have really enjoyed Sleek Saturday. Among other things, it has helped me deciding which Sleek Palette I am going to keep, cherish and keep using and which ones which will be getting the boot. I have used up all the Sleek palettes in my collection so I guess it’s time to finish this series for now. I can’t help myself from feeling a bit sad really. I will be doing some more Sleek Saturdays (as and when I have new palettes) but for it’s an aurevoir (and a full front face picture, actually looking at the camera, aren't you lucky?)







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Sleek Saturday – Paraguayan Peachy

*There has been a genuine technical problem with Windows Live Writer earlier which resulted in the deletion of my original post. I am a bit upset by that to say the least. Thank you to the lovely 7 girlies who commented on my now disappeared post*


Can you believe it's Saturday already? This means this is time for another episode of Sleek Saturday. Sleek Saturday is about trying to encourage oneself to use one of these Sleek Makeup palettes we have at home and that we don't use enough. 






This week, I am a little bit overwhelmed this week as lots of my makeup friends wanted to join me. Please, give a big hand to all my Sleek Saturday buddies this week.

and last but not least

How crazy is that!



For my look today, I am using ‘Paraguaya’, the eyeshadow palette from the Limited Edition ‘Avoir la Peche’ Sleek Makeup Collection. Picture of the palette, indepth review, swatches, behind the scenes of my makeup look, bloopers, and all that good stuff can be found HERE














Apologies again to the 7 lovely girlies who commented on my earlier post, which got deleted due my stupidity on windows live writer :’( 

 



So, anyway, onwards and upwards, who’s got a Sleek palette gathering dust in their cupboard and want to re discover it for next week Sleek Saturday? Let me know in the comments!

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