Cultured and Bobbi swatches

[Silverfern]

Here are some swatches of Cultured and Bobbi I made for Oxana. I couldn't figure out how to post them in the Swatches and FOTD section so I'll throw them here. Feel free to move them
Left is Culture and Right is Bobbi. Bobbi looks darker and cooler on me then Cultured. Cultured is my favorite SN lipstick eva. Bobbi might be my second.

[lilychemgirl]

Wow, these look way browner than mine.... I ran off to do a swatch to compare, here it is:

Bobbi on the left, cultured on the right. On me, bobbi is a little less pink (more neutral) and has amazing gorgeous gold shimmer, cultured shows more pink/lilacy on my lips, and has pink shimmer. They look very similar in the swatch, but very different on my lips.
Bobbi is GORGEOUS (and although everyone in the world loves cultured, it is just OK on me).

[Cupcake]

That's an interesting difference! It makes me think that for constancy, we should not have customers uploading their swatches to the main site. Don't be offended, I don't mean it unkindly at all. What I do mean is that it highlights the difference in finished results caused by slight variances, like lighting conditions or camera gremlins, and how that causes it to be represented so differently.

I do all my shopping from swatches and I love that because you can capture such different aspects in those images. It's great for the forum to have swatches; it feels personalised. Each swatch shows a little character, each submission shows a little of how each person sees them differently. Ultimately it just adds to the desire to try colours for yourself and see how they work for you.

[Silverfern]

Cupcake, I agree about the swatches on the main site. I don't think we should put customers swatches there cause of the differences that are illustrated here, haha. The main site should be fairly controlled by Jen and Karen (and her husband

Cultured and Bobbi do have a little more plum that than in my house's natural lighting. But they both do look kinda brown/plum on me. Those swatches were also done at night in my bathroom. So in the day outside I'd say they look a bit more like lilychemgirl's. So many of these lip glosses are multi-dimensional. And Gorgeous.

[Cupcake]

So many of these lip glosses are multi-dimensional. And Gorgeous.

Oh yeahhh, that's why we love 'em I'd have never tried some, like Mirabelle and Figment, were it not for those little sample buds. I just look at those up close and take in all the tiny wee sparkles and colour richness which sometimes is not captured on camera. To my mind, it's an excellent excuse to keep trying more

[lilychemgirl]

Yeah, those were in natural light, near a window. I think people's different undertones make things look different too.
I am sooo looking forward to my next 3 packages from SN (lol, that sounds so ridiculous, 2 sale and one MAC), I am getting lots and lots of lippies

[lilychemgirl]

I just checked my order history, and I have on the way to me...
bitten, black dahlia, bobbi, precious (I had samples of all of these except black dahlia before), trulyx2, the lip gloss freebie podx2, and hopefully a nice lippy in my sack of stuff. I should be good for lippies for a while I'm totally crossing my fingers for casual red in my sack of stuff!

I agree that people shouldn't be able to post swatches to the site, although if you see several different swatches for a colour it is more likely to give you an accurate impression... compare the two swatches in this thread with the site swatch for bobbi, and IMO it is even less accurate than these (the site swatch looks really pink to me, if I hadn't seen other swatches I would never have even thought of adding it to my cart).

[egerandi]

Aaaaand, even if you make a decision based on what the swatches look like, you may end up with something toooootally different on your own lips So yeah, it's good to have user swatches in the forums (only), but we should all take it as an 'idea', not what it's gonna really look like.

And yes, I like Bobbi more than Cultured too: medium plummy neutral on me. Cultured kinda looks like a cross of Centerfold (love love love) and Maiden (again, love). Just putting it out there for the other fair/medium/yellow/neutral ladies out there with pigmented lips

[JenW]

Karen's thumbnail swatches (I think) are usually the gloss swiped on a white card. The skin swatches take on a life of their own based upon skintone or lighting for sure. And gloss swatches will never look on lips like they do on your arm unless you have no pigment in your lips. Lipstick swatches are closer to how they will look because the lipsticks are more opaque.

The lip product swatches are helpful, but not that accurate no matter who takes the picture. Several different shots in differing lighting conditions sometimes help, but they can make it more confusing, too. The biggest thing that affects how they look on the purchaser is the pigmentation of the skin and lips, so even on-the-lip swatches are not very helpful unless the model has the same coloring as you. My lips have quite a bit of red/pink in them naturally....so brown lip gloss looks rather pinkish on me, and the bright pinks and corals start to blend with the pigmentation I have and just look super bright. For my friend who has more brown pigmentation in her lips and little red, peach, or pink, brown glosses look really brown and the pright pinks and corals look lovely. It really is hard to pick a color based upon what your friend can wear. You need an idea of what colors look good on you and what your underlying pigmentation is.

[lilychemgirl]

Yeah, I definitely agree with this Jen, which is why I like to see lots of different swatches, and next to other colours I already own, that way I can usually approximate what the colour will look like on me. Swatches of a colour on its own really don't give much of an indication at all. That's also why lip swatches don't help me out at all, because the underlying colour of the lips can be so different, and you can't see comparisons.....

... speaking of which, anyone want to go swatch me mimosa and sweetheart next to some other stuff