by even though the pink as well as shine in The Nutcracker Suite, Clinique’s new ballet-inspired holiday collection, are totally en pointe, they will not assist you pirouette your method to ballet greatness.
Wearing the Eye as well as Cheek Compact, Chubby Stick infant Tint as well as mixed deal with Powder from the Clinique Nutcracker Act I, part of The Nutcracker Suite holiday collection
But I can see why you may believe they should…
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After all, it does make a specific type of sense to believe that since your makeup appears like a ballerina’s from The Nutcracker, you should most likely be able to dance like one, too, as well as then you bust out some pliés on your creaky knees as well as scowl at your ballet instructor when she states something snarky about your butt sticking out as well far!
Er, well…maybe that’s just me as well as my youth dance trauma.
The Clinique Nutcracker Act 1, part one of two sub-collections in the Clinique holiday collection
Clinique dealt with the American Ballet movie theater to choreograph the collection’s color palette, mining the ballet company’s Nutcracker costume archives for inspiration.
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The five-piece Nutcracker Suite collection is split into two parts — Act I as well as Act II — with great deals of dainty pinks as well as plums as well as a sprinkling of silver shine finer than the finest snowflakes.
The products I’m looking at today are from Act I, which was influenced by the Waltz of the Snowflakes sequence in The Nutcracker.
Two words: pink as well as glitter.
The Nutcracker Act I Compact ($36)
Truth be told, I was afraid there was going to be completely as well much pink up in the mix with these three pieces — as well as I’m a woman who likes pink! — however there’s a great deal of it here.
In The Nutcracker Suite Act I compact ($36), for instance, there’s a shimmery pink eyeshadow with silver shine as well as a rosy pink blush with a satin finish.
Then there’s the creamy light pink Chubby Stick infant Tint Moisturizing Lip Colour Balm in Budding blossom ($17).
And then there’s the mixed deal with Powder in Snowflake dreams ($24), a bluish pink highlighter/body powder with big flecks of silver glitter.
Yo, it’s a great deal of pink.
The Snowflake dreams mixed deal with Powder, $24
But next to the other colors in The Nutcracker Suite Act I compact, I believe the preponderance of pink makes sense, where it acts as a supporting background color, type of like the dancers in the chorus, for the shimmery, silvery taupe eyeshadow (like a less frosty version of MAC Satin Taupe), the glittery grayish black eyeshadow (super quite when it’s mixed on top of a creamy black kohl base) as well as the frosty whitish beige eyeshadow.
Altogether, they aren’t your typical red/gold/black holiday steeze, as well as I like ’em for that.
The Budding blossom Chubby Stick infant Tint Moisturizing Lip Colour Balm ($17)
With glittery eyeshadows like these, you run the danger of some fallout, however Clinique dialed the shine down a few notches here, as well as it avoids any type of full-scale shine bombs. I notice extremely bit after effects from any type of of the shadows in the compact.
Swatches from the left of the beige, pink, taupe as well as black eyeshadows in the Act I compact; the pink blush from the Act I compact; as well as the Snowflake dreams deal with Powder as well as Budding blossom Chubby Stick infant Tint
The only time I’ve felt a bit iffy about the shine sitch in Act I has been while utilizing the mixed deal with Powder.
That piece is crazy glittery.
Like, if you aren’t cautious when you apply it as well as wear it during the daytime outside, people may presume that you were out all night clubbing as well as just haven’t had time to go house as well as laundry your deal with yet.
So yeah…use a light touch with the mixed deal with Powder.
I’m likewise using Eyelure Texure 117 false lashes
I likewise believe the shine in the collection is balance out by the smooth, satin pink blush (not patchy at all) as well as the sheer, moisturizing, light pink lip balm (lasts a couple of hours), both which should see a great deal of utilize with winter as well as into the spring.
If you’d like to take a twirl with The Nutcracker Suite, you can discover the entire collection pirouetting now on Clinique counters as well as online.
It’s holiday tea time at Trader Joe’s!
Gurl! It’s that time of year when I can’t go into a Trader Joe’s without leaving with at least a bit something tasty as well as holiday-themed.
You have got to try these holiday teas if you haven’t already. They’re so tasty! Plus, the only method I seem to be able to surface whatever I requirement to surface during the day now is if I’m caffeinated as much as here.
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LOL! It’strue though…
Your friendly community beauty addict,
Karen
