Help to make my first order please :)

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Gigi
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Re: Help to make my first order please :)

Post by Gigi » Mon Oct 18, 2010 4:23 am

Thanks for the welcome, ladycattat, and for making me feel better about going a bit crazy :)
It was a looong weekend without a mailman, I hope to hear his motorbike soon :)
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Re: Help to make my first order please :)

Post by Gigi » Tue Dec 14, 2010 2:49 pm

Here I am again two long months after making my first order. The first one never made it to here so they kindly resent it and I'm still waiting for it. While waiting I made a bigger order with five lip glosses which I looove but now I need more ideas. This is why I got:

Darling - gorgeous peachy nude color but shows up only if I conceal my lips first, otherwise is just peachy sheen. I'd love to have it in more opaque version. Any suggestion?
Foreplay - lovely but maybe too warm, I can't say that it looks bad but I feel too "serious" in it, gave it to my mom, who has warm undertones and she rocks it.
Breathless - beautiful satiny pink, very close to depth of my natural lips so wearable in all occasions.
Carnation - close to Breathless but even creamier and maybe more mauveish, more opaque and a bit lighter. My favorite!
Infatuation - a bit darker than my lips, gives a pretty pinky purplish sheer wash.
Maiden and Bobbi are in the mail.

So...how do I now decide on new colors? :) I'm aiming for more pigmented and more opaque glosses. I think I can't pull off anything very nude or very deep.
I think I will definitively get Fig Leaf.
I'm almost sold on Eternal, do you think I could wear it?
I'm loving Daydream but read it was very similar to Carnation - too similar to have both?
Ingenue seems perfect in description which says light peach but the swatch looks to me quite bright and orange. Which do you think is more accurate?
Cultured I keep throwing in and out of my cart...And Bella is just so beautiful and as much as I keep telling myself I don't need a purple lipstick, I can't stop looking at it. Anyone got it already?

Please help me... :lol:
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Re: Help to make my first order please :)

Post by Gigi » Fri Dec 17, 2010 5:55 am

Ha I knew I would bore everyone, I don't know why I can't make a simple choice :)

Here's my attempt of swatches, maybe someone finds it useful or gets an idea of what else might work for me.

Bare lips:
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Breathless:
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Carnation:
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Darling:
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Infatuation:
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Re: Help to make my first order please :)

Post by MyLavenderHeart » Fri Dec 17, 2010 4:48 pm

Gigi, great swatches!

Maybe you could post these in the Swatch Gallery too? I think people will find them very helpfull as they are crispy clear and focused and also give a good impression on how they look on someones lips :)
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Re: Help to make my first order please :)

Post by veronica » Fri Dec 17, 2010 5:16 pm

These swatches are excellent...you've definitely made some of my future choices much easier for me. I think we have similarly pigmented lips, so it's nice to see how some of these shades react with that. Don't hesitate to swatch every lip product you get...as if I need to be enabled to purchase any more SN...ha!

Fig Leaf would be a nice addition to your collection if you haven't purchased it yet...I got mine last week and I really love it. Great if I want to punch up/deepen my natural lip color a bit. I put Bella in my last order for fun, even though I'm not sure if I need a purple lipgloss either...as soon as I get it, I will try to swatch it for you. Should be sometime next week!
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